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.
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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

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.

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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)