WYC Wednesday Night Race - Nuts

This was a downwind start in about 8 knots of wind. The plan was to start at the left side of the line. We could of stayed on starboard. Then when I got the other 2 boats extended out on right side of the course, we could jibe on port to be first to the mark. Night Moves immediately got a hourglass in their spinnaker and we got ahead. What I should of done is immediately jibed but NM got on our wind and rolled us to the first mark. This got us around second and the next leg was to weather We stayed on the left where Hot Ticket went to the right and was first to round the next mark. The next leg was a near fetch and we still rounded in third. On the next downwind leg we went to the left and then right and jibed on a header. We rounded in 2nd and went down to DP7 just behind HT. We then got caught in small boat traffic when the wind died. We managed to drift past HT but NM managed to get on the right side of the river and passed both of us.

COURSE D - 7.2 nautical miles
Start to D (309o) leaving it to starboard
-then to B (081o) leaving it to starboard
-then to A (187o) leaving it to starboard
-then to D (296o) leaving it to port
-then to DP7 (212o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.

Result: 2nd out of 3 J120s
Link: http://www.wyc.info/2007-regatta/WYC%202007%20Spring%20Race%206.pdf

Windsor Overnight Race - Ouch!

Carinthia did not race this night but Shooter and I took out Fast Traxx to watch the start and get maybe a few pictures. After the gun went off in the J120s I heard a bunch of yelling between Hot Ticket and Jayhawker and then a big bang. At first we thought someone had hit the committee boat but it turned out HT had taken out a back corner of Jayhawker with her bow. Needless to say both dropped out of the race. I understand Flyin' Irish quit when the wind died later at 2am.

WYC Wednesday Night Race

This was a fun race. The first leg was a windward leg. I tried to get on the left side of line but Merlin did a great job of keeping us on the outside. We luffed and started behind Merlin where we immediately tacked on starboard. I could see farther up the course the wind was going right. The mistake I made was to tack back on port and held it to the starboard layline. This caused us to round in 4th. The next leg was a reach so there was no room to pass. The following leg was a run. Although the starboard tack was favored we gibed to port. This allowed us to get to the next mark in a close third, going inside Night Moves. The last leg down the river was a run where it turned into a drag race, Ht managed to round DP5 ahead of us but because they had lost speed we managed to roll them finishing second.

Result: 2nd out of 5 J120s

Course:COURSE A - 6.8 nautical miles
Start to A (110o) leaving it to port
-then to B (007o) leaving it to port
-then to D (261o) leaving it to port
-then to CC (129o) leaving it to starboard
-then to DP7 (251o) leaving it to starboard
-then to finish leaving DP5 to starboard.

Mills Race - What could of been

This one I managed to recruit the world famous Chuck Bayer and the veteran Tony Lawrence. Leading up to the regatta the race committee decided to put it to us. Since we did not have dacron headsail they decided we did not deserve a roller furler credit. This took us down to a 45 from a 51 DRYA rating. This Mills was fast. We started on a run at 17:50 with up to 25 knots of wind. We put up our small spinnaker and managed to stay even with Large Marge and Crazy Horse. The sport boats in these conditions simply left us. When the wind moderated to 20 we did a nearly perfect spinnaker change to the .6oz large chute. When we rounded the buoy at Cedar Pointe we went to a head sail and later a code 0 when the wind moderated going north. At midnight we got headed and went to the ap1. When we rounded the top mark we then went the code 0 and left the sportboat behind us by at least a mile. For the next mark I called for the .6 and we to the .6 spinnaker. Unfortunately we had to launch it 3 times before we could get it up without a twist. The rest of the race we gibed back and forth as needed to the finish. We finished at 03:58, 35 minutes behind Marge and 30 behind Crazy Horse. When I plugged in the numbers we would missed 1st place in IRC by 62 seconds but in Lake Erie PHRF we were 6th. What a shame!

Results:
1 1 USA 139 Vanpire 32 Melges 32 /Reichel P Dan van Heeckeren 27 1/2:54:18 -00:33:49 08:30:28 1
2 2 51757 Stand Aside Thompson 8 /870 Bill Bollin 45 1/3:20:11 -00:56:21 08:33:49 2
3 3 691 Adrenalin Mumm 30 Sailing Team, MSU 45 1/3:34:57 -00:56:21 08:48:35 3
4 4 73273 Pterodactyl Evelyn /Evelyn Symonds, Mark 39 1/3:40:24 -00:48:50 09:01:33 4
5 5 117 Say Uncle Henderson /Henderson Lemonds, Kevin 39 1/3:41:51 -00:48:50 09:03:00 5
6 6 25497 Carinthia J/120 /J/120 Frank Kern 45 1/3:58:18 -00:56:21 09:11:56 6
7 7 USA39 Three Niner Mumm /30 Gonzalez, Dave 45 1/4:04:21 -00:56:21 09:17:59 7
8 11 USA 42744 Crazy Horse Frers /50 Bud & Andy Siudara 12 1/3:38:53 -00:15:01 09:33:51 8

Detroit Noods - It can only get better

On day one I had us start on the left side and slowly got lifted. The mistake was I should of tacked to consolidate our losses. Instead I took us to the left side and thus ending the race in 6th. Because of the lack of wind that day there were no more races.

On day 2 we took 5th in the 1st race, 4th in the 2nd race and 3rd in the last race. There were no races on Sunday.