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TY Delegates Report 15 February 2014 Pointscore 17

15/2/2014

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TY Delegates Report 15 February 2014 Pointscore 17
What a difference a week makes. From blowing dogs off chains last Saturday to a light drifter for this Saturday’s race. Last week the start was delayed because of the need for the duty crew to assist a capsized sailor. This week the start was delayed because of the shifty winds resulting in the need to reset a fair course. 

The light shifty wind made what I think was the biggest course setting challenge for perhaps any duty crew so far this season. Thanks to Oscar and Richard for holding their nerve and taking the time to move marks and give us a more or less windward start to the first mark.

This week we welcomed Lachlan and Tim Edwards and Matt Rummery the crew of a new TY starter “Day 7” to PKSC. We are very pleased to have Laclan, Tim and Matt join us and hopefully our club members made the crew of “Day 7” all feel at home. 

Today’s TY starters were Day 7 with Lachlan, Tim and Matt aboard, Momentum with Barry Ray Bruce and Phil aboard, The Blonde with John Amber and Harry aboard, Blue Hart with Harry and Frank aboard and Frou Frou with Rebecca, Alan, Peter and me aboard. 

For me the starts are a favourite point of the race and today’s start was made even more interesting with The Blonde making the very brave move to start at the pin end of the line on a port tack in the light and shifty winds. I think it was to test the mettle of Harry the new crew and boyfriend of Amber, John’s daughter. 

During that first windward work the wind disappeared and changed direction about 90 degrees. Momentum rounded first, ahead of Frou Frou, making it another work to the wing mark. Then a tight reach to the next mark before a more or less square run and then a jibe around what use to be the bottom/start mark for a spinnaker reach back up to the top mark. Momentum rounded a good distance ahead of Frou Frou and decided to take the risk of jibing around to try and hold a spinnaker reach back to the bottom mark. Sounded good in theory but in practice the shifty winds conspired against them and the spinnaker did all sorts of things except propel Momentum in the right direction. Frou Frou slipped past into the lead, briefly. While all this was going on the three short course boats were doing their best in the light winds. 

We didn’t get to see much of the smaller boats today except for noticing that the Blonde had recovered from a not so pretty start to sailed her way ahead of Blue Hart and Day 7. Apologies to the smaller boats, they deserve more words, as no doubt they had exciting moments worth sharing. 

Mercifully the duty crew at this point shortened the course and directed us all to the x mark and finish.

Well sailed and first across the line was Momentum, followed by Frou Frou, The Blonde, Blu Hart and Day 7. 

Final places for Pointscore 17 on corrected time are: 

First Momentum 79.00
Second Frou Frou 79.08
Third The Blonde 85.50
Fourth Blu Hart 87.37
Fifth Day 7 89.52

Remember that next weekend the Illawarra Yacht Club are running the Lord Mayor’s Regatta. PKSC TYs will be supporting the event by joining in for the Saturday race with a starting time of 1 pm.
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TY Delegates Report, Pointscore 16, 8th Feb 2014

8/2/2014

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TY Delegates Report, Pointscore 16, 8th Feb 2014

What can I say? Conditions for today race were clear and very windy. Estimates wind strengths during the race were 25 knots with gusts well above. 

The strong wind caused dramas even before race start, but, it did show me a different side to our clubs strong tradition of competitive sailing and one I am proud to write about. It’s the just as strong tradition of lending a hand if you can to anyone in trouble. 

The first example of this was when Bob Porter sailed out and jumping off his dads boat specifically to assist a capsized Jodi right her craft and then help her sail back to the rigging area. No doubt Jodi has already expressed her appreciation but thank you Bob and Rob for lending an expert hand in the difficult sailing conditions. 

Then it was the turn of the duty crew, Les Dino and Brendon who, noticing a struggling upturned boat pulled up anchor from the starting line just before the start in order to render assistance to an upturned Hugh Lewis. They were successful in pulling the upturned cat in a direction that allowed Hugh to extract the cats mast out of the mud and right it. Haven’t we all been there before? And by the way, Hugh went on to finish the race with his new black topped mainsail. The duty boat then returned to its station to commence the starting sequence and get us all on our way.

Special thanks must go to Dino and Brendon for stepping in as duty crew at the last minute to assist Les Porter. It they knew how busy they would be maybe they would not have agreed, and who would blame them. It demonstrated to me again that sailing can be very challenging when conditions turn nasty and, what a vital and important role the duty crew play in looking out for us when we are on the water, a role we need to share between us as club members. 

I suppose I should write something about the race because there were some interesting moments for the 4 TYs who lined up for the start and by the way, overcame various moments of difficulty during the race to all finish intact. 

I can offer as evidence of how strong the wind was the fact that Rosstered Offs crew of Jim, Richard, Shaun and Dave put in a reef. This is the first time I have ever seen Rosstered Off with a reefed main. We estimate that there would have been gusts over 30m knots. The other TYs starting today were Serenity with Wayne Joel and Dale aboard, The Blonde with John and Ray aboard and Frou Frou with Alan, Peter, Ian and me aboard.

Serenity and The Blonde showed surprisingly good speed off the starting line in the heavy conditions while the big and little Ross’s were, at times, struggling to maintain control in the gusts. Frou Frou was looking famous approaching the top mark just behind Rosstered Off when she ran hard aground and had a lot of difficulty getting free by which time Rosstered Off and Serenity were just disappearing sails in the distance and The Blonde only a matter of boat lengths behind rounding the top mark. 

At this early stage of the race the wind appeared to be increasing with the TY skippers displaying not often used discretion and putting away spinnakers for the first reach and run. 

During one of the runs or perhaps it was up the second windward leg Serenity snapped her vang creating extra activity for the crew, and allowing Frou Frou to slip past about half way up the work. 

The Blonde seemed to be revelling in the conditions. She easily coped with the strong wind and steep waves to take out line honours just ahead of Rosstered Off.

From my perspective the best part of today’s race was the dropping sails over the finishing line and the motor back to the launching ramp It was tough conditions and we all had to work hard to finish in one piece.

Final Places for Poinscore 16

Places Boat Name Corrected time PBH (minutes)
First The Blonde 87.49
Second Serenity 88.73
Third Rosstered Off 94.99
Forth Frou Frou 95.35

See you at next week’s race. 

The end Trev
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TY delegates Report, Sussex Inlet and St Georges Basin Sailing Club Regatta, 1 – 2 February 2014

1/2/2014

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TY delegates Report, Sussex Inlet and St Georges Basin Sailing Club Regatta, 1 – 2 February 2014
This is what Trailer Sailing is all about. From the journey to a venue to what happens in between and the trip home, a TY can provide you with a floating totally self-contained shelter. I see it as luxury camping afloat. Even better, you get to visit and explore some of the most beautiful areas of Australia. 

This weekend we were exploring Sussex Inlet and St Georges Basin with the excuse of sailing in the Sussex Inlet St Georges Basin Sailing Club Regatta. According to Dave Morison and Jim Curry who have been visiting this water ways for decades with their families, it feels almost like being at home. 

When Frou Frou arrived Friday night she was met by a welcoming honour guard of Jim and Glenda Curry and Dave Morison, who by the way had been floating around the basin for a week or so already. Needless to say the retirees looked very relaxed. We then tied up securely in the inlet beside Todd and Brad Curry and Haydon Sellers aboard Nirvana, stepped off onto the grass and took the short walk up to the Friday night meeting of brain surgeons at Sussex Inlet RSL Club.

That first evening spent afloat in a snug and safe anchorage is very special. Good weather meant that Saturday morning could be comfortably spent easing in to the weekend, with a slow breakfast aboard before registering for the races and meeting old friends at the regatta briefing. I can honestly say that it was great to see Momentum back afloat with Barry Grant at the helm, sufficiently recovered from his long term injuries to contemplate sailing regularly with John and Ray again. 

Saturdays race was sailed in very quiet an shifting 5 to 10 knot winds with the fickle finger of fate intervening on occasions to upset the finishing times of some of the 30 odd race starters in three divisions.

Saturday night was a little like Friday night except with live entertainment, dinner at the biggest gig in town the Sussex Inlet RSL, then back to the boat to talk to Ray, Barry and John and the possums. Interestingly the possums were making more sense. 

Sunday morning was coffee and breakfast out and another opportunity to catch up in a more relaxed atmosphere with Barry over breakfast.

Sunday race could not have been more different than Saturdays, very windy with many retirements and some not so pretty sailing techniques experienced in the blustery and bumpy conditions. On these sort of days however the experienced sailors shone through. With the breeze increasing during the race to at times over 30 knots, PKSC sailors were among the finishers. The Porters aboard Out Of Exile and the Curry’s and Sellers aboard Nirvana 7 were as impressive as usually, and, Momentum with Barry, Ray and John aboard and Frou Frou with Alan, Peter and me aboard managing to finish in tact which I think was an achievement in itself. I will report more once I have the official regatta results.
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