Who's comment was it before the race that their grandmother could do ocean
racing?
We did not see most of the SFbay30 fleet as Linda @ YRA assinged us to the wrong class - Mora 2 instead of Mora 1. Figured it be better to start when assigned and call her on Monday.
Lost our GPS & put a 2 foot whole in our #3 about 5 minutes before reaching the bucket. Left the torn #3 up until we rounded the bucket, then went bald headed for about an hour because we didn't dare put up a bigger head sail until the wind let up a bit. Still managed 8 to 10 knots baldheaded. Finished race with #2 which seemed to work better than boats with a Spinnaker up hugging the north shore.
Mark Neumann
Pizote
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sfbay30s@sailpix.com [mailto:owner-sfbay30s@sailpix.com]On
Behalf Of Stephen Hutchison
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 6:45 PM
To: sfbay30s@sailpix.com
Subject: Lightship
Did it, didn't like it, broke stuff, am really tired, but at least we have some new "So no sh*t there we were"stories...
>From where I'm sitting:
Some how we screwed up our instructions and were about 3 min late to the start by the time we saw all the A-27s and 30s going.
Sure missed having Ed (our tac) on the boat.
We started with the #2 (135%) and once we got out in the current seemed to roll up on everyone pretty well. We thought we might really have a chance when it went light and shifted to the #1, but nope, no luck, change to the three quick guys I think I see wind.
Had to cut up the new #1 to get it down, ended up way to the sides while fooling around with sail changes and some rather challenging field kevlar/headfoil surgery (out of the ebb...which apparently wasn't fast).
By the time we got to the turning mark the crew was all looking at me with the same "how the F^&* did you talk us into this?" look. The suggestion that we might at least change to the remaining big(er) jib for the ride home (the #2) was met with a soggy tooth chattering "w-w-what k-k-kind of sandwiches and b-b-beer did you get" response.
The boat handled the seas well structurally, but was just way overpowered even with the #3 and flogging main. She sure likes to send great gobs of green water aft in the short steep seas, and as a result I would up with some very wet crew (especially Derek who spent at least 35 minutes out there forward of the mast).
Ben Muse on Georgia said he saw puffs of over 35 true, anyone else see those? I think we felt a few!
We really wore out our light crew, who like me, still don't much care for ocean racing.
We ended up tooling home on a barberhauled 3, the whole "kite on deck!" order didn't work till we were past Bonita. Once we did set, we did have great fun sparring with Bob I. all the way to the finish. With them just ahead we could see the effect of the puffs and run off at the appropriate moment (we both gibed over towards the north and had a rather tight reach to fetch the pin to finish). We did get Bob boat for boat, but lets see what's 25 x 6 150 sec? Think you got us Bob! (by the way, your diver is doing a fine job: even on the keel...wink wink )
Bob H and Joan apparently owned the day, not sure how that ended up but I think Joan got all of us. Nicely done guys.
Steve
Tortuga
Received on Mon Apr 2 09:09:26 2001