Sails Up 4 Cancer - 06/24/12

Mystic River YC

Crew: Seth, Bob & RW
Spinnaker Class
Winds: SW at 10 kts
Weather: clear, Baro: 29.94, 78 F
Current: flood - 0925,ebb - 1446 North Hill
Start/Finish: GLP Starting Area
Course: s/f–DM–L-DM-s/f
WMK Bearing 235 at 1.5, Course Dist: 9.0 nm
Shrouds: +1,+3,+2

This is the second year for this event, Sails Up 4 Cancer, and the entries are still on small side. There were only three classes, Non-spinnaker, Spinnaker & Ensign.  I was not able to make the skippers' meeting Saturday night, and the RC did not have the race instructions nor scratch sheet available. So we had to piece together the race particulars.

 

A few minutes prior to the start, they did start handing out the RI's, sans SS's.
We started near the committee boat windward of the big boats, though had to tack to port for clear air anyhow. I thought the beat to the windward mark went fairly well.  We positioned ourselves starboard layline just long enough for Bob and Seth to set up for the launch.

Mystic River YC - Fall Regatta 09/20/08

Mystic River YC

 

Crew: Brian, Megan, Seth & RW
Current: flood - 0909 North Hill
Winds: SE (160 avg) avg 3.5 kts
Start: 1105 hrs,  ¼ m south of Seaflower;
Finish: NE of Horseshoe; 1424
Course: s- DM -f, 2 laps, Distance: 4.9 nm
Shrouds: @ base

Not the best of turn outs, eleven boats and only two in our class, Salud and SeTherin.  In an effort to establish a square windward/leeward course, the RC moved the start line south of Seaflower. Unfortunately, this was nearly in the middle of the southwest channel and a cooking flood.  

A couple minutes prior to the start the wind dropped from 6-8 kt range to less than six.  We were reaching along the on port at the gun with Salud on our windward hip, and continued up to nearly abeam of the committee boat prior to tacking, with Salud tacking with us.  Initially following the tack and able to accelerate sooner, we were able to sail up on Salud’s starboard quarter. Though eventually, Salud began to out-point us. She just made the pin, and we began a series of tacks paralleling the line with not enough air to point up and cross it, and forced farther and farther from the line on each subsequent tack.

MRYC/MRMSA "Blow Hard Regatta" - 09/23/06

Seth Magner Mystic River YC

Crew: Brian, Seth, Bob & RW
Course: X-W*2, 220 at 1.5 nm Distance: 6 nm
Current: ebb North Hill 1145
Wind: SW, 18 to 22, lull 15, gust 25

The first day of autumn dawned rainy & dreary. A small craft advisory, forecast showers & 20 kt winds gusting to 30 made for a gloomy morning. We spent some extra time and left the mooring: #3 jib on the deck, main furled with first reef, keel frictioned down, hatches locked, PFD's donned and a safety briefing as we motored out towards the Groton Long Point starting area.

The RC set a course dead into the wind, the windward mark approximately a half mile southwest of North Dumpling. Our stated strategy was to finish safely. The fleet of roughly twenty boats was split between two spinnaker classes and non-spinnaker. The classes started numerically, our spinnaker class second to go and we trailed across the line in a tight starboard group with Gnat leading, Salud, Hocus Pocus and Tumult ahead.

Mystic River Fall Regatta

Seth Magner Mystic River YC

Mystic River Fall Regatta Saturday 092405 Wind: NE to SE 4 to 12 knots Current: flood 1005 Course1: 060 at 1.5 nm (2 laps), distance 6 nm Course2: 150 at 1 nm (2 laps), distance: 4 nm Crew - Brian, Seth, Megan & RW 7th place With winds in the mid-teens during the motor out towards the starting area, we semi-prepared for a heavy air day. I had my doubts though, as we were in the southeast sector of a high to our northeast predicted to move overhead by mid-day.