This is Video Footage I found on Youtube, filmed by Shockwave40.
The first part of the film was at Steve Nicholson Trophy and then in the fog is at Rutland for the John Merricks Memorial event.
I think it is really good, and I hope they dont mind me putting it on my blog.
I have tried to get in contact, but please leave a comment if you want me to remove it.
At the Steve Nicholson event I had spent Friday night ill with food poisoning and so Saturday was a right off....I should not have bothered but I thought it was a good cause, so I drove 2.5 hours, paid my entry, sailed one race and then nearly collapsed so went home.
There was a lovely couple sailing an Enterprise that I was talking to whilst packing the boat up.....seemed quite concerned for my well being, which was nice.
:o)
Friendly lot in this sport!
Thursday 25 February 2010
Start Line Behaviour
Picture kindly taken by Yachts and Yachting forum user "Asterix"
Apart from the fact that I was the only starter for this handicap race I really love this picture...I really think the mast bend is particularly beautiful, the only problem is that I need a little more mainsheet tension to get the top banding aft.....but it was taken just as I was sheeting in on a start line so....I guess I should cut myself some slack.
D-One in the Mist
Picture kindly taken by Yachts and Yachting forum user "Asterix"
Again....one of my favourite pictures, even though shrouded in mist!
I still need to put just a little bit more mainsheet tension on, just to complete the mast bend shape I reckon, but not far off.
I have been told, perhaps to loosen the foot and then I can apply more mainsheet.
This is a trick of the Blaze class, and now the Halo...I notice a very loose foot, so I might try that.
I kind of get the feeling that it looks like a bullet....dunno why.
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Tiger Trophy @ Rutland SC
Just had a fantastic weekend of D-One sailing at Rutland, for the John Merricks Memorial "Tiger Trophy" event.
165 boats taking part on a very well run event.
I was disappointed to be separated from the RS100 on the start line, due to their handicap PY they were deemed "slow handicap"??? and therefore started on a different sequence, behind me.
Anyhow on Sunday we were to race a pursuit which saw me start 4 minutes behind on handicap.
I was approx 2 boat lengths ahead of one of them on the finish line, the other having got a long way ahead early on in the race to remain uncatchable.
On Saturday I was beating B14's and racing with Laser 4000 and keeping them behind me, which was great.
Again I came a cropper on the tight reaches with the kite....the D-One just will not do it, however when the angles are right or you get chance to do windward leward, then she just flies past anything, apart from cherubs and 49ers and the like!
Pictures to follow when I recieve them from Yachts and Yachting forum user "Asterix"
Next event Hoo Freezer.
165 boats taking part on a very well run event.
I was disappointed to be separated from the RS100 on the start line, due to their handicap PY they were deemed "slow handicap"??? and therefore started on a different sequence, behind me.
Anyhow on Sunday we were to race a pursuit which saw me start 4 minutes behind on handicap.
I was approx 2 boat lengths ahead of one of them on the finish line, the other having got a long way ahead early on in the race to remain uncatchable.
On Saturday I was beating B14's and racing with Laser 4000 and keeping them behind me, which was great.
Again I came a cropper on the tight reaches with the kite....the D-One just will not do it, however when the angles are right or you get chance to do windward leward, then she just flies past anything, apart from cherubs and 49ers and the like!
Pictures to follow when I recieve them from Yachts and Yachting forum user "Asterix"
Next event Hoo Freezer.
Apparently I should have let the outhaul out a bit in this picture, in order to tighten the leech and aid pointing ability....I shall give it a try next.
Friday 5 February 2010
Battle of the Classes - more photos
More pictures from the Excel Docklands Battle of the Classes event, courtesy of
www.marineimages.co.uk
Monday 1 February 2010
Soaking downwind
While at the Steve Nicholson memorial event in Northampton the wind had some mental shifts, that I should have been gybing on.
However due to my exhausted body I chose to sit the race out from the comfort of the wings, and found myself slipping into old RS400 style downwind habits of soaking.
THIS DOES NOT WORK!
The D-One does not like to soak, it likes to go high, catch the gust and go with it, gybing if the shift is big enough and to stay with the gust.
You end up sailing quite high, but it is soooooo much faster.
However due to my exhausted body I chose to sit the race out from the comfort of the wings, and found myself slipping into old RS400 style downwind habits of soaking.
THIS DOES NOT WORK!
The D-One does not like to soak, it likes to go high, catch the gust and go with it, gybing if the shift is big enough and to stay with the gust.
You end up sailing quite high, but it is soooooo much faster.
Steve Nicholson Trophy
Well I turned up for the event, but I should have stayed in bed!
Food poisoning on Friday does not set your body up for racing and I found myself very very exhausted, and mentally not up to the job.
Nick Peters in the RS100 tacked off early on the start line and hugged the right hand shore, I went out into the middle for clear air, which I got, but no bend!
Nick got a huge lift to the windward mark and I never caught him after that, especially after my reduced speed efforts downwind, shame.
I sailed the first race, and had to go home.
not good
:o(
Food poisoning on Friday does not set your body up for racing and I found myself very very exhausted, and mentally not up to the job.
Nick Peters in the RS100 tacked off early on the start line and hugged the right hand shore, I went out into the middle for clear air, which I got, but no bend!
Nick got a huge lift to the windward mark and I never caught him after that, especially after my reduced speed efforts downwind, shame.
I sailed the first race, and had to go home.
not good
:o(
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