Mug race down in Jacksonville Fl.

[LKYusnret]

Me and my crew of 3 survived the 35 Kt. winds the, downpour of rain-lighting. Many boats lost sails, capsized, crews in the water, grounding, masts lost to bridges.... etc. BUT Baums Rush survived (Hunter 260)!!!! OK we came in 3rd to last but had a ball, first race I've ever been in. We went almost 54 miles in 10 hours 55 min. we had the river current with us, according to GPS average speed was 3.6 top was 8.1 YES that is eight point one Kts. What can I say, brown stains trailing aft some of the time, doing over 6 kts with only a reefed main flying, rain so hard that you couldn't the the bow from the stern. We were over powered (rounded ) three time during the race when we tried to fly the spinaker during the lull times winds under 10 kts. JUST WOW

 

[Alan]

Sounds like.......

.....you had a real pisser of a time. What a way to get introduced to racing!! From here on, everything else is going to seem tame. When you learn to get the boat up onto a spinnaker run plane you're going to see speeds well past 10kts. I remember the first time I got a Viper 630 planning at 28kts, WOW what a howl!! ..talk about a rush, had our hands full trying to keep the bow from submarining. Had to keep the entire crew on the stern rail so we wouldn't sink the boat.

 

[Darren Mayes]

The storm

I live close to Whitney's and I was watching some of the boats go by from my balcony... I think around 3:00 or so, I had 5 sailboats in my view - they were in the middle of the river...the storm hit... and I couldn't even see the river anymore... might have as well been a dense fog!

 

[Darren Mayes]

High Water?

Hey was the water high at ths Shand's? What was actual clearance that day?

 

[LKYusnret]

Shands bridge

one bridge was 46.5 clearence the other was like 66 or so