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2006 Bald Head Island Regatta Day 1

After getting In late the day before I thought I would sleep in a bit but no 🙂 race day excitement and I was up at 6:30 starting to clean up the boat and checking rigging etc…. I found a keeper ring on one of the stays that needed replacing and also loosened the inner stays a bit to let a little more pre-bend into the mast.. Kevin came by and we introduced ourselves… He also came over with his loos gauge a little later to compare its settings against my gauge.. they showed within about 10 lbs of each other the best we could tell. Mine uses lbs and his is on a numeric scale that equates to lbs. I had my uppers at about 600 lbs.. He said that he was running his there also.

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April 27th, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat, Sailboat Racing | Leave a comment

LBSA Race 4-16-06

Beautifull day for racing or just sailing… about 1.5 to 2 ft seas and 10 to 15 knots of wind..

Crew of Patty, Jim and me..  we raced Angela in Sea Haven  ( a O’Day 27) and Orin on La Bon Vie’ (a Beneteau Oceanus 39)

First race we finished about a minute and a half behind La Bon Vie and won on corrected time…

Second race we came in about 5 minutes behind La Bon Vie for second place…

We during the race we played with boat trim and found that sailing her flat seemed to slow her down but heeling more than about 10 degrees also slowed her down.. about a 5 degree heel seemed to be best… Moving one person forward to about the shrouds also increased our speed by a solid 1/4 to 1/2 knot.
Winds during the first race were about 10 knots and we did better at keeping up with the much heavier La Bon Vie… not to mention that for some reason they didn’t unfurl the entire Jib…. Second Race they flew the whole Jib and with slightly higher winds they consistently ran a bit faster than us.. 🙂 waterline length realy paid off for them 🙂 and with the decent winds they had the power to move.

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April 15th, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat, Sailboat Racing | Leave a comment

Blowing Like Crazy

Well I went sailing/racing today.. it was the first truly official race of the season for the Long Bay Sailing Association..

At its best or should I say worst we had 6 ft seas and 25- 27 knots solid wind.. with gust to 32… this according to the Jeneau 43’s instrements that was racing with us.

It was supposed to be 10 to 15 with gusts to 20….

I took Sea Puppy out single handed. And brought her back after finishing 3rd.

I flew the 100 jib and daycron main with one reef…. earlier in day before it really kicked up this was a very nice combination… I needed the second reef in when it picked up… but was in the middle of race.. 🙁 I finished first race and they called second race… the race committee boat was getting pounded. I wouldn’t have raced second one anyways… that was some exhausting sailing….. I feel like ive been beat with a stick.

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April 1st, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat, Sailboat Racing | Comments are closed

LBSA RACE March 13, 2006

Well it was supposed to be an official race but it ended up being just for fun.. lol which is just as well as Sea Puppy came in second..

Winds were supposed to be 15 to 20 and instead were closer to 4 to 10…

Sea Puppy raced against LC Marie a Catalina 36, Runnaway a Cabo Rico 39 and Diamond Girl a Hunter 29,  In the light winds  Dimanond Girl and Sea Puppy did much better than the bigger and heavier LC Mari and Runnaway.. In the first race Sea Puppy and Diamond Girl were neck and neck far out in the lead 🙂  We ended up not finishing that as the with the light winds it would have taken all day and part of  the evening to finish the course.  By decision of GPS distance from the mark the race went to Diamond Girl.

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March 18th, 2006 | Category: Boating, F235 Sea Puppy, In Command, Logged Days on Boat, Sailboat Racing | Comments are closed
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