John Cairns wrote:
http://www.westshoresailclub.org/rac...oursesPHRF.pdf

Last night's course was E1, pic would have been taken when the two were
sailing by the committee boat, mid-leg. Both of these guys are terrific
competitors, but I am told that "RacerX" loses it when they get behind,
least that's what Kristen told me. Based on what I've seen Feisty and RacerX
do, I would be surprised-very surprised-if their boats are ever out of trim,
and their mechanics-tacks, gybes, mark roundings, starts, are excellent.

Well, I'm used to people criticising my methods of trimming
a spinnaker. Maybe they're doing it all perfectly

OTOH unless these boats are rated within 6 points of each
other, one of them is getting hammered.

..... In
the past, I think our main advantage may have been our starts and trim, our
mechanics were sloppy, probably in the main due to our lack of consistent
crew.

If the trimmers stay with the boat (or are just plain good
enough) then it shouldn't be too difficult to get things
working smoothly... maybe not crackerjack perfect.
Consistency is better than occasional perfection!

One of the best things to make time is to know how to
accelerate the boat... if trimmers & helm work together to
get the boat up to her polars as quickly as possible, to a
large extent makes up for bad tacks etc etc.


.... Last night it all came together very
nicely, and this was our first win in the Wednesday night series. If we can
maintain these results, we have a very good chance of winning overall this
year.


That would be great


Scotty wrote:
Congrats John. well done, and I hope your success continues.


Agreed... why didn't I think of saying that....

DSK