APRIL 25, 2023 PARTY ON THE BAY

 

APRIL 25, 2023

PARTY ON THE BAY

Prediction for the evening was for a light, 10 knot breeze from the northwest.  As the afternoon continued, the Easterly seemed to be filling in.  As we left the harbor and approached the start area, we found the wind was steadily coming from 100 degrees and set a line square to that direction.  The eminent question was: will the wind die or keep blowing?  I am told that when the wind comes from the East and is a chilly wind,  chances are better that it will continue.  We optimistically called for a rather long course: Echo 1: SC3, Blacks and finish at the finish mark.  We blew the horn at 5:50 for the fleets to start in sequence with Fleet A at 5:55 and Fleet B at 6pm.

It was beautiful to see so many boats out on the water as the fleets each started and made their way to SC3.  The first of A fleet to round SC3 was Animal, followed by Aboriginal, Sweetheart, New Wave, Sagittarius, Watts Moore, Aquavit, Yellow Belly, Tusitala, Muffin, Good Timin’ and Avatar.  The first of B Fleet to round SC3 was Zoop followed by Perfect 36, Big Mac, Nidaros, Pacific Spirit, Olive Oil, Makani and Pair a Dice. 

The brisk wind continued as all boats rounded Blacks and made their way to the finish line.  The first of A fleet to finish was Animal 31:42 followed by Aboriginal 33:52, Sweetheart 35:58, New Wave 39:26, Yellow Belly 39:35, Sagittarius 40:16, Watts Moore 40:19, Tusitala 40:32, Perigon 41:06 Good Timin’ 41:36, Aquavit 42:04, Muffin 42:37 and Avatar 43:54. 

Fleet B followed with Zoop in the lead 38:09, Nidaros 40:50, Perfect 36 40:52, Big Mac 41:26, Makani 43:13, Pacific Spirit 43:21, Pair A Dice 43:36 and Olive Oil 43:38.  All times are elapsed, and the course distance was 3.55 NM.

PHRF ADJUSTED RESULTS:

FLEET A:                                                                                                                                              

PLACE    BOAT                    ADJUSTED TIME                              

1             ANIMAL                               29:44                                                                                                                                  

        2              YELLOW BELLY               31:14                                                   

                          3             WATTS MOORE                 31:26                                                                       4             ABORIGINAL           31:54                                   

        5             SAGITTARIUS                     33:10                                                   

      6             GOOD TIMIN’                    33:15                                                   

7             NEW WAVE                         33:34

8             MUFFIN                               34:16

9             TUSITALA                             35:12

10           AVATAR                                36:05

11           PERIGON                             36:18

12           SWEETHEART                     36:19                                   

13           AQUAVIT                             37:48                                   

FLEET B:                                                                              

PLACE   BOAT                     ADJUSTED TIME

1             BIG MAC                              28:17

2             ZOOP                                    29:37

3             PERFECT 36                        32:20

4             PAIR A DICE                         32:34

5             PACIFIC SPIRIT                   33:35

6             NIDAROS                             34:26

7             MAKANI                              34:31

8             OLIVE OIL                             35:52

It was an awesome evening of sailing with close to 30 boats out on the water and a steady breeze. To top it off, we had a barbecue social event at the club. The whole evening felt like a party on the bay!

Please contact me if you lost an Opinel knife at the BBQ.

WHAT FINISH LINE?

I was frustrated with Race QS while accumulating data to score this race.  It appeared that several boats did not finish appropriately rounding S/F to port and crossing the finish line.  The communication after I posted the blog this morning indicated to me that all boats finished appropriately, and the S/F mark was out of place in Race QS.  I corrected the placement of S/F and corrected the scoring for all boats

Another great suggestion was offered that the finish line should be a stationary mark closer than the lighthouse, so I changed the stationary landmark to be Blacks point on shore.  Coincidentally this line was right in line with our start mark for this evening.  For the future, when finishing at S/F, take the mark to port within 200 feet of S/F. The other end of the line will be Blacks point on land.

We all have boats in the group that we compete with.  On this evening, our only other Catalina 30 (Kicks) crossed the finish line just ahead of us.I was very disappointed to see that they forgot to run Race QS   :{(

Race QS:

The track for this evening can be seen at:

https://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1011017&boat=SAILING%20PAIR%20A%20DICE&updatedAt=2023-04-26T02:18:19Z&divisionId=88975&dt=2023-04-25T17:45:07-07:00..2023-04-25T19:06:32-07:00&model=&iframe=true&time=1682473418104&focus=Perigon&rival=Sagittarius&tab=match&view=follow&lat=36.961117&lon=-121.998944&tilt=5&range=1464&heading=79

I am looking forward to another awesome Tuesday night sail next week.

Barry Keeler

Sailing Pair A Dice