Pterobyte is planning on showing up at Annapolis Race Week Labor Day.

We are securing rooms and crew.  Look for us there!

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What about Pterobyte?
PTEROBYTE, Jim Baldwin, 6th in the PHRF A3 fleet at Screwpile. Pterobyte won a tie breaker in their battle with Priority One (Ron Spicuzza) in the overall standings by virtue of having finished 2nd in the second race of the regatta. SBRNYCU just plain missed Pterobyte when summarizing final regatta standings in Thursday’s issue. Make no mistake, they were there. And, they raced tough in a very tough fleet.

At http://www.nbayracing.com/Evelyn32-2.htm

Hull number 1, Jim Baldwin’s “Pterobyte” seen racing at Maryland’s premiere mixed fleet regatta, Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge. (photos by Joydot)

Jim and crew had their work cut out for them in the PHRF A3 fleet, with a lot of Olsons and Frers and the always dangerous MORC killer, “Remedy” in their class. And huge congrats for their finishing in the top half of their fleet on their first attempt at Screwpile. Screwpile is a “Bring Your A-Game Only” event. (see front page 7.26.09 story).

Major props to Jim and crew for coming up from Deltaville to do the event. Like an idiot I didn’t get a chance to catch up with Jim, even though I stumbled around the dock one evening, post-race, trying to find “Pterobyte,” and missed his phone call at the party because the band was too loud. Anyway, that’s my excuse.

WHAT’S YOURS FOR NOT DOING SCREWPILE?

 

 

It’s official, Pterobyte has signed up for Charleston Race week. That got us to the top of the list? We were the 4th boat to sign up, do we get # 4 for our bow number?
Charleston Race Week for Evelyn 32-2 Pterobyte

Tags: charleston race week, evelyn 32-2, events, Road Trip

Traveling with a boat on a trailer is new to me and most of our team.  It is an ambitious goal and we are taking it one step at a time.  Getting the experience of packing the boat up, moving it to new harbors.  Getting all the details covered.  This is all pretty daunting.

One step at a time.

We, Mark and I, took the mast off this week.  I drove it down to Hampton, the Hampton Frostbite Series, last night.  It is now parked and ready to be rigged Saturday Morning.

This is our first ‘road‘ trip actually on the road.  I must say, moving by road was a lot less stressful and time consuming then sailing down to Hampton.  Give the time we probably missed a really good sail though.  But this gives us the experience we need to be sure we can actually campaign the boat on the road.  We are looking forward to Charleston SC. 

 

Tags: Frostbite, Hampton, Road Trip

Not having sailed this boat over 18kts of wind we were not sure what to expect from it. The boat and hardware did fantastic. I had selected our 4th string, yes we have four, main. I did this in case we had any issues, the damage would be limited to 4th string sails and or delivery sails. As it turned out that was the only damage and the age and lack of use and prep of the sale did us in for both races.

The second full batten on the main popped out it’s pocket and forward of the mast. I suppose we could have done a sail change back to the 2nd string main, which we had on board just in case. With crew we had, some green on the outside, and the dark windy weather we opted for shelter and cleared the batten. That made us miss both races for the day.

On the good side, the boat did fantastically well in the wind and waves. It was HUGE confidence builder in the boat. Thanks crew for doing such a great job!

Small vitory I know, but we made a cameo appearance in the video in the local paper. We also are a boat included in the mast head of the site for now. I know it’s small, but hey one small victory for Pterobyte and giant leap for pterokind.

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What a great way to get introduced to the folks at Yankee Point Marina.  The hospitality of the event was wonderful.  the food was good and the event was well run.

We could not have asked for better weather.  Blowing briskly, clear and , mild.

Here is a picutre take from a passer by, thank you, on the way back.

Tags: hospice, regatta, yankee point

What looked like a wash out due to rain turned into a great day on the water. Light air prevailed but we got in two races for the Fall Series #2.

We had a rough start on the first race, I got the boat to weather for Struthers before the start had to tack away, that made us late to the line. Results

The second race was better we stayed with the pack, dove deep on the last downwind and pickeup on the a few J105 to take a second. Results

Over all we walked with a 3rd for the day.  Way to go crew: David, Chris, Bob, Justin.

Tags: Evelyn 32-2 race results, race results

I have added a new event calendar for our Evelyn 32-2 Pterobyte. This useful tool comes to us from Google and allows you to click to add it to your own Google calendar.