JULY 2, 2024 CLEAR WEATHER BUT SLOW SAILING

 

JULY 2, 2024

 CLEAR WEATHER  BUT SLOW SAILING

I have gotten to the point that I don’t like to even look at the wind forecasts. They are almost always wrong. As I watched the flags, there was an unusual south wind showing. As we left the harbor just before 5pm, there was more wind on the water than was apparent on the flags, but coming from the south.  There are no marks to sail to with a light south wind, so we set a windward mark a third of a mile or so out toward Mile buoy.  We called for a course start, temporary mark, Blacks finish at S/F.  Would the light wind continue or would we have to shorten course?  We blew the “10 minute horn” as 33 boats were out for the race.  We thought we had set a long start line but probably not long enough for the two fleets split between 33 boats.

We set up to site the line for the A fleet start, but it was so crowded we could not determine which boats were OCS, but several boats came back to start again.   All boats made their way to the first mark and the first of A Fleet to round was Watts Moore then Double Espresso, Yellow Belly, Magic, Frisky, Interlude, Sweetheart, Rosie and Sagittarius.  B Fleet was led by Zoop, then Avatar, Big Mac, Toad, Nidaros, Gold Rush, Pair A Dice, Kicks, Simpatico, Perfect 36 Pacific Spirit and Sweet Pea.

On the run to Blacks, there seemed to be more wind just outside and  some boats tried to go further out, but most boats just rhumb lined it to the mark.

The wind seemed to be dying but all boats finished.  Fleet A was finished first by Watts Moore 31:39 then Double Espresso 34:59, Interlude 37:27, Friskey 38:12, Yellow Belly 38:28, Sweetheart 39:32, Magic 42:26, Ethos 43:16,  Sagittarius 43:28, Rosie 46:50 and Wind II 47:05.  B Fleet was led by Avatar 41:33, then Zoop 43:09, Nidaros 45:22, Big Mac 45:31, Pair A Dice 47:28, TOAD 49:26, God Rush 50:00, Kicks 52:54, Perfect 36 53:25, Pacific Spirit 54:38, Blonde Ambition 55:26,  Sweet Pea 57:38 and Simpatico 58:30.  The course was 1.54NM and all times are elapsed.

Though the course was not long, it was a beautiful day on the bay with Clear weather but slow sailing.

 PHRF ADJUSTED RESULTS:

PLACE                 BOAT                                  PHRF                   CORRECTED TIME

FLEET A:

1             WATTS MOORE                             150                       27:48

2             DOUBLE ESPRESSO                     99                          32:26

3             INTERLUDE                                    141                       33:49

4             YELLOW BELLY                             141                       34:50

5             FRISKEY                                            81                        36:07

6             MAGIC                                               141                       38:48

7             SWEETHEART                                 -6                           39:41

8             SAGITTARIUS                                  120                       40:23

9            ETHOS                                                 72                        41:25

10          WIND II                                               213                       41:37

11          ROSIE                                                  162                       42:40

FLEET B:

1             AVATAR                                              132                       38:09

2             ZOOP                                                  144                       39:27

3             BIG MAC                                            222                       39:49

4             NIDAROS                                           118                       42:20

5             SAILING PAIR A DICE                     180                       42:50

6             TOAD                                                  150                       45:35

7             GOLD RUSH                                      126                       46:45

8             KICKS                                                 180                       48:16

9          PERFECT 36                                        144                       49:43

10          PACIFIC SPIRIT                                  165                       50:23

11          BLONDE AMBITION                         165                       51:11

12          SWEET PEA                                        165                       53:23

13          SIMPATICO                                         165                       54:15

 

RACE QS:

The track for this evening can be reviewed at:

 https://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1011017&divisionId=100222&updatedAt=2024-07-03T02:24:01Z&dt=2024-07-02T17:45:02-07:00..2024-07-02T19:20:04-07:00&boat=SAILING%20PAIR%20A%20DICE&time=1719968372866&focus=SAILING%20PAIR%20A%20DICE&rival=TOAD&tab=fleet&view=match

Lets hope for better wind next Tuesday.

Barry Keeler

Sailing Pair A Dice