Tag: Afterthought

Lighter winds and cooler temperatures for the final day of the Annapolis NOOD regatta. We gave it what we had, but just weren’t able to improve our score in the final two races.  With winds up and down and forming lanes up and down the course, we just weren’t able to string enough pressure together to keep us moving.  Despite the scores, it was still a fun weekend and I want to thank Craig & Susan Wright on Afterthought for having me along.

2013 Annapolis NOOD: Sunday - Trimming Spin
2013 Annapolis NOOD: Sunday - Looking for wind

Photos above courtesy of Carrie Russell

2013 Annapolis NOOD: Sunday - Watching Fleets start

Photos | Results

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With winds up and down it was a tough day on the water today.  We’re still 3rd on points, but ceded a few points and are tied with several boats very close behind us.  We’ll need a few good results tomorrow to stay on the podium.  All in all our maneuvers went much better than yesterday, but we did find ourselves on the wrong side of some shifts making it hard to  stay in the top spots.

2013 Annapolis NOOD - Saturday - leaving hte harbor

Racing today was in anywhere from 5 knots all the way up into the mid-teens in the last race of the day with mostly sunny skies and temperatures comfortable in the 60-70’s.  I’d have more pictures today, but the camera with all of the shots on it was left in the boat for the night.

2013 Annapolis NOOD: Saturday going downwind

This seemed to be the story of my day… more overrides on the winch in a day of racing than I think I’ve had in years of racing.

2013 Annapolis NOOD: Saturday - Winch override.

Here is a Spinsheet photo of us approaching a mark during racing on Friday (I’m on the low side about to ease the jib):

Results

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2013 Annapolis NOOD - Friday - Jon Trimming Chute

We had as good of conditions as we could have asked for on the first day of racing at the Annapolis NOOD Regatta.  Sailing in the J/109 fleet aboard Afterthought we had a pretty good day going 3-2-5 and ending up 3rd in the 7-boat fleet.  We sailed on the southern-most course by Tolly Point and had winds building through the 10-17+ knot range.

In race one we had a tough start and had to tack out.  We were DFL around the windward mark.  We enjoyed watching that on the big screen at the race party knowing we made some smart moves on the rest of the race to claw our way up to a 3rd.

In the 2nd race we got a great start and picked the first upwind well and just extended the entire race.  Rush was just ahead of us and while we could almost hang with them, we certainly weren’t closing on them.

2013 Annapolis NOOD - Friday - Jon Trimming Jib

For the 3rd race we had another good start and for this race the fleet stayed bunched on the first windward leg.  We were 3 or 4 downwind and then on the 2nd upwind we ended up on the wrong side of a shift and dropped to 6th.  Picked up on boat downwind to finish 5th putting us into 3rd overall – 3 points out of 2nd and 5 points ahead of 4th.

Tomorrow we’re expecting a little lighter winds and a chance to move up a bit.

2013 Annapolis NOOD - Friday - FBYC Sailors

Some of the sailors from Fishing Bay Yacht Club.

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