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Subject: [Leica] Woods Hole Race
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Jul 5 12:29:51 2006
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Hi Dick,
I truly enjoyed these. What kind of boat type is it? We don't have  
these around here. Looks like an older/classical type with those long  
jibs.
Classical cut sails, too.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 5-jul-06, om 19:56 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven:

> Normally I'm on one of these boats but I had to sit this race out  
> on the Race Committee boat yesterday.  The race was sailed in  
> Vineyard Sound on the south side of Cape Cod with the start and  
> finish in Woods Hole Harbor.  Wind was SW at 10-20 knots.
>
> About 15 seconds after the gun, the fleet sailed for the first mark:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020372_web
>
> The turnout for this race was low.  More typically, we would have  
> 12 - 14 boats on the starting line.
>
> The weather-most (right hand) boat in this shot is carrying a reef  
> in its main, something we're allowing for the first time this  
> year.  The reef allows the boat to be sailed flatter in high winds  
> which should theoretically be faster, but only repeated trials will  
> show if that is true in this fleet over the long run.  In any case,  
> the trial proved to be inconclusive because the skipper had to  
> shake the reef out at the end of the first weather leg.  The wind  
> had dropped significantly by the time they got to the weather mark.
>
> Passing the first mark the eventual winner had all ready pulled out  
> a nice lead:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020374_web
>
> Woods Hole Passage is one of the busiest and most dangerous  
> channels in New England.  Although it wasn't a factor in this race,  
> it's not at all unusual for boats like this one on their way to or  
> from the Passage to power through the racing fleet making life  
> "interesting" for the racing skippers:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020378
>
> Although hitting a wave like this is "not fast," the gal sailing  
> this boat, one of the best skippers in the fleet, finished a solid  
> half-mile ahead of the second place boat by keeping her boat speed  
> up on average and playing the currents perfectly.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/SAILING/L1020392_web
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Comments welcome as always.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
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