Judders
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Most of the Impala crews are younnger than us and recover faster sadly.
JOG season on it's way - oh yes ....
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TangaraToo
RIP
Current rating is based on the cruising sails. He has a set of laminate sails that have been cut down to lower the rating to where it should be. Unfortunately they weren't ready for last weekend. Nice boat to sail though and expect with decent sails it would be a lot of fun.
flaming
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Grumble grumble, where'd all the wind go?
Judders
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I think the forecasts are sufficiently diverse to be more or less meaningless at the moment.
flaming
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Well that was an absolutely glamour weekend of sailing! Made slightly more interesting by our steering failing about a mile from the finish in Yarmouth.... Simple enough fix once alongside, but it provided for a few interesting moments. Shame as it was looking very nip and tuck with Alaris on handicap until that point, but glad to keep them behind on the water anyway. And then a fun race back, we'd have liked a longer beat, but for the record going inshore up the Island shore after East Bramble paid a lot vs tacking up the Bramble bank. Again we nearly pulled out enough on Alaris, having trailed them going into East Bramble, and would have done had they not split the difference and come across to the Island in the region of Royal Thames.
I gather that someone came looking for Flaming in Yarmouth, so I assume that was someone from here! Sorry to have missed you.
I gather that someone came looking for Flaming in Yarmouth, so I assume that was someone from here! Sorry to have missed you.
bdh198
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The St Quay race has been cancelled over the bank holiday weekend due to lack of interest - not helped I suspect by clashing with the Myth of Malham on this side of the Channel and the Deauville race on the other. However, there is now a substitute round the island race on the Saturday. Is this likely to attract any of the JOG inshore racing crowd?
flaming
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Not that this notice, no. We decided our calendar for the year in February. The chances of me being able to get a complete crew together for 2 weeks hence is basically zero, unless I went with an entirely scratch recruited off the internet crew.
bdh198
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That's my concern. If there weren't enough entries to make St Quay worth while, then I suspect they'll be even fewer willing to do a short round the island race. It's a shame the Myth of Malham race entry closed the day after they decided to cancel the St Quay race, it would have been a good offshore alternative!
Racecruiser
Member
Twas me! Interesting choice on Saturday about which shore to take but at least the mainland side isn't rocky which always helps a decision .....
Racecruiser
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We're in for the JOG RTI on the bank hol Saturday and the choice of race has got us up to strength for crew - really hope it's a good turnout and it counts for Cat 3 offshore points but is Cat 4 so we don't need to trouble the life raft hire company which is useful! There will be a designated watering hole in Cowes apres-sail.
flaming
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Ah, sorry to have missed you!
I thought Saturday's race was quite interesting, especially the leg from Hill head to Salt Mead. With the tide just about to turn when we got to Leepe it was an interesting decision as to whether to keep going up the shore or head out early. I just thought it was a shame the leg from Salt Mead to West Leepe was too fine for a kite.
flaming
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And is it just me or are the results from the Yarmouth - Cowes race taking a while to appear on the website?
olly_love
Member
Yes they are, i really want to see if we got Whooper.
Great Call on the course on Saturday, it paid those with calibrated depth sounders we went down to 0.4 at times and just tacked on the shifts.
Seem to have found our pace again which is good
Great Call on the course on Saturday, it paid those with calibrated depth sounders we went down to 0.4 at times and just tacked on the shifts.
Seem to have found our pace again which is good
Judders
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Unfortunately there was a problem with the internet connection at JOG HQ but the results are now up.
Judders
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A small but perfectly formed fleet for the Not St Quay race this weekend, or the Vectis Race as it has been re-christened.
For me it's a big step, my first double handed JOG race. I've done some very low level club racing two up in the distant past but this is the first time I've taken on a serious race or indeed a serious distance.
For me it's a big step, my first double handed JOG race. I've done some very low level club racing two up in the distant past but this is the first time I've taken on a serious race or indeed a serious distance.
flaming
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Looking Breezy for the Poole race this weekend....
Judders
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It'll be a relief to get back to passage racing. I haven't done one since Alderney for one reason or another. Shame that is is going to be such a battle but on the other hand it looks like the weather in which we normally do quite well.
flaming
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I don't know how JOG handle this sort of thing, but at what point do you think they will consider changing the course to go direct instead of via the back of the island? Or at what point will they rule out going to Poole?
flaming
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Also, we're a body or two light for this weekend, so if anyone fancies it just send me a message!
Judders
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This is very much my experience and not the view of JOG but I think it was widely acknowledged that it was a mistake to go that way in 2015 when it was blowing 20kts+ at Cowes and therefore 30kts+ on the South side (although we won class 6 that year so we thought it was great!). Last year it was a similar forecast and the direct route was chosen. So if there are a lot of forecasts of 25+ on the south side then I am sure they will have a good think about it.
