"DSK" wrote in message
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Matt Colie wrote:

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...31781966PDpPIQ

is a picture of the race chart. They sailed the Mills (blue track)
around Pelee Island ~70 miles and -yes- the first three legs can be on
the same board, but that is only half the race. The sob part is always
the finish inside the bay where tradition requires that the wind that was
beating you up all night - cease - completely.


I hate it when that happens. Used to be really good at light air sailing,
nowadays I'm losing the patience for it... and it's never been fun at
night.


The boat Gus who? (6337) is an X-yachts 3/4 ton, there are three (maybe
4) of these in the current fleet. They are neat boats and it is fun to
watch them, the S2-7.9s and the Abbott 33s beat up on each other every
Wednesday (Wednesday Night At The Races- WNATR). He may not be in the
best position for his start, but he has a good collection of flags from
this event.


The start is less important in a long race, obviously, but it never helps
to start out being covered & in bad air. A PHRF race is a sprint against
time and seconds lost cannot be recovered (unless the other guys mess up).
I wasn't trying to say the guy was a bad sailor, just not his best start


I'm hoping that John brough back some good pictures.


I hope so too.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King


Sorry guys, didn't get my camera out of the bag the whole race, didn't pull
it out after we left the dock, felt we were too busy to be fooling around
taking pictures, and my camera isn't exactly compact.

http://community.webshots.com/album/550830749owCBob

Probably not a bad thing under the circumstances, the boat got flooded,
probably 30-50 gallons on the cabin sole, under the quarterberths, forward
by the heads, under the icebox, sink, you get the idea. I had laid my camera
and bag on the port quaterberth cushion, sometime around 2 or so in the am I
noticed my bag floating upside-down in 8 inches of water piled up next to
the sink. Fortunately, the bag was water resistant enough to prevent the
camera or the contents of the bag, a Sigma and fairly expensive Canon IS
zoom lens, from being damaged. The towel that the camera was wrapped in felt
damp, however.

http://www.toledoyachtclub.com/mills...inishes_R1.pdf

Note the # of dnf's, we were lucky, and under the circumstances, ended with
a pretty good result, 12th overall and 3rd in class. RacerX lost a lower,
Hellion lost steerage at a rounding and hit the bouy, punched two holes in
the boat, Kicks broke their tiller. You read and they tell you how every
little bit of speed counts, it never becomes more apparent when you
calculate how much you lost by. We lost one place overall by a little over 2
minutes in a race with an elapsed time, for us, of over 13 hours. Do the
math.

John Cairns