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Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Valmadre race 2 results
(Click to enlarge)Well what a day. A day to test crew work with many boats having dramas a plenty, fortunately we sailed a very clean race with great crew work in pretty wet conditions and excelled yet again. This Way Up absolutely flew today, 1st on IRC, 1st on YAH, Overall winner on IRC, overall winner on YAH, 1st with Without fear for the teams trophy. We basically won everything that could be won. We were perplexed at decisions of other boats. Firstly a few boats were late for the start, Wildside's newly fitted bowsprit fell off!, other boats were busy putting in reefs and taking them out again in the squally conditions but TWU handled it well with full main and number 3 all day with the red kite. We hit 16.4 knots on a shy but very nice kite run that one else at the front of div 1 fleet even tried to carry. Every time the biggger boats got away they seemed to do something wrong and slow down and wait for us, change heady, reef, gybe too early, miss marks. We won IRC by 12 minutes, yes Twelve minutes.... even we were stunned.
Check out the GPs track from the race today, the wind was WSW (250-260 deg) with winds at 20-30knots.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Ouch!
The hole in the side of OP. Likely to be a long repair, unfortunate as it would have been good to see how we went against them.
Ho hum another 1st in IRC and PHD. You ripper.
The weather certainly turned in on again yesterday, didn’t realise winter sailing could be so good :-)
The only down side of the day was when Syrenka slammed into the side of Optimus Prime putting a very large hole in her just above the water line. It took about 10 to 15 mins for them to untangle themselves.
We sent our intrepid reporter aboard OP (Simon) or should I say he jumped on then started taking photos of all the damage.
Lets hope repairs on both yachts don’t take to long and we see them back on the water soon.
Find attached the FSC and IRC results for the day.
The weather certainly turned in on again yesterday, didn’t realise winter sailing could be so good :-)
The only down side of the day was when Syrenka slammed into the side of Optimus Prime putting a very large hole in her just above the water line. It took about 10 to 15 mins for them to untangle themselves.
We sent our intrepid reporter aboard OP (Simon) or should I say he jumped on then started taking photos of all the damage.
Lets hope repairs on both yachts don’t take to long and we see them back on the water soon.
Find attached the FSC and IRC results for the day.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Gidday All,
The first Valmadre race (Arlene Race) has been run, and what a day it was!
There was some speculation about the pending bad weather but happy to report WA turned on some more perfect weather for sailing again.
We were a little short for experienced crew but what our guest lack in experience they made up for in enthusiasm, even with captain grumpy at the wheel. ;-)
Only joking bugsy was fine, we just chucked some squeaky toys in the play pen to keep him occupied….lol (Hmmmm think I may pay for these comments next week)
Although there was some concern when snaky was being played with whilst rounding a mark (remember only one thing at a time!) hehehehehe.
Anyway we achieved a 2nd in IRC to the one and only Optimus Prime by 2.49 minutes, with 3rd another 3.05 minutes behind ourselves, and a 4th on YAH again about 2 minutes off the pace.
I believe from various discussions the division 1 YAH handicap is taken from your offshore results and not from past races with the Fremantle Sailing Club. This means we are dealing with four handicap systems that are:
1) IRC - FSC Winter Series & Valmadre Cup Series
2) YAH - Valmadre Cup Series
3) FSC (Heavy Weather) - FSC Winter Series
4) FSC (Light Weather) - FSC Winter Series
As per usual I have attached some more results for you to check out for both division 1 & 2.
Sav
The first Valmadre race (Arlene Race) has been run, and what a day it was!
There was some speculation about the pending bad weather but happy to report WA turned on some more perfect weather for sailing again.
We were a little short for experienced crew but what our guest lack in experience they made up for in enthusiasm, even with captain grumpy at the wheel. ;-)
Only joking bugsy was fine, we just chucked some squeaky toys in the play pen to keep him occupied….lol (Hmmmm think I may pay for these comments next week)
Although there was some concern when snaky was being played with whilst rounding a mark (remember only one thing at a time!) hehehehehe.
Anyway we achieved a 2nd in IRC to the one and only Optimus Prime by 2.49 minutes, with 3rd another 3.05 minutes behind ourselves, and a 4th on YAH again about 2 minutes off the pace.
I believe from various discussions the division 1 YAH handicap is taken from your offshore results and not from past races with the Fremantle Sailing Club. This means we are dealing with four handicap systems that are:
1) IRC - FSC Winter Series & Valmadre Cup Series
2) YAH - Valmadre Cup Series
3) FSC (Heavy Weather) - FSC Winter Series
4) FSC (Light Weather) - FSC Winter Series
As per usual I have attached some more results for you to check out for both division 1 & 2.
Sav
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Well another glorious day on the water. 15knots of breeze and clear blue skies. 2nd on IRC to OP sistership to the one we will be racing next year. 5th on YAH. Not bad considering the breeze dropped out so it favoured the bigger boats that got in early. I have attached the GPS track so you can see where we went.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Hi Guys,
Well another hard day on the water…..not
What can one say except, it was an awesome day for sailing.
Had a great start and a near faultless round except one of the crew tried to do two things at the same time….;-P
Even though I know males can’t do two things at once, at least that’s what we get told ;-)
Hardest thing was trying to see those friggin sticks they call marks it was like the Where’s Waldo books!
I have attached results from the weekends sail for both IRC and YAH
Well another hard day on the water…..not
What can one say except, it was an awesome day for sailing.
Had a great start and a near faultless round except one of the crew tried to do two things at the same time….;-P
Even though I know males can’t do two things at once, at least that’s what we get told ;-)
Hardest thing was trying to see those friggin sticks they call marks it was like the Where’s Waldo books!
I have attached results from the weekends sail for both IRC and YAH
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Winter series - Race 2
Hot off the press..... Race 2 , 1st on YAH, 1st on IRC. Ye hah!
Well the rudder was repaired in time and the boat hit the water Late on Friday ready for Saturdays race. Race report to follow shortly.
Well the rudder was repaired in time and the boat hit the water Late on Friday ready for Saturdays race. Race report to follow shortly.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
FW: Boat out of the water
The boat was lifted llate last week to facilitate some desperately needed maintenance.
The boat was in need of an antifoul as it ws growing a reef on a weekly basis and beginning to affect performance!. Yesterday she was polished and prep’d ready for paint which was booked in for midday today. When lifted a small crack in the rudder was found to be much worse than thought and some repair works have also been scheduled this week. With fingers crossed the boat should be back in the water in time for Saturdays race.
Also reinstalling the radio earth for us..... For those that don’t know this was “cleaned off” the bottom off the boat a couple of months ago when one of our crew got a little overzealous scrubbing the bottom of the boat.
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