Good Old Boat Regatta

[Quetzalsailor]

Is anybody sailing in the GOB regatta? Looks like fun.

Doug

[radicalcy]

I am registered, but alternatively I am going to be doing the Baha Haha in November. Well, actually the Baha Bash, the return trip, from Cabo San Lucas to San Diego.
Larry Wilson
Richmond,Va.

[Ric in Richmond]

the turkey shoot is also this weekend on the rappahanock.

That is where I will be!!

[Quetzalsailor]

A good time was had by about 75 old boats. Some real lovelies.

I got my clock thoroughly cleaned in Saturday's race; either or both I and Quetzal are terrible at low wind sailing!

First time ever that I saw a RoRo come up the Chesapeake doing about 20kts with a USCG escort. Both were hooting and tooting at the crowds of racing sailboats. Very unsettling!

[Ceasar Choppy]

Did you race Sunday? Did you still have a good time?

That was a bad RC decision to run the course through the main shipping channel just south of the bridge on both windless days.

And then on Sunday, time expired before anyone could finish. Nothing like drifting for four hours, getting 300 yards from the finish line at the head of the fleet, only to have the race called.

[Quetzalsailor]

No, we did not race Sunday. We motored back to Swan Creek in the dead calm.

We had a great weekend which would have been all the more delightful if we had placed adequately. Q does not like light air. Entertainingly enough, she's a North East 38 Mk III which is listed as having a PHRF of 155; GOB assigned us a PHRF of 177 which is that of a NE 38 Mk I. We sailed as though we had a PHRF of 2xx, though!

We've noticed that unhappy phenomenon before. We sailed alongside a Catalina 30 for picturetaking. When the wind dropped below 6-8, they sailed away; when the wind went higher we left them hull down in short order. The I is about the same (!).

[Ceasar Choppy]

Entertainingly enough, she's a North East 38 Mk III which is listed as having a PHRF of 155; GOB assigned us a PHRF of 177 which is that of a NE 38 Mk I. We sailed as though we had a PHRF of 2xx, though!

I remember the first few times I raced my boat and had a similar experience. I soon realized that there are a lot of really competitive boats that enter this race. And if you don't have your bottom scrubbed for a light air race late in the season, its gonna be ugly against those boats. LOL.

At least you got a "better" rating! My P-39 has a Ches Bay PHRF of 150, but they rated me at 135! And all I had was a 140% jib. Nothing like being the scratch boat. Every year I enter and every year my rating seems to get lower and lower. I wish they would stick to Chesapeake Bay PHRF ratings instead of using USSA base ratings with no attention paid to roller furling, fixed props, lower LP jibs, etc.

I just hope next year we can get a P-39 fleet so I don't have to deal with PHRF.

[Quetzalsailor]

You're quite right about a scrub before a race. Swan Creek is the proverbial premordial soup. So much so that there's something living in the head sink drain, which is particularly annoying since the head gets its flush water from that same throughhull. We had to flush by pouring a bucket of seawater into the sink. I've already cleared it once this year with an ordinary (but small) plumbers snake. (remember that I'm talking the head intake side)

Someone's idea of preparing for the barrier coat was to sandblast the hull, then the barrier is some sort of sticky/stretchy goo. The surface is far from pretty. Somewhere down the list of priorities is to have the hull peeled to clean polyester and re-laid up in eposy or vinylester for a lamina or two, and refairing.

[Ric in Richmond]

Turkey shoot had the same lack of wind. No RO RO though!!!

We were painfully slow and they rated the alberg 35 at 189...yeah right...210 would be more like it.

My class had a lightning in it.....watched it sail away!!

We didn't bother with Sunday. Too hot no wind.

about 125 boats and some truly lovely ones!!!

[keelbolts]

They had an Alberg 35 in the same class as a Lightning?! There's definitely something I don't understand about that. That's a little like racing a Buick against a Mini Cooper, particularly in light airs.