If you like single handed sailing and the lightship, ping me to hear about the most prestigious single handed event to the lightship this year
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If you like single handed sailing and the lightship, ping me to hear about the most prestigious single handed event to the lightship this year
Don't be a tease, just post a link. Can a prestige event be a secret?
I still don't know what we are talking about. But it reminds if of the epic marketing promotion for "Spinner Island Race Week" on S/A all those years ago.
OMG you can still find the NOR: http://www.regattapro.com/documents2...rIslandNOR.pdf
David - there is no NOR nor SI - BUT there are results and trophies! COME IT WILL BE A PERFECT SAILING DAY!
ps: I need your PHRF number
ZYC Challenge. Saturday 10 sept
Meet time 10am (warning) - cross line 5 min later
Meet location between location on shore with orange flag near Golden Gate YC and X buoy
We'll try VHF frequency 72
Out to lightship buoy, round it any which way and back to same line
and there is another Olson out there...
tough one :( that was the date everyone picked...
yup that's right. No entry fee, no nothing yet you get trophies and results and a fabulous day on the water among racing friends
"ZYC Challenge. Saturday 10 sept
Meet time 10am (warning) - cross line 5 min later
Meet location between location on shore with orange flag near Golden Gate YC and X buoy
We'll try VHF frequency 72
Out to lightship buoy, round it any which way and back to same line"
Hmmm, this gets more interesting all the time.
I'll jump in and ask questions later.
Nat, my rating is 111
Nightmare
Are there any (other) OYRA season singlehanders accepting the ZYC Challenge on Saturday? FUGU? LIBRA? OSCAR?
Or those willing to pay one more OYRA single-race fee? DOMINO? GRACE? JOUJOU?
Nightmare has an idea ...
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Assuming the recommissioning projects are completed [mast should be stepped today], Domino will be there to defend the title.
I did not sign up the whole OYRA season, for reasons that are likely obvious...
DH
Tom Boussie (Capo 30 JouJou, PHRF 123) plans to accept the ZYC Challenge at the expense of OYRA #9. The OYRA have been very supportive of singlehanded participants this season, but I foolishly did not sign up for the whole season and the SRE fees have added up.
One note: the OYRA #9 race looks to be starting off the StFYC with the first division warning at 9:40 AM (https://www.jibeset.net/show.php?RR=...DOC=si&TYP=pdf). Only 5 divisions, so they will all be off by 10:05 AM, but still want to stay out of their way.
The gnormous Mod 70 ORION is scheduled to start (with one other multihull) at 10:05. They need a lot of runway to get rolling and that's the time the ZYC boats will be near the StFYC starting line, so watch out!
Thanks Nightmare - I have you down.
we will actually use VHF frequency 71 not to conflict with OYRA and move everything 5 min earlier so start is 0955 instead
Sounds great!
See you out there!
Shrimp is the fruit of the sea.
I got some yesterday. The net:
Attachment 1805
Remember to drop the chute before the South Tower Demon.
Oh my my! That took forever! I passed Nathan on my way to the Lightship. He was eating lunch and slouching in the cockpit while his unspinnaker flopped around. He promised me whales at the lightship, which were long gone two hours later by the time DM and I inched our way 'round it. Jeez Louise! That was tortuous! 5.5 hours out, 3 hours back. I can't remember how many times I tacked. Two thousand?
Then, when I poled out my jib and headed back I realized that I was headed straight for the waiting pilot boat, with a tanker coming out and a tanker coming in. I can just imagine the bar pilots inside:
"Could she be any dumber?"
"Dunno. Let's watch and see what she does next."
And then. Shouldn't that wind have shut down by 7:30? Well, apparently not, because I really caught it in the slot and all the way home to Berkeley. 23 knots? Seriously? I'm tired! What a day. It was kinda cold, and almost drizzling the entire time after 4pm. Ate my ham and cheese sandwich then I felt nauseous. I had to turn up the zapper on my wrist thingie.
By the time I crashed into my dockbox back in Berkeley my legs were wobbly. In other words, DM and I experienced the range of the San Francisco Bay and Gulf of the Farallones all in the same day, and, of course, enjoyed ourselves enormously. Thank you again, Nathalie!
Bobbi called the Lightship course only for the OYRA big boats and multis so we had to bail on ZYC at the last minute. From the finish times it appears the three miles from Channel buoy #2 (our mark) to the Lightbucket was the slowest part. All of our Course 7 boats finished around 1400.
They don't let us have dockboxes at RYC - maybe your arrival method is the reason?
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On the way back from R2 I thought, we could have just sailed on out to the lightship and back passing R2 on the correct side completing both courses.
R/C could have been irritated at us though. ;0
After finishing the race and putting my boat away, I ran into Nathalie Criou propped up on the breakwater outside the GGYC where she had served as singlehanded race committee all day, solely for the purpose of "trying to get more people involved in singlehanded racing". Amazing. Kudos to her - I hope she recruited a few more souls to give it a try.
I certainly enjoyed the trip out to SF and back, albeit under pretty light conditions past the approach channel. It took me forever to get around the mark, badly miss-judging the tack angle twice before finally clearing it.
With the copious time afforded me I took the opportunity to tune my autopilot settings (upwind and down), experiment with various spinnakers (I am not loving the A2 so far), and watch, sometimes scared shitless, the 10+ whales breaching closely around me.
I dropped outside the gate (because I am a wuss), and I watch with admiration as Domino blasted all the way home under full spinnaker. I guess he has had some practice lately...
nice video!!! I know this autopilot...