MacIntosh MTOH Day 1

Our watches were 3 hours long and worked well

• John
• Mike
• Me

• Dirk
• Kris
• Kevin

The 12-3pm shift before us ran the asym the entire shift catching up to a J/109 and J/35 that were in front of us.  Winds were shifting forward, so at the 3pm shift change, we doused the asym and hoisted the light #1.

It was here that we pull ahead of the leading J/35 Harrier with the J/109 in the background:

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The time on these photos was 3:36pm.

Winds were from the ENE about 15 knots with flat water.

Passing us was the BEAUTIFUL 85' Herreshoff ketch Ticonderoga on a close reach:

In the evening and night we stayed with a full main and light #1 with 7.5 knots of boat speed on a close reach up the coast of Maine.

 

Notice how the bottom of the headsail is doing nothing:

 

We found that there was some wind sheer happening: the wind near the top of the mast was different than the bottom.  If we moved the jib cars back to correct for this, we were spilling to much wind up top for power.  So what we did was run a snatch block and extra line to pull the leach tight.  Also kept the sail off the lifelines, as it flattened the bottom of the headsail.

 

 

 

Back onshore towards Marblehead there was MAJOR rain and thunderstorms:

 

 

We did get wet, but no gust fronts or lightning strikes!