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JimB517
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Initially Posted - 03/15/2010 : 11:59:45

I reset my GPS log yesterday with the start of Daylight Savings Time. I was at anchor in San Diego Bay after the close of our San Diego All Catalina Association St. Patrick's Day regatta (I had to sail single handed, I had no crew, and took 6th out of 8).

So I sailed 1709 nautical miles in the past season. I averaged 3.7 knots. That's 462 hours underway in Indiscipline, or the equivalent of 19 days. My best guess is an average of 10 miles per day so about 170 days at sea.

That's not counting time on other people's boats so with that included I'm pretty sure I'm over my goal of 2000 miles per year.

Sunday morning I got up a 8:30, had breakfast, sat around and waited for wind. Then I sailed home, getting the anchor up at 10 AM and underway by 10:09. Once outside Pt. Loma winds were 15 gusting quite a bit higher and directly on the nose. I took one long starboard tack out to sea, holding that for about 2 hours, then flopped to port when I thought I could lay Mission Bay.

Turned out to be a 5 hour voyage home. I got in by 3 PM, and sailed 20 miles in winds about 15 - higher, and large seas with many whitecaps.

Even though San Diego was enjoying temperatures in the 70s, it was cold on the ocean and I pretty much spent the whole weekend in foulies.

So I'm starting this new season with 20 miles on the log.

By the way, racing single handed versus fully crewed big Catalina's is tough. I was trying to win the start and was over early. I tacked around the committee boat and was pretty late. It was really windy and with a strong ebb pushing me over the line. Winds were 15 gusting into the low 20s. I had on my #1 jib, and I wished for the #2 all day. With that much wind I needed to flatten sails, trim, dump main, and steer in traffic. I could not do all that at once. So the boat was rarely optimized. Later in the race, I got the jib backwinded during a tack and blew around in a full 360. That cost a lot of time. At the end of the day I was 4 minutes off the lead and 2 minutes behind the boat ahead of me. Our Catalina 36 boats were first to finish. A Catalina 34 corrected to first, and a Catalina 30 in 2nd.

Indiscipline 1978 FK SR #398

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 17:15:08

By the way, I had passed on the Islands Race which was this weekend due to my sore knee. It started feeling a whole lot better last week, 2 1/2 weeks after the accident. I figured I could handle a local race. No problems, and nothing hurts today (although my whole body is sore from bracing all weekend in strong winds).

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 17:41:03

Here's a photo of me coming in by Da Woody.

Motor was down because it fell off a wave and I couldn't to it for quite a while.

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 03/16/2010 : 08:59:16

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 By the way, I had passed on the Islands Race which was this weekend due to my sore knee. It started feeling a whole lot better last week, 2 1/2 weeks after the accident. I figured I could handle a local race. No problems, and nothing hurts today (although my whole body is sore from bracing all weekend in strong winds).
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That's what I was wondering, glad your leg is feeling better. As I mentioned in another thread, I did my first single hand run Sunday, so I have much respect for your ability to race single handed. Do you have some kind of tiller tamer?

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/16/2010 : 09:35:21

I have an autopilot but did not use it in the race. I am well used to holding the tiller with my leg or the small of my back while doing other tasks.

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Response Posted - 03/16/2010 : 09:46:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 I have an autopilot but did not use it in the race. I am well used to holding the tiller with my leg or the small of my back while doing other tasks.
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Did you run spin?

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 03/16/2010 : 12:07:35

No, it was such a day and such a course that no one ever did. I can do it single handed. Gybing is tough. Autopilot is necessary.

May happen next month on the Coronados Island race, this is 20 miles offshore and back. If I don't have crew that kind of race gives one time to get the chute up and down single handed.

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Response Posted - 03/16/2010 : 14:12:04

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by JimB517
 No, it was such a day and such a course that no one ever did. I can do it single handed. Gybing is tough. Autopilot is necessary.

May happen next month on the Coronados Island race, this is 20 miles offshore and back. If I don't have crew that kind of race gives one time to get the chute up and down single handed.
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Dang I wish I could join you. Acquiring crew and maintaining them for consistent racing gets to be a challenge. We have our spring series coming up and my friend, who has a C-27 and I are debating on which boat to campaign as we don't have enough crew for the two of them.

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