YRA 2nd Half Opener: Look to the sky!

[Photoboy]

122 boats registered in 16 fleets...An short ocean race Saturday and a trip around Alcatraz Sunday with some kinda hootenanny at the EYC in between...




















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[PSutchek]

Dammit,,,, why do they always list us at the bottom ..two or threebad boys in our Div...
:-)

Who's coming out to play this weekend ?

[war dog]

Dammit,,,, why do they always list us at the bottom ..two or threebad boys in our Div...
:-)

Who's coming out to play this weekend ?

Umm because boats are listed by their PHRF rating and you sail on the slowest rated boat.....only 2 or 3 boats you consider real competitors? It must be nice being the smartest and most skilled sailors in the entire SF area!!

[PSutchek]

I did not day that WD,, and the phrf thing was a joke ..

Time to lighten up now, and have some rum

[AyCaliente]

Ay Caliente will be out this weekend. I hope it's blowing from the NNW, all the rum is to starboard. We'll keep the Pacifico's to port for balance. Is rum considered movable ballast?

Any PD divisions this year?

AC

[Photoboy]

Look up on Saturday....

See ya at the club....eerrp...ahhh

[DeathSpear]

Leave the fighting for the water

WD are you coming out? Spear will be getting wet this weekend after almost a month drying off.

[war dog]

Not sailing this weekend my daughter made championships so I'll be spending the weekend as a swim dad!!

Young Paul knows I'm just ribbing him (I hope).........

[PSutchek]

Wow ! Seventeen boats in our division,,,
We've got the rum, we've got the Redbull,,,

But now it's time to do this for real,
See ya at the party

Paul

[PSutchek]

Not all the boats showed up, we did as well as we could... What was most interesting, Was going out to Pt. Bonita, no problem, but after we rounded , we had half an hour of ten foot drops,, I never saw them coming while on the way out....interesting..

[IOR Geezer]

Sounds like the ebb followed you and and mixed up with some building swell. From zero to 10 foot seems a bit extreme.

[PSutchek]

I hear what your saying,,, after a
Dropping the jib, I turned around to get back into the cockpit, and was looking at green water above me !

[DeathSpear]

We had some fun with the drops we encountered.

[Slackwater_SF]

Ref: SkyDrive.Link

There are some pictures from Saturday’s YRA 2nd Half Opener on SkyDrive.
There was quite a parade of boats to the Encinal Yacht Club.

Tides:
1038 Slack
1240 1.7 E
1552 Slack

First finishers
13:25 Rocket88 D-Class cat
14:23 Twisted Farr40 MH
14:27 Bodacious+ 1D 48

The Alameda estuary wind conditions varied as the day progressed with the winds getting a little less certain.

[mjr]

We went from zero to hero after a tough first leg by sailing less distance downwind-- we were one of just a couple(?) people that played the marin coast after rounding the bouy. Made up a TON of ground. Lost a couple boats in the estuary... super fun race