<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Yeah, what a great race Byte Size! Put it in the books along with
Tchoupi's Farallons win!<br>
<br>
Speaking of which (Garth), if you let the mast go forward by letting
out the backstay on a reach it really helps reduce roundups, a nice
side-benefit of the rule relaxation we did a decade or so ago. Then
the only problem is keeping your heart from stopping when you go
through waves from a ferry or such...<br>
<br>
Sorry to have missed it - Jan/Carlos<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/30/2014 10:04 AM, Garth Copenhaver
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:BLU406-EAS2226205F6BC6A34E4510CA8A3410@phx.gbl"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">Great description, Anna! I was wanting a blow by
blow of how you did it. Sounds like you made a crucial
tactical decision by not bearing off over by the Richmond
bridge and thus sailing a shorter distance. </div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); "><br>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26,
0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227,
0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180,
0.230469); ">I'm curious about round ups on reaches with these
boats. It seems like the lee helm kind of prevents rounding up
on tight reaches. <br>
<br>
Good luck this Saturday!</div>
<br>
Garth Copenhaver
<div>415-450-0843</div>
</div>
<div><br>
On Apr 29, 2014, at 11:33 PM, "Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:acalderkamp@gmail.com">acalderkamp@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Tuna skippers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Byte Size sailed the Great Vallejo race
last weekend and we
had a blast! The start consisted of bobbing around with
172 other boats,
waiting for the start that was postponed twice due to lack
of wind. On Saturday
the slowest boats start last and our start was postponed
for almost 2 hours, so
I was convinced we were never going to make it all the way
to Vallejo against
the ebb. But the westerly started filling in around 12:30
and by the time we
started (after 1 pm) things were looking great. The wind
had shifted since the
beginning of the starts around 11 am, and we could lay the
upwind mark in one tack.
<span style=""> </span>We rounded after the Cal 20 “Can of
Whoopass” but managed to pass them right after the
rounding. <span style=""> </span>The leg to the Richmond
Bridge against the ebb
was tricky, with a close haul on a nasty steep chop. I had
the feeling we weren’t
going fast at all, but we kept up with an Express 27, so
obviously we weren’t
doing so bad. At Southampton we got a 30° lift and we
decided to stay high and
beeline it to the Richmond Bridge. A lot of boats stayed
low, trying to find
some current relieve closer to Richmond, but our speed was
very good when
compared to the bigger boats, so we happily chugged<span
style=""> </span>along with our competition down from
us.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At Richmond Bridge we had passed a
whole bunch of boats that
had started earlier in light winds. We stayed close to the
shore to find some
current relief and hugged the old wharfs on Pt San Pablo
in about 17 kn of
breeze. After we rounded Pt San Pablo we started looking
longingly at our
windex to see if the wind angle was good enough to set the
spinnaker, but unfortunately,
it was just foreward of beam reach. After about 10 minutes
we saw the two Cal
20’s the "Can” and “Green Dragon” rounding Pt San Pablo
and setting the kite.
The wind had shifted a couple of degrees aft, so we
decided: “Let’s give the
spinnaker a try!” More boats around us had the same idea
and for a while
everyone looked great with their colorful kites up. Then,
the wind increased
and boats started rounding up left and right. There quite
some mayhem around
us, with flapping kites and boats on one ear, and we had
some small round-ups,
too. The boats around us quickly doused their spinnakers,
but we kept going in
what was now ~20 kn with gusts of 25 and a steep ebb chop.
I figured out
quickly to steer down a wave before it hit us and Thijs
and Claire dialed the
spinnaker trim, so no more roundups. It was the most
amazing sailing we’ve done
on Byte Size and we just kept surfing the waves. We hit a
couple of waves off
the wake of a Laser 28, which was just epic! It reminded
me of steering a Laser
down waves in big wind. The batteries in our GPS gave out,
but I’m estimating
we hit some 12-14 kn over the water when surfing those
waves. Byte Size handled
like a charm and I’m now even more impressed by her
design. As Tom Montoya
always says: “Santana’s are sweethearts!”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the Carquinez Strait we were sailing
down wind and working
down to avoid a jibe. We doused the spinnaker just before
turning into the Mare
Island Strait. You can’t win the Great Vallejo Race in the
Mare Island Strait,
but you can certainly lose it with the windholes and
current. We managed to
keep it together and finished after sailing 4 hrs, 7 mins,
55 secs, with just a
single tack! Now the wait was for the competition, because
the “Can” is always
tricky to beat. When we saw them come into the VYC marina
about half an hour
after us we knew we had a pretty good shot and the results
confirmed a first
place, beating the “Can” by 8 minutes. And we had the
fastest corrected mono
hull time of all boats! Everyone was all smiles after the
awesome sailing.
Unfortunately, the other Santana 22 “Sail la Vie” didn’t
make the time limit
and “Green Dragon” broke their rudder and limped in under
white sails and
steering with the outboard prop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My memories of the celebrations are
happy and foggy, and the
three of us passed out on the comfy cushions of Byte Size
(Thijs had to go back
to fly out early Sun morning). The next morning was
painful and foggy, but
after a slow start (40 secs late on the line, yikes) we
sailed a decent race
back in shifty conditions to earn a 2<sup>nd</sup> place,
2 mins after the “Can”,
that was single handed by Richard. Congratulations
Richard!<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to the RC for postponing the
races until the wind
filled in (which certainly helped us!) and the Byte Size
crew of Claire, Thijs,
and Ramon for an amazing weekend. And thanks to Gary Mull
for designing such an
awesome boat!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Check out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://Norcalsailing.com">Norcalsailing.com</a>
for their report and some great pictures of Byte Size.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anna Alderkamp</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Byte Size" #801<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br>
<span>Tuna mailing list</span><br>
<span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Tuna@myfleet.org">Tuna@myfleet.org</a></span><br>
<span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://myfleet.org/mailman/listinfo/tuna">http://myfleet.org/mailman/listinfo/tuna</a></span><br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
<br>
<pre wrap="">_______________________________________________
Tuna mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tuna@myfleet.org">Tuna@myfleet.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://myfleet.org/mailman/listinfo/tuna">http://myfleet.org/mailman/listinfo/tuna</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br /><br />
<hr style='border:none; color:#909090; background-color:#B0B0B0; height: 1px; width: 99%;' />
<table style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none;'>
<tr>
<td style='border:none;padding:0px 15px 0px 8px'>
<a href="http://www.avast.com/">
<img border=0 src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" />
</a>
</td>
<td>
<p style='color:#3d4d5a; font-family:"Calibri","Verdana","Arial","Helvetica"; font-size:12pt;'>
This email is free from viruses and malware because <a href="http://www.avast.com/">avast! Antivirus</a> protection is active.
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</body>
</html>