MARCH 4, 2025 GREAT SAILING BETWEEN THE STORMS

 

MARCH 4, 2025

GREAT SAILING BETWEEN THE STORMS

It has been a challenging spring with shoaling at the harbor, big waves and rain as storms pass through.  I was quite surprised that everything settled down for this Tuesday’s sail.  The prediction for wind was 7 to 10 knots which is enough to get a race off.  As we left the harbor at 3:30 there was a steady but light breeze across the bay. We approached the S/F temporary mark and determined the wind was coming from 250 degrees and set a line square to this direction.  With the course being to Mile and back, the port end of the line was too favored so we adjusted the line to be more square to mile.

As boats filed out of the harbor, we called the course as the wind seemed to be increasing.  We blew the 5-minute horn at 4:25 for a 4:30 start.  We had a clean start as all six boats beat their way toward Mile.   The first to round Mile was Aquavit followed by Pacific Spirit, Pair A Dice, Avatar, Big Mac and Kicks.  Late to the party but still sailing the course was Azor, a Santana 22.

After rounding Mile, all boats sailed downwind in a freshening breeze toward the finish. Aquavit was first to cross the line 23:14, closely followed by Pacific Spirit 23:48, Pair A Dice 23:58, Avatar 24:36, Big Mac 26:06, and Kicks 28.44.  All times are elapsed and the course distance was 2.10NM.

It was awesome to be back out on the water getting some great sailing between the storms.

 

 

PHRF CORRECTED RESULTS:

PLACE                 BOAT                                                   PHRF                   ADJUSTED TIME

1             SAILING PAIR A DICE                                180                       17:44

2             PACIFIC SPIRIT                                            165                       18:01

3             BIG MAC                                                        222                       18:20

4             AVATAR                                                          132                       20:02

5             AQUAVIT                                                        72                          20:42

6             KICKS                                                              180                       22:09

 

RACE QS:

The track for this evening can be reviewed at:

https://raceqs.com/tv-beta/tv.htm#userId=1011017&divisionId=105405&updatedAt=2025-03-05T03:08:02Z&dt=2025-03-04T16:15:27-08:00..2025-03-04T19:07:51-08:00&boat=SAILING%20PAIR%20A%20DICE&time=1741134787751&focus=SAILING%20PAIR%20A%20DICE&rival=Avatar&tab=fleet&view=match

TIME CHANGE:

 Daylight Savings time starts this Sunday, March 9.  This means next Tuesday, if conditions permit, we will start the season with a 6 o’clock start.  As usual, we will blow one horn at 10 minutes until 6 which will be a 5 minute horn for fleet A and a 10 minute horn for fleet B.  Though the marks are not out, we will come up with a course.  If you have not registered, go to:  SCYC.org/Regattas.  Find Tuesday Night races, click on register to open the registration page.  Once you register, I will see that you get the new course card.

I am excited to get another season of Tuesday Night Sailing started.

Barry Keeler

Sailing Pair A Dice