Darn! < New rules - always take the #3!! Reef early, reef often!> Rail down, going 7.2, taking a beating, having fun. Voice from the v-berth - my wife says her reading is being disturbed and wants a reef. I complain about ruining my fun but do it anyway. Boat speed is now 7.6.........
Joe Della Barba Coquina From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 12:44 PM To: Cn Clist Subject: Re: Stus-List Track Touche' racing Gulfport to Pensacola Well, we had a very good first 2/3rds of the race. We were well ahead of our class 15 miles down course at the Gulfport sea buoy. We were still in front at the Mobile sea buoy 60 miles down the course (we thought). Then things went downhill. Between the wind and the skipper (me) going brain dead, we had a poor finish. After watching the forecast for days call for nothing over 9 knots, I chose not to bring the #3. After the Mobile sea buoy the wind piped up to 15-17 knots on the nose. We were struggling mightily with the 155 genoa. The toerail was buried and we were getting kicked sideways. Our upwind VMG went to crap. Instead of 0.6 to 0.7 times boat speed, VMG (and waypoint closure velocity) dropped to 0.4 to 0.5 times boatspeed. After a couple hours of that we looked back and noticed a Morgan 44 center cockpit had crept back up on us. We put in a reef and managed to increase VMG a bit and not lose any more time to him but he had made up enough to correct over us by 4 minutes. This was the brain dead moment. We should have reefed a couple hours earlier. Duh! I just watched the replay. We rounded the Mobile sea buoy almost dead even with a Newport 41. Not bad. The Morgan never showed on the Kattack system. That kinda irritated us but really shouldn't have because years ago there wasn't any tracking system and we wouldn't have known he was there until we saw him visually. We checked the competition after the Mobile buoy and thought we were in good shape. Wish I could see where the Morgan was at this point. So we can only lick our wounds, learn our lesson and forget what could have been. New rules - always take the #3!! Reef early, reef often! Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA ________________________________ From: Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net<mailto:f...@postaudio.net>> To: Dennis C. <capt...@yahoo.com<mailto:capt...@yahoo.com>>; cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:10 AM Subject: Re: Stus-List Track Touche' racing Gulfport to Pensacola Dennis -- how did the race go? Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Dennis C. <capt...@yahoo.com<mailto:capt...@yahoo.com>> wrote: The Gulfport to Pensacola Race has live tracking this year. You can watch Touche's progress, or lack thereof, at: http://kws.kattack.com/kattacklive/offshore.aspx?FeedID=1089 Race begins at noon Friday June 21. Looks like a slow, possibly wet one this year. Way different than last year's 20+ hours beating upwind in mid 20's and 6 foot seas. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA
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