Akoni 2010 Photo Video

Smith Point 2010

This year was similar to last, a slow ride down the bay to Smith with a fill from the south late. Although it took almost 9 hours to get downwind to Smith Point, when the wind filled in, it came in from the south giving us a spectacular 2nd downwind run. It took us less than 5 hrs to get back. Sailflow predicted this shift almost perfectly. After 8PM the wind filled in huge, much bigger than we expected. By 9 We were holding 7kts steady with surfing in the mid 8's and 5 foot waves. We were near dead down wind and it was very difficult to steer, with the boom and pole taking turns nearly kissing the water. At around 10:30 we broke our speed record for the boat, hitting 11.4kts!! We then got caught between breaking waves and had an epic wipeout...I thought we were going to destroy the chute with all the shreddy flogging. It took a bit to clean up, but we were still moving 6-7kts under main alone. We popped the 155 and continued up to Cedar Point. At cedar Point, we jibed over to port tack and rode the fastest reach on this boat I've ever experienced..breaking our speed record for a second time that night with an 11.7kt surf which lasted for almost half a minute. It was a great ride back and one that will be hard to top. Preliminary results have us winning this race which puts us in great position for SMSA season highpoint award and the middle distance series.

http://www.tqci.net/~jkriz/AkoniSmithPoint2010.htm

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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