Archive for June, 2009
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a slightly bruised bear on her way home to bda!
unfortunately at 730am this morning when approx 80 miles from the finish i had to take the decision to retire from the race after loosing our “new” mainsail to extensive lamination on the leech and the head of the sail this followed the #3 blowing out in a 30 knot squall leaving us with our [...]
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Sunday 21st 1400 EDT
Good afternoon Bear followers! Well the sun is shining and the boys on deck have been having a whale of time driving over the last few hours so i thought another paw print on the web site would be appropriate!! We are just entering the northern wall of the Gulf Stream, the sargasso weed is [...]
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Sunday 21st 1030 EDT
Morning Bear followers! Well Mark served up Salt Cod for breakfast, which brought out the sunshine and the smiles. I gather this is an infamous Bermudian dish which Jon only had for the second time this morning. Herculean efforts by the team over the last 20 hours with every sail combination possible having been up, [...]
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sunday morning
Happy Fathers day from the Bears! not allowed to say too much about the positions etc except to say that we are in now in the part of the ocean vasco bear (kieron) wanted us to aim for boat is getting that lived in sort of fetid atmosphere which is going to need to some [...]
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sunday morning
Happy Fathers day from the Bears! not allowed to say too much about the positions etc except to say that we are in now in the part of the ocean vasco bear (kieron) wanted us to aim for boat is getting that lived in sort of fetid atmosphere which is going to need to some [...]
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first evening…….
Good Morning all Bears here!! Big Bear has just got up and seems very happy, medium Bear has just made a fantastic breakfast (contents a trade secret and a distinct competitive advantage….just think of the nicest breakfast you have ever had and you will be close and no it wasnt porridge or honey in case [...]
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Race Crew for the Marion to Bermuda Race
JPB Buddy Rego Somers Kempe Kieron O Connell Peter Shrubb Mark Henneburger Mike Carey Allan Williams and of course Sooty the mascot bear!
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Hey Big Bear, Have a great trip and be safe out there Boys…we’ll see you on the dock!!! Oh yeah, we’ll be the Hot, Sexy Chicks makin all the noise:)
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Where is Big Bear?
Tracking device is now installed so check out http://maps.iboattrack.com/races/2009_marion_bermuda/htdocs/ if you want to find us! best wishes j
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weather, media and final preparations
http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d9693330030014§ionId=70 Oh gosh…….now we are feeling the pressure! anyway lots of activity going on in terms of trying to understand weather charts etc and doing final work on Bear currently looks like it could be a fast wet ride! best wishes to all j