June 02, 2005
June Series 1
I'm not sure what direction the wind was from tonight. It was out of the north which gave us a running start. We got the spinnaker out and managed to hold with the Vanguard 15's. The wind was fairly light, less than 10 kts, and we rounded the first mark just behind two Vanguard 15's. The big concern to me during the "beat" not getting too close to the shore where the wind was disturbed. So, we tacked shortly after rounding to get away from the shore, and shortly thereafter tacked again. Port was so strongly favored that we thought we were going to fetch the mark. But we took a big knock which began to bring us in with the land. Even though port tack was at first still lifted, we decided to tack and get away form the shore. The shift continued, and we found ourselves being lifted 20 or more degrees on starboard tack. The lift wouldn't go away and so we finally tacked to come in just below the port layline. We rounded and set the spinnaker. As we made our way down the course, the wind continued to veer and we found we could no longer carry the kite. So we struck it down and proceeded with the jib on a close reach. The winds were so light and the boat didn't really like it. We could have done with more wind. Rounding the mark we found ourselves needing to tack and did. Again, we didn't want to get too close to the shore so we continued on starboard tack for fear of the disturbed air there. We were obliged to tack once, because a PHRF boat was coming up on us to windward. Rather than lose our momentum in the light air from the big boat wind shadow we tacked and got to windward of her before she could roll us. We continued on and got in closer to the shore near the end and finished the race.
A very challenging race from the standpoint of reading the wind. The large wind shift we experienced during the second leg we handled fiarly well, altohugh for persistent shifts like that the rule is to sailed the headed tack first. I feel confident that if we had done that, the poor wind near the shore would have slowed us down.
| 6/1/2005 | leg1 | leg2 | leg3 | leg4 | |
| start time | 18:26:00 | 18:39:18 | 18:53:14 | 19:03:25 | |
| finish time | 18:39:18 | 18:53:14 | 19:03:25 | 19:17:54 | |
| elapsed | 0:13:18 | 0:13:56 | 0:10:11 | 0:14:29 | |
| hours | 0.221666667 | 0.232222222 | 0.169722222 | 0.241388889 | |
| nm | 0.586 | 0.569 | 0.57 | 0.568 | |
| mean vmg | 2.643609023 | 2.450239234 | 3.358428805 | 2.353049482 | |
| mean speed | 2.94 | 3.65 | 3.48 | 3.118 | |
| mean angle | 25.9486268 | 47.83264323 | 15.18923284 | 41.00378081 |