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dmpilc
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Initially Posted - 08/11/2010 : 21:11:49

The winds were light. A fellow C22 sailor and I raced my C22 tonight instead of his C22, which we sailed to 2nd place the last two weeks, and we came in first tonight, by the hair of our chinny-chin-chins! We were in 2nd place (pursuit start) behind a Northstar 500 (25 ft boat), as we rounded the buoys and a small island. On the next leg we caught up with the Northstar and passed her. Everything was looking good. All of the other boats were at least 500 yds behind. We and the Northstar got caught in a calm not 40 yds from the finish. All of the other boats caught air and are converging on us. We are to leeward of the finish pin by about a boat length and it looks like we are trapped there. The other boats catch up, they are clustered up and yelling for room. They drift by us and we catch the same wind that brought them all up to us. We ghost over the finish line about 1/2 boat length ahead of the next boat, an S2-7.9. What a finish. I thought we were toast! You never know what is going to happen with lake sailing in the summer. Oh, did I mention that the temp this afternoon was 97 with a heat indwx of 105, and this was the first week in almost 2 years that I've had out C-22 in the water.
We beat a Northstar 500, 2 S2-7.9's, another C22, and a J-80! WOW!

DavidP
1975 C-22 SK #5459 "Shadowfax" Fleet 52
PO of 1984 C-25 SK/TR #4142 "Recess"
Percy Priest Yacht Club, Hamilton Creek Marina, Nashville, TN

Edited by - dmpilc on 08/11/2010 21:13:22

Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 08/12/2010 : 07:28:10

Nice work! If you keep this up that guy will sell his J80 and buy a C22!

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Response Posted - 08/12/2010 : 10:52:23

That's what I like about pursuit--you beat people by crossing the line ahead of them--sometimes by inches! Or, sometimes you just watch them whiz by... Or you get pushed outside of the pin in the frenzy at the line...

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 08/12/2010 : 11:50:11

Of the 6 boats racing, we were all ended up within a boat length at the finish. Course was about 2.6 miles.
Of course, the J80 gives everybody lots of time at the start.

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 08/14/2010 : 14:23:46

One of the other C-22 guys said they were so close at the finish that you could walk across the 5 boats that were bunched up.

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