We had 18 boats out with four in our class.
Just Chris and I. Winds were forecast for 9-13 knots from the east all day. 18 mile course was setup to go east upwind to a mark called MV2 that is east of Oshawa Harbour and back.
We put up the racing main and number one and went out into the lake to try it out. Closehauled upwind we could do 5 knots comfortably if we dropped the traveler on the main.
We had a great start just leeward of Gruntled, and decided to use our shallow draft, and tack up the shoreline. We would go into shore close hauled at 5 knots of boat speed and tack when water depth got below 10ft.
Winds had picked up to over 12 knots as whitecaps were forming on the water.
It started raining.
We found that our VMG going into shore was close to 4 knots with 5 knots of boat speed, while between 2-3 knots coming out, so we tried to stay on the starboard tack as much as we could.
FlyBuoy, the Thunderbird did the same and was able to pull in front of us because he could point higher into the wind. The Sharks Foxtrot and Mickey went off shore, only to meet up with us near the Oshawa harbor. The last several upwind miles were tacking crosses, as we pretty much had the same boat speeds.
FlyBuoy passed us the other way, when we were 1 mile from the windward mark (so had a 2 mile lead).
We rounded the windward mark, and poled the genoa to windward using a spinnaker pole and sailed the rhum line to the finish. We were neck and neck with Foxtrot, and about a quarter mile behind Mickey the entire time. We kept the boat speed up over 5 knots the entire time, hitting 7.5 knots surfing down waves.
Constant rain all the way back; our rain gear kept us dry and warm.
We finished about 15 minutes behind Flybuoy; could be close in corrected time.
For each mile raced Flybuoy has to give us 71 seconds because of our differences in handicap (271vs200).
Well, we came first in our class, and 2nd overall in the fleet.
KEWL
Another good day for Still Time!
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Trip Odometer: 24.29 miles
Moving Average: 5.0 knots
Moving Time: 04:49:00
Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2015/20150614.kmz
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