Yachting-Live

Tether Or Apart
There’s always a lesson in an overboard recovery. Cliff Shaw looks back at pulling two live bodies out of the water in the recent Doublehanded Farallones Race and says, “You see people in the water and you think, This is not a drill; I have to get this right.”

The breeze was 25, up to 30 at times on the Unpacific Ocean, outside the Golden Gate. Shaw figures the seas at, “Six to eight feet, with an occasional twelve. I did the wrong thing on my first approach. I tried to luff up to them and misjudged and fell short.”

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Not Fair
Remember the key point from the Mercury Bay decision was that a Match doesn’t have to be fair - just in compliance with the strict interpretation of the Deed of Gift.

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Are We There Yet?
A brief excerpt from Part 20(!) of attorney Cory Friedman’s as-always superb analysis of what’s going on in Justice Cahn’s court:

Do we have a date for the Deed of Gift (DOG) Match? No. A simple cruise around the buoys has turned into an epic 18th century winter rounding of the Horn. Now that it is clear that there will be a DOG Match between Societe Nautique de Geneve (SNG) and Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) before there is another conventional multi-challenger monohull event, just about everyone in the sailing community would like to see the DOG Match sailed as soon as possible. GGYC has said so. Grant Dalton has said so. Vincenzo Onorato has said so. Professional sailors in career holding patterns have said so. ‘Buttheads have said so.

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