OK gang, the rookies plan to make it, too. Cloud 9 checking in for this
Saturday.
Jim Doyle
-----Original Message-----
From: tuna-bounces at myfleet.org [mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org]
On Behalf Of Jan Grygier and Patti Boucher
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:38 PM
To: List Satanna 22
Subject: Re: [Santana 22] Two Races Down! Who is coming out on
the 9th?
OK everybody, the (rusty) big guns will be out in force - Carlos
checking in for Knox, which I agree often has the most interesting
strategies of the entire season.
Glad you could make it Pete, your previous emails made it sound
like you would miss the S Bay races. I was snowed under, ordering
cabinets while on sale at IKEA, that sort of thing - sure would have
preferred being on the water! Thank you for your summary of an exciting
day.
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Andrews - MTC
<mailto:michaelan at mtcorp.com>
To: Pete Trachy <mailto:pete at tolachi.com> ;List Satanna
22 <mailto:tuna at myfleet.org>
Sent: 5/29/2007 5:12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Santana 22] Two Races Down! Who is coming
out on the 9th?
Bonito will be there.
Michael Andrews
-----Original Message-----
From: tuna-bounces at myfleet.org
[mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org]On Behalf Of Pete Trachy
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:06 PM
To: List Satanna 22
Subject: [Santana 22] Two Races Down! Who is
coming out on the 9th?
Dear Santanians.
The weekend before last was some of the best
white sails racing I have been in over the last two years. We had 5
boats out and in both races all 5 finished within 2 minutes of each
other. There was never a feeling of sailing alone at the back or top of
the fleet. The day was summed up by Michael Kennedy when in the midst
of a downwind duel for first, he turned to me with a huge smile on his
face and yelled "Isn't this awesome!" Michael, congratulations on
jumping out in the thick of things on your first race!
In the 1st race we came in last, and I hope
Tackful can chime in with some of what they did right to come out in
first. Things not to do are be late at the gun and sail into less
pressure on the beat to the finish. There was a reason we were the only
boat going off to the left after the leeward rounding...
In the 2nd race we tacked in underneath Tackful
at the boat end and managed to get them on barging. We had a fair start
and worked on covering the rest of the boats and not getting out of
touch with the fleet. We nicked the windward mark trying to shoot it
and by the time we had done a 360 Pariah had caught up with us. The
whole fleet compressed with the boats behind attacking those ahead with
their wind shadow. I feel we were able to break away by the leeward
mark by sailing a slightly hotter angle. Pariah split from the fleet
and sailed off to the left. We didn't want to go over there after our
experience in the first race, but also wanted to cover so we split the
difference after working over to the right a bit. At the finish we were
impressed to see that Tackful had worked back up into 3rd(?) even after
having to spin at the start.
The results are online in the ODCA section of
the YRA site:
http://www.yra.org/ODCA/odca_race_results.html
Michael Kennedy (Pariah) is not included for
some reason. We're trying to get that sorted out.
The next race will be at Knox on June 9th.
Current and wind made this a very exciting race last year, with the lead
changing hands many times over the first race. Get out on the course
early and try to figure out the conditions. Don't forget to consult
your tide book!
Can we have a show of hands for who plans to
attend?
Best,
Pete
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