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It ended up being just me and patty taking her 323 out monday. It was a beautifull day sailing with 6 to 12 knot winds and 2 to 3 ft seas. Sunny with clear but hazy skies. We were actually able to arrange it so that we left on a falling tide and got back on the rising tide.. this actually turned into a problem getting back into the slip at the end of the day. both the wind and the current were coming into the marina and pushing the bow of the boat over as patty tried to back into her slip.. after about 10 tries we finaly got the boat in. It wasn’t fun for patty but she did a good job of it.
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Our dog Daisy disapeared thursday evening. (The electric radio fence that normally keeps her in died.. the best we can tell is lightening got it.. it looked as if someone put gun poweder in it and set it off. it blew the cover off and parts everywhere and charred the inside.) She is never gone long when she escapes the yard and she was all night. I spent several hours driving around the roads near here looking and calling for her. It left me with a real hollow feeling wondering what happened to her. Needless to say I didn’t sleep good. I kept getting up through the night and going to the porch and calling for her.
Day two at the Leukemia Cup was another day of tack tack tack. We again raced inside on the river and with a vicious current running against us on the windward tack we were limited to one side of the river. So it was short quick tacks again and again and again. Probably every 3 or 4 minutes we would tack. For some reason we just couldn’t seem to point as well or go as fast as we thought we should be. It wasn’t a great day for standings in the race but it was some fun if tireing sailing.
I slept on the boat saturday night… I went to sleep about 11pm and was told the next morning that there was a bad thunderstorm and rain about 1:30 in the morning… I wouldn’t know though 🙂 I slept like a baby the whole night.
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Here is a quick link to some pictures I took today on the second day of the race.. I will come back and fill in when I’m rested up a little 🙂
http://scottcarle.com/gallery/v/Sailingandboats/racing/album/
scott
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It was a fun race. We took 2nd place behind Tze Su? sp 2 hours 42 minutes and 40 seconds
We held with tze su upwind runing about a 10th of a knot slower than her the entire leg. Down wind runing the spinnaker though she tacked down wind and we went straight for the mark. With our symetrical spinnaker I thought we had it made about half way to the mark and that we were going to beat her. We were doing a sold 6.5 to 7.2 knots all the way downwind. Tze Su was a dot on the horizon off behind and to starboard of us.. about 2 miles from the mark she started to gain quickly and within the last mile passed us to take the finish line 4 minutes ahead of us. I talked to Patrick later and he said they were doing 9.5 knots reaching with their asymetrical spinnaker. I felt really good about coming in 4 minutes behind Tze Su…. They are based off the 235 hull but he extended the transom 3 ft so that their waterline is 3 ft more than mine. I have a wing keel and draw 2’9″ while he has a fin keel with a bulb and draws 5 ft, my mast is 29 ft tall and his is 33 ft he also has a bow sprit to run an oversized spinnaker on. Also I believe that his boat is lighter by a fair bit than mine. It certainly seems to sit lighter in the water from what I have observed. In any case it is always a boat to be feared in a race. it is fast and well captained
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