Hospitality Regatta this weekend October 7, 2008
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Oct 11-12, 2008 – Hospitality Regatta to be held by Jackson Yacht Club. Notice of Race. This is a fun annual event offering racing for multiple classes. All are welcome to race, watch and or cele
Feb 24, Nice day for a sail February 24, 2008
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All in all it was a nice day for a sail. Low sixties, light breeze in the beginning with the wind shifting about 180 degrees on the leeward leg. So, unlike a normal leeward leg where all the boats catch the guys in front, all the boats in front got further ahead. But that’s just the way the ball bounces.
Thanks to everyone who offered me a ride today. Even Marty said if no one would sail with me I could go with him. Ouch! I know he meant it well, but some how the delivery stung a bit. So I went with his son Willem and Caleb, director and editor of the famous viral wipeout video. People are still talking about this thing. I bet it hits a 10,000 views on YouTube. Maybe Dr. Crash will give us some tips.
After looking at the Kattack performance report I realize we sailed a very long course today. We were OK on speed, but the distance was a killer. I expect we’ll be better next week. Bish is sending photos to me so stay tuned for updates. In case you are wondering about the Flickr photos in the sidebar, those are Beer Can snapshots from Saturday.
Feb 17 – Rock, Roll & Splash! February 17, 2008
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For the few of you that read this you will get a kick from the replay on Kattack and on the coming video on YouTube. We had a wild ride today with breezes in the 18-20 range and some puffs into the 25 range. Of course later in the day, like around the club bar the wind was 25 gusting to 30kts. I would say that is an inflated number but the beer makes everything a little bigger and more attractive.
We lake sailors aren’t used to this kind of wind so excuse me while I giggle a little from today’s delight. We had a fairly clean starting line, there is always someone stupid enough to try to start at the pin end on port tack that usually creates heartache. This time it was me. Though I ducked those as necessary and sailed on my merry way. I heard a lot of yelling behind me though as there was another port tacker following me through the mayhem and wasn’t quite making it.
Ok, first leg JV gets off on the right playing the gambler on the JYC point. Dynamo works up the left with the Cubans, and Escape. Fresh Aire works up the middle hitting every little hole there was. (BTW, the breeze was 10 in the holes) JV comes screaming out of the right with a huge lift and the rest of us struggled to get to the weather mark with him. JV is around and leading by a large margin. Dynamo and Fresh fall in behind and fight each other for fresh breeze and some planing action. Dynamo goes low out of the weather mark Fresh stays up. JV gybes and heads back towards the JYC point and again is screaming. Fresh is high on the rhumbline so…time to gybe, “let’s go on this next puff” I say. Done. We take off again. Everyone is on port tack now. JV is well inside and is going to need to throw in a gybe soon and he’ll be hot coming out of that corner. Dynamo and Fresh are up on plane heading to the leeward mark, puffs are getting bigger. Kattack says everyone is bumping 11kts!
JV gybes, this will tell us something. He’s rocking…he’s rolling…SPLASH! Someone said “He’s not planing anymore.” I said “let’s take the chute down early, ok?” No arguments and no one quipping pansy either. Into the leeward mark we go… and for some strange reason Dynamo thinks I hit the mark. Now, I could have I suppose though I doubt it. I can’t explain why that mark is rolling around though when we went by. That was at the point where we were sheering the Tack-Tick off of the mast with a jib sheet. Which was never to be found again. The rest of the race wasn’t as exciting except that I overheard one of Escape’s crew saying they were heading back upwind when there were encountering JV and his crew of Gilly Chamberlin, Sam Waller and John Wakeland trying to pull all their cr*p and crew back on board. They were soaking wet, had only one sail up and Bo starts yelling starboard at them! For those that don’t know, Bo is an “inactive Marine”. They never give up the Corps. Thus this means when the enemy is wounded…well you get the picture. I actually thought this was funnier than JV’s splash, I guess you have to know all the players. Here’s the long version video of the day from Caleb…
Kattack.com Race Viewer January 27, 2008
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Races are being posted generally on Monday morning after the race. Race 11 was a little more difficult since we had to edit the tracks on Cookie Crumb. Everybody make sure you clear your tracks before starting the race! This one was particularly interesting because there were tracks in another city.
If you are interested in participating then post a comment. This is not just a J22 fleet project. Anyone who wants to participate is welcome. This is a great teaching tool. So far I have learned that I should stay closer to the starting line on light air days.
This is how our drill will works each Sunday.
- Bring your GPS
- Check your batteries, rechargeables work well but need recharging every other week
- Put your GPS on the boat
- Turn on the unit
- A couple of us have just put them in the cabin and it works fine
- Clear the tracks before you leave the dock
- Go race
- When you get in turn off the GPS and bring it to me.
I will have the program running at the club. If this works better than last week, then we’ll have this displayed on the flat screen TV in the bar. Later on that night I will upload to Kattack. To veiw the product go to Kattack.com
BIG UPDATE!
The guys at Kattack have finally updated the race perfomance program to include Performance Reporting. This is the really cool information I have been telling all of you about for about a year now. I just updated by viewer yesterday, ran a race then clicked on the Performance Reports button, wow! You get the following reports: distance sailed; Leg position at marks report; leg detail report; race summary and speed reports. It’s impressive. I also learned all the boats have to start, round and finish the course perfectly. This is according to the way I have the marks placed! So there’s a little extra work to be done after the initial run of the software for me.
To get a report login to the Race Player, an automatic download will begin.Be patient it takes a minute or two. If it stops in mid-download, which happened to me, don’t worry just cancel and restart the update again. Another update is Kattack is now providing a a free viewer for downloading. Click on the Kattack link to go to the site and get the program and our races.
Jan 6th, First Race of 2008! January 3, 2008
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ICEBREAKER! Well we don’t really have any ice around here except for the dog’s water dish. But we can call it an icebreaker. Sunday first race of the season and of 2008. All boats handicap and one-design, Catalinas to J/22. Let’s go Sailing. 2:00pm start. J22 guys bring your Kattack GPSs, with batteries so we can get this party started. I need crew so whoever wants to sail with me, give me a shout.
Check in if you plan to be there.
What’s on your Christmas list? December 20, 2007
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Sailors always have a list of things they would like for Christmas, though they are generally so far fetched no one would ever get it for you. My kids are wandering around the this season with the same requests many of you have from your kids. Mine are driving teens so, their list is impractical to me but very practical to them. So I translate what they ask for into what they will get.
They want: I translate to:
iPhone Ear buds
New puppy Stuffed animal
$120 jeans Belk $50 gift card
Juicy Coutour purse WalMart $25 gift card
New Land Rover New tires for their car
I thought it would be interesting to see what others have on their I know mine would be pretty impractical as a gift but a new bottom and keel job for my J22 sure would be nice or an A-sail and bow sprit for the E Scow. In practical translation that means a bottle of teflon polish and sail repair tape. What’s on your list? Write in your comments, Say it! Nobody reads this blog anyway.
Porsche and the Parking Place December 10, 2007
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Season’s Greetings!
Racing is winding down for the year, one more race to go then we can call this year history. Like yesterday’s Beer Can race, we were forecast for 10-15kts gusts to 18-20kts. Another big day! Jim was still feeling puny so Bishop and I took Fresh Aire out to see if we could mix up the quarter end results a little. (We’re obviously not in the hunt.) At least this week we made the starting line on time, unlike last. No bumper boats on the line, just a clean start half the fleet heading left and half heading right. I you know from sailing on the Rez, anything can happen and there is generally someone that is right, uh correct. Looks like from the first beat, today the correct way was Fresh Aire and the dark side Dynamo Hummm. The rest of the fleet somewhat separated from us, not to their enjoyment.
So around we head, knowing Mart, Edgar and Timmy are fast downwind, all Bish and I could do, double-handing, was try not to make a mistake and sit on the guys if we could get close enough. Problem is they can set and jibe so much more efficiently we can’t hang with them and lose about 10 boatlengths downwind. Next beat up we close in on them, wind was dropping off into the 6-8kt range and we were lighter so that helped us claw our way back. Until, about 10 boatlengths from the weather mark we both get a huge lift with pressure up to the weather mark, around we go and again Bish and I try to hang on. This time we are practiced from the first leeward leg and hold on pretty well. Laughing and poking fun at each other. Back to weather for the finish, their smooth and flawless crew work gained them another 8-10 lengths out of the leeward mark and we try to bear off below them seeing a shift come. No good Mart puts his bow down to squeeze us. Last leg and I get behind a guy that sails like Barnard! I scream at “him sail your own race”. And I start to come up behind and start to climb higher the wind is really shifting left now and I can climb high and possibly get over him with speed, but here he comes back up towards me.
“Joe, you parked in my parking place today. That must be why you’re so fast!” He’s just taunting me. “Sail you’re own race, I just want clear air!” He continues to push us above the finish layline. “!#@*, you! Don’t p__s on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” Well we didn’t get by them, Dynamo 1st, Fresh Aire 2nd, White Boat (McGowan) 3rd.
“I guess I shouldn’t have parked in his spot Bish.”
Old E-Scow, new to us… October 26, 2007
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Oh we’ve done it now. My friend Edgar called me one day about this old E-Scow sitting in a hill slip at the club. He says we can get this thing really cheap, if “we provide it a good home”. I thought this could be a lot of fun just to play around with for a few months then we could get rid of it. Mainly I think we both just wanted to see if we could figure out how to sail it and race once or twice against Mr. Barnard who is our local and only E-Scow sailor/expert. Bob has tormented the handicap fleets for years racing his butt rocket against the displacement cruising class boats. So now maybe it is time for Edgar and I to give this a shot.
Let me tell you though, this boat is missing about 3/4 of the cam cleats originally installed on the deck. The runner is very special to us, it appears that a rat ate its way all the way through the spinnaker bag and then through four more panels of our primary downwind sail. Since we are on a very tight budget with this boat, we intend to use the sail. Edgar plans to use a roll of spinnaker repair tape on the thing to make it work.
Since we don’t know much about Scows, we would really appreciate some feedback on our project as we go. The boat was formerly numbered TO-5 and its named ThunderStorm. Pictures may appear here later if we get the boat looking better. Anyone with old parts that we can use? Just let us know.
GYA J22 Gulf Coast Championship June 19, 2007
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Pass Christian Yacht Club August 4-5, 2007
by Phil Bylsma
Fourteen well-sailed boats showed up in Pass Christian on 4 & 5 August 2007 for the J22 GYA Championship. Four different boats earned a first place finish in the five race series. Twelve out of 14 final finish places were altered based on results of the last race proving once again, it isn’t over until it’s over in the J22 class. At the end, only one point separated each of the top three boats AND tie breakers were required to separate fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth place finishes! Great OD racing in a class encompassing talented men and women of all ages, newcomers as well as experienced. Congratulations to all on a great regatta and hats off to Chris Wientjes, Dave Bolyard, and Macho Slavich on first place.
FINAL RESULTS
1st .22 Caliber Wientjes #754
2nd Cahoula Sweeney #716
3rd Cheap Trick Ramsay #151
4th Fast Company Heausler #1043
5th Wild Tchoup’ Kleinschrodt #870
6th Fresh Aire Gibbs #638
7th Uranium Kleinschrodt #646
8th Dynamo Humm Lamar #1028
9th Lesson #22 Williams #971
10th WWIII Marchal #8
11th Men’s Kouch Hughes #748
12th DOB O’Neal #294
13th Blew By You Wilke-Sybert #752
14th Cayenne Griglack #1081
SUMMARY OF RACES
Day one was challenging as the moderate sea-breeze was oscillating more than usual. In race one, both left and right could pay, just a matter of timing and patience. Be it left or right, the mark roundings were usually crowded as were the finishes. Four boats finished abeam of each other ( http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2303066470040772063JStnCH ) setting the tone for the regatta as a whole. .22 Caliber took the first bullet of the day followed closely by Cahoula and Dynamo Humm.
Race two brought a bit more breeze though it continued to be rather shifty, similar to race one. Cahoula took the second bullet with Cheap Trick earning a come from behind second place.
Race three conditions had more breeze and tight racing. Wild Tchoup’ (being sailed by Ken K.) was always in the hunt but the third bullet went to .22 Caliber. At the end of day one, there was a tie for first place between .22 Caliber and Cahoula.
Day two racing started in lighter breeze than day one. In race one, Cheap Trick jumped out to an early lead followed closely by Fast Company. The rest of the fleet was again tightly packed, several positions changing at the second upwind mark rounding as a result of the strong current. Cheap Trick maintained the lead, taking the first bullet of the day. Fast Company was a comfortable second.
In the final race of the day and regatta, Uranium (sailed by Ken’s son Paul), Lesson #22, and Fresh Aire wrestled with each other around the first lap. .22 Caliber worked their way into the mix as well. Uranium hung on to take the final bullet. The last race impacted almost all of the final finishing places as previously noted. The specific changes occurring were: third up to first; first down to second; second down to third; fifth up to fourth; fourth down to fifth; seventh up to sixth; tenth up to seventh; sixth down to eighth; eighth down to ninth; ninth down to tenth; thirteenth up to twelfth; twelfth down to thirteenth.
A big thanks goes to PCYC for hosting the event (and two thumbs up on the complimentary draft beer from local microbrew) as well as to Jay and Linden Williams for the use of their home for Saturday evening’s J22 party, sponsored by New Orleans J22 Fleet 46. A special tribute was paid to Jim and Jan O’Neal as well as Harry Chapman, acknowledging the O’Neal’s efforts in obtaining the perpetual trophy, named in honor of Harry, for this specific GYA event.
Here are some links to pictures taken by Martha Heausler. These are great shots of the weekend.
http://sports.webshots.com/album/560178461SGTCJg http://sports.webshots.com/album/560178894bsHYsp
J22 Fleet 63 