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gop711
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Armenia
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Initially Posted - 04/15/2008 : 12:35:55

Below is a report I wrote for our clubs web page. I thouhgt it might help some get through a Tuesday.

The boats in question Older Hunter 25, Hunter 260 water ballast, C250 wing keel and us a 1990 C25 wing keel.

Sunday's race was a good one. Winds were 20 mph and gusting to 28 mph. The race was scheduled to be a two lap event from the club's buoy to the power lines at Island Creek and back to the club.
We had four boats racing. Those racing were Michael and Charlie (1/2 of the Wilson Racing Company), Ken and Jennifer ( K&J racing Team) George Bloodworth and Bill Lewis and Charlotte and myself. The official starter was Jay Harrell. Charlotte and I were the only ones with a reef main and we had our Genoa furled in some. Charlotte and I had one of our famous starts, terrible, slow, we hit the buoy and were dead last. We decided to enact the Wilson Racing Company's interpretation of when to do out 360 penalty turn, basically when we got ready to.

We raced across the big water watching everyone round up a time or two. Once into Island Creek we unfurled the Genoa and started to creep up on the pack. We started to do our 360 penalty turn, but we were afraid no none would see us so we waited. Once we managed to get ahead of one we finally did our 360. We were able to catch the rest of the group and actually pass them, because they got too close to the lee shore and did not have as much wind as we did.

We reached the power lines first and started our return trip. We had to tack because I was worried about the depth, our tack brought us in the path of Michael and George, they had to alter their course. K&J Racing team had past us before this maneuver, this was after they made a 360 penalty turn. We were just a tad behind K&J and we decided to tack again now as opposed to later. If I tack we would have gone right in front of Michael and George again, so we sailed back down the course to allow them to pass before tacking. In retrospect, I do not think this will be a race tactic we will try again, we were dead last, but we had a another lap to make it up.

We decided to roll in the Genoa just before the big water on our return trip to the club. Just as we rolled it in some we saw some really good rounding ups. I believe that the unofficial best rounding up of the day would have to go to George and Bill. We can tell George, with out a doubt his bottom and keel are still very clean.

We are getting close to rounding the mark at the club for the return trip and Jennifer's yells that two of the other boats wanted to call the race, I said I would like to continue and Charlotte yelled in agreement to Jennifer's suggestion. I guess you know without me saying it turned into a one lap race.

Races come and races go but this is one race I will remember, we lost, nothing unusual about that, but it was a great, at least in my eyes, Charlotte may have another opinion

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 04/16/2008 : 09:29:15

Remember, according to the racing rules, you have to do your penalty turn as soon as possible after the infraction.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 04/16/2008 : 10:33:51

Which usually means "Immediately" by getting clear of all other boats. Remember also that when doing penalty turns you have absolutely no rights over the other boats.

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gop711
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Response Posted - 04/16/2008 : 12:35:52

Yes, I know you are suppose to do the 360 penalty turn right after the infraction. This really turned into a fun race, because of the high winds and small number of racers, so the rules were a little lax.

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Greg

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 04/16/2008 : 18:04:04

Thanx for the news

From the FWIW file:
We won the Tuesday night racing series because of our starts.
Whenever we could, we would practice. We competed against some very good sailors and often, it was first across the start line was first across the finish line.
Our lake has very consistent winds, its either from the SE or from the NW, so we practiced two types of starts using both wind directions. When the race was about to begin, we would decide which type of start to use depending on number of boats and who we were competing against.

When I bought this boat, I never would have thought either the Admiral or I would be interested in racing. BUT, we are hooked - and I must say that our boat is rigged for cruising....it is the best excuse for not winning.

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