Shifty Winds Own the Night
Thank you to Bill O’Hanley and the ILYC RC for getting a race in under constantly changing conditions. We were out early on 39, and from 4pm to 8pm, I am pretty sure we had the wind clock a full 360. Challenging for sailors, but imagine the frustrations of the RC. Kudos and thanks for sticking with it.
Close racing off Fort Adams. Alice Athay-Croasdale photo
Congratulations to David Bush-Brown and team 121 for making the right calls and winning the night. (Read 121’s bullet blog below.)
Full RESULTS HERE
Overall, 156 is holding steady with the top spot, followed closely by 254 and 107 for the series. In the Captain Chris Withers awards, (following 156) there is a tie between 201 & 181, with 121 not far behind after his big win this past Wednesday.
—Bill Doyle (Defiance/39)
Bullet Blog: 121 for the win…
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David Bush-Brown (121/Mahi) writes:
Lucky and left won the night for us. The 90 degree wind shift to the SE and the racecourse being moved to south of the bridge meant it was a big reset for all. With AP flying, we sailed deeper than most up into the new course to get some more data. We saw some bend in the wind and current lines that favored left side of the course. The tide had not been much of a factor previously, but it was beginning to build and the Rose Island cone was coming into play.
Mahi (121) to windward and Tinky (258) to leeward, lead the fleet into Newport Harbor for a round at red nun No. 2 off Fort Adams. Alice Athay-Croasdale photo.
We chose the pin for the start, but so had others and it was crowded down there in the last couple of minutes before the start. Consequently, we hung back and found a nice hole a third of the way up the line from the pin. Shortly after the start, the herd ahead of us decided to tack and head downstream. It was a real stroke of good luck for us when they all cleared out! With the Deutsch/Hood/Read (D/H/R) contingent on 258 just below and slightly ahead of us, we stayed with our commitment to the left side. They tacked and we decided to let them go, as we felt it was not yet time to tack. We dug a little deeper into the left, found a meaningful header and flipped over. From there it was port tack all the way to a couple of boat lengths from the first mark.
We did a huge duck around (258) D/H/R, in first place on starboard and went a boat length further to get a better angle for passing around the mark. Todd McGuire and Johnny Gieseke executed a brilliant no pole spin set to get the kite filled and pulling early. With more speed and to windward, we were able to get past D/H/R just after the mark. Another stroke of luck was that we had clear lanes all the way to the second mark as the fleet separated and the breeze came right down the middle for us. The final bit of luck was that the last leg was a close reach to the finish, so it was a drag race to the end, making it easier for us to protect our very marginal lead over the front pack.
Thank you to Bill O’Hanley and the ILYC RC for getting a race in under constantly changing conditions.
Eighteen Boats & Two Good Races
We were excited to see our biggest fleet yet on the water last night, including Q&A, Hawk and Virginia for their first outings. We had a good breeze for the first race and enough wind to get around the course for a second race. In a relatively weak flood tide, Bill O’Hanley’s RC laid out a course directly up the middle of the East Passage to a drop mark at 0.85 miles, followed by a run of about a mile to green bell #6, twice around for the first race and a single lap in the second.
The course was congested with 18 boats on the line; in each race, one boat jumped ahead at the first mark and stretched to an impressive win—217 (John Dory/Jamie Hilton) and 254 (Aeolus/Tim Dawson), respectively. Top scorers for the night with seven points each were 254 (6-1) and 74 (Karaselet/Bill Shore) (3-4). Bill observed afterwards, “For the most part playing wind shifts was better than playing current. Very unusual for Wednesday racing.”
Tim (254) pointed out that a bit of luck was useful, too. “Race 1 was a tough one for us. We had a bad start and ducked a big group to clear out to the right. Trying to get back to the left, we got tacked on and bounced back out to the right, which was a big loss for us. I can’t even say what place we were in at the first mark… Our big gain to get us up to 6th was on the last beat. The 3 boats that rounded in front of us all tacked and opened up our lane to stay on port. The clear air and only tacking once on the leg got us past all 3, so we were lucky there.”
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The competition is heating up for the Chris Withers Trophy as well. The top scorer among those eligible (boats that haven’t been on the podium for four years) was Hope (201/Simon Davidson)—third for the night (2-7). Of the first race, Simon said, “Our crew are getting to work together well and knowing their roles and positions; getting room to start with some speed and clear pressure was big; then finding a good lane to get right / middle of the course seemed to work. But probably what helped most was mode changes we made (backstay, traveler, and jib halyard) for wind velocity, and dealing with waves and or boat wakes.”
With four races sailed, the other top contenders for the Withers to date are 181 (Helen/Heather Shaver), 156 (Bomba Charger/Mike Toppa). (It should be noted that any boat that does too well and wins a series trophy in our current summer series is no longer eligible for the Withers Trophy.)
Bullet Blog: Winning Pressure on the Left
That was one strange weather map yesterday, with plenty of weather trying to spin counterclockwise onto the Bay and ruin our race day. Fortunately, the black clouds kept to the West Bay, and then it cleared up and we were able to do some sailing in a modest southerly.
PRO Bill O’Hanley of the Ida Lewis YC Race Committee set a course to Q at the Dumplings, then downwind to 6, the green bell southeast of Rose Island, twice around. The tide was already ebbing on the edges, and aboard 107 (Grace) we decided the best play was to the right, catching the leebow current from the Jamestown mooring field near Clingstone. We had our best start of the season, halfway down the line, and after a few minutes, we were able to tack, with much of the fleet to leeward of us, also going right.
Unfortunately, the smart money was still going left where the pressure and perhaps the early ebb current was better. We crossed close with 156 (Bomba Charger) and 254 (Aeolus) near mark R with 33 (Maverick) in the lead, and we played the current by the rocks as planned but lost a few lengths to the boats to our left in the process.
Downwind, we all lined up and sailed towards Fort Adams in a line. We jibed first for the Cone of Rose Island, followed by 181 (Helen) shortly after. Even though we had protected the inside, the leaders held better pressure towards Newport and we were lucky to preserve fourth place, inside 181 at the mark. Fortunately, we came in with good pace to the mark, and regained much of the distance we’d lost as the leaders parked up a bit going into the rounding: 33, 254 and 156.
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We tacked immediately at the bell, betting on the left pressure this time and held a nice lane past the Fort as the others tacked west. We held on for a few extra minutes, finding ourselves alone in a strong ebb with excellent pressure. When we tacked, we weren’t far off the layline, and with the continued strong current and a lift, we overstood slightly, but passed 156 and 254 in the process. We rounded Q not far behind 33 and with a bit of a gap on 254.
Again we ran downwind toward the Fort, and this time 33 made the conservative move, jibing to protect the inside and presumably gain from less current along the edge of the Cone. We took the split and sailed on toward Goat Island for a couple hundred yards, finally jibing and enjoying better breeze. Improbably, when 33 jibed back towards the mark, we had gained enough to cross their bow by a length—it’s pretty rare to gain four or five boat lengths and sail around another Shields like that on the outside, but on this night, the Newport pressure was king.
The RC attempted a second race, but fortunately for Team Grace (Peter Schott, Rachel Balaban, Ted Hood and co-skipper Reed Baer) only the first race will make it on our scorecard — the breeze fizzled and the race was abandoned.
– John Burnham, 107
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