June 13 Sunshine, Good Wind, and Raceqs Work For Me
When I checked on some boat stuff at the harbor around noon it was looking like still another June Doom and Gloom Tuesday with light wind and overcast skies. When I returned at 1700 it was surprising and refreshing to see glorious sunny skies and reports of 16-18 mph westerly wind at the crows nest. We reefed in the harbor as a precautionary measure. As we proceeded out to the start area the wind began its usual tapering to about 9-11, and then settled in at about 8 mph at 240 degrees for the first start. We called for course W3, with possible shortening to W6 should the wind continue to die as it did the previous week. About 17 boats were out for the fun with a couple of new guests including a J70 and a Santa Cruz 27 (interlude) tagging along.
I missed blowing the first warning horn at our usual 17:50:00 as we were shaking out the reef in the mainsail but was able to pick up the count with a 4 minute preparatory horn 17:51:00 and both starts came off smoothly at 1755 and 1800.
With a long start line and the port end of the line slightly favored, a few boats were able to successfully find openings to execute clean port tack starts. From the raceqs track it appeared that Yellowbelly and a few boats in B fleet were just a bit early to the pin end of the line and did a quick recovery around the pin and restarted on port tack.
With the wind back to its usual 240-260 degrees it returned to the classical Santa Cruz horse race on port tack to the right corner in the area near the wharf, and then try to call the layline just right and anticipate the lift on starboard tack out to Schuyler.
The wind held nicely for both fleets and we all easily completed the full W3 course in a nice breeze. Some boats sailed back up to the wharf to catch the new Tuesday Night Concerts on the wharf series.
Raceq appears to be back and functioning correctly with the exception of Yellowbelly, which stalled out on recording near the finish. Don recorded and reported Yellowbelly's finish time.
Raceq's tracks are at
Results including finish time, adjustment, and corrected time for A a d B fleets were:
ABORIGINAL | 18:31:09 | 0:01:53 | 18:29:16 | A |
SWEETHEART | 18:34:24 | -0:00:21 | 18:34:45 | A |
SAGITTARIUS | 18:37:02 | 0:06:50 | 18:30:12 | A |
FLEXI FLYER | 18:38:34 | 0:05:28 | 18:33:06 | A |
PERIGON | 18:39:06 | 0:04:37 | 18:34:29 | A |
INTERLUDE | 18:40:42 | 0:08:02 | 18:32:40 | A |
YELLOW BELLY | 18:43:05 | 0:08:02 | 18:35:03 | A |
ZOOP | 18:44:25 | 0:08:12 | 18:36:13 | B 1st |
ROSIE | 18:44:44 | 0:09:14 | 18:35:30 | A |
TUSITALA | 18:45:42 | 0:05:08 | 18:40:34 | A |
THE PERFECT 36 | 18:46:07 | 0:08:12 | 18:37:55 | B 2cd |
TOAD | 18:50:32 | 0:08:23 | 18:42:09 | B 3rd |
BIG MAC | 18:51:24 | 0:12:39 | 18:38:45 | B 4th |
NIDAROS II | 18:52:22 | 0:06:09 | 18:46:13 | B 5th |
KICKS | 18:52:59 | 0:10:16 | 18:42:43 | B 6th |
SIMPATICO | 18:53:13 | 0:09:24 | 18:43:49 | B 7th |
WIND II | 18:54:31 | 0:12:08 | 18:42:23 | A |
The Tuesday night courses are always a work in progress and we usually make at least a few smaller adjustments at the beginning of each year. This year we made some larger overhauls and many of those changes seem to be working ok after working out a few kinks. We also had some interesting new plans for some starts at SC2 but now those plans have been foiled due to the powers at be removing that mark.
These last 3 weeks have brought on a few more ideas for some improvements. It might be interesting to have some Tuesday night finishes in Cowell Cove and catch a bit of the live music that is playing on the wharf. Also, the idea of making a gate out at S/F on the downwind leg of W3 to allow for a possible shortened course there might also be beneficial. That would allow us to call the regular W3 long course down to Black Pt. Mark, but also shorten finish as boats pass by within 200 feet of S/F if the wind dies. Inserting gates in a few of the courses could make the course calling much easier and allow us to stay out for more good sailing on those nights when the wind does not die. If you have additional ideas about course changes or improvements be sure to mention them to Barry or myself and we will put them in the hopper for consideration next year.
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Thanks Chris for an awesome job. I will see you next Tuesday.
Barry Keeler
Sailing Pair A Dice
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