Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Dick, It sure looks like a heavy and physical boat. Cheers, Philippe Op 5-jul-06, om 22:15 heeft Richard S. Taylor het volgende geschreven: > Philippe - These are Cape Cod Knockabouts, an eighteen-foot > fiberglass centerboarder. They carry a main, jib and spinnaker. > The sail rig has changed over the years but the hull has not. The > basic design dates from the 1930's and was originally built in > wood, though only one wood one (from about 1950) survives in the > fleet. > > They have a well-earned reputation of being slow, wet, and > uncomfortable but everyone loves them because they are 1) > traditional, and 2) well suited to the area waters where a typical > summer afternoon breeze is 20-25 knots and a 2- to 3-foot chop is > common. > > It's a trustworthy, predictable boat. During one race I sailed one > out of a narrow channel into a breaking sea, half swamped the boat > from the breakers and simply sailed on out into the Bay with the > boat three-quarters full of water. We quickly bailed the boat out > and were back into the race. > > Dick > > >> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >