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Page 42 Lake Ontario Offshore Racing Guide Bert Barrett – 'Upstart' With no refrigeration on the boat, I pre-freeze several water bottles and then two days before the race I purchase about 1Kg of dry ice which also goes into the home freezer. I don’t use dry ice in the boat because the CO2 it gives off replaces the air in the boat and you could die. The super cold iced bottled water keeps the food chilled for days and when the ice thaws, we drink the water. I prepare frozen meals like Chilli and Goulash in single meal sized plastic containers for dinners and keep them in the ice box next to the frozen bottled water. For breakfast we eat instant oatmeal and I also take a few small containers of sterilized soy milk and granola. For lunch, store bought salad packages with trail mix added and bread and peanut butter. Mostly we drink water but for flavour we take powdered Gatorade. For long races when single handed, I take soups to which I add minute rice for when the frozen food runs out. Crew Shifts Ron Ander - 'Alchemist' With a crew of four or five we stow our gear in the “V” berth and keep the port quarter berth, port double berth, and starboard single berth free and ready to use. When you are very tired, possibly a little sick, in the middle of the night you want your bed ready. In the 2018 LO300 with a crew of five, because of light conditions, there were several times when one person was at the helm, another sleeping in the cockpit, while three more were comfortably sound asleep down below. We don’t use a typical sleep shift cycle. There are many times when “all-hands-on-deck” is necessary. There are also many times when one person can helm and make sail adjustments including spinnaker trimming alone. Generally, our plan is “Sleep-When-You-Can.” Kenneth Martin - 'Star Chaser' We try to overlap shifts and might have six-hour shifts during the day and as short as two-hour shifts at night. If you have 8 bodies, two coming on as two go off works well. The second night is much more important than the first night. The shift schedules should be covered in plastic and taped to the bulk head, with a second sheet ready to go when the first one is lost. If the number of bodies doesn't work out well, then someone can "float" some or all the time. In addition, everyone must have their own harness and tether and this equipment must used if there is significant wind and during the night. This must be discussed prior to the race. Everyone also needs a toque, long underwear, and gloves (in the summer, leather garden gloves work well - if it's really raining a lot, put latex gloves inside leather garden gloves - when you need to do real work, just slip the garden gloves off; the latex gloves keep your hands dry) Thomas Lynam - 'Hip Hop' For the Scotch Bonnet we had four crew. We split the crew into two watches. Each watch was on for three hours splitting 1.5 helm and 1.5 trim follow by three hours off/standby. This was not strictly enforced but followed
Lake Ontario Offshore Racing Guide Page 43 closely. There were times when the current watch would elect to go a little long to allow a little more sleep for the off watch. Peter Smith - 'Sumac' Managing your crew is a huge part of being competitive. Here is what I’ve learned over the last 10 years of competing in the LO300 with a crew of between four and eight.
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