Summer Sailstice YRA Race

[Photoboy]

For what it is worth, the Summer Sailstice gallery is no uploaded to Here

6, countem 6 regattas in one afternoon...(RYC interclub was also in the mix)

[3D]

OK - since we're doing the video-posting thing, here's mine......

http://https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73814153/Summer%20Sailstice%202013.mp4

Please excuse the cheesy music - the kids like it

W.S.

Very, very cool!!!

Who cares about 3rd place in the results, you get a 1st place in my book for doing these races with the kids!

Cheers!!!

-3D

[Photoboy]

Sailstice Results!

[Wet Spreaders]

OK - since we're doing the video-posting thing, here's mine......

http://https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/73814153/Summer%20Sailstice%202013.mp4

Please excuse the cheesy music - the kids like it

[DeathSpear]

http://vimeo.com/68930183

How its done

In solidarity, this is a video from last years HDA Bonita race. Probably our worst broach and a costly one as we destroyed our A2. But popped the A5 and kept on going...

https://vimeo.com/44593791

[Bitchin Bow Dude]

http://vimeo.com/68930183

How its done

[Wet Spreaders]

Our first upwind saw about 17kts at the start, max of around 22kts in the Central Bay. The downwind was the same. On the second time around we went right and tucked in behind Point Blunt where it was pretty puffy - I saw 26kts max. Once we were away from the disturbed air the speed was between 21kts and 24kts back to Harding and stayed in that range on the run back down until we were behind TI, when it dropped off considerably. We finished just before 2pm, so likely the guys still out on the course saw more of the bigger breeze than we did.

[Wylieguy]

On "NANCY" our TackTick was working. We saw consistent Apparent Wind in the low 30s, with a few gusts at 35, especially around Blunt. We were having too much fun, so when we got to Harding for the first time and realized we'd be doing that upwind leg twice more since we had to go home to Sausalito after the finish, we decided home looked good right then.

[DeathSpear]

Those who whine about "saving sailing" and opine on the benefits of Optis or Vanguards for all etc have it all wrong. The secret is unfettered access to sugar. Since they were small, they learned to associate sailing with a massive and sustained sugar high because I'm too busy to supervise them properly and I can't see what they are doing down stairs. I'm slowly weaning them into driving for longer and longer periods - In a couple of years I'm planning to stay below with the rum and let them deal with the physical discomfort and salty spray.

My boat is a rocketship upwind because the class requires all of the boats to weigh the same. Mine is an early boat (hull #16) and I need 700lbs of lead to meet the minimum weight. You can guess where that goes and the effect it has on reducing the need for railmeat in breeze.

I think I can subscribe to the 'sugar and rum' theory.

[Wet Spreaders]

Hope to one day join you on the father/son(s) fleet. But I'm still a few years away. You sailed that boat remarkably fast upwind with no one on the rail on the second beat. I did briefly questioned your sanity, though

Those who whine about "saving sailing" and opine on the benefits of Optis or Vanguards for all etc have it all wrong. The secret is unfettered access to sugar. Since they were small, they learned to associate sailing with a massive and sustained sugar high because I'm too busy to supervise them properly and I can't see what they are doing down stairs. I'm slowly weaning them into driving for longer and longer periods - In a couple of years I'm planning to stay below with the rum and let them deal with the physical discomfort and salty spray.

My boat is a rocketship upwind because the class requires all of the boats to weigh the same. Mine is an early boat (hull #16) and I need 700lbs of lead to meet the minimum weight. You can guess where that goes and the effect it has on reducing the need for railmeat in breeze.

[DeathSpear]

We had a great day on the water. We made the right call at the start (head left, tack onto a layline for Sausalito - minimize exposure to the late flood at some risk of being knocked on the long port leg with the fleet to our right with leverage) and beat our fleet to Harding. With the breeze in the high teens, gusting over 20, I'd already decided that it was too much for the kite with just me and the little guys on the boat; we were lucky that the leg to 21 was too fine an angle to carry anyway, so we were first there too. After that, we could not compete and saw the SunFast and Mintaka blow past below us on the run down to FOC. The competitive juices were flowing and I was very tempted - saved only by the fact that our gear was on the wrong side after the jibe.

Photoboy is right - the boys take off downstairs periodically to play video games and raid the junk food out of my sight, generally during the "boring bits" - defined by kid-logic as the times when we are not in mortal peril or turning a corner.

Here we are just after the start - extracted from the POV cam on the stern

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Hope to one day join you on the father/son(s) fleet. But I'm still a few years away. You sailed that boat remarkably fast upwind with no one on the rail on the second beat. I did briefly questioned your sanity, though

[DeathSpear]

I think because there is an 'overall' perpetual trophy that they need to send everyone on the same course.

Didn't know there was one, but that would make sense. Thanks.

[Andy Newell]

Yikes, looking over the results is looks like the RC sent everyone on course 3.

I think because there is an 'overall' perpetual trophy that they need to send everyone on the same course.

[Wet Spreaders]

We had a great day on the water. We made the right call at the start (head left, tack onto a layline for Sausalito - minimize exposure to the late flood at some risk of being knocked on the long port leg with the fleet to our right with leverage) and beat our fleet to Harding. With the breeze in the high teens, gusting over 20, I'd already decided that it was too much for the kite with just me and the little guys on the boat; we were lucky that the leg to 21 was too fine an angle to carry anyway, so we were first there too. After that, we could not compete and saw the SunFast and Mintaka blow past below us on the run down to FOC. The competitive juices were flowing and I was very tempted - saved only by the fact that our gear was on the wrong side after the jibe.

Photoboy is right - the boys take off downstairs periodically to play video games and raid the junk food out of my sight, generally during the "boring bits" - defined by kid-logic as the times when we are not in mortal peril or turning a corner.

Here we are just after the start - extracted from the POV cam on the stern

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[Andy Newell]

There was a postponement right before H fleet to re-set the line because the committee boat dragged, probably took them about 20 minutes.