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Summer Series 2004 Race Results
Race 3 started off bizarre, at best. There was an extra horn blown which threw off various skippers in various ways. Some were early and called back, Grins, Sling Shot, and Rossinante, some were late and thought they were early, Blidevind, and some thought they were late but were right on time! The near-gale winds did not help, as every boat on the course was overpowered but none were willing to give up speed by reducing sail. As Rossinante made her re-start around the start pin, she got in the way of Tango who was roaring along for a solid start on starboard tack. He had to give way as Rossinante was unable to in time. And though Rossinante did her 360 immediately, having thrown Tango off his course and forcing him to restart caused him to lose all hope of placing for that race. The race to the windward mark was harrowing with all the wind, somehow Rossinante beat her entire class to the mark in spite of her dual pirouettes at the start line, and the rounding at the mark was wild with close quarters, but no contact made. Other than being severely overpowered, and therefore very exciting, race one ran its course with no further mishaps. Race 4 had a clean start, but again, we were all overpowered. On the first windward leg Rossinante got laid over taking green water over her gunnels, when she rounded up so fast completely out of control that she stood up and laid back over the other direction, having made an instant 180 degree flip, the soggy genoa sheet never had a chance to get untied and the whole sail backwinded and laid her over, this time directly in starboard Tango's path again , who was so laid over that we could see air under his keel , and somehow he had the control and experience with another Catalina rounding up so fast like that, that he kept Tango on a straight course in spite of laying over so far, avoiding what appeared to Rossinante's skipper as a potentially fatal accident. For that avoidance Rossinante is eternally grateful to Tango's competant single-handing skipper. GOOD JOB, Bob. The rest of the race was again fast and exciting, with winds gusting up to 32 mph, or so, and it was a good race day for all involved. Readers may notice this write up is heavily weighted in Rossinante's view of the races. This writer requested race stories from all the boats for a good race writeup, having been so busy on Rossinante I didn't have time to observe how everyone else fared. From Bob Miles on Sling Shot: During second race going upwind we lost our tiller extender making it very difficult to hike out in the strong winds. We needed more rail meat! Please, anyone else involved in the racing, send in anything you can remember and we'll add it to the writeup! RACE #3
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