Last Of The Fall Races - October 17, 2010
October 17th, 2010
Last Of The Fall Races - October 17, 2010
Last of the fall series of races from the Bowen Island Yacht Club. This was actually the first time that I have finished a race within the time limit (4 hours) finishing a respectable 5th out of 7 starters.This track is the entire day out which was 14.5 miles and took 5:04:28. Just the race was 10.3 miles and took 3:48:07 to complete. There was good wind apart from the final 1 mile of the course which took 1 hour.It was great to have a crew Mike and Valencia for company and great help. The only real mistake that happened was right off the start when we had a knot in the port jib sheet which delayed us 5 minutes pointing into the wind to get it undone.
Good wind at the beginning of the race required close hauling on the upwind leg
10+ knots of wind for the upwind leg made the race interesting
Looking back ... managed to stay ahead of 2 boats for the entire race
Couldn't catch these guys and once they hoisted the spinnaker it looked like we were standing still
Valencia holding on as we heel
Ready to Tack ... Ready ... Tacking
Finished a good tack
Mike sheeting in the jib finishing the tack
Mike relaxing and calculating the next move
Last of the fall series of races from the Bowen Island Yacht Club. This was actually the first time that I have finished a race within the time limit (4 hours) finishing a respectable 5th out of 7 starters.This track is just the actual race. The race was 10.3 miles and took 3:48:07 to complete. There was good wind apart from the final 1 mile of the course which took 1 hour.It was great to have a crew Mike and Valencia for company and great help. The only real mistake that happened was right off the start when we had a knot in the port jib sheet which delayed us 5 minutes pointing into the wind to get it undone.
Last of the fall series of races from the Bowen Island Yacht Club. This was actually the first time that I have finished a race within the time limit (4 hours) finishing a respectable 5th out of 7 starters.This track is the entire day out which was 14.5 miles and took 5:04:28. Just the race was 10.3 miles and took 3:48:07 to complete. There was good wind apart from the final 1 mile of the course which took 1 hour.It was great to have a crew Mike and Valencia for company and great help. The only real mistake that happened was right off the start when we had a knot in the port jib sheet which delayed us 5 minutes pointing into the wind to get it undone.
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