260912 PEYC Around Alone

Creation: 260907 1209 Last Modified: 260907 1209

Information

SJE will take Oh! Skippers 1000 Start 1100

260912 PEYC Around Alone SIs

Crew

Position	Person
Helm	Steve Ellwood
Main
Middle 1
Middle 2
Mast
Bow

Course

First Mark: Q4 (Glen Island) to port

• Second Mark: Q6 (Trumpour Point) to port

• Third Mark: Race Mark #3 to starboard

• Fourth Mark: Race Mark #1 to port Finish Betwen QP5 and QP6 NO Look for marks two pins

One class. NFS/FS together

Weather

9-14 knots from the south for the start, 3-4 to 12 knots from the east as we rounded the corner into the big bay, making the run into a close reach. Dead down wind from Q4 Glenn to Q6 Tampour, close hauled. close reach to Q3, close hauled Q3 to Q1, close hauled lifted right up to pass the mark. Then finish, close hauled a few tacks

Race Result

Race Review

All white sail. Great start, at the RC popped out, Mark on Lickety was behind me. None of the other boats mattered, its was nip and tuck with Mark until the last tack at the end of the race. Oh! is so not arranged for single handing. The autohelm was hopelessly unreliable. Useless. I have to hand steer with my knees holding the hiking stick while I trimmed the #1. The autohelm almost always brought the boat up head to wind - exasperating. And of course sailing the #1 is a hand full. Exhausting. Anyway boat for boat, final cross I am on starboard, Mark lee bows me directly in front - I can’t see him but I am moving and so I move positions to try to see and my bow comes up and slows. I should have thrown a protest flag but I was busy and tired.

That failure to protest was the race. I couldn’t stay there and so tacked away.

That one move bought Mark 54 seconds in the last 4 minutes of the race.

Mark may not have done anything illegal, but it was unbelievably dangerous to throw in such a tight manoeuvre single handing with big sails.

I should have continued straight and let the chips fall where they may. Duh. Tired.

Lessons Learned

I have to remember that Oh! is not a single hander. Its too much for me without a perfect autohelm in any event. Not to future Steve - no Around Along on that boat - take DuckSoup and live the good life.

Comments

Comments from the web site, captured two weeks after the event.

Lynn — 260914 0657

Herculean effort! Too bad about the auto helm :(

You put another great result on the board for Oh!

Way to go!!