Wednesday, August 22, 2012

No People, No Power, No Wind

Two weeks ago we did not sail. For E-Scows in the morning there were too few boats because of regatta travel. For MC-Scows in the afternoon, we had 4 boats. But only 2 made it to the water before the power went out at the club. With no easy trailer hitch launch available, and squirrely wind, the two of us on shore decided to throw in the towel. I had to drive to Detroit that night anyway. I got an early start.

Last Sunday we started the day well...sort of. We had two races for E-Scows but they were a bit dodgy. Race 1 quickly became a low side light air adventure. We led at the top mark, lost the lead to Bob Cole and never regained it until 30 seconds before the finish when we got ahead just enough to cross him on port by a foot or so. A couple close tacks later we had the pin end of the line laid on port above and ahed of Bob. But he threw in a nifty attack flopping to Starboard short of the line. If we were a foot or two slower he would have had a starboard advantage and we would have been in trouble. But we crossed and won. Brent Penwarden was thrid about 10 minutes behind us, and 4th and 5th place were 10 minutes behind them.

Race 2 looked to be a drifter. We started in 3-5 which went to zero on the second lag. Brent Penwarden rounded first followed by Joe Meade and us. Brent erroneously gybed away not knowing the course was far more changed than he expected. When we sailed into the last of the air behind Joe Meade we did so with the jib down letting us pick up the new air just slightly quicker than Joe. We rolled him and never looked back finishing the 1-lap short course in about an hour.

The wind never did pick up for the afternoon. So we went another week without any racing for MC-Scows.

For those of you that missed the sailing link I posted a few weeks ago before it was taken down by VIMEO, here it is from another video hosting site. Enjoy!

Irish Sailing Commentary

Only five days of sailing left this year.

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