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DF95 Series #18

Four sailors took advantage of a Chamber of Commerce day at the Cove. An extreme high tide along with a 5-8k north westerly breeze challenged Paul in laying out a workable course. Indeed he succeeded with a Windward, Reach, Leeward, Windward, Reach and Run to the finish course that was great!!

Not an Olympic, rectangular, or trapezoid course. It was a Mercer course!

HENRY was on fire with great starts and 7 bullets over 12 races. Paul and Kim were always in the hunt with multiple first place roundings.

Wilkie had moments of tactical genius only to suffer from poor boat speed due to inadequate sail draft needed in the lumpy light air conditions.

With an ebb tide the sailors pushed for 12 races to enjoy 2 throw outs. 

Thank you Paul and Wilkie for launching and retrieval of the course.

As Race Director today, I enjoyed it all.

Jim Pascalides 

Next Thursday is MHBMYC’s annual DF95 regatta. We hope to have a large turnout!

Soling Series #18

A #10 day for racing. Too bad we didn’t have enough skippers to make a race fleet. Five arrived, but Paul had sheets separate prior to the first race and that took him off the water. ☹️. The four remaining boats chose to practice race for awhile. Kim, Pat, Jim, and Danny shared victories; and, then called it quits.
Next Tuesday is the Annual MHBMYC Soling Regatta. Sure hope the turnout for that is better.

Soling Series #17

It was hot and humid this morning at the cove but the light wind was sufficient to run seven races in our traditional course: South from the start line taking both the red and green marks to port, then north to the red mark, taken to port, and back to the line. The line was open.Eight members were there this morning, but, unfortunately. Paul Mercer ran into a problem with his beautiful new Soling and ran the starter and kept score instead. Many thanks, Paul.Bill David won the first three races, then two more which, with his two third places, made him the easy overall winner.Bill Raposa won the two races that Bill D didn’t, and with two seconds and a third, Bill R was second overall. Kim had three second places and one third to finish just one point ahead of Danny for third and fourth places respectively.The full results can be found on our website mhbmyc.orgAnother fun morning’s racing. A fun time in fun company.

The next race days will be: DF95s on Thursday, Sept. 2nd at noon when the tide will be coming in from a low at 10.17. But the consensus view today was that there will be too much rain to race. Rob will make the final call.
 Solings will race on Tuesday, Sept. 7thwhen the tide will be going out from a high at 08.56.
I won’t be at next week’s races so please watch out for any news on our website and look out for emails from Rob and Bill R.Stay safe and well and have fun,Derek

DF95 Series #16

It was yet another hot and humid day today, but that couldn’t deter 13 members and guests from bringing their DF95s down to the cove to engage in some friendly competition. It was good to see Jim Pascalides again. He didn’t race but he did a fine job keeping score. Many thanks, Jim. We, once again, welcomed guests, Don Ouimette and Greg LaPlante who raced Solings with us last Tuesday. It really was a great day’s racing with so many boats and a SSW breeze. Fleet Captain, Rob Hill had called for a 12-noon start which turned out to be a good decision. He set the course: south from the line, take the green mark to port and head north with the line open, round the red mark to port then south again to take the green mark to port once more, then north to repeat taking the red mark to port and then back to the line.We held 7 races in all with a short break after the third race.Rob won the first race and then the last two. He also had one second and one third to be today’s overall winner just beating Don Ouimette on a tie break. Don had two wins today and two seconds and one third. The only other winners today were Bill David and Paul Mercer who finished third and fourth respectively. Henry DiPietro gave a display of consistency to take fifth place this afternoon.Actually, everyone was a winner today with so many competing in a very friendly atmosphere. One of our best days this year!  The group agreed with Rob to keep the noon start for next week.
The full results are on our website mhbmyc.org

The next time DF95s do battle will be next Thursday, September 2nd when the tide will be low and coming in. (Low at 10.17). Don’t forget the 12-noon start.But before that, the Solings have their day on Tuesday, August 31st when the tide will be coming in from a low at 08.30. Still 11.00 start.Stay safe, well, and happy,Derek

Soling Series #16

Seven boats were in the water at the start of racing today, six members and one guest, Greg LaPlante from Pawtucket. Manny ran the starts and kept score. many thanks once again, Manny.The wind was from the northwest so Fleet Captain, Bill Raposa set the course going out to the northern red mark, taken to port, south to the other red mark, and green offset also taken to port and back to the line. The line was closed.We only managed four races as, what started as a nice breeze, succumbed to the Tuesday Curse and we all had to be patient while our boats   s l o w l y   drifted back to shore. We elected to let the four races count as a Race Day with no throw-outs. However, we may have to rethink this decision if today’s results have a significant effect on the overall series scores.Bill David won two races and Greg and Kim won one each. Bill’s wins and one second place put him in the winner’s circle this morning. Kim and Greg had one second and one third each and both had a fifth so I gave Kim second place as he is a member!  Our guest was third.The two other Bills were 4th and fifth, Bill R just beating Bill N.The full results will be on our website mhbmyc.org later this evening.
We hope to have a more durable breeze on Thursday, August 26th when we’ll do battle with the high tide at 11.42 with our DF95s
The next Soling races are on Tuesday, August 31st when the tide will be coming in heading for a high at 3.30 pm.Stay safe and well and keep smiling.
Derek

Soling Series #15

Oh, What a beautiful mornin’Oh, what a beautiful dayI got a wonderful feelin’A light breeze is comin’ our way.
Who wouldn’t want to sing and sail on a morning like this?  Seven members did come down to the cove, six with boats and Manny who did a fine job of starting and scoring the seven races. Thanks again. Manny.Joe Gaedtke, a resident of the Village, was also there and, I believe took some pictures.The star attraction this morning was Paul’s new boat on its maiden voyage (at our club anyway).Paul has just built this boat from the new Vac-u-Boat Soling kit. It not only looked impressive, it was impressive winning three races and finishing second in three more. That was all it took to finish first overall today.There was a light to moderate breeze this morning, fluctuating from the south and Bill Raposa set the course: south to the red mark then the green offset both taken to port, then north with the line closed to take the northern red mark to port, then west to a red “throw in” mark also to port then back to the line.  The sixth and seventh races ran the same course, but twice around with the line open.Kim Hanna was racing like a master this morning and, like Paul, won three races and also had two second places to finish second only 2 points behind Paul.The only other race winner today was Bill who took third place this morning.Jim Kelly was fourth with Pat and me happily making up the numbers.The full results are on our website mhbmyc.orgGood, friendly competition today and lots of fun.
The next opportunity to sail Solings will be Tuesday, August 24th when the high tide will be at 10.13.  It would be nice to have a few more boats though.
But before that, in just two days time, on Thursday, August 19th we will race DF95s with low tide at 11.14. We might have to dodge a couple of light showers too. Rob will keep an eagle eye on the weather…….
Stay safe, healthy, and happy,
aDerek