I’ve been trying to go back and watch some of the Olympic sailing as most of it happened during working hours on the east coast. While I can watch the replays that are 6 hours daily – the website is terrible and makes you watch 2-3 minutes of ads every time you skip around. So as I’ve been finding the actual racing events, I’ve kept a list to be able to come back and watch certain events an so I’ve collected them here to share. If you’ve found others, drop a comment and I’ll update this with those notes and with more as I work my way through the replay coverage.

This is from the NBC Olympic Coverage accessed through a cable account. I don’t know if these are the same timings from Peacock, but would assume they would be similar.

The Schedule/Replay links: https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule/sport/sailing

Sunday 7/28

  • 2:55:00 men’s skiff

Monday 7/29

  • 0:00 women’s skiff race 4
  • 1:13:00 women’s skiff race 5
  • 1:57:00 women’s skiff race 6

Tuesday 7/30

  • 0:34:00 Men’s Windsurfing
  • 0:47:00 Women’s Windsurfing
  • 0:59:00 Men’s Windsurfing
  • 1:13:00 Women’s Windsurfing
  • 1:38:00 Men’s Windsurfing
  • 2:05:00 Men’s Windsurfing Race 5
  • 2:32:00 Men’s Windsurfing
  • 3:08:00 Men’s Skiff Race 8 – start at 3:11:00

Wednesday 7/31

  • 0:05:00 Women’s Windsurfing
  • 3:00:00 Men’s Skiff
  • 4:03:00 Men’s Skiff

Thursday 8/1

  • Men’s Dinghy – initially postponed; Race 1 starts around 0:52:00
  • 2:24:00 Men’s Skiff – start at 2:31:00
  • 4:15:00 Men’s Skiff – eventually abandoned

Friday 8/2

  • 0:00:00 49er fix medial
  • 0:57:00 49er men medal race

Saturday 8/3

  • 0:00:00 Windsurf
  • 4:00:00 Mixed Dinghy

Sunday 8/4

  • 0:00:00 Men’s dinghy – general recall – second start ~10 min later
  • 1:36:00 mixed multihull
  • mixed multihull race 6?
  • 2:17:00 mixed multihull
  • 3:06:00 mixed multihull

Monday 8/5

  • 02:55:00 Women’s Dinghy Race 9
  • 04:21:00 Women’s Dinghy Race 10. (Abandoned at 0:4:35)

Tuesday 8/6

Doesn’t seem to have commercials.

  • 0:01:00 Mixed Dinghy 470 Race 7 (Start at 0:12:00)

Wednesday 8/7

  • 0:00:30 Women’s Dinghy Medal Race
  • 0:32:42 Men’s Dinghy Medal Race – Abandoned at 1:10:00
  • 1:56:50 Men’s Dinghy Medal Race

Thursday, 8/8

  • 0:00:50 Mixed Dinghy 470 – start at 0:12:45
  • 0:42:00 Mixed Multi hull Medal Race – start at 0:52:50
  • 3:32:30 Men’s Kite – start 3:40:30
  • 4:18:00 Women’s Kite – start at 4:25:30 (finish at 4:32:10 – 6 minutes!?!?!)
  • 4:38 Men’s Kite Final – start at 4:40:40
  • 5:07:45 Women’s Kite Final – start at 5:13:35
  • 5:22:40 Men’s Kite Final – start at 5:29:20
  • 5:36:00 Women’s Kite Final – start at 5:41:41
  • 5:50:45 Men’s Kite Final – start at at 5:54:40

Friday, 8/9

  • 0:00:00 Men’s Kite Final – Race 2
    • 1:24:45 Men’s Kite Medal Ceremony

Saturday 8/10

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A beautiful 4th of July day greeted nearly 30 boats for the Long Distance Race at Fishing Bay Yacht Club.  I was sailing the ILCA against Melges 15, Flying Scot, San Juan 21 and Wetas in a Portsmouth Handicap race that sailed from Fishing Bay, out of the Piankatank near Stingray Point and back into the river finishing in Fishing Bay.  I also used this as an opportunity to try out some new camera positions with the Insta360 X4 on the mast and the insta360 AcePro on a new stern mount (more on that to come).

Out on the water we had about 8 knots out of the south. Approaching the start – with so many boats much bigger than I was, I wanted to be near the boat so I could tack out and keep my air clear.  There were several other Melges 15s hanging around the boat as well.  In the final minute lead up to the start as I was coming up to the boat, one of the Melges 15s tried to barge in and gybed right in front of me causing me to avoid them. I hailed protest and they sailed away to do turns.  Unfortunately, in dealing with that and not having the space I should have had, I got to the boat too early.  Knowing I was over early, I sheeted in to go around the boat and restart with about 20 seconds to go.  But then I looked back and the new mount for the AcePro on the back of the boat was nowhere to be seen.  I slid back to see that the mount had failed and it was now pointed below the water filming the bottom of the boat.  Thankfully everyone else was over the line early earning us all a general recall and a chance for me to fix the camera and restart with everyone else.

The second start went a lot better. I was able to win the boat and stay in clear air on the first beat. I arrived at the first weather mark with 3-4 Melges 15s ahead of me and a San Jaun 21 and a Weta just behind me.  The second leg was a reach to Piankatank 8 and the boats with asymmetrical spinnakers were able to carry them and cruise by everyone. I did my best despite dropping a couple spots.  At Piankatank 8, we headed downwind to the North towards Stingray Point.  Another Melges 15 and a couple Flying Scots got past me on this leg.

The next leg started the journey back along the same course we came from.  Sailing upwind I favored the right towards Stove Point to stay out of the current.  I’m not sure, but I think there was more wind to the Left and Mark W, who was also in an ILCA was further out and made up some ground on me. From Piankatank 8 to 11 was a close reach, thankfully close enough that the spinnaker boats couldn’t deploy them.  I rounded 11 to head downwind on the final leg to the finish in Fishing Bay.  I was the 12th boat to finish and ended up being 8th on corrected time.

Thanks to Lew and his crew for running the races.  It was a great way to spend a Thursday on the 4th of July.

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We had a small fleet for a summer race to Wolf Trap Light House and back. There were 6 spinnaker boats and the two boats in the PHRF-A fleet were us on the J99 Battle Rhythm and the J109 Afterthought.

We started in the Piankatank just off Gwynns Island and had winds in the low teens out of the SSE and mostly sunny. There was a bit of traffic at the start with all of the boats piling up at the starboard end of the line which happened to be the government mark. We had to dodge a few boats and once we got clear we hung with Afterthought upwind on the way out of the Piankatank.

Once we cleared the river we continued upwind south to Wolf Trap light. With the current going out of the bay it was advantageous to continue on starboard all the way out into the bay. We got to the layline a couple miles from the lighthouse and tacked onto Port.  Afterthought had continued to inch further away from us and was about ½ mile ahead of us by the time we got to the light house.  And the wind out here was around 6-8 knots.

At Wolf Trap we rounded and set the A2 spinnaker and headed downwind. We sailed this spinnaker for a bit hoping the wind would build into its range, but it didn’t come and we decided to do a spinnaker change to the A1. While Kevin, Len and Carrie got the old spinnaker down, I grabbed the tack and halyard and got it hooked to the new spinnaker and after Kevin wrestled the chute into the hatch and Len hooked up the sheet I jumped the halyard on the mast and we had the new spinnaker flying in just over a minute.

Another new trick for this race was having the chart and instruments on the iPad. We also set up some time graphs with one of them being VMG and so after we changed spinnaker we were able to see from the chart that we were getting at least a tenth more VMG.

We continued North to the Piankatank, saw a huge pod of dolphins  and eventually rounded into the river where we went somewhat upwind to the finish off Gywnns Island. On corrected time we would be about 14 minutes behind Afterthought.

All in all it was a good day of racing. Learned a few more tricks on the boat and had fun racing with Kevin, April, Carrie, Todd, Len, and Ann.

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Today I got to join a group from nearby Mathews Yacht Club as they visited Washington DC and the Clipper Round the World Race that had a stopover there. One of their members, Klas, is racing aboard the Quindao boat. He and a few other crew gave us all a tour of the boat and told us what life was like aboard.

It was fascinating to see how these boats were setup and how constrained the space was down below for the 24 people they typically have aboard at a time.

CLIPPER AROUND THE WORLD RACE | PHOTOS | VIDEO

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We had a very light air race for the Cut Channel Race at FBYC. With only 4 of us on the boat – Todd, April, Tony and Jon we managed the boat in the light air without too much difficulty.

At the start, we set the spinnaker for the mostly downwind leg in the bay while the wind switched on us a couple of times. We had some confusion about the course and didn’t end up too far off course, but got behind the rest of the fleet, and stayed to the north and up current. As a result of being behind the wind filled from the north west and carried us past most of the fleet. We reached back and forth in pressure trying not to get ahead of the puff to keep our momentum. We rounded in second right behind Corryvreckan to head mostly upwind for 4 miles into the Rappahannock.

Again we stayed north of Corryvreckan and Afterthought and made some good gains while the wind filled. Once it started to drop as we entered the Rappahannock, it got squirrelly with current and Afterthought and Corryvreckan slipped by us.

After 5 hours of sailing, as we were going by Stingray Point Light and re-entering the Piankatank, the time limit expired despite doing the shorter course. No boats finished the course and all headed back to the dock. It was a fun day of sailing and did pretty well with only 4 us. We learned some things about the boat and had some good stretches of actually sailing our targets where we really got the boat dialed in.

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Jon launching from the beach. Photo by Heather Fields.
Jon launching from the beach. Photo by Heather Fields.

A few ILCA sailors decided to crash the 4th Spring Series race day and 3 boats made it out to the line to race. It was a windy day with a South-West wind in the upper teens with some gusts into the low 20’s. We sailed 3 races and I was able to stay close to Scott Adam, but just could match his speed to pass or stay ahead of him for long. Still a fun day on the water and glad to get some more time in plenty of wind. Thanks to Mike Toms for running RC.

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In June Jess and I visited friends in two cities in New Mexico.

Albuquerque

We started in Albuquerque visiting a college friend of mine and his family. We explored a few places in town and then took a ride up the Sandia Peak Tramway to see the sunset.

Jon, Jess & Chris exploring old town
Jon, Jess & Chris exploring old town
Riding the Sandia Peak Tramway
Riding the Sandia Peak Tramway
Watching the sun set from Sandia Peak
Watching the sun set from Sandia Peak

Santa Fe

The rest of the trip was with our friends Laurie & John who were visiting Santa Fe and rented a house there. We explored Santa Fe. Did some day trips to Taos and Bandalier National Monument with plenty of sight seeing and hiking in between.

Santa Fe Railyard
Santa Fe Railyard
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
Ojo Caliente Hot Springs
Ojo Caliente Hot Springs
Cliff dwellings in Bandelier National Monument
Cliff dwellings in Bandelier National Monument

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