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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 01/23/2009 : 14:57:15

Tomorrow Saturday 1/24 is the first race of the San Diego All Catalina Association (SDCatA). I finished 4th for the season last year. The usual suspects are entered - 8 boats. There is a Catalina 27 up to a 36 Tall Rig. Weather forecast is variable winds to 10 knots, seas 3 to 5, air temp 65. Right now it is raining very lightly.

Tonight around 6 PM I'll leave Mission Bay for the 3.5 hour night passage to the anchorage in San Diego. I'll pick my crew up tomorrow at 10:30 AM. Race starts at noon. Should be a bay race with most likely a leg out into the ocean. After race party at Silver Gate Yacht Club.

I should be back to Mission Bay by about 8 PM Saturday night.

Wish us well and I have the camera and will try to find time to get some photos.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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Response Posted - 01/23/2009 : 15:23:15

Best of Luck Jim!!

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/25/2009 : 12:57:13

Indiscipline placed 3rd in a fleet of 8 Catalinas. We were the only boat under 30 feet. First was a race equipped Cat 34 and 2nd was a race equipped Cat 36.

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http://www.indiscipline.org/cat25/presday09.html

For those of you winter ice and snow bound sailors, here is my story.

I left work at 4:30 PM Friday and was backing out of the slip by 5:15. There was still some evening light. By the time I was out of Mission Bay and headed south it was dark. I motor sailed the whole way, following a route I've set on my GPS that gets me around the kelp and into La Playa cove with no drama. I have a new GPSMap 76 with a small chart plotter and it is real nice during a night passage. I wore my foulies but not my boots and was just a little cold and damp. Thankfully I was able to do this trip during a lull in the rain showers that were sprinkling all day. Wind was SE, course S, and seas too choppy to make coffee under way. Once in the shelter of the Bay I made coffee with a little Baileys I brought along.

I had anchor down by 9 PM. The boat with the lawnmower generator and that had the shrieking fight on new year's eve was there, I made sure to be 1/2 mile away. I woke at 6 AM to a drumming on deck and had to jump up to close the hatch - we had about 30 minutes of good, hard, rain. I thought it was going to be a wet race. I had coffee and a muffin around 7 and did some chores on the boat getting ready for race day. I left the anchorage at 9:30 and was tied up at the guest dock waiting for my crew by 10. They came and soon enough we were bobbing around looking for wind. I was the first boat to check in and they asked me "What course do you want?" I pointed SW to the open ocean and said "send us around the Coronados!".

Well they didn't do that but did set a 9 mile offshore course with a mark down south towards the Mexican border in an area known as the Coronado Roads.

We had a good start in the leading wave of boats right at the favored committee boat end, over the line just 30 seconds late. I was able to take a couple of boats on the windward, high, side because the new mylar/laminate jib helps with the pointing. We were started with the Silvergate Yacht Club family fleet so there were 15 boats going with 5 in the PHRF fleet 5 minutes behind.

After the first mark we went up spin and reached out of the bay. Navy Security boats came and cleared the channel because one sub was leaving and another coming in but it didn't affect us too much because we were at the mark. Some boats really got hosed.

The downwind mark was pretty much dead down wind. I've never neen around this mark (a Navy mooring) but the SIs said 2.9 miles at 95 magnetic so I used the chart plotter to set a mark at this point. That worked out really well. We tried to stay heated up and did one gybe for the mark. We really gained on all the non spin boats on this leg. We did a good gybe and a good take down.

Coming back we were really hard on the wind and set up a barberhauler to get the C25 to really point with the new sails. I have outer and inner jib car tracks and sheeted the jib in even more with the barberhauler so we were pointing as high as possible. This helped us avoid a few tacks and I beat a boat we are very close with, a Cape Dory 26 to the mark.

We traded tacks with them back up the Bay and beat them over the finish line, with a couple of exciting close crosses on the way back.

The yacht club provided food and we had a few beers while waiting for the results. This took forever because there was a rare protest.

The end result was 3rd for us and we left the dock at 6 PM for the upwind slug back to Mission Bay, arriving around 9 PM.

It was a great day, I really enjoyed it, and a pleasure to sail with my crew of Keith and Larry.

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