the 2008 Warm Water Regatta
Race #3 pics - 3
pics by Joanne Van Kampen and Rick Goldt
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Dwight has tacked out, leaving Brian to head for shore on port.
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Most of the boats have held a relatively lifted port tack around the leeward mark until they neared the ...
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... north-west shore.
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After tacking to get between pursuers and the next mark (visible off Al's port bow),
Julia and Al lucked into a lovely lift on port for a while.
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Vintage Uncle Al: bare feet and swimming shorts!! Note the straight tiller that reflects lack of undue helm, and the lower jib luff tickler that is just starting to lift, i.e. showing the very earliest signs of luffing. We virtually always beat with the inside ticklers lifting this much. And for those who pay attention to this kind of thing (I don't!): the lee shroud is just a bit slack.
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Photographer, Joanne, has gotten a fine view of our wire bridle here. Through trial and error with a rope bridle, we found the perfect length - one that lets us sheet in until the blocks are only an inch or two apart (above) when there is enough breeze to require both members of the crew to sit on the windward deck. If we're both hiking, the main can be sheeted block to block. A lovely system that is much easier to work than constantly checking the leech tickler at the top of the main! And if sheeting block to block produces more heeling moment than we can hike down, then (and only then!) the vang gets tensioned enough to keep the top of the main from twisting excessively when we have to ease the main to spill wind.
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Here, for example, we likely have no vang tension because we can still hold the boat flat enough without it.
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Also heading right towards the ...
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... NW point, Al maintains his strategic position between 2nd-place Dwight and the next mark.
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Al and Ken take the first good opportunity to tack away towards the left.
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Kirk, meanwhile, has just tacked into a less favourable starboard slant - likely because the shore was coming too close?
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Al and Ken have tacked into a port lift, much better than what Uncle Al is living with further up.
The latter is likely holding port here in order to maintain his position between Dwight and the mark.
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Kirk is used to sailing with Mike Codd and it's likely a shock to his system to have someone as light as Virginia to sail with.
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Having tried their luck on the left side, Roger and Rae are now coming back in towards the rhumb line (note leeward mark).
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Much better vang tension for Leo and Daryl here.
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Kirk (421) tacks to starboard, prompting Dwight to ...
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... tack away (into a big knock?).
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Marc comes in from the left side but has ...
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... gained little, if anything. Coffee cup droop (on boom) becoming more evident??
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