horatio_nelson
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Round The Island Race 2015
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flaming
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Good results!
We were a little further back in IRC2B, basically got bounced left after Gurnard and didn't get back to the favoured side until after Newtown. Decent recovery sail from then, but 7th was as far as we could get. Fluffing the change from S3 to S2 at st Cats and winding up with a wrap didn't help...
Was a shame though, as we had an absolutely blinding start... Here's the screengrab from start time. And no we were not the boat OCS - pretty sure that's the Sigma on the left.
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Piddy
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Thanks,
We set off very well and stayed in clear air all the way to the Needles.
I've raced on board this J109 at Cowes last year but was main trimmer - this time I was tactics and ballast!
I've just looked at the tracker and it appears we spent a lot of the race close together other than our gamble staying further out in the tide off Wooton, staying on one tack all the way to the finish.
I'd like to say I was being smart but it was the Skippers call - I suggested going inshore as there's less tide but he had a plan..... Again looking at the tracker, we didn't seem to lose any ground on you and we didn't on the dark hulled 109 that went inshore.
Apart from nearly getting speared by Qingdou at the finish, it was all quite straightforward.
The owner was like a dog with 2 tails as it's his first win over the 109 fleet.
Cheers,
We set off very well and stayed in clear air all the way to the Needles.
I've raced on board this J109 at Cowes last year but was main trimmer - this time I was tactics and ballast!
I've just looked at the tracker and it appears we spent a lot of the race close together other than our gamble staying further out in the tide off Wooton, staying on one tack all the way to the finish.
I'd like to say I was being smart but it was the Skippers call - I suggested going inshore as there's less tide but he had a plan..... Again looking at the tracker, we didn't seem to lose any ground on you and we didn't on the dark hulled 109 that went inshore.
Apart from nearly getting speared by Qingdou at the finish, it was all quite straightforward.
The owner was like a dog with 2 tails as it's his first win over the 109 fleet.
Cheers,
flaming
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That was our issue. We were 4th on the water out of the whole pink start at Gurnard, but we just kept getting forced left and there just wasn't enough wind for us (with our small jib) to afford to eat any dirty air at all. So we wound up all on our own but on the left out of the tide at the time when the wind was going right. So results wise we were toast before Newtown - despite that start!
Still fun day in pretty decent conditions, and we were very lightly crewed so not too shabby all told!
stranded
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I think we were 19th out of 23 in class (ISCRS 4B), which I count as a triumph! Reckon we lost half an hour between Ryde and the finish because our inexperienced but enthusiastic helm struggled to keep closer than 60 degrees to the wind so spent a could deal of time tacking more or less parallel to the finish line before we put him (and us!) out of our misery. We are also sailing to a challenging handicap due mainly I suspect to my bone idleness - it is based on our first time in 2013 when we had a 150% spinnaker - we now have a 115%, and on a 140m2 cruising chute which we never dare use in the race. Anyone any idea what sort of difference that might make to our handicap under ISCRS?
horatio_nelson
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My handicap accounted for the asymmetric which we never flew in the end - having never flown it before, and seeing lots of boats rounding up / broaching / wrapping we decided to keep our 6.5 - 7kt boat speed up and not risk a potential calamity, especially after seeing a John Lewis SC Halberg-Rassy broach 6 times nearby - #NeverKnowinglyUndersailed 
as I tweeted to @johnlewisretail
We were well at the head of our group and well up the fleet though, spinnaker or not
as I tweeted to @johnlewisretail We were well at the head of our group and well up the fleet though, spinnaker or not
stranded
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My handicap accounted for the asymmetric which we never flew in the end - having never flown it before, and seeing lots of boats rounding up / broaching / wrapping we decided to keep our 6.5 - 7kt boat speed up and not risk a potential calamity, especially after seeing a John Lewis SC Halberg-Rassy broach 6 times nearby - #NeverKnowinglyUndersailed
We were well at the head of our group and well up the fleet though, spinnaker or not
That's depresssing (for me - well done you!). I guess in conditions like Saturday the advantage of a spinnaker is more marginal than in lighter wind. I'll probably not be arsed next year as well then!
jac
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My handicap accounted for the asymmetric which we never flew in the end - having never flown it before, and seeing lots of boats rounding up / broaching / wrapping we decided to keep our 6.5 - 7kt boat speed up and not risk a potential calamity, especially after seeing a John Lewis SC Halberg-Rassy broach 6 times nearby - #NeverKnowinglyUndersailed
We were well at the head of our group and well up the fleet though, spinnaker or not
We were similar but had sailed with it - really made a difference. We had decided that 18 knots true was the limit for it so getting round the Needles to find 18-20 knots with higher gusts ruled it out. Not sure what the impact was on handicap but looking around our times there were a lot finishing at the time we did ( 18:20) so possibly even a small change in handicap would have had big impact on position.
Iain C
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We had a cracking day on my Sabre 27 "Summer Girl" despite being a bit late for the start! We reckon it didn't actually hurt us that badly as we started in cleaner air than the main gaggle and where we wanted to on the line and weren't getting forced out in one direction (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)
We rounded as close as we dared at the Needles, taking a load of boats in the process, and took a brave pill and stuck the cruising chute up. So yes, if you did see a ploddy 70s cruiser with a red and black kite surfing along with a daft quarter wave, that was us. Secret weapon was my home made carbon fibre bowsprit made out of a broken piece of 18' skiff mast! Not sure if my log is over-reading or if we were pushing that hard, but we saw 7.9 knots which is pretty good for a Sabre! Really surprised we didn't see more kites up...there were hardly any at the back of the fleet.
Changed to the symmetric at St. Cats, but had a bit of a problem and bent the end of the pole fitting and nearly snapped the ring off the mast (needs welding now). Up past Bembridge, short tacked up the island shore including a close shave at Ryde sands and about a minute moored to a lobster pot. Got a big lift which finally took us towards the line on port and threaded our way through lots of boats including the ones bouncing down the side of the commitee boat.
We ended up 290 out of 701 finishers in ISCRS, 9h54 elapsed, corrected of 8h45 which we were pretty happy with, especially with our pants start. Most importantly, we had a truly epic day which more than made up for last years diesel cruise back from St. Cats!
We rounded as close as we dared at the Needles, taking a load of boats in the process, and took a brave pill and stuck the cruising chute up. So yes, if you did see a ploddy 70s cruiser with a red and black kite surfing along with a daft quarter wave, that was us. Secret weapon was my home made carbon fibre bowsprit made out of a broken piece of 18' skiff mast! Not sure if my log is over-reading or if we were pushing that hard, but we saw 7.9 knots which is pretty good for a Sabre! Really surprised we didn't see more kites up...there were hardly any at the back of the fleet.
Changed to the symmetric at St. Cats, but had a bit of a problem and bent the end of the pole fitting and nearly snapped the ring off the mast (needs welding now). Up past Bembridge, short tacked up the island shore including a close shave at Ryde sands and about a minute moored to a lobster pot. Got a big lift which finally took us towards the line on port and threaded our way through lots of boats including the ones bouncing down the side of the commitee boat.
We ended up 290 out of 701 finishers in ISCRS, 9h54 elapsed, corrected of 8h45 which we were pretty happy with, especially with our pants start. Most importantly, we had a truly epic day which more than made up for last years diesel cruise back from St. Cats!
lampshuk
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Ditto - fabulous day. Our first RIR and I think we may have been spoiled by the weather.
Given the number of boats barging the Committee boat at the Purple Start - and getting a nasty surprise at the speed of the west-going tide - I can only assume that there's a disproportionate number of dinghy sailors (including me) in the ISC8 fleet...
Does anybody know how that boat came to go ashore at Ventnor? Were they really creeping round that close in under spinnaker? I'm quite impressed that the RNLI just seem to have dragged her back out to sea. Those rocks looked quite nasty, and there was a non-trivial swell running.
Given the number of boats barging the Committee boat at the Purple Start - and getting a nasty surprise at the speed of the west-going tide - I can only assume that there's a disproportionate number of dinghy sailors (including me) in the ISC8 fleet...
Does anybody know how that boat came to go ashore at Ventnor? Were they really creeping round that close in under spinnaker? I'm quite impressed that the RNLI just seem to have dragged her back out to sea. Those rocks looked quite nasty, and there was a non-trivial swell running.
Scaramoosh
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Great sail on our first RTI on our own boat. 3rd out of 24 Oceanis 37s, 10th in our division and 159th overall. Weather was perfect apart from a broach between St Cats and Sandown on a big wave no real dramas.
AndrewfromFal
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If it's the boat in the photgraph on the anarchy website, it looks very much like a Scanmar.
horatio_nelson
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Great stuff everyone