Single Sail reaching - different story

I keep forgetting to post about the different way of sailing the D-One without the spinny, on a reach.

Whereas downwind with the kite you need to centre the traveller, this is NOT the case for reaching.

KICKER / VANG hard on and ease the traveller is the key.

Letting the traveller off more and more until you have perfect balance of power and trim, sit back and plane away.

I was out sailing with a Halo and I admired the way it was super fast on a reach, it certainly left me standing, however I was sure that the D-One should be as fast, if not faster, so I messed around with the traveller, easing it off and bringing the boat quickly up on the plane.
As soon as I did this I left the Halo standing, which I was happy about.

The Kicker has to be really tight to control the leach, but DON'T FORGET to let it off again before you go up wind, otherwise you will never get under the boom.

This is the only time when the kicker is really used under huge tension, really it is only on enough to stop the boom rising during a tack when you let the mainsheet tension off.

Torbole regatta Lake Garda

Well the first race was briiliant!
25 knots winds and blazing sunshine....amazing.

20 D-ones, 2 olympic sailors, Gasper Vincec,  fresh from winning Olympic Kiel week in the Finn class and Silvio Santono Olympic Star sailor.
Race 1 and it payed to sail to the right hand side to the cliffs, Santoni banged far right and was first to the windard mark by 1min closely followed by Vincec and Garvin who played the shifts up the middle right.
Ferrari (1st in Bracciano) went left and dropped to 4th.
Silvio Santoni 1st
Gasper Vincec 2nd
Tim Garvin 3rd
Alberto Ferrari 4th

2nd Race and more of the same wind although the course was shortened to one windward leeward, although it over a mile long beat.
Vincec, Ferrari and Garvin all tacked off on the start and banged right, although Garvin sailing in Ferrari's dirty wind dropped right back.
Places changed in the top 5 but it was Michael Maier who took the bullet, Ferrari 2nd, Vincec 3rd, and Garvin was pipped on the line by Paolo Rossi 4th, Garvin 5th

Overall Results after day one
1st Gasper Vincec
2nd Alberto Ferrari
3rd Tim Garvin
4th Paolo Rossi
5th Michael Maier
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Downhaul Setup Part 1

I have been messing around with the downhaul. I wanted to keep the mainsail tack tight near the mast but also let it off loose when the downhaul is taken right off. I had previously removed the tack line on the boom, but I have now replaced it and the system works really well....see pictures.

New Downhaul setup Part 2

D-One Training at Hayling Island

3 of us turned up for a bit of training down at Hayling Island sailing club on Sat.

All was great until the wind dropped right off and with the spring tides I was swept past the Lifeboat station before I could get to shore....long walk up the beach!

There is a new D-One just delivered last week, based at HISC now.

Results so far in the Regattas

Currently I am placed 1st, which I am very please with, however I am not attending the Numana event this weekend so I expect to drop with a load of work to do at the Torbole event, I hope its windy!!!!

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HoneyPot Trophy Pursuit Race

On the Bank Holiday we had a fantastic day for a pursuit race in memory of Jesper Garvin (my dad).

He had the trophy made and donated it to the Yeoman fleet who very kindly allowed it to be passed on to the Honeypot Pursuit event, held annually.

I am please to say that I did really well and had a real humdinger of a race with the leading RS400 who only managed to sneak a 35sec lead at the finish after 2 hours of close racing. If I hadn't have screwed up the 1st beat and waisted 30 secs I think I may have beaten them.
The 400's start 1min behind me at the moment on handicap.

Downwind the D-one is way faster than the 400 and certainly planes quicker, upwind I was really racing hard to keep up with the leading 400, however the second place 400 was approx 6mins behind!

The end results were 1st Musto skiff, 2nd RS700, 3rd RS400, 4th D-One, 5th Graduate.
It was really nice to have visitors for the event, I hope they come back next year.