Shields Fleet 9 Race Report for Gosling #17

August 1, 2012

Wind: South 12 knts

Flood Tide (Full Moon)

Head stay set ½” shy of full rake (good for the start, a little slow on the last beat in dying breeze. I wish we could adjust during race)

We had a photo-journalist, Abbie Pope, on board subbing for Sharon, so we had to do our best for posterity’s sake. Prescott was in top counter-culture mode.

Early Recon at the Bridge made it look like the left was favored with pressure and theoretical tide relief; so we had this great game plan- go left, tack up the Navy shore, avoid crossing the Bay in the face of a flood tide, go through the east span around the mark off Rose, and stay in the middle for max current assist on the run.

5 min before the start we tossed the original plan based on a keen observation: Line favored on right, Pressure on right, moon tide relief on right; so go right!

Note: Swimming across the Bay last Saturday I found a tide swirl in Potter’s Cove (which of course accounted for my slow time). If you hit Potter’s on an Ebb  tide close to the point, it pushes NE. If it’s a Flood tide, you get a counter-current SE boost. If you hit it wrong in light air and go too close, you can get sucked in!

We had a full moon flood, so Potter’s looked good.

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Downwind Leg:

Crew had a perfect set and we jibed right away onto port, and went through the east span, and stayed east of the Gould tide cone for more current boost.  232 and 108 were coming on strong, but Susan trimming and Prescott calling pressure extended our lead. We were forced east of lay line for pressure and to cover 232. We were so intent on covering that we went a little too far east at the bottom of the run, and had the pole on the headstay approaching the leeward mark on port. Rockstar crew performance got the chute down perfectly we and tacked on to stbd as soon as possible.

Finish Leg:

Went left covering 232, tacked a little too early for the finish (and to cover 108 coming in fast from right). Had to make an extra tack, but were able to stay just ahead of 232 and 108 for the bullet.

Great night on the water, and excellent job by the Race Committee.

Team: Tom Derecktor

Prescott Cronin

Susan Mortgu

Abbie Pope