Jack Frost #1 cancelled due to oil spill

Last week, a containership hit the bay bridge in the fog, tore its hull, and spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into SF bay.

Mashup

On Friday, SFYC harbor was closed off with a float boom due to encroaching oil, so Shanti (and our friends on the Pacific-built O911 Elusive) weren’t able to race. In the end, the entire SF30 class elected to not race, and eventually Encinal YC just canceled the regatta.

We looked into having the crew volunteer for spill clean-up in lieu of racing, but apparently there is a glut of volunteers and no real need for more. Which leads to a kind of weird dis-connected feeling of having this environmental catastrophe taking place on the bay, but nothing to really do about it. Except not sail.

Anyways, I got a chance to replace the broken spinnaker pole car.

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