spring series 5 21st april 2013

martin had agreed to crew and i was worried about how he would find my sailing, we got on ok and he gave good tips and advice, we went around the course to start with and then made our way for the start, got burried a little but this forced us to tack away and we ended up going staright to the mark and in 1st plce, he commented  have you ever been in the lead i replied yeah just once and that was a whole lap. but didnt know what to do.
we were hounded by nick troy who evetually got past us on the dow wind leg lap 3 and the pete overtook and quickly broke his tiller bar, so we regained 2nd only to lose it to richard who came steam rollering by both of us to take the lead.
we survived lap 4 to finnish ahead of greg and also mark who had gary as crew.
very pleased with sailing, martin helped alot with tactics and kept me pointing the right way when i wandered of course.
crew can make a difference  and martin proved it.
overall 3rd on the water 4th overall apart from mike cemm ood so 5th on paper

 

Sunday Spring Series 2013

Swanage Sailing Club

R4 - Catamaran Fleet - 21/04/13 at 1100

Square

Start: Start 1, Finishes: Finish time, Time: 00:03:00

Rank	Fleet	Class	Sail No	Helm	Crew	PY	Elapsed	Laps	Corrected	Points
1	Catamaran	DART 18	7342	M Cemm	L MacMorrow	805	OOD			1.0
1	Catamaran	SPRINT 15	1632	A Whaley		918	1:10:07	4	1:16:23	1.0
3	Catamaran	DART 18	6879	R Miller	M Stracy	805	1:02:15	4	1:17:20	2.0
4	Catamaran	DART 18	4671	N Troy		805	1:03:03	4	1:18:19	3.0
5	Catamaran	DART 18	7424	Spud	L.Tuthill	805	1:05:11	4	1:20:58	4.0
6	Catamaran	DART 18	7128	G Vaughn	M McVey	805	1:06:25	4	1:22:30	5.0
7	Catamaran	DART 18	6188	M Groome	D Rendle	805	1:06:38	4	1:22:46	6.0
8	Catamaran	DART 18	5926	M Dooley	J Fawke	805	1:08:03	4	1:24:32	7.0
9	Catamaran	DART 18	5773	P Meteau		805	DNF			10.0

pleasure sail 20th april

new crew gary burlsden turned up and had never been on a dart 18
wind was light and sunny. we headed off toward old harry and made good progress, we neared the race and then decided to head back in swanage bay, it didnt take us long and the wind got lighter and then picked up as gary took the helpm for some lessons. we reached up and down a few times and explored a bit of the coast and then headed in.
Sailing time 1h 55 wind 8 knts max 13knts and sse to se and very warm.
after a few beers i met with richard hart for a meal and then got invited to the new members party. after a full meal and much beer i couldnt eat much of the nice spread they had put on. during the evening martin hamlyn agreed to crew for sunday so some good came of the evening.
a video of this sail can be found here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URssEINCtBg&feature=youtu.be