Surprisingly, the winds stayed at 6-8 knots all night.
We flew the symmetric chute for most of the night, but the winds did clock forward, so we hoisted the A2 Tifanny at first light:
Outside hoist of the A2, and an inside douse of the the symmetric chute.
As we got closer to Point Petre, we were sailing close hauled with a headsail.
By 11am were were maybe 10 miles from the southernmost tip of Prince Edward County and the wind shutoff completely for almost 2 hours. 0.00 knots wind 0.00 knots of boat speed, and a current was pushing us backwards at 0.7 knots!
The winds filled in to about 4 knots, and we were able to get to about 3 knots of boat speed on a close reach. All the other boats around us had hoisted code zero sails and pulled away from us. We really need to get a code zero sail!
Wind did pickup to 7-8 knots, and we struggled close hauled to avoid a lee shore just past Sandbanks:
Beautiful shoreline as we tacked away from shore:
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| Time on the photo is 13:25 |
In the meantime Rita was enjoying our favourite local band The Professors of Funk" at Lakeside park in Oshawa:
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| Bandleader Derek Giberson |
We were in a tacking duel with Arrow:
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| Jenny and Kris |
GPS Track:
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Track Start: 11:38am
Track End: 01:48am
Track Duration: 14:00:00
Average Speed: 4.7 knots
4.7 knots speed doesn't sound too bad, but we had a VMG of only 2 knots!
Again the true wind direction and the bearing to Kingston were exactly the same!
The first boat Afterburn finished at like 5:30pm
Here we are at 11pm about 5 miles from the finish:
We were about 2 miles behind Moxie, so we decide to navigate the shoals around Simcoe Island to cut the corner. We had to do almost a dozen tacks to keep in deep water.
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That is Simcoe Island below the moon:
We finished at 12:30am about 10 minutes behind Moxie.
Moxie had run out of fuel and needed a tow in the Confederation Basin Marina.
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We ordered some Pizza and the two crews drank beers and swapped race stories in ZAMBONI's cockpit:
We went to bed at 3:30am!
In corrected time we finished DFL in our class and the fleet.
There were 6 boats that retired from the race (RET) and 3 that didn't start (DNC).
The boats that finished like 5-6 hours before us like line honours winner Afterburn and corrected time winner Sea Ya, all went offshore against the advice of the weather briefing and had wind pretty much the entire time. They also didn't have to deal with lee shores, lightening winds, and were able to navigate the shoals entering Kingston in the daytime.
We stuck to our race plan and got screwed; that's sailboat racing!
We were happy with how we sailed the boat.
Short handed crew work was spot on!
Our next sail purchase has to be a code zero!
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