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Pattison
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October 2010 |
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Sail Sense Because your sails matter!
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Sail
Upwind Like a Pro
Sailing
your boat upwind is a little easier than sailing
downwind, at least as far as picking the angle you
want to sail. While sailing downwind you have a
wide range of possible angles to sail, anywhere
from dead downwind to sailing with an apparent
wind angle of near 90 degrees. You have to pick
the best combination of angle and speed that will
get you to the leeward mark the fastest. While
sailing upwind the angles are much more limited;
you can't sail any higher than the angle where you
jib luffs, and except in some very light dinghies
that will plane upwind it won't pay to sail any
more than a few degrees lower than that angle.
However just like sailing downwind knowing your
targets is important and using them is the easiest
way to improve your upwind performance.
Step 1:
Upwind know your target boat speed
for the wind speed you are sailing in, and sail
your boat to those speeds. Remember it is just as
detrimental to sail faster than your targets as it
is to sail slower than your
target.
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| Care for Your Furling
Genoa
Caring for your
roller furling genoa is simple and quick, but can
add years to its life. There are 3 main things
that prematurely damage a furled sail; first is UV
exposure, second is high wind damage, and the
third is mildew.
Ultra
Violet radiation will break down most sail fabrics
quite quickly, without being covered the cloth can
be destroyed in less than a year. So the most
important thing you can do is make sure the sail
is properly covered when not in use, or taken down
if you don't have a cover. While it is furled
check to see that the cover completely covers the
sail fabric. Look carefully all the way down the
furled sail and makes sure you see nothing but
cover, if the sail is not furled tight enough, or
if the cover is not wide enough, there will be a
strip of sail just inside the cover that is not
protected. Next drop the sail down and look
closely at the head.
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2010 Rolex
big Boat
Series
Onboard the J109
Electra
In
August Tom Brott, owner of the J109 Electra,
called me and said he was thinking of taking his
boat to San Francisco for the 2010 Rolex Big Boat
Series, and asked if I would be interested in
sailing with him. I've sailed the regatta quite a
few times, but always on bigger boats, so the
opportunity to sail in the smaller IRC Division
and on a boat that seemed to do well under
the IRC rule sounded like fun; I thought for a
moment and said yes.
Over the next few weeks we discussed the
logistics of getting the boat and crew there and
what was needed to optimize the boat for the
regatta. The J109 fits the IRC rule well; a
fractional aluminum rig, small jibs, no runners,
and with a sprit it doesn't need many sails. IRC
limits the number of spinnakers you can carry in a
regatta to three and that fit us fine. We did
decide to make a new smaller heavy air jib because
in September is quite common in San Francisco to
be sailing in 20 knots or more.
Tom had most of his regular crew lined up
to go; Tom Parry on the bow backed up by Leslie
Baehr, Mike Crawford at the mast and taking care
of navigation, Paul Corrigan in the pit, Jay
Doerrer and Will Vrooman trimming, and Tom
driving. I would fill in as tactician and main
trimmer. It was a good group, they all get along
well and have sailed with Tom long enough to
really know the boat.
The regatta started on Thursday with 14
knots of wind for race one and an ebb tide which
we had for almost the entire
series.
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Congratulations to Recent
Winners
Rolex
Big Boat Series:
1st
IRC Division D - J109
Electra Tom
Brott
3rd IRC
Division B -
Flyer*
Rob Sjostedt
Tom Brott and crew, Left to
Right:
Top Row: Paul
Corrigan, Mike Crawford, Leslie Baehr, Tom
Brott
Bottom: Jay Doerrer, Tom
Parry -Not Shown: Will Vrooman, Harry
Pattison
Long
Beach Charity Regatta:
1st
Class A1
Victorie* Bob
Atkins
2nd Class
A2
Electra
Tom Brott
3rd Class
A2 Alpha
Papa Gordon
Leon
2nd Class
B Blind
Squirrel David Hansen
Vic Maui
Race:1st to Finnish -
Terremoto!* Scott and Susan
Burbank
2nd Overall, 2nd in Class
So. Cal. PHRF
Championship:
Hitchhiker
1st Class B
Problem Child* 2nd Sport Class
Klexy
3rd Class A2
Trust
Me* 3rd Class
B
* denotes partial
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