random thoughts from ABIGAIL #76 on Wednesday Aug. 20th race…
Our Mainsail Trimmer saw it this way…
20 minutes before the start, we sailed up the east side of the beat, on port tack, and saw strengthening breeze further north – the port tack off the line looked good then, but 10 minutes later, we were “seduced ” by a westerly blast south of the starting pin, changing our plan to one in which we wanted the west side – left – off the line.
A bad start forced us to bail right, a good thing, but we had that left hand thing in our mind and checked back left after a few hundred yards. Misfortune at the start had sent us the correct way, but we “over-rode” and went left, under the ships.
The fast guys appeared to either “bang” the right corner, or got into some good velocity lifts up the left center.
Current was not really a factor.
Maybe we broke our cardinal rule again – get clear air and let Abigail do the rest. Also turn infrequently and DO NOT tack short of the starboard layline.
Our Driver saw it this way…
Well, it looked like the velocity was stronger on the left before the start so we went left and wandered into the middle after a while. At that point we realized that there was more pressure on the right and we were in the cheap seats.. So we ended up playing catch-up for the rest of the race. It took us quite a while to recognize that our height upwind was not as good as usual, made some adjustments and finally started to move on the last beat. We are still working hard to figure out west/east, east/west courses north of the bridge.
Our Foredeck saw it this way…
We liked the velocity on the left side of the course and were looking to set up 2/3rds of the way down the line towards the Pin end. We came back to starboard for the start a little to early and got pushed further down the line than we would have liked, and came into heavier traffic than is good. Off the line we needed to tack to clear our air, it felt good so we held there on Port tack going off to the right and Off Our Game Plan… so writes the ending of our race story.
The winds were real “squirrely” in the cone between the two commercial ships. We would see boats in front and back 10-15 degrees higher in point, then a minute latter down 5 degrees on our course.
BUT we all noticed that #217 got it VERY right for this night… nice job! From our vantage we heard only the faint report of the cannon…
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