The helming looked like slow to me too but one other thing comes to mind, lack of situational awareness. The helmsman was likely unable to see the other boat and perhaps should have been on the low side. Also there was not enough aggression in the tacticians commands to warrant a defensive correction and instead she was making trimming style corrections until it was too late. Boy its easy to be an armchair tactician after the fact with good video to review!
Brent s/v Wild Rover Sent from my iPhone On 2013-04-14, at 12:19 AM, Chuck S <cscheaf...@comcast.net> wrote: > That's what I thought too. The tactician is steadily saying "go up", "turn > up", and the girl first turns down like she has never steered before or is > just in a panic. But she doesn't act panic'd, even after the collision. She > doesn't assume command either, which seems odd, like she's the least > experienced one aboard. Sorry, I think I would have grabbed the wheel if I > had to repeat myself more than once. > > Technical detail. Someone else pointed out that Blue was "close reaching" to > the start, and the boom below centerline supports that. > > > Chuck > Resolute > 1990 C&C 34R > Atlantic City, NJ > From: "Russ & Melody" <russ...@telus.net> > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 2:08:20 AM > Subject: Re: Stus-List Race Video > > She, she, she. > The helmsman is a girl and she being directed by a sailmaker who is noted as > the professional sailor. > > What is wrong with this picture? > > And let the wind blow. > > Cheers, Russ > Sweet 35 mk-1 > > At 08:34 PM 12/04/2013, you wrote: > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_03E5_01CE37D6.45975E00" > Content-language: en-us > > I don’t think you’re missing anything. I’ve been trying to understand > the comment that the main being trimmed in tight could have overwhelmed the > steering. I may be missing something, but 45 years of sailing tells me I’m > not. > > Blue was close hauled on STBD, with the main in tight. That means weather > helm – or at best neutral helm. Just 10 or 15 seconds before the collision > you see the helmsman make a big wheel movement to turn down, which I suspect > was to overcome the weather helm. Had he left the wheel alone (or made > smaller steering correction) the boat would have come up on her own. > > The other comments describing the main overcoming the steering (and this has > probably happened at one time or another to all of us) have all described > crossing/ducking situations, when the main caused the boat to turn up when it > was undesirable. > > Rick Brass > > From: CnC-List [ mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Chuck S > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 9:42 PM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Re: Stus-List Race Video > > > > Question: didn't think you needed to ease the main to turn upwind? Am I > missing something? Should ease the jib sheet. > Chuck > Resolute > 1990 C&C 34R > Atlantic City, NJ > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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