Steve
Quite your whining didn't you or one of you crew make a comment about ocean
racing being for your grandmother or something like that. And yes as I remember
it this was to be a counter in the tour class if we were allowed to sail it. It
was, we did, and it counts. It was a great race most of the boats rounded the
mark close together at least that is what I am hearing I didn't get a chance to
look as I was to busy holding on. On the way out Take Off and Enigma were side
by side we got around the just ahead of Take Off and we were mostly side by side
on the way back but they got there kite up sooner than we did and that was how
much they beat us by. We also Had the 1 up all the way out as we felt that we
would lose more than we would gain by make a head sail change and we noticed
that there were no kites showing up on the way back which meant that we would
get the best speed back using the 1 instead of the 3 which we should have had
up. We took the north side out if fact a lot of the time we were the out side
boat. We took the south side back thanks to Bill our tack noticing that we
would get the best relief going to the south rather than the north. We didn't
break anything no one got hurt and surprisingly even though we were wet and cold
we all had a great time.
Bob
Enigma
Stephen Hutchison wrote:
> 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 20:21:33 2001