Great weekend sailing at Kurnell again! When I arrived at 9am, Grantly had the boat pretty much rigged. I reckon he wet the bed... Anyhow, we finished rigging and went to the briefing: I hate briefings!! They are such a waste of time unless they are about the after race party or other non racing related issues. People forget that nothing said at the briefing can overturn a direction in the Sailing Instructions... I resisted the temptation to ask if the course diagram was to scale and it was over soon enough.
The good news was the classic NE seabreeze conditions, we started in about 10kts and it built to a nice 15 or so as the afternoon went on.
Our first day was tough... we were not quick compared to the guys we neeed to beat so it was a battle the whole time just to stay with them but we sailed pretty well except for the race when we had the head cam on... (more of that when James sends me the footage) and we ended the day with a 2,4,2,3 which meant we had our work cut out for Sunday..
On the drive down to the club on Sunday I was thinking about why we had such a speed issue and figured it would be a good idea to check the rig setup, The boat had a new mast since I used it last and Grantly and Katie are lighter in weight so maybe they had moved away from the settings I had left the boat with.
We checked the spreader rake and mast rake, both were too far back so be gave it a tweak and hit the water.
Instantly we were fast again! We led at every mark of every race that day to finish with a perfect score for the day 1,1,1 and we won the event too!
So, the lesson is: Check your rig setup!!!! even small changes make a big difference.
The Encouragement award has to go to the youngsters, Billy Nissen and Yianni Coats. These guys were fast and getting faster all the time, more practice and bigger fleet racing and the boys will be a force to reckon with. Keep it up!!
The good news was the classic NE seabreeze conditions, we started in about 10kts and it built to a nice 15 or so as the afternoon went on.
Our first day was tough... we were not quick compared to the guys we neeed to beat so it was a battle the whole time just to stay with them but we sailed pretty well except for the race when we had the head cam on... (more of that when James sends me the footage) and we ended the day with a 2,4,2,3 which meant we had our work cut out for Sunday..
On the drive down to the club on Sunday I was thinking about why we had such a speed issue and figured it would be a good idea to check the rig setup, The boat had a new mast since I used it last and Grantly and Katie are lighter in weight so maybe they had moved away from the settings I had left the boat with.
We checked the spreader rake and mast rake, both were too far back so be gave it a tweak and hit the water.
Instantly we were fast again! We led at every mark of every race that day to finish with a perfect score for the day 1,1,1 and we won the event too!
So, the lesson is: Check your rig setup!!!! even small changes make a big difference.
The Encouragement award has to go to the youngsters, Billy Nissen and Yianni Coats. These guys were fast and getting faster all the time, more practice and bigger fleet racing and the boys will be a force to reckon with. Keep it up!!
Video to come in the next day or so.
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