Friday, June 26, 2009

Cannot believe it

The race has again been cancelled for tomorrow because apparently the Weather is supposed to be bad.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Arlene results

Results as expected in order of handicap especially in YAH

Arlene Ocean Race

Some would say we won the first race, stuffed the second and did okay in the third, but there was officially only one race. The wind did as predicted and went from 5 knots north east to east taking the big boats out to eastern windmills and halfway back before dying completely. We sat there for a few hours waiting for the breeze that tended south to bring the smaller boats (and some of the bigger boats) back to the leading boats for a restart and sprint to the finish. There was a fair bit of luck involved in terms of should we go left or right, head for shore or stay on the line. The boats that won out did what we would normally, head towards the breeze and hope that it doesnt fade near the shore. This enabled boats like syrenka to sail from oblivion back into the race around the outside and be third around campbell.
OP had line honours and we managed a second over the line but well out of contention on handicap. The results were not out before the boys on the bus wanted to leave so not sure of the outcome but likely to be a small boat. Next factor did well finishing just behind Knee Deep a few minutes behind us.
That makes OP5 -4 up on us but who is counting.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Winter Inshore Race 2

Another great day on the water. Second and fastest on YAH with IRC results to be posted next week. But with a little bit of primary level calculating unofficially and assuming I have the correct IRC numbers it looks like its out of us, x factor, and southern star. Most of the roving correspondence has already been duly completed by others and can be found here: http://www.fsc.com.au/3/319/1/latest_news__information.pm Results here: http://www.fsc.com.au/2/281/1/_inshore_winter_series_results.pm Picture Vanessa Cornwall FSC The track from the race is here:

Stories from after event activities at Little Creatures are abundant (apparently) but I can't remember much and my head hurts. Have spent most of the day finding my gear in several different cars.

Any questions?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Big boat summary

Sunday’s racing was very light with no wind before the start. We discussed the possibility of having a race without sails, engines only just to keep the competitive spirit alive but the wind picked up slightly and the need for alternatives disappeared. The start boat again tried to set a course that would have had the windward mark sitting in about 2 meters of depth, not so good for a big boat series, so there was a slight delay again to allow them to move North. Wind at around 7 knots and 100degrees (SE) on a forecast of 10-15 knot north to North westerlies (?). Mediocre start with Jaffa in front OP to windward and I think knee deep to leeward, nowhere to go and couldn’t tack until we had enough bad wind off Jaffa to allow us to tack across into oblivion, and probably enough said on this race. We dropped this one. Second race a better start but OP was sailing better than us and managed to stay ahead on a soldiers course not leaving us much scope to fight back on a one lapper shortened course with the wind dying. Overall out of seven races Next factor took the overall honours with OP second and us in third. Great racing and we enjoyed the competition. We are pleased to see OP back up there and happy that we still have much to learn with plenty of races coming up. Should be some very competitive sailing to look forward too in the coming months. Bring it on.