Flyer on the Flood
Wow! We don’t usually take flyers on 107 because in Newport it’s almost impossible to outsmart the Fleet 9’s collective tactical brain, and more often than not a flyer is sheer folly.
Today, however, I use that “f” word very deliberately to express our thanks to our friends on 143 for reaching down the starting line, rounding up in front of us, and poking their bow out over the starting line, because that required us to tack quickly and take several sterns.
Lisa (59) takes the weather end start in Wednesday night’s race. Bill Doyle photo
“We’re lifted,” Ted says as we clear the last stern, and sure enough we are sailing an all-time high angle of 232-234. When the lift persists, we decide to keep going since our pre-race research has indicated you can’t easily get out of the strong flood current along the Newport shoreline.
So we keep going until we have about half a mile of leverage on everybody except Lisa (59) which has sailed to the right with us. Finally, we tack for the shallower water just past the War College, cross the fleet comfortably, and after two more tacks round about 10 boatlengths ahead of Lisa and Helen (181). Just like we planned…
As Bill Shore said to me later, “Did you start with the rest of us?”
Team Grace gets set to round the drop mark off the War College. Bill Doyle photo
Thinking we now know the “formula,” we hit the right side on the second beat again but the breeze goes soft, even though Jamestown delivers a big right shift for a while. Gradually headed and with pressure finally increasing, we step across to the left side again to get into better breeze and to stay to that side of the approaching commercial traffic. We just barely cross Simon Davidson in Hope (201), who has successfully worked the stronger wind on the left into second place.
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We sail through the lefthand span on port tack with 201 to leeward and 181 on our left hip, tack and sail for less current in the shallow water to the left of “T”. My thinking also is to get as far away as possible from the vacuum left by the ship. Despite the starboard lift, we are rewarded with an oscillation and better breeze on the port layline, which allows us to cross 181 and round ahead by a few lengths.
The last critical move is a fast set-jibe, executed flawlessly by Ted, Rachel, Reed, and Dr. Pete on the foredeck. Even though 181, 224, and 201 are in hot pursuit and force us to sail well above our Vmg course, we protect the west side of the course until we’ve overstood Victor, make our jibe, and then extend our lead as the four boats closest behind us round in overlapped formation.
It was a beautiful evening with a sweet breeze on the racecourse. Obviously it’s super fun for any team when you win, but more than anything I’m grateful that out team and our fleet has been able to sail a full Summer Series in this strange and scary time. My thanks to Bill O’Hanley and his crew for full support each and every night—and for putting up with every “suggestion” I’ve sent their way. Congrats to series winners Tim Dawson and Tom Hirsch and the team on 254 for another outstanding performance. And thanks to all of you for the great vibe you have spread throughout the fleet; it’s been especially fun to share this extraordinary fleet with so many new teams on the racecourse.
Let the Fall Series begin!
—John Burnham, 107
The fleet works the Newport shore to avoid the worst of the flood current. Bill Doyle photo
The Most Important Race
By Holley Toppa (156)
There’s no doubt that Wednesday night is an anticipated night of Shields races for all who attend, but the one race that goes unspoken is the race back into the harbor.
With the course now being set north of the bridge and the loose rule set by the race committee to have the boats in the harbor by sunset, there are lots of additional factors to consider for the journey back home. The sail in, typically with a beer in hand, is significantly longer and usually upwind, and requires navigating the quickest way around Rose Island.
The race to the harbor, sailing under Pell Bridge in Newport. Liza Toppa photo
Unlike Ida Lewis YC running until 9:00pm, launch service at New York YC have only been running until sundown, making it key for some teams to get to the mooring in time to get picked up before the line of other boats waiting to get in, especially as Covid regulations limit the amount of people allowed in the launches. And for teams like our 156 Bomba Charger there is always an 8:00 dinner reservation as the cherry on top.
The evening of the 22nd was a tough sail home. Six knots and fog combined with an upwind sail against the current made it a slow journey, resulting in a few teams returning to their moorings as late as 9:00. Because of this, sailing north of the bridge has made some of the teams more inclined to invite friends out to watch, in hopes to catch a tow in on a lighter evening, which nicely enough adds to the Wednesday night racing spectator fleet.
Liza Toppa photo
Luckily, last Wednesday was a bit breezier and the tide was going out fast, which made it a quicker sail compared to the foggy and light Wednesday before. Hopefully we will continue to see favorable conditions to not only allow for some great racing like we saw last week, but also a swift and seamless sail back home for the night!
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226 Bullet Blog: Making the Most of the Middle
Thanks to the Ida Lewis Race Committee for pulling off a race in yet another challenging evening. So, after an AP, two generals, a major wind shift, a line and course re-set, and the dreaded I Flag, we got in a good race. Congratulations to Peter Denton and the Ultimate Pressure team on 226 for the win! Read his take on the night below.
Bullet Blog:
Well 226 had an interesting night. A couple of our crew couldn’t sail, so we were only three. Wind looked light and dying around 4ish and we almost didn’t go out to sail. With the significant incoming tide we thought we would end up north of Gould looking for a tow home. But the wind actually built with the increasing fog and we did find the starting area.
Ultimate Pressure on a clearer night a couple weeks ago. Alyce Athay Croasdale photo.
First start was second row, but a general recall. Second start was great, though we avoided the pile up at the boat, which was hugely favored. Another GR, bad news we thought. Then the RC reset the line – good job by them, otherwise it would have been bumper boats at the boat. So with a new course to the west end of the bridge, off we went.
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Our general strategy was to go right, get out of the tide, and hopefully pick up the right shift coming from the toll booths into Potter Cove. We call this the urban sailing experience. The tradeoff was that there was more wind to the left, but of course more tide. We went left for a couple of hundred yards, tacked, ducked 181 and went off to the right on a lift. Before long we realized that we were all alone in the middle of the course. All the boats to the right seemed to be down speed and we were bow out on them pretty far. The competition seemed to be coming from the left, 74 and 201. We covered them and stayed right middle and seemed to hold our position. Bill Shore followed us around the weather mark by 3 lengths or so.
Our set was fine if not quick and we stayed on starboard high enough for clear air for quite a while, also out in the tide. We had back and forth discussions on when to gybe to the leeward mark because we couldn’t see it! We finally decided to gybe toward what we thought was it and were far enough ahead to have clear air on port gybe all the way to the mark. Meredith and Rex did a great job getting the jib up, the spinnaker down and the boat set up for the beat back to the bridge.
We wanted to stay to the right, but 74 and 201 were not too far behind us, and when they tacked to starboard, we waited a bit and decided to cover them. Meanwhile a large part of the fleet went to the Jamestown shore. We thought they were going slow and that we were way, way ahead of them. Turns out we weren’t! We were in cover mode up the middle of the course, and when the boats to the right tacked toward the finish line they looked in good shape. No tide and I think a right shift.
We had sailed on all the lifts up the middle so we were able to finish well, but I think Mike Toppa coming out of the right might have been second. And Tim Dawson (254) was over early with the I flag up and finished fourth. Tough competition.
Kudos to the Race Committee for getting the starting line fair, and ending the race when they did. We really did not want to go back to Gould and then find our way home. And I think there were 20 boats out – great showing for the fleet.
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