Rubato Van Isle 360
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Topic: Rubato Van Isle 360
Posted By: mopoulter
Subject: Rubato Van Isle 360
Date Posted: 15 June 2015 at 17:47
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Hey Folks Rubato a HAnse 400 is currently in 1st place on the VanIsle 360 with two legs to go. Let's go Rubato !!! ------------- mp Hanse 370 #416 "Anxiolytic" |
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Posted By: Johan Hackman
Date Posted: 15 June 2015 at 18:11
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Go Rubato, go! Johan -------------  http://www.johanhackman.se" rel="nofollow - http://www.johanhackman.se |
Posted By: scott
Date Posted: 16 June 2015 at 00:30
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Whoa! That's awesome! Here's a link for folks who want to watch along: http://tracker.vanisle360.com/ ------------- Scott Sailing Mer, Hanse 415, Hull #85 Seattle |
Posted By: Rubato
Date Posted: 16 June 2015 at 06:36
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Hey thanks Mike, Johan and Scott This year's edition of the race, the 10th edition, has fantastic wind so far. It really favours the Hanse. Quite the change from 2013 where we didn't finish 4 of the 10 legs. We completed the longest leg of the race, 138 nm, this morning before 5am having started yesterday at 9am. This leg was along the outside of Vancouver Island in the open Pacific Ocean. We went 25 miles offshore to find the good wind which peaked in the low 30s but was around 18-22 most of the time. We had a fantastic time with the kite up surfing down waves and reached a new boat record of 17.8 knots. Who knew you could get a furniture mover like the Hanse going so fast! The rooster tail off the transom reminded me of some of the Volvo Ocean racing videos we see. Okay, I'm not pretending this is a true race boat but we are having a ton of fun. I may post a few pics when get back home. Cheers, Steve ------------- Steve Hanse 400e, #168 |
Posted By: Peter-Blake
Date Posted: 16 June 2015 at 08:14
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17.8 knots whohoooooo! thtas speed! Go Steve! Congratulations so far! ------------- Blake 370 
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Posted By: mopoulter
Date Posted: 16 June 2015 at 15:05
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Cool !! Looks on the tracker that it is a big "float festival" right now with boats that are still out there doing less than a knot. ------------- mp Hanse 370 #416 "Anxiolytic" |
Posted By: silversailor
Date Posted: 17 June 2015 at 17:54
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Wat to go Rubato! Legacy would love to be right behind you. ------------- Silversailor South Haven, MI USA S/V Legacy 2010 Andrews 28 |
Posted By: mopoulter
Date Posted: 17 June 2015 at 17:56
The Anxiolytic would like to be in front of you  Looks like you got it wrapped up but keep the hammer down. ------------- mp Hanse 370 #416 "Anxiolytic" |
Posted By: scott
Date Posted: 21 June 2015 at 18:42
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Congrats to Rubato! 1st place overall in his division: http://www.vanisle360.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/PHRF-Overall2.pdf ------------- Scott Sailing Mer, Hanse 415, Hull #85 Seattle |
Posted By: mopoulter
Date Posted: 22 June 2015 at 15:35
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Yes huge congrats to Rubato. Quite an achievement ------------- mp Hanse 370 #416 "Anxiolytic" |
Posted By: Peter-Blake
Date Posted: 22 June 2015 at 16:07
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wow, congratualtions Steve! ------------- Blake 370
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Posted By: Rubato
Date Posted: 22 June 2015 at 19:49
 The "booty", or as some say "the pickle dish". Trophy was for 1st place under the official scoring system (PHRF). The watch was for a parallel unofficial scoring system, ORC Club, under which we placed second (totally different division breaks).  ------------- Steve Hanse 400e, #168 |
Posted By: Rubato
Date Posted: 22 June 2015 at 19:56
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Amazing race. This was our 4th time in the event that runs every 2 years. In 2011 we were second in Division and conditions in 2013 were so light that we didn't finish 4 of 10 legs. This year's event presented some of the best and most challenging sailing of my life. 2 boats were dismasted, many shredded numerous sails, and there were some man overboards. On Rubato, we lost 2 spinnaker bags, a winch handle and ripped a batten pocket off the #3 jib. Many legs were 18-24 knots of wind with the most we ever saw was mid 30s. Until this race I've never had to double reef the main but we sailed many legs with a double reef. Down wind speeds were routinely 9-10 with peaks in the 14s. As mentioned earlier, the record was a 17.8 knots while about 25 miles offshore in solid breeze and big waves. Upwind speeds were routinely 7.8 to 8.1 unless we had bigger waves which have a tendency to crash over the deck and slow you down.... I'm still smiling.... ------------- Steve Hanse 400e, #168 |
Posted By: Rock
Date Posted: 22 June 2015 at 22:12
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Congratulations Steve! Any action pictures at high speed? Would love to see that roostertail on a Hanse 400. Peter.
------------- Hanse 400e "M-square2" #0241 |
Posted By: Rubato
Date Posted: 23 June 2015 at 05:19
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We're looking to see if we got any video clips but most of us were pretty busy keeping the boat moving forward in the right direction and not crashing :) A couple more pics including Rubato leading a CM1200 (Raven) and a Farr 395 (Aduril) to windward in Johnstone Strait. Wind was in the 30s at times...   A glimpse of the scenery that we had for pretty much the first week of the race....  ------------- Steve Hanse 400e, #168 |
Posted By: sailkoop
Date Posted: 23 June 2015 at 09:17
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Congratulation Steve and great pics to view!! ------------- best regards Bjoern |
Posted By: Richard M
Date Posted: 23 June 2015 at 16:52
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Well done Steve! A great result - and you clearly had lots of fun! Best wishes Richard ------------- Richard M (S/Y BrightStar - H 455 #90; ex S/Y Providence - H 400e #290) |