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DaveR
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Initially Posted - 08/14/2011 : 07:16:09

Well, summer showed it's sweaty face at Patrick's Airforce Base yesterday. Captain Tom Curran, myself and Dustin sailed "Island Time" to a solid 3rd place finish, barely beating the midday wind doldrums that stranded 7 or 8 boats on the course for an hour or more. Had a really good start but once again had nothing for Chuck aboard Confetti who..... once again, ran away with the day. And finally Chuck got the 1st place mug after handicap, congrats Chuck!

I got to play with a asymmetrical spinnaker for the first time. TOTALLY screwed up the deployment but learned in the process and we were safely in 3rd so no biggy.

Relaxed to a beer Braut and Amberboch in the clubhouse after while we ribbed a the captain of "OBlack Magic" about his bad finish

Thanks Tom, it was a great day.

[url="http://waveless.smugmug.com/Sailing/Racing/81311/18525820_mgjdn7#1430053976_ctmsvFX"]The rest of the pics[/url]

Tom

myself

Dustin sporting his Florida State Cozy (Large Florida fan caught unaware

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Dave Robbins
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Daytona Bch., FL

http://bambooc25.weebly.com/

Edited by - DaveR on 08/14/2011 07:27:00

TCurran
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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 02:47:36

Dave, I appreciate the help and the camera, I never think to bring mine. Chuck, thanks for the help, standing on the toe rail (what little the c25 has) with water up to my ankles, adjusting the rig seemed to help. Was great to see the O'Day 32 behind us at the start and stay that way.

Good day for the local C25 fleet, a first and a third (out of thirteen).

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 06:56:25

Congrats! Just curious... Looking at the horizon, that second pic is tilted somewhat, so your actual heel angle is greater than it looks... Why so much heel in what appears to be pretty light wind (based on the water and the flag)? Do you have the asymmetric backwinded at that moment?

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 08/15/2011 06:59:01

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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 17:57:28

Dave B, we were actually beating at that point. I took that shot on the first leg, not long after the start (while we had wind). We had the 150 up and were on the windward, the spinnaker follies were much later, no pictures or evidence. We were moving about 5.5 knots when I took the shot, it was the best leg as the wind started to slack shortly after we hit the first mark. If you follow DaveR's link for the other pictures, page two has a couple more from the first leg, you'll see Chuck, the O'Day 32, and a couple others heeling some too. Page one has pics from after we crossed the line and went (motored) back, you can see no waves and sails hanging. (Dave must have loaded the pictures in reverse order)

I wanted to get a good shot of the O'Day 32 behind us, just to give them some crap. They went out twice this past week to practice, so to jump them on the start and squeeze them till they had to tack (shortly after the picture was taken), it was pure joy to have the two c-25s out in front of them.

Chuck provided some email fodder with this picture of the well trained O'Day 32 crew and their spin follies

And for DaveR...what Island Time looks like when we actually set the spin

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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 20:17:27

Tom said it right, it was "pure joy" to have the two Cat 25's in the race take 1 and 3, and be a LONG way out in front of our arch competitor, the O'Day 32!!!

The wind was nice for the first leg, but boy did it get still and hot later.

Here is a shot by DaveR aboard Island Time of us on the first leg. With just my daughter and I on the boat, I sailed with the chute already rigged and accepted a liitle loss of efficiency going up wind so we could get the chute set quicker after the weather mark.

Cheers! (and congrats to Island Time!!!)

Next time we are looking for Cat 25's 1 and 2!!!!!!

Chuck

Edited by - cshaw on 08/15/2011 20:29:37

Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 20:31:40

Chuck: Wow--how great to see that Hull #1 with that wonderful sail shape and trim! I can't see the whole thing there, but it sorta looks like your main might be pretty high-aspect, perhaps like Derek Crawford's This Side Up(?) In any case, you do all 6000+ of the rest of us proud! (Not that I'm really one of "them" any more...

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Edited by - Stinkpotter on 08/15/2011 20:43:12

DaveR
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Response Posted - 08/16/2011 : 06:20:24

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> the spinnaker follies were much later, no pictures or evidence. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Thank God for that

And thanks Tom, looks awful good with spin up! Don't know why the pics uploaded backward to SmugMug

Oh, and Chuck, Tom took those nice pics of you.

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Response Posted - 08/16/2011 : 08:54:52

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR
Oh, and Chuck, Tom took those nice pics of you.
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Ahhh, OK, Thank you Tom!!! I assumed you had taken it since you e-mailed it to me!

Can't wait till the next race and listen to the "Trash Talk" from the O'Black Magic crew again!!! <grin>

Cheers!

-c-

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Response Posted - 08/16/2011 : 09:41:57

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 Chuck: Wow--how great to see that Hull #1 with that wonderful sail shape and trim! I can't see the whole thing there, but it sorta looks like your main might be pretty high-aspect, perhaps like Derek Crawford's This Side Up(?) In any case, you do all 6000+ of the rest of us proud! (Not that I'm really one of "them" any more...

)
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Hi Dave! Thank you for the kind words, and you know you are "always" one of us (even though you are now a Stinkpotter!!!! <grin>)

The main is a standard sized Tall Rig Main, but when I built it, I made it loose footed. Thats common now, but was not so much about 20 years ago when I built it! Sure allows great draft control...The tall rigs do have a higher aspect ratio than the standard rigs, and are really nice to have in lighter airs. I attached a grainy long range snapshot to see the whole rig.

The 155 is an old Mylar jib I built about 18 years old that is getting kinda "fragile" (I usually have to make some repairs to it after most races). I built it really flat (17:1 camber ratio) to allow good pointing in flat water. In flat water and moderate breezes we usually tack through around 78 to 80 degrees without making unacceptable leeway. Obviously, the main gets a bit of backwind sheeted that close, but I can get it pretty flat also. The two sails do like to work together however!

Can't wait to have Tom and I taking 1 and 2 and everyone else running to catch us here!!! <grin> He is getting better and better each race, and keeps me on my toes!!

Cheers!

-c-

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