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Wayfarer
Ontarios Lac Deschênes Sailing Club * July 28-29, 2007 Saturday race 2.4 pics by Doug Netherton ... |
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| A good duel is set up here
as
Paul and
Marilyn in White
Lightning
will try to hold off Tony and Mary. ... |
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| Andrew and Colleen have
some
catching up to do. ... |
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| Andrew gives Colleen ... ... |
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| ... some on-the-job ... ... |
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| ... spinnaker training. ... |
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| An interesting battle just
in
front of Andrew, as this foursome gets ... ... |
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| ... a nice breeze which is
even
more veered and will likely require gybes to reach the
reaching mark -
as can be seen by the four boats further ahead: (l to r) Jason (3140), Tony (4105), Paul (3933), Andy (555) ... |
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| Andrew very wisely
concentrates
on his sailing and leaves Colleen to figure things out at
her own pace. Many of us could learn from this!!! ... |
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| A lovely little breeze that
has
backed a bit, as we can see from the fact that Sue (4677)
and Andrew G.
have gybed back to starboard. Right about here, we should
all be
thinking ahead to the next reach. Is there anything we
should prepare
for? ... |
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Indeed there is: Since
this leg
has been more or less a run, the next reach should be
correspondingly
much closer, possibly too tight to fly the chute to
advantage? Al and
Marc (l) are
about to find
out. A pretty impressive come-back for Dave and Carol,
who, having gone
right and then gybed back in, have moved into a ...
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| ... a clear 2nd place and
have
cleverly positioned themselves so that they ... ... |
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| ... won't need to gybe onto
the
upcoming very close spinnaker reach. ... |
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| Spinnaker-less, but having
defended the inside, Frank and Kim will ... ... |
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| ... be inside at the mark
and
thus ... ... |
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| ... entitled to any
reasonable
amount of room they care to take since they are the
right-of-way boat
(leeward). ... |
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| Here, the lack of spinnaker
is a
blessing, since Frank can just gybe without any rigmarole,
and ... ... |
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| ... quickly ... ... |
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| ... take ... ... |
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| ... off ... ... |
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| ... while Andrew and Steve
have
to fiddle with their chute. This would be a good time for
Andrew to
gybe his jib and luff up some: If he can hold Frank off
until his chute
is set, Andrew will hold 3rd place. But alas, the
opportunity passes,
and ... ... |
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| ... Frank sails over
Andrew's
wind. And things are about to deteriorate further for
Andrew whose ... ... |
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... spinnaker halyard
seems to
have uncleated itself, as has his mainsheet! Meanwhile,
note how Frank
(who could stand to vang his boom until it's level) is
defending his
wind while he still can. If he waits until Jamie (4594)
gets a windward
overlap, Frank will be severely limited by Rule
16 which will require any course alteration made
by Frank to be
done in such a way that the give-way boat has room to
keep clear. Jamie
(4594) has caught up very nicely on the just completed
leg, but is now
in a tough situation. What should he do here - stay
high, go low or
follow right behind Frank?
If it were I, sailing high would be my choice: crank the main in, get the board full down, and pinch up as high as the spinnaker will tolerate. Frank will then undoubtedly come up as well. Once Jamie is sailing the closest possible spi reach, he and Frank should have very little speed differential, and both should pass Andrew in short order. If Jamie is desperate to pass Frank, he can wait until Andrew is safely astern, and bear away a good four lengths to leeward of Frank in the first puff that comes along. If the reach is not too tight, Jamie might then be able to spinnaker through to leeward of Frank. ...
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