GovCup 2010

We had a great race down the bay this year. Winds were from the north at the start in the mid teens, making for a nice spinnaker run down the bay. We chose to go left at the start with a port pole to head towards the rhumb line and out into the current. There were some anchored ships out there so we ended up extending a bit further than we wanted to stay out of the wind shadow. It all worked out and we extended out on the fleet and held 5th at that time. We were chasing Cookie, RumRation, Scrimshaw, and Acetea. The fleet was close behind and we knew that we needed to stay west, out of the foul current around the Choptank. Fortunately, most of the fleet stayed on the rhumb and got set by the current. It was not until the targets that we finally passed RumRation and got within correcting distance of Scrimshaw. In the light air we did a 'crazy ivan', heating our course up to the extreme for a while and then jibing back...we came out great with that one. The chute finally came down at Point Lookout and the 2nd part of the race started..upwind. We carried the #1 past the junction buoy to the shore, then bumped the shore on each tack up the river. At the finish, we almost ran aground in an all out effort to keep up with Scrimshaw...who was very fast upwind as well! We're pleased with our 3rd place finish this year!
Resuts: http://www.smcm.edu/govcup/raceinfo10/results.html
and our track: http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/AkoniGovCup2010.htm

Stars and Stripes Race 2010

Well, 3 out of 4 is not all that bad. It was a nice day on the water after the wind filled in.

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Little Choptank Race 2010 - update

Wow, looks like our tactics on the course payed off. We took 2nd place, just 18 seconds ahead of Foxtrot Corpin, a Beneteau 36.7.

http://smsa.com/Race/2010/Results/LittleChoptank.htm

Little Choptank Race 2010

Akoni had a great race up the Bay today. Wind was in the mid teens and we just surfed along around 8kts. Not sure how we did...guess we'll have to wait for results. Here is the track from our race:
http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/LittleChoptank2010.htm


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GBFR?

Ok, this is cool. Found some people on SailNet that sail 5mi triangles all over the world and compare results...sounded fun and cool.....so we set one up in the Patuxent. Game on!

http://www.bfsshop.com/BFSGR/00_gr_rules_01.html
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/racing/61800-global-big-freakin-regatta-possible.html

http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/BFRPatuxent.htm


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Port...Port!

Did someone say PORT? We had a great start Wednesday for race #4. Not often we get to port tack the whole fleet and have it actually work. Thanks to David Meiser for the photos:

SMSA Spring Invite 2010

Awesome day out on the water. RC set a 10.5 mile course across the bay and back. Winds were forecast to be from the west at 22kts. The winds dropped just before the start as the front passed overhead...we shook the reef and had a downwind spinnaker start with winds around 12kts. We held our own against mostly 'A' fleet boats until the wind died on the far side of the bay. It's a pain to be the small boat in a dying breeze. After bobbing around for about 20 minutes, the wind filled back in from the NW...building steadily. We did a sail change to the 108 jib at he second tack. We finished in 20kts of breeze. Additional races for the day were abandoned when the winds built from the west to nearly 35 sustained. Glad we have a storm jib! It was a lumpy ride back home. Here is our track and a photo from last Wednesday:
http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/SMSASpringInvite2010.htm