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Shields Class Fleet 9 at Fort Adams Newport

July 20, 2016- Bullet Blog

Here’s the Report from 258

The Start

After the general recall, we moved down the line, away from the pack, and started mid-boat. At about 20 seconds to the gun we realized we were racing due to the flooding tide and seemed to still be a bit late to the line but a boat length ahead of the boats around us. We felt good about this position as we were able to be full speed off the line, still receiving the right shifts off our shoulder, and sailing into max pressure coming course middle/mid-left.

Off the line, we were able to hold our position on starboard and continue sailing in max breeze. We held for the majority of the first half, and kept an eye on the bottom right corner (boats that had tacked out right early on). Those boats had a better starboard angle, but we were sailing for pressure, as pressure differences seemed to be more diverse. When the small pack of boats to leeward tacked onto port, we knew that we wanted to lead back right to consolidate with the right-most pack, but were patient in waiting for either a nice puff or a bit of a lefty (which only came shy of the bridge).

For the top half, we were more middle-course. There was a current line mid-left that we played with as it provided a bit of positive chop. We also began tacking on the edge of the shiftier puffs by Jamestown, rather than digging into them, as they were shorter blasts. Generally, we erred towards mid-left of the course because the pressure seemed to be more consistent. We switched focus to the small shifts accessible to us (even when other boats were on the edges sailing with better angles) focusing on boat speed through the transitions — especially those short winders!
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The Run
We knew that we wanted to get back out into the current after rounding the can in jamestown harbor and with the course change to just off the war college it made the run pretty simple. We extended on starboard back into the channel and once we were on lay for the next mark, gybed. There were a couple boats that made significant gains on the run bringing the puffs down but we knew if we could keep a couple boat length lead that we could extend covering on the next beat.

2nd Beat
After rounding the bottom mark we wanted to go left as well as control the boats behind us. Luckily everyone else had the same idea. We tacked onto starboard when everybody else did and beat up towards the bridge. A small righty helped our cause. Once we got to the bridge we were solidly in 1st and wanted to stay there. We did what we had done on the first beat and kept left away from the Jamestown harbor. I think this paid more because we had more wind on that side and possibly some “good” current giving us an artificial lift.

All in all there was nothing but good vibes and beers on 258. Big thanks to the Race Committee and the crew Bob Savoie, Katia Dasilva, and Ben Wilkinson. We have been changing crew weekly so this was the first time the four of us had all sailed together. We look forward to seeing everyone next week!

July 26th, 2016|

Winslow Regatta

George Winslow Memorial Regatta – July 23rd

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Before Fleet 9 had Robin Wallace we had George Winslow.  George ran both the Shields and Rhodes-19 races in Newport for several decades.  Racing begins at 1300.  Three races with spinnakers.  There is a pot luck social after racing at Coasters Harbor.  The NOR and SI are located at the link below.

June 24th, 2016|

Spring Race 7, concluding the series

Spring Race #7

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Wind – vacuum
Tide – Low 3:54
“If you’re not first, you’re last” – Reese Bobby
Wild race last night. A massive storm passing through Maine brought thunderstorms as far South as Fall River and sucked the air out of Newport. Great job by the RC in being patient and setting a fair course once the breeze filled in a bit.
I don’t have a whole lot to say about tonight other than whatever you’re doing, try to go fast. There was nothing about our race tonight that went according to plan. We thought we wanted to win the pin and lead left, but the set up didn’t really work for us so we ended up not being able to make the pin on starboard. I think there was a big wind shift, but Kyle is pretty convinced the 2 extra beers I had during the AP played a part. Scotty quickly realized that we should tack since we were in such bad position, but at least we ducked the whole fleet with good pace in a nice lefty!  We hung out there with 107 to windward and 224 (nice to see you out there), who were over early, out to the right.
Somehow, the left near the Dumplings (where we wanted to go) got really light and we started to look better and better where we were and we were leading our small group to the left.

Next thing we knew we had a clear lead, wow.  We’re in first!  We rounded in front with 107 right on our transom.

Light air runs suck. Everyone hates them and when you round first they are extra stressful. There’s few

more frustrating feelings than rounding the top mark first and watching the boats behind press down inside you with better pressure, locking you out from jibing to get to the new shift.  From the minute we set we we looking for an opportunity to jibe and we never thought we had a good look, too much bad air to sail through.  Eventually, the forecasted NW wind came back in as we were becalmed and were the last to get it.  We’re in last!  I say last, but Bill Shore was South of us heading towards Castle Hill last time I saw him. Has anyone heard from Bill?
Fortunately for the home team, we eventually got going as the rest of the fleet started to slow down, presumably a bit in the lee of Rose.  Having a full spinnaker (instead of a hanging one) became a real advantage over the rest of the fleet.  We probably had more focus on that run that we’ve ever had collectively on board.  It became apparent that if we simply kept moving, we’d get back into the race.  The new leaders who were the first to jibe really slowed down after jibing back to starboard and we were crossing.  We’re in first again!  If we can just manage to get around the mark . . .  Fortunately we were able to ghost around with the lead and hold on the short beat to the finish, with 226 nipping 33 for second.
It was one of those races where at the end all we could do was laugh really, as the race could have gone either way for us at any time.   My takeaway from the race as I said at the beginning is to always make sure to be going as fast as possible at all times.  It’s easy to get distracted when things aren’t going your way.  But you can’t compound the mistake by going slow.  Who knows, you may find yourself being the only boat with a full spinnaker on the course and sail around the entire fleet.
Great job sticking with it by our team for the night of Scotty, Nate and Kyle Martin.
See you North of the bridge next week!
Tim Dawson for #254 Aeolus

June 24th, 2016|

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