Video taken from Outrageous, a Cal 39 sailboat, during the 2019 Harvest Moon Regatta put on by Lakewood Yacht Club. Special thanks to the race committee, Cit...

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it is the morning of Harvest Moon

regatta 2019 what a morning it is got

like an hour before I have to be at the

boat so I'm gonna go get coffee mistake

I made last year that I intend I'm not

making this year is that I didn't drink

any coffee and sailing an overnight trip

without coffee sucked all right bye

anticipation I anticipate I will be back

Monday afternoon now I gotta walk over

there too don't do that

meet outrageous the kal 39 that I erased

on this unit we raced with a crew of

seven with a wide range of experience

and abilities so if you're not familiar

with the Harvest Moon regatta it is a

150 mile offshore race from Galveston

Island to Port Aransas Lakewood Yacht

Club puts on every year around October

and this year we had over a hundred

thirty-five boats

racing in the regatta array just the

boat that I was on raced in the PHR F

spinnaker class of boat and if you'd

like to see the final results or learn

more about the regatta click the link in

the description let's get to the

starting lineup pleasure pier in

Galveston we had to sail from the club

at about 35 miles this part of the

journey gave us a chance to talk about

our strategies that we would use talk

about safety and the upcoming weather as

well as take seasickness tablets and get

comfortable down below

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down below we had quite spacious

accommodations

we had a full galley many birds for

sleeping in and plenty of food and water

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as we exited the bay we were escorted by

a pod of dolphins it was quite special

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our gun was around 2 p.m. on Thursday

afternoon we had about 18 knots of wind

coming out of the south which put us on

a close reach for most of the race

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the sea state was a fair we had about

two to three-foot waves for most of the

evening and through the night hour did

pick up a little bit later in the race

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one of my favorite parts about this race

is the first afternoon we get an amazing

sunset over the Gulf of Mexico and we

also get to see all the different boats

that enjoyed the regatta and figure out

who's fastest and who's not although we

were passing a lot of boats that

afternoon we were also getting passed by

quite a few there were many

high-performance racing apps in the race

this year that passed everyone very

early on the race

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that's the sunset we began getting into

our nighttime shift we each took a three

hour shift with 30 minutes at the helm

for each person because we had a crew of

seven we split into teams of three with

the first mates acting as our chef

taking care of us

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I spent the evening very wet

I got slashed by a huge wave right after

sunset and had to change into fresh

clothes immediately

the sunrise over the Gulf is one of the

most beautiful in my opinion we were

blessed to have a calm morning

however there was a cold front coming in

from the West that we had to be aware of

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as the cold front built off in the

distance we had an opportunity to change

his sails where the wind completely died

and we ended up drifting around for

about an hour when the front hit it hit

like a bomb we went from 0 knots wind

all the way up to 35 knots we took off

pretty quickly needless to say we had a

number to Genoa on the 4th day but we

rolled it up almost immediately to get

the boat under control some of the other

boats in the race looked a little bit

out of control with full sails up in

that weather one of the tactical errors

we may have made was not reefing the

main had we done that we might have had

better control of the boat and been able

to have a partial jab out for the final

10 nautical miles of the race

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as the weather moved in a rain line came

in and made it very difficult to see

anything

but it eventually broke and we were able

to see the other boats again

as the storm passed we cross the finish

line very wet and tired and ready to go

to bed reflecting on the race I would

definitely do it again

I think I'm drawn to this kind of

challenge because it is a challenge it

pushes our bodies and minds to the limit

gives us a taste of the greater

adventures out there thank you for

watching and if you like this video

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