i'm coming in friday afternoon...hope to sail some!
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Posted: May 24, 2012 - 11:25 PM
Planning on setting up by around 10am and then getting out for a sail.
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Posted: May 25, 2012 - 03:25 AM
was IN the club Thurs night, came outside and saw a real clean freshwater H18 w/SX wings... sorry I misseed you... 2morro huh, cheers - ROb. -
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Posted: May 25, 2012 - 09:28 AM
i'm out the door and headed south! oysters, shrimp, GET IN MY BELLY!!! all we need is wind(beer, ice) and i'll be doin' fine! jump in the car and come to ocean springs, around 40 boats so far!
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Posted: May 25, 2012 - 08:46 PM
44 boats signed up and a monohull Melges 24... ok ok ... I guess we can call that 45 boats.
Welcome the Melges folks... it's a boat in the water in the days when sailing is "supposedly" on the decline...
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Posted: May 29, 2012 - 05:48 PM
Hope everyone got back home safe from Slip to Ship, Got in yesterday evening and today have been paying for having fun all weekend getting caught up with work.
What stories to we have? I know Bill has got to have something interesting to share.
Not much (hardly any) wind but years of lake sailing teach you how to handle it, even though it can make for a long day.
On Saturday we didn't finish until after 7pm when in most years it's more like 4-5pm.
On Sunday the wind was so light at the start that it took the first boat more than an hour to just make it into the Biloxi pass. So the race PRO made the wise decision to shorten the normal "Round Deer Island" course to just "Round Channel Marker 12 and Come Back". I think everyone was relieved not to have a 6 hour tour of the island after the previous days marathon.
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Posted: May 29, 2012 - 05:51 PM
Link to final results
http://www.osyc.com/filem…lts_By_Race_By_Fleet.pdf
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Posted: May 29, 2012 - 09:55 PM
Hi Damon, Cyndi on race committee is plugging in your crew and we'll repost... not forgoten.. everyone's in TAKE A DEEP BREATH mode after the weekend....
Not to divert traffic, but some good pix on facebook too for OSYC and OSSS..
I'm going to get on sanding my top battens for some curve in my main...
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Posted: May 29, 2012 - 10:34 PM
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.
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Posted: May 30, 2012 - 02:29 PM
Sounds like Bill definitely pushed the party side of a regatta weekend.
But for the others that soldiered away in the very light air it was worth it in the end. All weekend I felt light I was sailing like crap. Mostly because of the conditions but also because it was my first races since the Juana Good Times last September.
They had some cool trophies though, we used this same type for years at the Broken Mast Regatta with the Memphis Hobie Fleet.
Mine had the diamond spreader bar attachments!
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Posted: May 31, 2012 - 06:44 PM
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.
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Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 06:32 PM
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?
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Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 07:05 PM
You don't even want to see our course track Damon.....
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Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 07:10 PM
Did you follow Kirk to the wrong piece of the Island?
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Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 07:12 PM
I guess you could say that.
Popped our chutes once we realized,
Was a nice double trapped spin run down to the island though.
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Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 12:20 PM
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!
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Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 12:28 PM
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).
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Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 05:06 PM
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!
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