JULY 10, 2018
FIRST TO THE WIND
WINS
We had 8 boats out for the fun on this night, but only about
5 had race QS tracks. This is a light turnout for our group but I know of 2
boats that are in the yard and 2 boats had mechanical problems. In fact I had the pleasure of sailing on
Nidaros II and using this boat to call the race from.
The wind was blowing lightly from the East so we called a
short course, B5 which is start to Blacks twice around. As we counted down the five minutes after the
horn, there was no competition at the start mark end of the line and Nidaros
had a great start at the pin and was able to lay the mark without any tacks. On
the second rounding heading toward start for the finish, there was a transition
zone that trapped all of us. We thought
it looked like more wind inside, but as we all bobbed in the dead air we
noticed the northwesterly was filling in nicely. Since we were the closest to the the
northwesterly Nidaros II was the first to catch the wind and finished at
49:47. Aeolian finished at 55:47. The length of the course was 1.12 miles. Unfortunately many of the boats were so deep
in the transition zone that they retired and did not finish.
WHY RACE QS?
I encourage everyone to use this app. This is the only way for us to record
results. Since we are setting a line
each week, we must pick up the mark after the race and we are not recording results. To me PHRF is a four letter word for Tuesday
nights, but if someone wants to see how they actually performed against a
faster boat, they can apply this measure when they see how much time was spent
by each boat on the race course. If you
want to come out for an evening sail on Tuesday, have fun, but if you want to
be counted run Race QS!
As noted earlier, I had the chance to sail on Nidaros II on
this night. It is always a way to
improve your sailing by sailing with various people and on other boats. You will always learn something from the
experience.
Barry Keeler
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