posted by n4rkla on 01/26/2010 11:49
Guess who was first to do a foiling gybe on SLINO...?
Guess who is owed a rum...?
Started out with 20 knots today so decided on the chicken rig. Markla was first but had a couple of big crashes early with a tangled wand not working properly. Ended up being about 12 knots by the time we were off the water. The chicken rig still faired reasonably well in the lighter wind except for trying to stay deep downwind, that was a bit of an effort but to be expected.
Narkla hit bottom, hard, while going into a tack on foils. Water was only about thigh deep...doh! No major damage (slight chip on one tip) but these foils of Al's are really taking a beating well. They've hit bottom at pace a number of times. Bit of a drag to get back to deeper water only to have some shunt jetskier spray me from within a boat length, TOOL!
Still lacking a bit of height so the plan is to add a little AOA to the mainfoil and see what happens.
posted by Simon Payne on 01/24/2010 21:56
My boat arrived on Tuesday and went together really well. I spent a couple of evenings working on it which was fun actually.
Then on Thursday McConaghy auctioned the ebay "Silver Edition" Mach 2 which quite frankly is a bloody sterling gesture with all proceeds going to the childrens charity "Variety". Thank you to everyone I asked to publicise it, including IMCA World and especially to Simon Propper who gatecrashed the UK site to do the same in lieu of any response from a committee who's most important line of communication seems to have gone into receivership.
Anyway today I went down to sail my boat for the second time only to find a Moth training camp at HISC with 12 good boats and Pete Barton calling the tune.
Thanks to all for some good 3,2,1 go racing in light winds. Ricky Tagg looked fast, Jason Belben, back in the class and great to see again was up early in the light stuff, so to was Alex Adams, but the man of the weekend in my opinion was Ian Gotts, who after breaking his foil by twatting the bottom rebuilt it overnight and was out and foiling today, thus exhibiting a bit of self sufficiency and grit that we would all do well to take note of.
For me it was a nice weekend. By the time I'd got this many hours in last time I'd been rescued twice, but it was a still a bit of a shock to hike again in this my first Moth race since the Worlds. Today I did OK remembering my laylines and having some good speed with the KA MSL13 but I was confused by my swiss made (and now rusty..) ride height adjuster which I was fascinated with and couldnt help using in the same way I used to use a Yo-Yo.. It was clear I needed some practice and I'll be out in the week.
And yes it was cold! Yesterday I was sailing along looking at the rig and pleased with the way things had gone I thought lazily "that field looks closer than I remember, I should probably tack.." Next thing I know I was sitting on my arse in 18 inches of water, the bow of the boat covered in mud, the May stick bent and a long ten minute walk back to the deep water, I swear I nearly died of cold...
Photos: Peter Barton
posted by Cookie on 01/24/2010 20:21
While waiting for the wind to fill in today Leo and myself got a bit over enthused by the scales and went around weighing everything on all the boats we could find! Results were interesting, but the one thing we didn't have to hand was a Mach 2 or Assassin. I shall wave my scales at the next one I see... All up weights include the sail, but I have included them seperately as they varied quite a bit.
My Ninja
All up 30.5KG
Sail (Hyde crazymain) 3.2 KG
Leo's Axiom 1
All up 38.9KG
Hyde 2008 sail 3.8KG
Martins Bladerider X8
All up 35.8KG
Sail (KA X8) 4.5
Chris' Bladerider RX
All up 44.4KG
Sail (KA X8) 4.5
Simons Prowler 3
All up 36.9KG
Sail (KA MSL10) 4.5KG
The wind did fill in at lunch and we got a race in, although I missed the start due to a schoolboy rigging error (not sailed much since the Nationals...). Boat is going well and I'm looking forward to the Steve Nicholson race next saturday. Will be interesting to see how the new sail actually goes against some other Moths as I haven't lined up against anyone for ages.
posted by Fred on 01/24/2010 19:49
We have had fantastic wheather over the weekend with temperatures on the Sunday of abt. -9°C. Sailing close to home and 2 race series. On Saturday we had 6 races in Bft 3-4 and I got tired and lost concentration at the end but just managed a one point lead to win the "Stadtmeisterschaft"
The wind had increased to 5 Bft and shifted to the east on Sunday morning, which allowed a very long course. The left side was favoured due to less snow patches. With my first places only I always had a tricky first part of the race, normally being 2nd or 3rd on the weather mark but than was able to run down Sven and Mike with a lot of Chock to Chock sailing with Sven. Both upwind and downwind. He is a very experienced land yacht sailor and did not give an inch. I think it did not happen often to me in racing that a first place was to be dropped from my result sheet. LiveSailDie thanks for the sticker! Wish I could skip work tomorrow and go sailing.