Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Dick, I truly enjoyed these. What kind of boat type is it? We don't have these around here. Looks like an older/classical type with those long jibs. Classical cut sails, too. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 5-jul-06, om 19:56 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven: > Normally I'm on one of these boats but I had to sit this race out > on the Race Committee boat yesterday. The race was sailed in > Vineyard Sound on the south side of Cape Cod with the start and > finish in Woods Hole Harbor. Wind was SW at 10-20 knots. > > About 15 seconds after the gun, the fleet sailed for the first mark: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020372_web > > The turnout for this race was low. More typically, we would have > 12 - 14 boats on the starting line. > > The weather-most (right hand) boat in this shot is carrying a reef > in its main, something we're allowing for the first time this > year. The reef allows the boat to be sailed flatter in high winds > which should theoretically be faster, but only repeated trials will > show if that is true in this fleet over the long run. In any case, > the trial proved to be inconclusive because the skipper had to > shake the reef out at the end of the first weather leg. The wind > had dropped significantly by the time they got to the weather mark. > > Passing the first mark the eventual winner had all ready pulled out > a nice lead: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020374_web > > Woods Hole Passage is one of the busiest and most dangerous > channels in New England. Although it wasn't a factor in this race, > it's not at all unusual for boats like this one on their way to or > from the Passage to power through the racing fleet making life > "interesting" for the racing skippers: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020378 > > Although hitting a wave like this is "not fast," the gal sailing > this boat, one of the best skippers in the fleet, finished a solid > half-mile ahead of the second place boat by keeping her boat speed > up on average and playing the currents perfectly. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020392_web > > > Enjoy. > > Comments welcome as always. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >