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In this Issue:
Mike Huck- Ocean Explorers Class
ICYRA All Americans- Great Lakes Sailors Honored
Round Britain- Leg 1 Complete
Cray Valley- Half Way Across the Atlantic
Great Circle- To the Azores !
Ocean Explorers- Web Education !
Huck Ocean Ventures and Onlineclass Inc. are
the joint sponsors of the web based education project
"Ocean Explorers- An Educational Journey". This
project will be offered in the fall of this year and
the spring of 1999.
Ocean Explorers takes an inter disciplinary
approach to educating people in the numerous
disciplines needed to successfully explore oceans.
Four of the great explorers are studied: Da Gama,
Cabot, Vespucci, and Magellan.
The Ocean Explorers program consists of three
stages. The first part looks at the circumstances and
course of each of the explorers. The second part looks at
the current state of the regions they explored. The third
stage will have a simulated voyage and fully interactive e-mail
exchanges with people who have actually sailed
the courses of the voyages.
In the future, Huck Ocean Ventures would like to
acquire a vessel, so the voyage part of the curriculum
can be real and not simulated.
For more information, contact Mike Huck (fin@lakefiled.net)
or Cathy de Moll (cdemoll@onlineclass.com)
or visit
http://www.onlineclass.com
ICYRA- All Americans Named
Bill Hardesty of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
took home the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association's
top award. This award is the Everett B. Morris trophy
signifying the years top college sailor.
Hardesty took 1st at Sloop Nationals, finished 3rd at
the single handed nationals and helped the Merchant Marine
Academy to a 2nd place at Dinghy Nationals. Hardesty will
graduate with a Marine Engineering degree. His immediate
plans are to campaign for the US Laser slot and represent
the US at the 2000 Olympic games.
Several Great Lakes sailors earned All American status.
Dean Balciark of Grosse Pointe Woods MI sailing for the U.S.
Naval Academy, Peter Strothman of Excelsior MN for Harvard,
and Mike Uznis of Grosse Point MI for USC earned All Amercian
status as skippers.
Chicago IL's Sarah Buckely earned Women's All
American status sailing for the College of Charleston. Honorable
Mention Women's All Americans were Dorthy Huffman of
the College of Charleston and Grosse Point MI. Elizabeth Potter
sailing for St. Mary's College of Maryland and hailing from
Springfield, Ohio also achieved Honorable Mention Women's
All American status.
Great Lakes sailors receiving All American crew awards
were: Sally Berens of Radcliffe University from Hamilton, Mi.
For more information visit http://www.icyra.org
Round Britain- Leg 1
Leg 1 of this 2,000 mile test is now complete. All in all
the fleet made swift progress sailing from Plymouth to
Crosshaven in Ireland.
Spirit of England, a 43 foot trimaran, took line honours
sailing the leg in 23 hours 57 minutes. This is the 2nd
fastest time ever for this leg. A 65 foot catamaran holds the
record set in 1989.
In Class I the Open 60 Victoria Group edged it's fellow
Open 60 Musto Performance by only 3 minutes.
Class II was won by Wolfie's Toy. Jeantex also an Open
50, sailed by up and coming British sailors Ellen MacArthur
and David Rowen finished 21 minutes back.
Next the sailors have a mandatory 48 hour stop over, and
sail onto Barra.
For further info please see: http://pilgrims.com/rwyc/
Cray Valley- Solo Across the Atlantic
Jean-Pierre Mouligné and his Open 50 Cray Valley are
in transit across the Atlantic Ocean. J.P. is sailing to Falmouth
England where he will start the Atlantic Alone race July 5th.
Cray Valley sailed from Newport R.I on June 1st. So far,
J.P. has stayed a little south trying to avoid icebergs. Last
Thursday Cray Valley accidentally jibed, breaking 2 battens
which J.P. has repaired. During the next couple of days, Cray
Valley sailed through some stiff breezes up to 50 knots.
However, by Monday the wind was down to 3 knots.
At this point J.P. took advantage of this to do laundry.
June 9th saw Cray Valley just about half way across the
Atlantic 1561 miles from Falmouth. Cray Valley's ETA in
Falmouth is June 18th.
To check J.P.'s e-mail progress reports visit:
http://crayvalleyaroundalone.com
Great Circle- Voyaging to the Azores
Brian Hancock's Great Circle is half way to the Azores
Islands. Although Brian plans to compete in the solo
Around Alone race, he has two crew on board.
Robert Fellows of Iowa City, Iowa, and Wayne Kentner
of London, Ontario, Canada are his crew for this voyage. They
are Great Circle supporters who took Hancock up on his
unique offer of paying to sail on Great Circle in order to
support Great Circle's Around Alone efforts.
The threesome are enjoying varied conditions en
route. According to Hancock: ""We've seen it all,
from beautiful high speed downwind sailing under
spinnaker to a massive gale in which we ran off under storm
jib, just riding it out for three hours."
When Great Circle reaches the Azores the crew members
will sign off. Hancock will then sail back to the US
solo as a qualifying voyage for Around Alone.
For more details visit: http://www.greatcircle.org