Harry Anderson
YCYC
420s
9.2-3.06
Saturday – Winds ENE 15-25 knots Outgoing tide in the AM.
Big lefties at bottom and middle. Light and variable at top near shoreline.
Went heavy, suffered at top of course where big boathandling was necessary.
Boatspeed – easier near pin off start (rumble, rumble 420 with breeze… tails straight plane upwind.)
Great control off the wind with crew to weather (Stable). Problem – where can you fit in a few bails?
1. Lulls
2. Go regular til boat is dry
3. Skipper bails?
Very easy to gybe, flick it and rip it.
** Find a good way to do a wing to reach transition when stable.**
1. crew stands
2. skipper rolls off bar
3. double flatten
**** problem # 3 seems a bit dangerous/complicated
Trip MD – very good, agro, needs to settle down a bit, work on downwind boathandling.
Rough 1st set on Saturday… 1 DFL.
1. too many tacks
2. No speed (Rumble, Rumble
3. Easier to rumble from pin.
Be confident – let it rip, rumble in breeze.
Sunday 6 races in A+B
7,10,10,16,4,6
Last set saved face for us in the regatta
Races 3-6 3-5k SE breeze.
Roll the boat HARD and LATE
Super light you must romp (speed first, height later)
Breeze from same direction as Sunday at Frosh NE’s. See righties on upper right quite often. Know what the tide is doing, especially off wind.
Current was ebbing early (races 3-5) huge gains around offset when you could gybe.
Past success has come from: Win the pin, cross the fleet be the first to get into the rightie off the bluff. On the downwind big gains were seen in the ebb when you gybe immediately
1. current sweeping hard.
2. Fight it early while reacing (in clear breeze!), not winging
3. When battling for overlaps at gate, you are sweeping in while others are sweeping out. Also the left gate makes more sense since you are sailing against the current less.
4. Don’t get lost trying to boathandle your way in current and light breeze.
E, Stork says “you can’t get sucked into reaching around on the run. Point it at the mark and fly. Find a lane and go.”
Races 7-8 saved our ass. We went from 16th to 9th in A.
Breeze came up to 12-14 knots. Upper edge with Kerry. Need a medium with some height… Hannah? Won the pin 2 races straight, rumbledout to within 5 boatlengthes of port tack layline. Ducked a few (1 pack) they went too far, but couldn’t pin me because the breeze was up. I pinned a group that called for room to tack. In breeze you can almost always leebow when its close…. Especially when its you are on the outer fringe pinning a group.
3-8 Boatlengthes is desired but not necessary… tons of carnage at top, nobody knows what is going on (waves and breeze)
A guy on the inner fringe of a pack (calling for room to tack due to starboard tackers) almost always gets boned.
9th in A
16th in B
16th Overall
Friday, December 14, 2007
Commandments of College Sailing
Commandments of College Sailing
Ben Spiller
1. Sail the boat flat – “Flatness is a state of mind.”
2. You may heel to leeward only when heading up.
3. You may heel to windward only when bearing off.
4. Beat your neighbors off the staring line.
5. Have a hole to leeward.
6. Pin boats on your weather hip.
7. Have the ability to tack.
8. Cross’em when you can!
9. Don’t let them cross you! (parallel them)
10. Sail the lifted tack.
11. Pin boats to the layline.
12. Approach the Starboard tack layline 3-8 boatlengths from the weather mark.
13. Sail low on the first reach.
14. When the first reach is a run, always consider gybing.
15. Sail high of the rhumbline on the second reach.
16. Work to the inside downwind.
17. Never round on the outside.
18. Sail hot angles downwind in light air.
19. Use telltales on the shrouds.
20. Wing with the breeze 2-5 degrees off your weather hip.
21. When winging have the board all the way up.
22. When things get hairy downwind ease the board down half way.
23. Crew weight together.
24. Crew weight forward.
25. Loose cover packs when going the correct way.
26. Tight cover packs to force them the correct way.
27. Jib cars back in heavy breeze.
28. Tight jib halyard = high pointing, but smaller groove.
29. Loose jib halyard = bad pointing, but wider groove.
30. In no breeze point directly at the mark.
31. You get one freebie each leg.
32. Double tack around the leeward mark when ahead.
33. Double gybe around the weather mark when breeze is very light.
34. When the vang is on in breeze pull the mainsail’s draft forward with the Cunningham.
35. You have a 50% chance of winning going into the protest room.
36. Sail at a crew weight of 260-275 lbs.
37. Have a heavy option of 295 pounds in an FJ.
38. Have a heavy option of 300 lbs in a 420.
39. Have an extreme option of 330 lbs in a 420.
40. Have the centerboard down when gybing for speed.
41. Have the centerboard half way down when gybing in heavy breeze.
42. Sail towards the persistent shift upwind.
43. Sail away from the persistent shift downwind.
44. Velocity is of utmost importance in light air.
45. Shifts are of utmost importance in heavy air.
46. “Single digits dudes!”
47. A fifth place average wins regattas.
48. Start in the middle to minimize risk.
49. Plan for 15 extra minutes when picking people up in the morning.
50. Plan for 15 extra minutes in drive time.
Ben Spiller
1. Sail the boat flat – “Flatness is a state of mind.”
2. You may heel to leeward only when heading up.
3. You may heel to windward only when bearing off.
4. Beat your neighbors off the staring line.
5. Have a hole to leeward.
6. Pin boats on your weather hip.
7. Have the ability to tack.
8. Cross’em when you can!
9. Don’t let them cross you! (parallel them)
10. Sail the lifted tack.
11. Pin boats to the layline.
12. Approach the Starboard tack layline 3-8 boatlengths from the weather mark.
13. Sail low on the first reach.
14. When the first reach is a run, always consider gybing.
15. Sail high of the rhumbline on the second reach.
16. Work to the inside downwind.
17. Never round on the outside.
18. Sail hot angles downwind in light air.
19. Use telltales on the shrouds.
20. Wing with the breeze 2-5 degrees off your weather hip.
21. When winging have the board all the way up.
22. When things get hairy downwind ease the board down half way.
23. Crew weight together.
24. Crew weight forward.
25. Loose cover packs when going the correct way.
26. Tight cover packs to force them the correct way.
27. Jib cars back in heavy breeze.
28. Tight jib halyard = high pointing, but smaller groove.
29. Loose jib halyard = bad pointing, but wider groove.
30. In no breeze point directly at the mark.
31. You get one freebie each leg.
32. Double tack around the leeward mark when ahead.
33. Double gybe around the weather mark when breeze is very light.
34. When the vang is on in breeze pull the mainsail’s draft forward with the Cunningham.
35. You have a 50% chance of winning going into the protest room.
36. Sail at a crew weight of 260-275 lbs.
37. Have a heavy option of 295 pounds in an FJ.
38. Have a heavy option of 300 lbs in a 420.
39. Have an extreme option of 330 lbs in a 420.
40. Have the centerboard down when gybing for speed.
41. Have the centerboard half way down when gybing in heavy breeze.
42. Sail towards the persistent shift upwind.
43. Sail away from the persistent shift downwind.
44. Velocity is of utmost importance in light air.
45. Shifts are of utmost importance in heavy air.
46. “Single digits dudes!”
47. A fifth place average wins regattas.
48. Start in the middle to minimize risk.
49. Plan for 15 extra minutes when picking people up in the morning.
50. Plan for 15 extra minutes in drive time.
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