SYSCO Thursday Summer Series, Race 4 June 24, 2021 The race course was W, Start-1(Buoy 2)-4-Finish. Crew was Arnie and Jon. Arnie was aboard for a one night stand. Jill had to do something else this evening. Wind was a normal summer breeze. The committee boat set up in the middle of the river adjacent the east end of Tomahawk Island. This put the starting mark half way to the Washington shore. We took a couple of runs to the mark after getting our timer synced to flags. We started on starboard tack. La Dolce Vita (LDV) tried again to push us above the mark. But we were able to break overlap and did not have to worry about that. We stayed on this tack until the west entrance of Tomahawk Bay Marina. We tacked to port to go to the Washington side. Once there we tacked to starboard to round the mark. Blewstreak and Wildheart rounded the mark in front of us. Jon with Arnie's help put ...
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SYSCO Thursday Summer Series, Race 3, 6-17-2021 Race course was X, Start-1-5-1-3-Finish. Wind was a little stronger than a normal summer wind being about 8 knots with gusts to 12. My good crew was aboard, Jon and Jill. We had a good start, but was protested by La Dolce Vita (LDV). We were making the mark, but LDV was leeward and tried to luff us. If we had luffed, we would have not made the mark. So, we kept our course. We took my 360 to exonerate his protest. The 360 can be see in the track below just after the start. We proceeded to continue on a starboard tack until we were able to tack to the windward mark, 1, which was actually mid-channel buoy 2. We rounded the mark second. Jon had trouble with setting the whisker pole. I made a new sail end for the pole to replace the broken one from last race. I made it much stouter, but short. Next week it will be longer. We rounded the first leewar...
SYSCO Thursday Race Series, Race 2, 6-10-2021 Race was Start-1-3-finish, race "T". Crew was excellent again, Jon and Jill. Winds were lighter than previous nights. We started on port tack along with a lot of overs. We were right behind Blewstreak. We stayed on port tack with Blewstreak heading for what looked like Buoy 2 instead of the mark, which was near Tomahawk Marina's west entrance. We tacked to starboard when we could make the mark. We were first around the mark. Then it started. The pointed end of the whisker pole broke off. Jon did heroics to get the pole to set, but it would not stay. Finally, he rigged a knot on the end with the port jib sheet. Miraculously, it held. But the sail configuration was wrong. I had instructed him to put the pole out starboard. We should have put it out to port, but we discovered that later. Meanwhile we were holding our own. We even ...
SYSCO Thursday Summer Series, Race 1, 6-3-2021 Wind was NNW. Course was Start-1(Buoy 2)-4-Finish. Crew was the excellent, Jon and Jill. We nailed the start. First over the line with Blue Streak and Wildheart in close pursuit. I wanted to get into the channel and use what little current differential is available between the deep channel and the shallow waters. The track below shows the starboard tack to be 2 knots slower than port tack. But the distance we traversed would have been the same so the difference was not that much. We pass astern Blue Streak when we tacked to port to get to the channel. We rounded the windward mark second behind Blue Streak. I chose not to set the pole as there was quite a bit of north in the westerly wind, but the track does show us much slower for the first part of the downwind leg. We set the pole to port at about half way. Jon had a little trouble setting the pole....