Saturday, March 7, 2009

Pics 030709

Here are some pics I recieved this morning

Boat in its storage cradle


stern view


looking in through the stern hatch at the autopilot ram and raft storage area


Electronics, electrical and other items in the main cabin



One more shot in the cradle, just for good measure



Friday, March 6, 2009

Mini Pavois Blog

The Mini Pavois, which will be my second race of the 2009 season, has a blog page: http://minipavois-2009-uk.blogspot.com/
I have the notoriety of being the only registered American in the race.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Coming along

Things are proceeding pretty well, the boat is almost done. I should have some more pictures to post in the next few days.
Have to get a stress test done to satisfy the CM rules I am not at all worried about the test, more so am curious how the results will compare to the VO2 Max test I took in 2002.
The big project right now is working on finding some sponsors, have talked to some companies and have Remote Medical International on board. Remote Medical is a Seattle based company that does all sorts of really cool training, work and support in the medical field. http://www.remotemedical.com/

Monday, February 2, 2009

Going according to plan...

Classe Mini put out the entry lists for the early season races today. Of the four early season races I wanted, I got into all four.
The races are; Pornichet Select, Mini-Pavois, Trophee MAP and the Mini Fastnet. The Mini Fastnet is a doublehanded race, all the others are singlehanded.
There is also an early season race in Locmiquelic which is not on the official Classe Mini calendar that I may also do, the Demi-Cle 6.50. This will depend on how my preparations and my 1000 qualifier are going which I plan to do prior to the Pornichet Select.
Once I get the qualifier done, along both the Pornichet Select and Mini-Pavois, I will have all my miles completed for the TransAt. From here I can focus on training, which will definitely include lots of racing. Right now this is the next goal.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Boat pic

The boat is just about complete and is scheduled to leave the builder on Monday. Needless to say, I am rather excited!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Pics

Here is the latest set of pics. The boat has a few small changes from hull #1, most notably the main hatch has been changed to a simpler and hopefully lighter system.