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Prospector
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Initially Posted - 09/13/2013 :  12:32:29  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
Since our summer sailing series are all complete, a bunch of us decided to meet up and do some off-the-record attempts at match racing.

So last Wednesday, we rigged Iris (I have really good crew right now) and headed out. At the start pin, there were only 2 other boats, so match racing wasn't going to work. We decided an informal race would be better and since all of us had about the same PHRF, we would just call it one design and whoever finished first would be the winner.

Our course has 9 pins. One in the centre, and another at each of the major compass points forming a circle around it (North, northwest, west, southwest, etc.) Each pin is numbered, so the course will be called out as 'course three' for example, which means you sail to three odd numbered pins, beginning at 3 and finishing back at the centre pin (start at 9, 3, 5, 7, end at 9).

AS our three boats lined up to start the wind was shifty so we chatted about whether to sail course three or four, adn finally decided on 3. The start went well, and off we went, with the organizer's boat taking the early lead and heading toward mark 4, with us in close pusuit.

Just as we reached mark four, the third boat in our trio got worried - "are we sailing to 3 or four?" came across the radio. We answered "three" at which point hysteric laughter broke out - "you guys both went the wrong way!!!"

Crap! So we turned south to Mark three with the lead boat just ahead of us, and rounded it in third place. With the (formerly) lead boat now in second.

The rest of the race was a fun pursuit. We ended up catching the boat that sailed the right course on the last leg of the race, and were only a half minute behind the lead boat by the end of the race. Its nice racing an informal race with friends and no pretense, throwing away the rulebook and just having a good time.

The beers afterwards weren't too bad either, with lots of lies to share.
"Iris"
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 09/13/2013 :  15:21:16  Show Profile
I thought I had mis-read something--went back, and then figured it was a typo...

That's the kind of racing I liked. The racing where I lived for 25 years was intense one-design between Wall Street type skippers. I crewed now and then... Nobody was happy--ever, although they pretended to be, back at the club. They even raced to the dock after the last race, as if the first to tie up would look like the overall winner. The weekday PHRF races were between the same Type A-1s, and they usually ended up in the protest room rather than at the bar.

The other C-25 owners around me had nothing to do with any of that.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 09/13/2013 :  15:53:29  Show Profile
Were they J-24's Dave? We used to have a similar fleet who always played bumper boats at the windward mark.
Many moons back I assisted an International Judge to run the largest regatta in SW England. He had worked the J-24 Worlds the year before in Europe. He said that after 3 general recalls, the "I" flag, and then the "black flag" before the 1st race got started - he only had 36 boats starting out of 70!
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