Duck Cup This Weekend on the OBX

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i'll be there with a first timer crew on my supercat 19

I'm heading up there. I'm on a H16 1-up. I know of three other NC guys from Wrightsville Beach coming up. I didn't see anywhere to pre-register on the site. It sounds like a lot of fun.

where is this event & start time?

heres the link that explains everything.....

http://www.norbanks.com/Events.htm

David and I will be there on the Infusion.

Looking forward to sailing the weta and reporting b ack to the masses...

heard something about outer banks wild fires from my friends in Raleigh who were apparently sucking down the fumes. Whats up with that?

I think the fires are south of Columbia, NC with the wind blowing smoke as far as Raleigh. I do not beleive the fires are on the barrier islands and no roads have been closed.

Can anyone confirm?

No matter the conditions, wish I was going.

map

Duck is close but to the north of all this.

The fires are not here they are in Pungo NC,which is a pretty good ways from the Outer Banks. We've had some smoke but that's it. No smoke even for the last few days.
Tad, Is that your excuse this year? The world's on fire ,I can't do the Duck Cup, WWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. Somebody call the Wahmbulance. You punk.
Todd

Todd

You're my hero.

I gots to work this weekend actually.

The smoke made for some interesting conditions today. Jon was working on the results for Day 1.

I have a couple pics I will post

everyone had a great time, some more than others

really smoking the fleet about halfway through the first race

Good pics and congrats on the nice sailing. I was hoping someone would write a summary.If no one else does I will when I get down to my ankles in alligators.
Todd

So you're doing a head-stand right now?

Either way it hurts.
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Since Todd is too busy to post a wrap up (but yet can post at a little after midnight), I will give a brief report.

The 9th Annual Duck Cup was held this weekend at Nor'Banks Sailing in Duck.
We did a change of format this year and turned the race into a 2 day distance event with Day 1 being a 24 Mile (as a crow flies) round trip race to off of the Corolla Lighthouse and Day 2 being the original Duck Cup course of the bridge and back. We also did a $5/day entry fee to help with travel expenses and we had a great turnout. 25 boats headed North on Saturday morning on a beam reach in 5 knots of breeze, once most of the fleet rounded the marker in Corolla, it had filled in to 15-20 out of the South (dead upwind to go home). It also blew in the smoke and I was actually in my home waters sailing by GPS at one point. It was a long day and almost everyone finished with Dave Lennard and Mike Krantz taking line honors and correcting into 1st place after Day 1. Sunday was forecasted to be light but he wind gods actually gave us 2 hours of 12-16 knots and a great broad reach run to the bridge followed by a reach back. Dave and Mike took line honors again and Dave took home the Duck Cup for the 3rd time. Derek Brinkley and Allison Jones won the tightly contested Hobie 16 class. It was a great turnout and a fun event. We will have the full results and some photos up at norbanks.com shortly. The OBXCC would like to thank everyone that came and hopes this race can continue to grow with the new format. The dates for next year are June 13-14.

Doctor Binkles ftw!

I highly encourage anyone who reads this forum to come next year. The venue and facilities are top notch. Jon and his crew run a great event, and if you don't fun at this event, something must be wrong with ya... Dave and I will be back next year.

I have two small children and have been looking for a boat with which to teach them how to sail. So, I went up to, Duck, NC for a week, specifically to test sail the Weta. Having now seen several posts regarding the boat on this website, I thought I would give anyone interested my impressions. First, for some background on my perspective, I grew up racing sunfish, 470’s, flying scots, & IOR boats (yes I am old) and only later transferred to Hobie Cats (16s, 18s, & 20s) and a stiletto 27. Consequently I really appreciate the feel of the helm on this boat. Having learned as a kid how to ‘work’ a dingy through chop with the helm, I always missed the fact that that sort of skill afforded me no competitive advantage on a beach cat, where to me it always felt like the best approach was to just point it straight, trim it properly, sit or trap in the right place, and keep it hauling a… Going through chop the Weta has the helm feel of a dingy but power and speed similar to a Hobie 16. Yet it is a much more secure platform, for beginners or anyone not wanting to attach him/herself to a gymnastic apparatus in order to stay upright when the wind exceeds 10 knots. Don’t get me wrong, I learned to trapeze while flying a spinnaker on a 470 so doing so on a beach cat still looks easy to me. But when a boat’s design requires that you trapeze in order to survive, it makes it less suitable for a young family. Next, at 14 ft. and only 240 lbs (the mast only weighs 10), the Weta can be easily rigged (in about 30 minutes), launched, and sailed by one person. Then, for the combination of speed plus comfort and crew capacity, the boat really outshines any other 14 foot boat on the market. No it is probably not as fast as an F16, but then again, the Weta is a one man boat that just happens to be able to accommodate up to 400 lbs. of not-very-movable ballast.

There are in my opinion only two downsides to this boat. The biggest downside is there may never be as large of a one-design class of them as other one man boats like the Hobie Wave or at the other end on the continuum, the A Class cat. Second, it is not cheap. You could by two Waves for the price on one Weta. But then, you could probably buy two Weta’s for the price of one A cat. So, will I buy a Weta? Maybe, it depends partly on how many of you do.

Traveller,

Welcome to the site.
This post might have been better as a new topic (thread) as it's not really related to the subect of this thread, you could then have a thread to dicuss the Weta instead of hi-jacking this thread.

Sorry, will re-post when I figure out how.

:-)...I'll start the thread for you...