Mike Nahmias
I am available for either series. Can do any position. Raced several races last season. Experienced J24 Racer. Contact Me at mikenahmias@cox.net or 508-930-9866
May 102013
Apr 032013
Tony Lush cell: 401.560.0250 email: tlush@advancewm.com
Experienced offshore sailor, with 40,000 offshore (mostly solo) miles, would like to be a regular crew in the Shields fleet
Mar 032013
2013 NOR and SI’s are posted.
Mar 032013
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Sep 112012
Crew Available – Regular Thursday J/24 crew with brief experience on an Atlantic would love to try the Shields, let me know if you’re shorthanded for a race please. 180lb.
Mark 860 335 2132
Sep 062012
Race postponed. After the driving rain the wind disappeared.
33 packing it up (click on title for photo)
Sep 062012
Race 08/29/12
We were a little later than normal sailing out to the north course, luckily a southerly was filling in and The R/C had to postpone a bit to let it settle and figure out a course. When they chose the yellow Buoy up at JBY, we were thinking that is a fun course but long…
Our plan was simple: start at the boat end and tack to the already changing Ebb on the edge (the boats by CYC) Had turned, etc… Sure enough we were the first boat to flip and lead to the right, over by Potter’s Cove we hit the Ebb and got headed, tacked to starboard and laid the western most span.
On the south side of the bridge our plan was to head back to the west but stay on the east side of the mooring field, as you can experience a poor angle coming back onto starboard when heading to far in toward the CYC area. There was a very defined Ebb Line to be “hugging” before going back in west. We began to see the normal righties as the sun began to fade over Jamestown, making for a simple decision to go about 100 yards after setting the spinnaker and gybe onto port. We noticed one boat had it made across from The Goat Island side, they were quite far away to see the numbers. Deep down I knew it had to Captain Andy “Admiral” Burton and Team-low and behold-it was him, only six lengths behind us rounding in second: great job getting out of there.
Downwind was simple: stay out in the middle, where the current was still running in (flooding). There was about 90% sailing on port and 10% sailing on starboard. We pretty much saw the same boats the rest of the race: 201, 226, 107 and 36-great job to these teams, especially 107 (I believe they were OCS and restarted).
We found out later after talking to some disgruntled sailors that the time limit had expired and we had only made it by three minutes or something like that. Only a couple of more weeks-so good luck out there and remember: don’t give up sailor!
-Chuck Allen, Team Envy-138
Sep 052012
Race Report 8-8-2012
Conditions
Wind: South-southwest at 10kts (decreasing to 6kts)
Current: Ebb tide
Another great night for Shields racing. The wind was just a touch to the left of the sea breeze direction, and there was a full ebbing tide. Two current lines were in the Tp Vp course, one marking the deeper channel and the other marking the change in current velocity behind Rose Island.
Our plan was to start near the boat and get into the more favorable current on the right side of the course. Although the start line was mostly square, the pin was about a half a boat length favored. We decided that it was better to give up the small start-line advantage in order to be able to tack immediately to the right. So we started about three down from the boat with our bow out, and in about 10 boat lengths we were clear to tack and execute our plan.
As we crossed into the middle, it was clear that this was the place to be. Not only did we have more current, we also had a touch more breeze. But as we crossed the middle of the channel, the breeze started to lighten, and it shifted left. In an effort to stay in the max pressure and current, we tacked into the slight header, which diminished whatever advantage we had from the current. So when the two sides converged, we were crossed by two boats from the left that had stayed more in the pressure. Still, by battling forward, we were able to round the top mark in first.
On the downwind leg, the fleet once again split. One side was going for the greater pressure in the middle of the channel despite the more adverse current there, while the other side saw an advantage in using the more favorable current on the War College side despite having less pressure. We opted for the more favorable current, and at first things were looking good. All of this changed, however, about halfway down the very light-air run. We had ignored the fact that when dealing with a near 2.5 ton boat the difference in pressure is far more important than a slight current advantage. As a result, the channel side made out, and at the bottom mark two boats passed us, leaving only the short beat back to the finish to remedy things.
The final beat looked as if it was going to be a parade out to the right, with the leader tacking on the starboard layline to the finish. To our advantage, when the second-place boat (254) tacked to port to clear their air, it freed up our lane to sail a little more to the right of them before we tacked, forcing the leader (107) to follow and cover. As we got closer to the finish, all three boats tightened up, and we were able to tack back to port to get clear, with no one covering us. Fortunately for us, 107 and 254 then became very interested in each with 107 forcing 254 over the port layline for the finish pin. Our clear lane, coupled with a small right shift, allowed us to get close enough to shoot the line for a three-boat-length, head-to-wind coast across the line in 1st place.
Thanks to the race committee for a great night, and thanks to the crew for a great race.
Envy (138)
Aug 292012
Wednesday eve available crew, Trip Barrow would love to sail. Contact him on 508-241-5026
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.
We had a good start 2 boats down from committee boat, and tacked on to port right away, right behind Jay on 232 and Dirk on 181. We tacked up the tide lines toward Potter’s cove: out for pressure, in for tide relief (and resulting induced lift). We avoided going too far into Potter’s or too far out into the middle (adverse current). We tacked on the stbd lay line through center span; avoiding the tide rip and lousy air through the west span and were able to sneak ahead of 181 and 232. Pinching into the current south of the bridge we just made the weather mark ahead of 108 coming in from left.
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
