I just got off the horn with Trey who said that he’s planning on attending the Statue of Liberty Race this coming weekend in New York City. Last year Team Velocity won this event and are holders of the perpetual trophy. The weather forcast for this year looks very iffy, with thunderstorms likely throughout the weekend accompanied by light wind from the south.
Hopefully Trey and Alan will be able to defend their title against throngs of other catamaran sailors from around the country.
Episode 6 of the 11 part series that Adventureonline.tv has published features the 2nd leg breakdown that Team Velocity sufferred.
This weekend Tad and Bailey are going to be sailing Undecided in the Reggae Regatta hosted by Lake Lanier Sailing Club. This regatta is always a fun party, and will be mixed classes racing on the same course. This is unusual in that we cat guys don’t typically mix it up with the monohulls on the same course. While we will have separate starts, we will end up trading tacks at one point or another.
With the recent decision regarding the Olympic classes resulting in the tossing of the Tornado from the games in 2012, we multihull adicts need to figure out how to spread our base of sailors. One way of doing this is zooming around on the same course as the monos and showing them exactly what is possible on these awesome machines. Hopefully we can turn some heads and win some “converts” in the process.
Next weekend, both Trey and Tad(hopefully I’ll be there) will be at the Governor’s Cup on Kerr Lake North Carolina sailing in another mixed fleet.
Since I buried the old post with some videos, I’ll post this again to make sure everyone goes to Adventureonline.tv and checks out the 2008 Tybee 500 videos that Brian just published. They are truely fantastic.
Two years ago, Trey and Alan at Rolex:
Trey and JC at Rolex Regatta! Check out the end and see what they saw.
We moved on to bigger and better hosting. This host seems to have their stuff together much more than the last place, so we’re going to be doing some cool things with the website here in the near future.
Brian Karr has outdone himself yet again. Adventureonline.tv has released an 11-part mini-series that follows the Tybee 500 up to Daytona. It includes a tons of helicopter footage and expert commentary from both Brian and THE CHUCK!
Go check them out. Episode 6 features our very own Trey and Alan. Team Velocity gets plenty of love for sure.
First things first.
My apologies for not getting any updates yesterday. It was quite a stressful time on the beach waiting for the boats to arrive while standing in torential downpours and lightning striking all around me. Once Tybee came in, I started getting real nervous since Velocity hadn’t been but a couple of minutes either behind or in front of Tybee all race except for the legs where we had mechanical failures.
Apparently, according to Kenny Pierce, Tybee caught the front end of a nice squall about 30 miles into the race. When they came out of the squall, no other teams could be found. Velocity and Marley’s Yellow came in an hour later after Tybee, literally on top of each other (But Velocity in front!)
This put Velocity overall in 3rd place behind Tybee and Marley’s Yellow. Overall it was a great week for Velocity. We clearly had boat speed on the rest of the fleet but we were plagued by just bad luck mechanical failures. Next year is our year. Two boats will at least be present for Team Velocity.
Velocity would like to thank all of its sponsors for supporting us this year - particularly DryUV for allowing us to get exposure on SailingAnarchy.com. We hope to continue our success next year with all our sponsors on board!
The final chapter has begun. Anything can and will happen on this leg so the boys brought spare gudgeons with them this time. We got a great push from Ryan and Velocity was first through the surf. Our buddies on Accelerated Chaos broke their casting in the surf but Team Seacats volunteered their rudder system since they elected to not race today. See you in Tybee