http://tinylink.com/?dp6I31rhLV

2 of our 5 crew for the race, myself and Maddog, where we spent the next 10
1/2 hours. Would have been nice to have 2-3 more bodies, if for nothing else
but additional rail meat.

http://tinylink.com/?vloKZtMItQ

Good account of the race, big fun!

John Cairns

John Cairns wrote:

http://tinylink.com/?dp6I31rhLV

2 of our 5 crew for the race, myself and Maddog, where we spent the next 10
1/2 hours. Would have been nice to have 2-3 more bodies, if for nothing else
but additional rail meat.

http://tinylink.com/?vloKZtMItQ

Good account of the race, big fun!


One really long tack?

DSK

John Cairns wrote:
http://tinylink.com/?dp6I31rhLV

2 of our 5 crew for the race, myself and Maddog, where we spent the next 10
1/2 hours. Would have been nice to have 2-3 more bodies, if for nothing else
but additional rail meat.

Was it one really long tack?


http://tinylink.com/?vloKZtMItQ

Good account of the race, big fun!


That photo of classes C & D's start makes it look like only
3 boats know how to start. That boat 6337 (name "GUS XX" or
something like that?) looks like a cool boat... not in a
good position though...

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
John Cairns wrote:

http://tinylink.com/?dp6I31rhLV

2 of our 5 crew for the race, myself and Maddog, where we spent the
next 10 1/2 hours. Would have been nice to have 2-3 more bodies, if
for nothing else but additional rail meat.


Was it one really long tack?


http://tinylink.com/?vloKZtMItQ

Good account of the race, big fun!


That photo of classes C & D's start makes it look like only 3 boats know
how to start. That boat 6337 (name "GUS XX" or something like that?)
looks like a cool boat... not in a good position though...

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Doug,

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.

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.

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

Matt Colie

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

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
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

John Cairns wrote:
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


Is that a J-33? Good name.


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.

Good grief, what happened? From the weather map I know you
had an exciting race.


.. .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.


Do you have a way to dry it out, like say in a vacuum
chamber? Good thing to make sure. Dan (dbohara) recently
posted some notes on recovering electronic equipment that
has been dunked, but it doesn't sound like yours was bad.



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.

That's pretty good.

.... 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.


Not a bad result. Sounds like other boats had worse problems
than a little flooding (whatever caused it). One reason why
I've learned to do fiberglassing work is to beef up stuff so
it won't break when the wind & waves get up... it's not the
waves so much, it's the landings! And a couple of bad waves
could make up (or cost you) more than 2 minutes.

Any good spinnaker action?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Matt Colie" wrote



http://community.webshots.com/photo/...07693501103178
1966PDpPIQ

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 same board''? Does that mean the same tack? Sorry,
never heard that expression before.

Scotty

Scotty wrote:
''the same board''? Does that mean the same tack? Sorry,
never heard that expression before.


Got it. That's exactly what it means.

There's an expression 'taking long & short boards' for
tacking up a channel that you can *almost* make on one tack,
but have to take a few short tacks to clear in between long
intervals.

DSK

John,

It sure is a pleasure to hear someone talk about SAILING. Thank you,
thank you, thank you.

http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomPage