July 03, 2003
My dutiful wednesday night crew
My dutiful wednesday night crew has crew has notified me that an individual by the name of Jim... there can be only two who are responsible...have reported my Aubrey Maturin bumper sticker to Sea-room.com Which ever Jim it was put a nice little post there. Thanks, Jim.
And while I'm in this self-indulgent mode - Here's two more photos by Chris Brown taken from the CLRA web site: (click for a larger version) 
Last night's race was a drifter... Well maybe not, but it was lighter wind than I care for. Wish I was better at sailing in them, I don't think the rudder modifications I made after NACs hurt, but I'm not convinced they help. I think there's less noise and wake coming from the boat going down wind, but it's hard to tell, since going back there to look sort of ruins it... my vast bulk presses the stern into the water and well there you have it... It reminds me of a thing from physics - something aobut observing the experiment renders it invalid... Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, perhaps? But I digress...
I'm not convinced that reducing the sweep of the spreaders helped me, the boat had a little more power, but it seemed that we had to hike out more, and perhaps there was a touch too much of weather helm. I'm not sure what too much and too little weather helm is.
I'd like to reduce the rake of the mast and see what happens...
I recall a semi-incident from last night I want to recount. We were beating up the course and were on starboard tack. A sunfish was on port in a crossing situation. I'm not used to someone talking to me out there except for the standard "Starboard" hails... I think the fellow was asking me should he tack or duck? I didn't snap to it soon enough and I chose to duck him. so, I yielded my right of way. Now, I'm not racing him, so I was confused as to why he would be asking me what he should do. All I wanted would have been for him to stay clear according to the rules, not tell him what he should do. I wonder if it was a mind game the guy playing. When I ducked he said "thanks". I'm not sure if it was meant sarcastically, but I can't help but think it might have been. I guess the right thing to do would have been to early on assert my ROW and hail "starboard", and let him deal with it. It's his problem after all. But what would have been the corinthian thing to do?
Here's the track from the race- Joe C. won 1st, we were second with the vanguard somewhere behind me... good job Joe! and made fewer mistakes than I did! On to next week and let there be more wind!
Posted by Bob at July 3, 2003 04:27 PM
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