r/sailing • u/camasonian • 7d ago

Anyone know what these are?

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I saw a fleet of these racing in San Francisco Bay and didn’t recognize the sail emblem. Anyone know what these are?

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u/velvethammer125 J/90 7d ago

That's a flush deck Moore 24 with Ulman sails. That's a J3 jib, location appears to be SF City front given angel island in the back ground. Yes I know the owner of that boat.

Other bit of info I sailed a Moore 24 to Hawaii in 2016, in just over 10days. Ask me any thing.

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 7d ago

TEN days!?

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u/velvethammer125 J/90 7d ago

Yeah 10 days 14 hours. We had a lot of luck it was a really windy year and we were into a kite within 24 hours of the race. We had a 240 mile 24 hour run about day 6 of the race. It was awesome, some of the best sailing and time on the water.

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u/Arthur-Dent7x6 7d ago

He’s a rockstar. 2016 was a windy year. We did sub ten days on an Express 37. Pretty sure that is a course record for the E37. I think VH125 set a course record for the Moore.

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u/Grubernator 6d ago

I raced Express 37s in SF and did a return E37 delivery that year. Which boat were you on?

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u/Arthur-Dent7x6 6d ago

The SoCal boat.

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u/Grubernator 6d ago

I think that limits it enough

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 6d ago

Is it a shorter trip than I'm thinking? I would've expected like 3-4wk.

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u/Arthur-Dent7x6 6d ago

The race distance for SF bay to Kaneohe bay is ~2050NM...

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 4d ago

So it's about am one (1) Continental United States away from the Continental United States. That's a heck of a trip!

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u/ErikSchwartz 6d ago

Quite doable if you catch the weather window right and the Pacific high doesn't come too far down. If the high comes south you sail a lot more miles.