Last Friday
Here is a write-up from last week's winner. I do not have results yet. The Atlantics took the steam out of posting the weeknight results.
July 7 Friday night proved a beautiful night of racing, with four boats out racing four races in 10-14 knots and sunny skies. Oakley and Anna Jones christened and launched #511, a sight we've been waiting four years to see, and there's even pictures to prove it! They sailed until their rudder head slipped on the rudder shaft, good thing the rudder stayed in as they've been known to drop out and go to the bottom. Greg and Rick Maurice came down from Maine to join us and stayed for the Atlantics.
My crew Ryan Cahill is new to the 110, so our first goals were to smooth out the boathandling, our previous week saw lots of tanglings. We were a bit late for the first start but hung in there behind Mark Van Note & Ryan Scott and Jeff & Joanne Adam, got comfortable in the boat, and saw that in clear air we had good speed and point. In Race 2 we looked to get off the line clean, then get right as it looked like there was more pressure there as well as predicted persistent right shift and the tide turning to go out. The plan seemed to work but Mark and Ryan obviously were thinking the same and rounded the windward mark in first. I remember Jeff digging in too far left in the first beat and it didnt work out. At the leeward mark we came in hot with speed and were able to secure inside overlap on Mark, but I looked up from dousing chute and we totally missed it - so we gybed and tacked and re rounded, behind Jeff, now in first as Mark and Ryan had problems getting their chute in the boat for a while so were slow getting around the mark.
By Race 3 we felt solid in the boat, and felt the new Quantum sails were working well. What a bonus to have a nice groove to sail in upwind! Been a while since I've had that. So the goal was to get off the line with speed and get right again, which worked - we got bow out at the start and kept her smooth and flat and soon were able to tack above the fleet and get to the right. We dug into pressure there, tacked back, and rounded in first followed by Mark. We both gybe set to get back out into pressure, and they were on our heels the whole run. We managed to stay ahead, rounded the leeward mark on the first attempt this time, continued on starboard out to the layline then tacked to finish close to the pin.
In Race 4 we used the same strategy and it worked out; sail smooth and fast off the start, get right, gybe set on the run, and favor the right side up the long beat to R2. We may have been able to carry chute on the final reach to Ida Lewis, but opted to play conservative. Overall it was an excellent night of racing with all four boats mixing it up around the course. Looking forward to this Friday!
Ross Weene
July 7 Friday night proved a beautiful night of racing, with four boats out racing four races in 10-14 knots and sunny skies. Oakley and Anna Jones christened and launched #511, a sight we've been waiting four years to see, and there's even pictures to prove it! They sailed until their rudder head slipped on the rudder shaft, good thing the rudder stayed in as they've been known to drop out and go to the bottom. Greg and Rick Maurice came down from Maine to join us and stayed for the Atlantics.
My crew Ryan Cahill is new to the 110, so our first goals were to smooth out the boathandling, our previous week saw lots of tanglings. We were a bit late for the first start but hung in there behind Mark Van Note & Ryan Scott and Jeff & Joanne Adam, got comfortable in the boat, and saw that in clear air we had good speed and point. In Race 2 we looked to get off the line clean, then get right as it looked like there was more pressure there as well as predicted persistent right shift and the tide turning to go out. The plan seemed to work but Mark and Ryan obviously were thinking the same and rounded the windward mark in first. I remember Jeff digging in too far left in the first beat and it didnt work out. At the leeward mark we came in hot with speed and were able to secure inside overlap on Mark, but I looked up from dousing chute and we totally missed it - so we gybed and tacked and re rounded, behind Jeff, now in first as Mark and Ryan had problems getting their chute in the boat for a while so were slow getting around the mark.
By Race 3 we felt solid in the boat, and felt the new Quantum sails were working well. What a bonus to have a nice groove to sail in upwind! Been a while since I've had that. So the goal was to get off the line with speed and get right again, which worked - we got bow out at the start and kept her smooth and flat and soon were able to tack above the fleet and get to the right. We dug into pressure there, tacked back, and rounded in first followed by Mark. We both gybe set to get back out into pressure, and they were on our heels the whole run. We managed to stay ahead, rounded the leeward mark on the first attempt this time, continued on starboard out to the layline then tacked to finish close to the pin.
In Race 4 we used the same strategy and it worked out; sail smooth and fast off the start, get right, gybe set on the run, and favor the right side up the long beat to R2. We may have been able to carry chute on the final reach to Ida Lewis, but opted to play conservative. Overall it was an excellent night of racing with all four boats mixing it up around the course. Looking forward to this Friday!
Ross Weene
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