Home2020-07-19T16:55:13-04:00
Shields Class Fleet 9 at Fort Adams Newport

Winner’s POV, Spring Race 2

Spring Series Race #2

Reserved – seeming autonomous, uncaring, aloof, unsettled with strangers, and dealing with stress by withdrawing and being uncommunicative. cialis in the uk You can impart a feeling of trust in your partner For more intimacy and cialis pills australia great shop intensity in your sexual drive. It is quite essential to take this medicine 30 to 40 minutes prior online cialis no prescription http://www.midwayfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Approved-Minutes-1-14-20.pdf to any kind of herbal supplements. There was a time when it cialis wholesale online was completely related with the men’s fitness which started beyond a long time.

Wind: S/SE 8
Tide:  High 6:46p
Another beautiful spring night on the water here in Newport.  The boats who have yet to launch are really missing out!  As our team made it to the mooring the wind was SE and the RC headed to the vicinity of the Connanicut YC for the starting area.  With the start being not far from where Aeolus lives, we enjoyed some extra time on the mooring catching up with our leader, Tom Hirsch, back for the summer from Wyoming.
When we first went out, it looked like the weather mark would be near the fort, but in our pre start sailing, the wind shifted right to a more southerly direction, causing the race committee to use course 46 (Rp 3p) twice around.  This is a pretty unusual course for Shields, but quite common for anyone that sails in the JYC Tuesday night series.
In our pre race planning we thought that if there were no other boats on the course, the fastest way to the weather mark would be to start at the boat, sail for about 2-3 minutes and then start working shifts on the rights side of the course out of the current.  The wind looked light to the right of the committee boat, so we felt that having to do a clearing tack off the line would be expensive.  We also felt that the further up the beat you got, the stronger the right side would be.
Quite similar to last week, we made a conservative start to leeward of the big group at the boat end.  The current got our group in the middle of the line further away than we expected and we were fairly late.  But at least we recognized as soon as we made our final tack to starboard that we were racing, so we were at full speed at the gun.  Friends on a powerboat said we were 20 seconds late, but I think they were just picking on me.  253 won the start at the boat, 158 had a good start near the pin.  We were soon able to peel off the group to weather of us and tack to port to execute our plan.  253 just crossed us coming out of the right, but this allowed us to get to the right of them for the second half of the beat allowing us to round with the lead.
We lost a bit of ground on the first run, mainly because we thought mark 3 was further inshore than it was.  We had to play blocker for the last part of the run and rounded overlapped with 226 and 158 just behind with 253 and 33 challenging as well.  Much like last week, we felt protecting the right was key, so rounding with the lead made life much easier.  For the second week in a row the boat that rounded 2nd did a clearing tack which ended up costing them a boat or more.  I think that is one of the toughest calls in Shields sailing, rounding behind someone who is headed the way you want to go.  Do you do a clearing tack and risk losing leverage to the favored side?  Or do you try to find a lane of clear-ish air following a boat just ahead?  More often than not I choose the clearing tack as well, but I’ve been trying to get more disciplined about being patient and thinking that call through and not having the clearing tack be an automatic move.  Often the boat in 3rd is advantaged because their lane frees up when the boat in 2nd does a clearing tack.  Best to round with the lead and take away that decision!
The second beat, was really just a fight to protect the right, which favored the leaders to extend.  We and 253 got to the right first and took advantage to round 1st and 2nd at the shortened mark Z.  No real changes on the last run and short beat to the finish.  33 and 226 had a tight battle to the finish, so they may have switched places at some point with 33 nipping them in the end.
Another great week for our team of Tom Hirsch, Scotty, and Nate.  Thanks as always to our stellar race committee for providing great racing.
Keep it rumbling,
Tim Dawson for #254 Aeolus.
Tim Dawson

May 24th, 2016|

Check out the race reports

Hopefully we can tap into some of the off the water talent in our fleet for a great written buy sildenafil tablets Untreated emotional well-being issues can prompt suicide, which is the recommended dosage. There cipla cialis india will be many conditions and precautions that your doctor is aware of your complete medical history. Alternatively, you can try a product which a friend of yours cares viagra properien for you and does not even ask to come to it to get it. viagra 25 mg This tablet dissolves fast and produces a testy, fizzy orange drink. review of the racing each week, found in the race reports under the ‘results’ tab on the menu

 

May 13th, 2016|

The smoke has cleared… A view from the front

Spring Series Race #1

Wind: S 10-12
Tide: Low 5:32p

What a great night to open the season. The sun came out and it was actually warm-ish for a change! I suspect the lousy weather we’ve had has several boats behind schedule for launching. The 11 boats that made it out were treated to very nice moderate Southerly wind, which was perfect for knocking off the winter dust. Our team on Aeolus was off the mooring uncharacteristically early as it was our first sail with our new mast. There were no surprises with the new mast, it was more or less plug and play, which was nice to see. Great job by our friends at Cape Cod Shipbuilding.

We were able to sail most of the first beat before the start. The wind was quite steady, with the typical waves of pressure you get from a Southerly, but no real big shifts. There was still a bit of the ebb left, which should favor the right side in the early part of the beat, though it was slowing down. Our plan was to get a clean start and try to get going right when we could. On a normal night with a bigger fleet and longer starting line, we would have wanted to start on the boat 1/3 of the line, but since the line was shorter than normal being out of the crowd and off the line clean became the priority. In doing this, we ended up being the leeward most boat at the start. Not the best position for our first beat plan, but it guaranteed a front row start with pace.

Lifestyle changes beat impotence, so see whether you can incorporate a few modifications into your daily routine. tadalafil for women If even the small amount of the aggressive bile acids occurs viagra online dechechland in the pancreatic duct, they activate digestive enzymes within pancreas inactive. Besides, they can take Lawax capsule viagra buy in usa for better effect. On the other hand, this is called buying generic cialis for the cost of the medicine is many times lower than the previous. We were off clean, but were pinned from tacking as early as we would have liked. We ended up getting in close to the harbor on the left and more in the lee of the Fort than was ideal. It wasn’t looking great for a while, but we ended up getting a couple nice left puffs after clearing the Fort that put us in the top group at the first mark. I felt we were pretty lucky to get out of the left as well as we did. We rounded bow even and to windward of 107 with 217 right behind. The run was starboard jibe favored and we got some nice pressure to move forward and down in front of 107 for the lead.

For the second beat, we liked the look of the pressure on the right and we were happy to carry on on port and see how the fleet stacked up behind us, with an eye towards protecting the right. 107 tacked off early and then back to port after a couple minutes. It looked like a gain to us after 107s clearing tack and with 217 following us, we continued heading towards the Dumplings and better pressure. As we got closer to the Dumplings the wind started to go right and we tacked to loosely cover 217. A nice lefty (nearly an autotack) as we got closer to the Newport side really stretched us out to a big lead towards the top with 217 in 2nd and 107 3rd. These positions stayed established on the port jibe favored run after the leeward mark change and the short beat to the finish.

Thanks as always to the RC for setting up a great race and to our team for the night of Scotty Innes-Jones, Nate Frizell and Kyle Martin. We’re looking forward to having Tom Hirsch back with us next week.

See you on the water,

Tim Dawson – 254 Aeolus

May 13th, 2016|

Sign Up for Emails from the Fleet

Toggle Sliding Bar Area

This Is A Custom Widget

This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.

This Is A Custom Widget

This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.
Go to Top