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Indiscipline - 2nd place in Turkey Day Regatta!

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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 11/16/2008 : 13:08:45

Here's what I can remember of yesterday's race.

It all started Friday night with a 3.5 hour night sail from Mission Bay to Silver Gate Yacht Club. They were nice enough to give me a free guest slip and even the Vice Commodore came down with a couple of flashlights when I arrived at 9 PM to guide me in!

Saturday my crew arrived between 9 AM and 10 AM and we sat in the cockpit, drank coffee, ate muffins, and went over how the boat is set up. I had Keith, a C250 owner and experienced racer and a friend from the office, his 2nd time on board. Keith and I somewhat shifted bow duties - I did the spin sets, douses, and gybes - he did pit and my friend Larry helmed most of the day except the start and finish which I did.

We motored out to the start area to find 0 wind and strong current. Thankfully it came up to about 3 or 4 knots just before the start. It was essentially a beam reach start with a 3 knot ebb current setting you over the line if you weren't careful. It was a ultra narrow line with 12 boats in our fleet. Indiscipline is the smallest and highest handicap but not the slowest! We started on starboard, the lee boat in the fleet, at the pin end, right where I wanted to be but blanketed by a host of Catalina 36s we took off very slow.

We were able to harden up for the first mark and take it without tacking. In the light air we rolled about half the fleet on this leg. After that, the next mark was out in the ocean, several miles away, and the wind was aft the beam. We went up spin with my 0.5 oz and pulled away from the entire group. The wind filled in nice for us and we were in the clear lead. Only a 43 footer (not in our fleet) was ahead of us and we were gaining on them!

Once clear of Pt. Loma the wind went forward and we were trimmed tight on the spin but laid the mark, turned downwind for mark 3, gybed the chute around that, and decided to try to fly the spin back into the bay. This was a mistake as we were sitting on a really big lead. We made a wide rounding of mark 3 and were barely able to lay the bay entrance. As there was a 3 knot ebb, most of the smart boats tacked right back to Pt. Loma and got a big huge lift around the cliffs while we doused the spin, then sat in a big hole going backwards on the tide, and working our way over to the cliffs now well behind the leaders.

Once inside the bay we took a long tack way to the left so we could fly spin again towards the mark way down the bay. This was a good call as we caught several boats on this run that were not flying.

We did a good douse, mark rounding, and were soon hard on the wind in 10 knots gusting 15, with crew hiking hard and me back at the tiller.

We had a great tacking duel with a Tartan 30, taking them high, giving them gas, and passing to windward 5 seconds before the line.

I was 3rd to finish and corrected over a Cat 36 by over a minute, but still behind the Cat 27 Interlude by 11 minutes (9.5 mile race).

This was the most fun I've had in months.

We had a great party and I got a great laugh when I accepted my prize and told them I didn't know what to do when leading!

The weekend ended with a 3.5 hour night passage home from San Diego back to Mission Bay, by then I was really tired so I spent the night aboard and drove home Sunday.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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