Well, sitting with a bunch of other skippers trying to figure out what the heck the wind is going to do.
The range of wind speed is very wide -- 10kts to 30kts and picking what sail combination to use is going to be critical. If the worst happens and the wind speed keeps swinging up and down, our fordeck crew is going to get worn out from the sail changes.
We are currently carring 5 headsails and I am trying to decide if we should keep a 6th aboard.
I will definately be catching the weather briefing today -- they have David Jones of Enviroment Canada and he is The Best.
Just to add to festivities, we have Andrew, Ross, and Erv on their boat right beside us. We are going to have a blast racing against some of our old crew.
More later.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
May update
The time from Straits until now - the long weekend - has been a blur.
May 7 was Sailpast, May 11 Turicum out of the water, May 12 June's birthday, May 19 back into the water, and now the long weekend to get things tidied up and ready for Swiftsure.
Our new #2 looks good -- awfully big but quite flat so we can twist if off in the gusts and power up in the lulls.
Hopefully we can get the new wind instrument installed this weekend so that we can finally get some correct wind information.
Next weekend is Swiftsure -- I don't see a link to their race tracker but they sould have one up this week. Go to http://www.swiftsure.org/ and there will be a link to the tracker.
May 7 was Sailpast, May 11 Turicum out of the water, May 12 June's birthday, May 19 back into the water, and now the long weekend to get things tidied up and ready for Swiftsure.
Our new #2 looks good -- awfully big but quite flat so we can twist if off in the gusts and power up in the lulls.
Hopefully we can get the new wind instrument installed this weekend so that we can finally get some correct wind information.
Next weekend is Swiftsure -- I don't see a link to their race tracker but they sould have one up this week. Go to http://www.swiftsure.org/ and there will be a link to the tracker.
Sothern Straits review
Southern Straits was the proverbial best of times and the worst of times.
We stared out by separating from the fleet in the light air when we stayed out too long rather than heading right for the shore breeze.
When we finally managed to round Ballenas, things picked up dramatically. Through the remaining legs of the race we were able to pass a number of boats and made up 20 - 30 min. on the majority of the fleet.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to make up the 2 hours lost on the first leg.
One of the biggest pluses was the way we were able to get Turicum moving in the very light wind. We were able to use the conditions to learn a lot. Hopefully, we will be able to use this new knowledge in Swiftsure and Van Isle.
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