Sauna Sail 2011

Hello, this website really good.

A few more there now !!

I hope to enter, but will leave it until I am sure I have recovered from the Hernia Op. Op wasn't as simple as anticipated, recovery could take longer than I hoped.

hope your back on the wire soon mate. hope recovery takes less time than you plan <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

Hi Garry, I hope you are ok and recover soon......all the best and hopefully we see you in June.

Can't wait for Sauna sail. I am back from sea on the 18th, and plan to sail at Sugarloaf a few times before hand. Just me and the wife coming down, so is there anything we should bring. I am told that all the women make a roast or something on the saturday night, and I am trying to convince my wife it is tradition for her to wear a french maid outfit but no joy.

Is there anything we should bring?

I haven't been before but I'm going with the McCrae lads this year.

They said that all I needed was a full esky, Berocca B's, and a sleeping bag.....oh.. and I could bring my boat too, if I wanted <img src="<>/shocked.gif" alt="shocked" title="shocked" height="15" width="15" />

at least youll have something to drink trev. thanks for your time having a look at the A class for me. much appreciated. bottle of jamiesons heading your way!!! thanks mate.

7 out of 25 entries so far are Mosquitoes.

So when there are 100 entries there will be 28 Mosquitoes. That sounds about right <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

OK Tim make that 8 Mossies now entered
see you all there!!!

A bit worried about 100 boats on a patch of water the size of a football field. Should I instal bumper pads or something? Keen to show off my new boat but.

Luke

It's a pretty big football field! But I can understand your trepidation. I probably won't be using the spinnaker again this year just because it makes it hard to see what's coming.

If you're sailing cat rigged you've got pretty good visibility, and it's just a matter of keeping a very good lookout at all times. If you're a sloop then it's the crews job (fault)!!!

The mark roundings can get a bit intense but you get used to staying out of the 'raft'. It always pays to go around the outside when there are 20+ boats all trying to get around the same mark. It's just more/different tactics <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

It's usually a very good weekend of sailing and socialising, at a time when not much else is happening. Also we've had a few drifters lately so there should be wind this time.....

Hi all,

so who is going to use their spinnakers <img src="<>/confused.gif" alt="confused" title="confused" height="15" width="15" />. Surely you're not going to leave me to have all the fun <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />. The look on the faces of the other fast cats <img src="<>/cry.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="15" width="15" /> is priceless, when a Mossie beats them over the line <img src="<>/mad.gif" alt="mad" title="mad" height="15" width="15" /> . Besides I need somebody else to shoulder some of the load as well, can't take all the abuse on my own <img src="<>/crazy.gif" alt="crazy" title="crazy" height="15" width="15" />.

I know that we shouldn't let the ignorance of a few dictate to us, but not having the benefit of a skin as thick as rhino-hide the

abuse

really has taken a lot of the fun out of this sport for me. To the point where I will do whatever I can to avoid sailing in the same races as these people.

So, sorry Gary, much as I would like to be sailing with the spinnaker (the only way a Mosquito should be rigged) I will stick with the Mosquito division at the Sauna Sail this year (I must remember to take a book to read on the downwind legs).

Hey Tim,

Illegitimi non carborundum

And anyway.. far too many ropes to bother about really. <img src="<>/confused.gif" alt="confused" title="confused" height="15" width="15" /> Rather than a book, what about a bottle of red and a nice cheese platter for the downwind legs <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

Cheers

Tim - What about a division of Mozzies with Kites? Surely then everybody can breath a little easier around the boatpark and furthermore the 'abusive' sailors can go back to the more standard equipment of sailing gloves rather than boxing gloves <img src="<>/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh" height="15" width="15" />

Ok, the Mozzies may have had the biggest class at the Sauna sail in recent years but getting enough of each type for two divisions is probably just a bit more than we can manage right now (would be nice though) !!!

How about a book AND the red and the cheese platter.... oh, and I have to rememeber to look where I'm going as well.

Hey Mitch, I forgot there will be a Mozzie with kite division at the McCrae Cat Champs in Nov as it will be the state titles for the spinnakers. So it will happen after all - but it's not likely at the Sauna Sail.

We get 9 Mossies with Spin for States <img src="<>/cool.gif" alt="cool" title="cool" height="15" width="15" /> , you need 10 for a division at Sauna Sail <img src="<>/crazy.gif" alt="crazy" title="crazy" height="15" width="15" /> , Mossies get good numbers at regattas <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" /> , but 2 Divs at Sauna Sail would be a complete take over <img src="<>/sick.gif" alt="sick" title="sick" height="15" width="15" /> .

What is needed is a Spinnaker Cat division, like we had for a couple of years, worked much better. It's mainly the non spinnaker

Fast

cats that do all the whinging <img src="<>/cry.gif" alt="cry" title="cry" height="15" width="15" /> . After all Mitch, when the other Spinnaker Cats get beaten over the line by Mossies with spinnaker <img src="<>/eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" /> , they know that changing the Mossie with Spinnaker Yardstick isn't going to help <img src="<>/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink" height="15" width="15" /> .

I just can't cope with the idea of sailing with out the spinnaker again, just too boring <img src="<>/tired.gif" alt="tired" title="tired" height="15" width="15" />. After the Mosquito with out Spinnaker States <img src="<>/sleep.gif" alt="sleep" title="sleep" height="15" width="15" /> , I don't want to not enjoy my sailing <img src="<>/sick.gif" alt="sick" title="sick" height="15" width="15" /> that much ever again.

Hey Matt, surely you and maybe your brother will be up for it, was great at Easter <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" /> . I have been spending some time fixing up

Thrice Bitten

while I am recovering from the Op. Hope to have a test sail next Saturday in the local winter series race, as long as wind is not strong. Intend to test out my changes and myself <img src="<>/crazy.gif" alt="crazy" title="crazy" height="15" width="15" /> . Recovery is going OK, have progressed from walking to jogging this week, improvements are quite big in a week, hope it keeps going the same way <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> and all will be OK for Sauna Sail <img src="<>/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink" height="15" width="15" /> .

hey hey gary
i have been watching this thread, u will see on the day what im doing. haha, but damn so u are telling me that you will be 98% full on with spin!!! i was hoping for an easy win haha, not that i say its hard.

I'll just let that slide Gary

Does anyone know what the long-range forecast is? Or is it too early?
I'm crossing everything I've got for wind!
Already starting to get excited - after only sailing once since the states.

Come on mozzies. We need two more for a division!

Hey Tim, the forecast has become redundant!

I'm sailing cat rigged without a kite so apparently I'm going to be bored *hitless and not enjoy myself at all.

I don't know about the rest of you non-kite sailors but I'm really looking forward to a weekend of being bored and not enjoying myself. It will be a nice break from the constant fun and exitement of work and raising a young family.

This thread has been an epiphany for me... all that time I thought I was having fun, but I wasn't. Who'd have thought?

Well said

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That's a good example of when you shouldn't post!

When Gary mentioned the

abuse

a few posts back, I'm afraid it brought up a lot of bad stuff for me and I quickly responded with some comments that led this thread down completely the wrong track. It would have been better if I'd just kept quiet.

Sorry about that everyone.

I too am very much looking forward to sailing cat rigged without spinnaker at the Sauna Sail this year!

spin or no spin, jib or no jib, i find its hard to choose which config to sail, not everyone has a kite and yes they are fun, but the wild and very tight competition in the cat rigs keeps it fun also. im just undecided and being torn apart with enjoyment in all config on a mossie

If you are wondering how the numbers are going, this will tell you:
Sauna Sail entry numbers