June 23, 2005
June Series 4
It seems that I am unable to correctly set up a Garmin GPS 45. I inadvertently set up J.W's receiver to record track data as quickly as it could. As a result, there was no data for Cacafuego this week, except for 782 data points showing her being pulled out of the water after the race.
The data for Surprise is here, however.
Leg1 - Red
Leg2 - Blue
Leg 3 - Green
Leg 4 - Black
| June Series 4 | leg1 | leg2 | leg3 | leg4 |
| start time | 18:24:00 | 18:37:16 | 18:48:12 | 19:00:52 |
| finish time | 18:37:16 | 18:48:12 | 19:00:52 | 19:09:48 |
| elapsed | 0:13:16 | 0:10:56 | 0:12:40 | 0:08:56 |
| hours | 0.221111 | 0.1822222 | 0.21111111 | 0.148889 |
| nm | 0.737 | 0.737 | 0.737 | 0.622 |
| mean vmg | 3.333166 | 4.044512195 | 3.491052632 | 4.177612 |
| mean speed | 4.845 | 4.229 | 4.69 | 4.309 |
| mean angle | 46.53116 | 16.89576539 | 41.89576539 | 14.18525 |
There was some good wind tonight although I felt a bit overpowered at times and was unable to depower the boat effectively. I wonder if this is an instance where I should have changed the mast rake setting; I don't know. We had very good pointing the third leg. The data shows us sailing an average angle to the wind of 41 degrees. I felt we were in phase. We had several boards on that leg where we were definitely lifted and then the wind would knock us. We would then tack and find ourselves on a lifted tack again.
I had spent a few hours the previous days working on the forward trailer support for the boat. The solution I have was similar to what Phill Root of fleet 89 in Oregon had. He took a mold of his boat (I used another Day sailer hull) and made a support out of the laid up glass. My result is shown here:
One problem is that when launchng the boat on a ramp I cannot easily step over the support. The width of the tongue is narrow and the width of the frame is even more narrow. Being forced to step over that support from a narrow footing to an even narrower one without falling into the water is daunting. My solution is to secure 2x6 boards on the tongue and trailer frame where I am likely to need to walk.
Posted by Bob at June 23, 2005 08:49 PM