OSYC Slip to Ship Regatta May 26-27 2012

Yeah Bill, I have a sailing problem too... mine was "managed" by the chase boats bringing beverages, and my daughter telling me "Dad.. you're luffing..."... so I let her drive, she had a blast, and I took pictures, took video, took a nap... and woke up near shore in time to tack and make the finish... Didn't have much time on the island 'cause the trip took so long, but I was feeling good. A quick swim, some chicken and a group photo was about it ( I got there kinda slow.. but not last)... and off we went again.

The return trip was a LOT faster... and I had the spinnaker up... Thing is I don't know how to make it go deep (whoops..).. headed to the coliseum we were flying a hull (downwind) and going fast... but everyone else of course was pointing to the Beau Rivage... but hey, good fun on the water with lots of other sailors.

Sunday was a slow start, then we got in casino row and the wind started up and we were scootin past folks hanging out on the island... that was cool... out to mark 12 and back... popped the spin on the return run, man that thing is fun... The "short" day on Sunday was a welcome treat for everyone I think...Glad you make it out... maybe better circumstances another time... Cheers - Rob.

coastrat wrote: my name is bill...and i have something to share..........after 3 1/2 hours of really slow sailing and i still couldn't see ship island(either one)...i became tragicly bored, so iraced golfdad75 back to the club and challenged him and zack to a stuffed crabmeat and cheese po-boy eating contest...and lost that too. my fighting spirit was compromised by the pre-race revellry/social happy hours/filli'n station de-bauch of friday. the liver was evil, and it was punnished...the excitement of friday also allowd me to forgo application of any "sun screening" agents that day as i was in a dang hurry to party(as i am often). fast foreward to saturday 2:30 p.m.-skin sizzleing, liver bloating, head throbbing, i and i(raced solo) recieve a call from terry suggesting we bolt, bravely...just then, a breeze arrives, i say "wait! i think i can make it!!!" then as fast as the breeze comes, she went...so i called him right back and gallantly accepted his challenge! brave, brave sir robin...bravely turned his tail and ran. i beat all the spin boats back to the club!
day 3 and still not right. the end.

Just got around to getting the tracks off my GPS. Here is my track from Saturday. The little arrow markers are 1 mile apart for scale.

I guess I picked the right time to tack out to the Island if I was only going to do one tack, but I think I could have traveled less distance by getting there with 5 or 6 tacks instead of one.

I'd like to see some tracks from the fast boats out to Slip to see what course they used. Got yours mummp?

DamonLinkous wrote: Got yours mummp?

You don't even want to see our course track Damon.....

Did you follow Kirk to the wrong piece of the Island?

I guess you could say that.

Popped our chutes once we realized,
Was a nice double trapped spin run down to the island though.

DamonLinkous wrote: Did you follow Kirk to the wrong [del]piece of the [/del]Island?

Sorry, Damon, but I had to fix that for you......you are being too nice and tactful. If you are going to bring up such a thing, it needs to be blunt and painful to make it funny!

They went to the wrong island....there's no such thing as a "piece" of and island! 😆

rattlenhum wrote: [quote=DamonLinkous]Did you follow Kirk to the wrong [del]piece of the [/del]Island?

Sorry, Damon, but I had to fix that for you......you are being too nice and tactful. If you are going to bring up such a thing, it needs to be blunt and painful to make it funny!

They went to the wrong island....there's no such thing as a "piece" of and island! 😆

Well I guess I was being too tactful for this forum. 😀 But my understanding was that Ship Island was cut in half by Katrina so both "pieces" of the Island are Ship Island, they just went to the wrong piece. 👿

It wouldn't be so funny except that Kirk is very experienced in those waters and was sailing the amazing Nacra F20 Carbon out front and all the other hot boats followed him. As I well know, being in front of the pack has the drawback of needing to know where you are going! (OK, stretching the I part). :lol2:

DamonLinkous wrote: But my understanding was that Ship Island was cut in half by Katrina so both "pieces" of the Island are Ship Island, they just went to the wrong piece. 👿

It wouldn't be so funny except that Kirk is very experienced in those waters and was sailing the amazing Nacra F20 Carbon out front and all the other hot boats followed him. As I well know, being in front of the pack has the drawback of needing to know where you are going! (OK, stretching the I part). :lol2:

Ship has been two islands since Camille!

No GPS for me while distance racing....I carry a Silva map compass and Casio watch (less than $15 total) and do a little dead reckoning. That's ever since my first Island Hop where we had hell finding the finish line. Another example of where there are much more important things than boatspeed. Despite the slow beat out, most of the Hobie 16s did pretty well....gotta love the irony!