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TY Delegates Report 19 November 2011

19/11/2011

TY Delegates Report 19 November 2011

I went to a wedding, Digger went to a party and only a couple of boats turned up for today’s race. As it happened, circumstances conspired so that in the end there were no TY starters for today’s event. A report from a sometimes reliable source (Paul Leaudais) indicated that conditions on the water were very challenging with the breeze varying between 20 and 2 knots from the North, with a big hole of no wind in the middle of the course. Not the most pleasant of sailing conditions. Congratulations to all those that finished and a big thank you to the duty crew who set the course.

Kembla Klasic
As you know this coming weekend is the Kembla Klasic, an opportunity for us TY sailors to give back to the club by helping Jim Curry and Dave Morison run the weekend’s event. Many competitors will be arriving on Friday afternoon and Jim and others will be at the club to welcome them. The pre race briefing is scheduled for 09:30 Saturday so If you can please be at the club no later than 09:00 and make yourself available to Jim.

Trev.

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TY Delegates Report 12 November 2011

12/11/2011

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TY Delegates Report 12 November 2011

Do you think the rules of sailing are different in India? I will return to explore that question later.

It seems a while since we enjoyed a sailing day as good as this one. Not that the other days are bad. Even the abandoned days I think have a plus side. You still get to enjoy the major component of the sailing day, talking crap with your sailing buddies, still happens, and of course eating the world famous PKSC canteen hamburgers.

Back to today, pleasantly warm with a 10 to 15 knot north easterly filling in. Plus we were able to welcome back Barry from his sojourn in the subcontinent. I am amazed that Barry’s sharp crew Ray and John were not permanently snaffled away by other skippers during his absence. A warm welcome back also to Rob from his brush with eye surgery and Dave with his dodgy left knee. From an outsiders point of view you would begin to think that the TY sailors were disintegrating rapidly. However there were enough more or less able bodied sailors to put 4 TYs in the water for today’s race, Digger Danny and Mitch aboard Grey Fox, Jim, Wayne Richard and Rob aboard Rosstered Off and Peter, Barry, Ray and John aboard Momentum and, Peter, Alan and me aboard Frou Frou.

What a ripper of a start and first leg it was too, with the 4 boats crossing tacks and rounding the top mark within seconds of each other. Momentum, did employ some interesting but effective tactics to scare Frou Frou and Grey Fox (with reference to the opening question of this article “Do you think the rules of sailing are different in India?”) close to the top mark buy employing the ”give way to port rule”. As mentioned above there may be simple explanation. Perhaps there are different rules of sailing employed by subcontinent dwellers, for example the “give way to port rule”, and, over a period of time those rules could permeate the psyche of the unaware long term visitor. This Has anyone heard of this rule, perhaps someone can clarify this for me? Anyway no one was hurt and good sportsmanship prevailed with penalties being performed where necessary.

If there could mention one not so good thing about the day that could be mentioned it was that we couldn’t shake off Grey Fox. Digger, Danny and Mitch must have been functioning as a well-oiled machine. They had Grey Fox motoring, pacing the 3 bigger boats upwind and loosing very little down wind.

That really sums up the final placing’s for race 9 of the Pointscore series. A long way ahead in first place was Grey Fox, with a big gap to Rosstered Off in second place, closely followed in 3rd and 4th place by Frou Frou and Momentum respectively. All in all it was a very fine day for mucking about on boats.

Next week is Pointscore 10. Frou Frou must tender her apologies as she will not be sailing. Her skippers’ niece has arranged to be wed on a sailing day and was not willing to reschedule. I believe that Grey Fox will also be unavailable for Pointscore 10 as her skipper has another engagement that weekend.

Lake Illawarra Yacht Clubs Lord Mayors Regatta is also on Saturday and Sunday, with the Sunday race counting in the Southern Zone TY Travellers series.

I look forward to seeing you all on the water soon.

The end Trev.

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TY Delegates Report 5 November 2011 JB Challenge

5/11/2011

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TY Delegates Report 5 November 2011 JB Challenge

Once upon a time there was a large body of sheltered water called Jervis Bay. The Bay was called sheltered because it was not in the open ocean. However when the wind blows it does get bumpy, sometimes. The sometimes bumpiness of Jervis Bay is contrary to often smooth sailing conditions experienced in other sheltered bodies of water, for example Lake Illawarra. For little boats the sometimes bumpiness of the Jervis Bay waves and the wind can impede forward progress if traveling against them but good for making progress with them. Sometimes if the waves are big enough the boat can go up over the first wave and down into the second wave with a resulting wall of water splashing those on board and making them wet. Usually its not just one but a series of wave wetting episodes to ensure that it soaks through any water resistant clothing of every person on board and, if any hatches are open, ends up wetting inside the boat as well. It’s a very egalitarian type of event where getting wet is shared by all aboard whether they are inside or outside the boat.
For me Jervis Bay is a nemesis. Sailing most of the time in relatively smooth conditions means that skills for making boats go fast against waves and wind do not have much opportunities to develop. I don’t know about you guys but have trouble setting things up to make reasonable speed ahead against the Jervis Bay waves wind. Any advice on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Needless to say Frou Frou did do very well in the bumpy Jervis Bay conditions. But it was all worth it for the 12 and 14 knots under spinnaker on the square run from Honeymoon Bay to Creswell. That was worth starting the race for.
I wish I could tell you how the other 3 PKSC boats, Rosstered Off, Out of Exile, and the newly named Woman Wisperer handled the conditions but they had packed up and were gone by the time Frou Frou was back at the launching ramp and on dry land. The conversation amongst other competitors confirmed that the conditions were very challenging, estimated wind speeds of at least 25 knots made for lively and demanding sailing conditions with about one quarter of the fleet retiring.

Congratulations to Brad and crew aboard Woman Wisperer who ended up 4th overall, with Frou Frou ending up 6th in the 14 fleet TY division.

See you all at next Saturdays 9th race of the Pointscore series.

The end Trev.

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