Gulfport Florida Regatta

Tom aka " The Phenom" ,

This was your FIRST Sail in your Blade ??!! Sheesh , no more hints for you !!

PK

Check out the great pictures from the regatta at

2006 GYC A-Class/F16HP Invitational

A big thanks goes out to Gary Hufford from Beachmaster Photography for coming out and spending the day with us.

Jennifer

There is a slight error in the A-Cat results posted earlier. Here are the corrections.

1st Place - Woody Cope
2nd Place - Tony Arends
3rd Place - Jennifer Lindsay
4th Place - Rush Bird

Rush and I tied for third place but I won out in the tie breaker. Hopefully the official results will be post on the internet soon.

Jennifer

We don't nearly give enough credit to our F16 crews. In this Gulfport invitational 2006 we had several female crews and ... !! WOW !! ... take a look at some of the action shots (series) they put in !

http://f16.beasts.org/gallery2/main... amp;g2_itemId=865&g2_navId=x3c4f8f35

This post and all the respect enclosed in it is for you ladies !

We saw in order of appearence :

Kelly Gray
Mavis Harnden
Gina McDonald

and

Michael Coffman

Respect !

Wouter

It all worked out pretty well for me. saturday brought some wind, but not too much, which let me learn a great deal. Sunday brought my local lake conditions and a great environment for 1-up. It all kind a fell in place.

I'd say it was more of a compliment to the design and production of the boat, rather than any sailing talent. That boat is awesome. We were talking Sat night about how responsive the boat is to making (even the slighest) adjustments to all the control lines. The smallest changes can make a huge difference and that makes it really fun.

I really did read Wouter's post Sun AM and applied it. I pulled on all three corners of the sail (outhaul, downhaul and mainsheet) to make it flat. Would that logic be more meaningful as cat rigged, as opposed to sloop (no slot to induce wind sliding across the lee side of the main)?

I can't really tell, but remember that account at the end of the full explanation ? The one were I overtook 4 I-20's and 4 F18's by sailing through their lee to win after I had been over 200 mtr behind ? Were I discovered this light wind trim ?

Well, I was sailing doublehanded sloop rigged with 145 kg on board (= 320 lbs).

Who says F16's can't carry weight in the really light stuff and beat the F18's/I-20's on elapsed time ?

So I guess the advice is no less valuable when sloop rigged as when cat-rigged. Just don't pull on the jib sheet too hard and close off the slot. If you want a flat jib then just pull on its luff tension control or alter you rig tension. I just slacked the jib sheet a little bit so its leech had the same twist as the mainsail to the back of it.

Anything to keep the mainsail breathen properly

Wouter

The old F16 website link won't show the pics mentioned in the above post anymore

You can find them at :

http://beachmaster.smugmug.com/gallery/1327719

Wouter

Tom, it the photo's, which Blade spinnaker is you? Purple or Blue/yellow? And who's is that very dark mainsail? Thanks.

Seth and Kelly: Yellow/green/blue spin (mostly yellow) (t4.9)
Matt and Gina: Purple spin (Blade)
Gordon: Light blue spin (T4.9)
Chuck and Mavis: blue/red spin (Coke bottle green hulls) (Blade)
Fred and Michael: Blue/yellow spin (t4.9)
Tom: only in pic 17
Hollis: not pictured
Hans: multicolored G-Cat

Matt and Gina's main looks very dark (with white batten pockets), but it must be the picture (pic #15) b/c it didn't seem to be much different from Chuck's or mine.

BTW - the Alter Cup Area D-SOuth eliminations will be at GYC the first week of November. They will actually use the Gulfport public beach for launching, but all logistical support will come from GYC. Their RC was very well versed in how to run regattas and handled themselves very well (not that I've been all over the world and am an authority, but they did do a really good job).

Complete results are now posted on the Gulport Yacht Club web site.

Thanks.

Link to full results

http://www.gulfportyachtclub.com/id39.html