[Public-List] Second race of the year...

Sat May 26 06:06:06 PDT 2018

 I'm there with pointing, 100 plus a little. So it's full and by no pinch.
Thank you

On Sat, May 26, 2018, 8:32 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> With leeway, I don’t reckon she can do better than 100 degrees.  She’ll
> point a little higher, but unless it’s blowing it’s not worth jamming her
> up that high… she just slows down and leeway increases.
>
> She comes to life upwind in wind over 12 knots.   We are competitive in
> that wind speed and above, but performance drops dramatically when the air
> is below 8-10 knots compared to our foes.  Funny thing is that we come to
> life again in drifting conditions when we’re gliding along at 0.5 knots…
> we are deadly in very light airs.  I think the reason is that once we get
> her moving, she doesn’t stop.  Our narrowness and weight play for us so
> long as I don’t wiggle around too much.  We accelerate in puffs much more
> slowly than the lighter boats, but once we get going, we glide a long way
> in the lulls when they just stop.
>
> There are no Alberg 30’s who care to race where we sail so we’re always in
> a mixed fleet racing against Pearson 28, Aloha 27, CS 27 C&C 27, Irwin 31,
> Tanzer 7.5, Niagara 26 etc on PHRF.  There is a Grampion 26 who sometimes
> comes out… ‘Grumps’ are ugly as sin, but are good sailors, as is the Tanzer
> 22… both those boats somewhat anomalies in their tribes so people used to
> make jokes that their designers were just lucky with them when all their
> larger and smaller boats in their lines were such poor performers.
>
> Gordon Laco
> #426 Surprise
>
>
>
>
> > On May 26, 2018, at 6:33 AM, Joseph Balderson via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> > How many degrees will Suprise tack through in 8kts of breeze and a fairly
> > smooth sea?
> >
> > On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
> > public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello gang -
> >>
> >> Well I missed writing up the first race of the year, as has been my
> habit
> >> for a while now, so here’s the Second Race of the Year.
> >>
> >> The first race is perhaps better laid aside, due to a regrettable lapse
> on
> >> my part involving forgetting to put the spinnaker aboard.   We finished
> 3rd
> >> but the experience was marred by the three of us bickering all the way
> >> around the course trying to place blame for the big forget.   Well I
> should
> >> say it was the crew against me, a two way bicker, not three.  I feel
> quite
> >> justified in suggesting that they should not have believed me when I
> said
> >> earlier in the week that the ‘chute was still aboard from last year… my
> >> track record should have alerted to them to the fact that I rarely
> recall
> >> things like that correctly.  Clearly they should have challenged me, and
> >> that challenge would have driven me to check and THAT would have
> revealed
> >> that the sail was not in the boat.   If they’d done that, we’d have had
> the
> >> sail and surely would have fought our way up to a first place finish.
> If
> >> we’d had the spinnaker on board.  Their position was that I should have
> >> checked myself.  Weak, I say.
> >>
> >> There was another problem.  This one I place squarely on the race
> >> committee.  Due to a bit of confusion on their part, and a drifting
> >> windward mark, they initiated the start sequence four times.  One time
> >> involved the guy on the horn trying it out… his timid staccato beeps
> made
> >> everyone start their watches… Then the mark drifted and the second start
> >> sequence was cancelled while the crash boat sped out to windward to
> catch
> >> it and anchor it properly… I forget what happened with the third
> >> (accidental beep again I think) then there was the real start.
> >>
> >> Anyway, we were charging in, glorying in our brand new genoa being used
> >> for the first time, when I realized with ten seconds to go that we were
> >> alone… the rest of our fleet was about  minute and ten seconds behind
> us.
> >> Yup… we were making a perfect start a minute early.  The upshot of all
> that
> >> was having to wheel around and start after everyone.  We clawed our way
> up
> >> from last place to third, but as usual, we were left wondering how
> things
> >> might have turned out if we’d only started better…and if we’d had the
> >> spinnaker...
> >>
> >> Well I guess I did tell about the first race after all… on to the
> second.
> >>
> >> This time we DID have the spinnaker aboard, but Steve had to cancel so
> it
> >> was only Clint and I to run the boat.  I decided not to fly the sail.
> We
> >> got a clean start, marvelled at how with the new sail we could keep up
> with
> >> SUNDANCE ,our mortal enemy, upwind… but it all fell apart at the leeward
> >> mark after the run when we became entangled in a squabbling mass of
> vermin
> >> (Shark class yachts) in addition to the majestic TO LIFE, the custom
> >> Killing 50 which had started with A Fleet five minutes behind us and was
> >> overtaking.  By the time we got clear of all the dead air (and the fine
> >> breeze had subsided to a sigh of course) SUNDANCE as 1/3 of the windward
> >> leg ahead of us and we were never close to them again.   We ended up
> 4th in
> >> our fleet… not great but ahead of MAID MARION, so we took solace in
> that.
> >>
> >> Oh well, there’s always next week… bring on the 2018 racing season!
> >>
> >> Gordon Laco
> >> #426 SURPRISE
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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