Report from 181

Crew aboard: Dirk Johnson, Dirk Johnson Jr., Heather Shaver, Chuck Allen & Darris Witham

On arrival to yacht club there was a light northerly present, chances of sailing looked slim, however with the tide about to turn, Dirk Jr. called the southerly to fill. As usual, Dirk Jr. was right…it did fill.

We had the great fortune to have Commodore Charles Allen aboard and he started out by checking our rig. He loosened our lowers (we went to about 100 lbs (setting for light air)) and kept the uppers at base. With the rig looking good and a pretty solid southerly we headed out to the course.

The course was weather to the special mark off of Hammersmith then down to the red gong West of Goat Island with port roundings. The pin looked favored with a majority of port tack up the beat and a flood tide. We decided too risky to fight for the pin so we proceeded to do a port tack approach and start to the right of the majority so we could tack when we wanted. We were able to execute most of our port tack approach plan and we had decent speed at the start. We were able to hold our lane for a while but we still had a boat to weather therefore we were not able to follow through with our plan to tack. We continued on Starboard tack with about six other boats (226, 145, 101, 21, 254 and 17) right up to Fort Adams. The first boat to tack away from the fort was 21 Bandit followed by 101, then we tacked (this was a bit too late for us because it forced us to sail upwind for that stretch of the leg in mostly bad air from 21 then at times we were in bad air from both boats). We sailed through the puffs and lulls looking across at the competition from the right hand side of the course; things were not looking too good for us. The fact that we were in the presumed dominant breeze coupled with the fact that we didn’t have to cross the adverse current like the boats coming in from the left, we thought we were going to make out okay; however, that is not what happened. The breeze from the right never did subside, in fact it took over. So 217 with Anthony Kouton driving came across looking golden and proceeded to round the mark first.

We made our way up to the mark, set then jibed and sailed low. There was a course change announcing the new leeward mark to be the yellow off of Jamestown channel. We stayed low of a group of seven boats (245, 226, 107, and others)   at first we were looking good then the group of seven accelerated as they approached the Jamestown mooring field. As we approached to leeward mark we thought we saw an opportunity to round inside of a few boats (thinking they wouldn’t be able to get to us) … they did.  107 was able to just close us out. After rounding we proceeded to do our 720. Sailing upwind now we started the maneuver with a jibe at which point Dirk Jr. yells “my opti coach, Matt Hersch, on the 254 says we should always tack first when sailing upwind and jibe first when going downwind when spinning circles!” It was too late we had already started our slow….very slow circles.

Sailing upwind to the finish, we followed a majority of the fleet and ended up deep. We heard the RC announce two protests and we announced our 720. During our sail in we practiced “opti coach Matt’s” recommended 720 approach…it turns out he was right…with a calm “I told you so” from Dirk Jr.

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