Sailboat Racing
Post by Tom
Pics from: http://www.mauisailingnews.com/ courtesy John Pope
The weekend usually finds me on or in the water in some way. There are many ways to enjoy the ocean apart from windsurfing. Last Saturday I went to Lahina to race in the Maui Boat and Yacht Club's Lahina inshore races.
I crew on Mike Moyers Express 27 "Lono". I had the pleasure of sail trimming, which consisted of winching in the genoa and flying the spinaker on the downwind runs. Our club is quite small and there are only a handful of boats that race regulary. Snickers an Olson 30 and Boondoggle a ridiculously quick J80 were the only other boats racing.
Lono (left) tacks, crossing in front of Snickers (right)
The fleet sails downwind under spinnaker. Lono has the brand new blue spinaker being flown by yours truly.
We had some very good racing with only one cock-up on our boat when we had the spinnaker on the wrong side of the boat to launch. We thought we had won the last race, but as we race under handicap we had to wait for the numbers to be crunched to find out the final results. At the end of the day Boondoggle beat us by 10 seconds sweeping the day with three victories. We finished with three second places. It was a fun day on the water and I am sure we will get Boondoggle on the next race!
The great thing about MBYC races is the Pizza and Beer after!
Pics from: http://www.mauisailingnews.com/ courtesy John Pope
The weekend usually finds me on or in the water in some way. There are many ways to enjoy the ocean apart from windsurfing. Last Saturday I went to Lahina to race in the Maui Boat and Yacht Club's Lahina inshore races.
I crew on Mike Moyers Express 27 "Lono". I had the pleasure of sail trimming, which consisted of winching in the genoa and flying the spinaker on the downwind runs. Our club is quite small and there are only a handful of boats that race regulary. Snickers an Olson 30 and Boondoggle a ridiculously quick J80 were the only other boats racing.
Lono (left) tacks, crossing in front of Snickers (right)
The fleet sails downwind under spinnaker. Lono has the brand new blue spinaker being flown by yours truly.
We had some very good racing with only one cock-up on our boat when we had the spinnaker on the wrong side of the boat to launch. We thought we had won the last race, but as we race under handicap we had to wait for the numbers to be crunched to find out the final results. At the end of the day Boondoggle beat us by 10 seconds sweeping the day with three victories. We finished with three second places. It was a fun day on the water and I am sure we will get Boondoggle on the next race!
The great thing about MBYC races is the Pizza and Beer after!
posted by Jeffrey, Glenn and Tom at
4/11/2008 12:10:00 PM
8 Comments:
You look like the spring chicken of that group!
looks really fun Tom! but....er I might be confused but that is the Olson 30 in the first shot & sorry for being the "typo" police but you must have meant J30 not J80...
Oops! Yes that was Snickers and not Boondoggle in the first pic. But Boondoggle is definately a J80!
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went to the yacht club website your right judging from the photos there that j-80 can rock: apparent wind and assym.
For those of you confused, I believe a J80 is 8.0 meters or 26feet LOA. The J24 is 24 feet LOA, which many are familiar with. I don't know why they switched from feet to meters in their naming.
Looks like the main qualifying factors to race are whiskers, a hat or glasses!
On behalf of the "ridiculously fast J-80", great post Tom. No doubt Lono will be a tough competitor. The photo of the after party shows a hard working race committee in foreground and sun drenched racers beyond.
Our MBCY club's website is: www.mauiboatandyachtclub.com and general sailing around Maui: www.mauisailingnews.com
Tom left out that he is also a member of the MBYC elite Lipton Cup challenge crew.
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