2000-2001 InterClub Results - Series 1, Day 6
anuary 7, 2001
Annapolis ICers:
I'd like to congratulate Phil and Jen on a nice job yesterday. I suppose Phil's report will follow. For those interested, here's a quick synopsis of things they did right and my team did wrong in the final two races.
Race 4 - IC 802 up by 1 point
With both boats basically even nearing the finish, 802 (Jesse & Lesley) hold starboard advantage to the left of the pin, and force 672 (Phil & Jen) to lee bow. IC 802 is forced to tack, but instead of doing so immediately, 802 waits until 672 has completed her tack and is up to speed. Had 802 tacked immediately, we would've been able to get seperation and hold the starboard advantage to the finish. After 802 tacked to port, 672 followed closely and sailed low and fast for a moment to pin 802 on port to the starboard layline. 802 could've perhaps won the race had they kept the starboard advantage and not let 672 pin them out.
Lesson 1 - Keep the starboard advantage at the finish. Keep just enough separation so you don't get pinned out.
Race 5 - IC 802 and IC 672 even on points.
De ja vu at the windward mark, this time with 672 just ahead. 802 agan manages to pull ahead at about 5 boat lengths to the leeward mark. At just before 2 lenghts, 802 sails too low and into 672's shaddow, giving them an overlap. Had 802 sailed into the 2 length zone in a high lane, they would have kept clear ahead AND forced 672 to round wide. Instead, 802 rounds slow having to give 672 room. 802 then tacks left for the finish with 672 putting a loose cover on the right. With no speed advantage, 802 goes back at 672, but ducks instead of lee bowing. The duck was not that big, but the pin was clearly favored. Had 802 lee bowed 672, they had a chance of finsihing ahead at the pin. Instead, 802 went to the unfavored side of the finish.
Lesson 2 - Get to the 2 length zone as quickly as possible when you are close to being overlapped at the leeward mark. Don't allow yourself to be blanketed at the last second. Lesson 3 - Finish at the favored end.
--Jesse Falsone
Phil Grotheer's report:
It's days like this that make me glad I bought an Interclub and join the Annapolis Fleet. This statement would have been harder to say at 1pm when the largest puff was about, well lets say, hmm -there were no puffs, a dead calm, nada, nichts, zilch, kein wind. After a nice 45 minute assumed postponement the breeze started forming and we decided to rig up and head out. The breeze was a little lacking in the first race and eventually built to about 5 or 6 knots. I was pretty psyched to sail after a 3 weekend Holiday sabbatical and it almost looked like we were gonna get this day off too.
We saw very tight racing and comfortable conditions. My crew was Jen Millar who's been IC'ing about 4 times now and doing a great job. We also have a fun time comparing notes on the dating and work scene, usually in the 5 minutes between races up to the two minute horn. By the end of the season we should be able to write a book called "Life, and the Interclub". Let me know if you want a copy.
We usually start looking for breeze two minutes before the start which doesn't always help since puffs come and go on our small race course within that time. Today it was a help to look this early because you could see the next breeze from the bay work its way inward taking much longer. We thought the breeze was mostly left in the first race so we chose a pin start. Wayne Pignolet and Jesse whats-his-name were hipped up on us -we all tacked to port at the same time and reached the weather mark at the same time. 2nd race we thought the breeze had squared up more (with the same unaltered course if i'm correct) by veering a little right so we weren't concerned about the pin anymore, but i think we chose pin anyway since it worked in the 1st race - it did. the wind started showing a little righty by the looks of the committee boat flag so we started attempting the right side in the 3rd race. i think jesse was still going left midday and we always seemed to net out the same. We were very boat on boat with Jesse and Alex all day but we managed to sqeeze em out in the end.
I noticed a few things which I'll mention in simplified form:
Thanks to Jamie Brickell for running the safety boat and bringing the soup!
Pl Sail Skipper 33 34 35 36 37 T
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1 672 Phil Grotheer 2 2 2 1 1 8
Jen Millar
2 802 Jesse Falsone 3 1 1 2 2 9
Lesley Frymier
3 675 Alex Pline 6 4 3 3 3 19
Nancy Gilreath
4 705B Wayne Pignolet 1 5 4 5 5 20
JoAnn Jones
5 911 Jon Guth 5 6 7 4 4 26
6 694 Ian Mutnick 8 3 5 7 7 30
Stephanie Stone
7 33 Jervis Dorton 9 8 6 6 6 35
8 NA1 Naval Academy 4 7 8 8 8 35
9 NA13 Naval Academy 7 9 9 10 9 44
10 422 Pat McGee 10 10 10 9 10 49
11 801 Matt Cottrell 11/DNS 11/DNS 11/DNS 11/DNS 11/DNS 55
Barb Evans