Alberg 30 Racing

Great race story Mike!

2011-07-11T15:28:24.234-04:00

Great race story Mike!

Wow, great close finish! Thanks for the write-up, ...

2011-07-05T13:15:51.838-04:00

Wow, great close finish! Thanks for the write-up, Mike. I was away on vacation and missed the fun.

Tim, thanks for posting a write-up. It was a fasci...

2010-09-25T10:02:48.775-04:00

Tim, thanks for posting a write-up. It was a fascinating finish.

I'm sorry - a Webbie with a skilled AND good l...

2010-03-14T21:23:12.313-04:00

I'm sorry - a Webbie with a skilled AND good looking crew!! That deserves a comment. Mine signed on in 1978.

Jonathan, regarding that race in the storm--we bar...

2009-08-26T09:20:00.785-04:00

Jonathan, regarding that race in the storm--we barely made it around that windward mark. The storm was just kicking in as we tacked to round it when our jib got stuck in our spinnaker pole. Talk about bad timing. It pushed us into the mark and we had to round twice! Thankfully, the storm really kicked in about 30 seconds after we did our second (and successful) rounding. Great times.

--Tim
LinGin #244

Thanks for the great write-up Jonathan! Sorry I fe...

2009-08-25T10:07:25.150-04:00

Thanks for the great write-up Jonathan! Sorry I fell off the wagon writing these things up... Will try and get back on the horse this week!

Actually, it's more of a new england thing. We...

2009-06-18T13:14:15.403-04:00

Actually, it's more of a new england thing. We had some new englandas on the boat last night and a numba of pithy comments were made...

But yeah, honfest 2009 was last weekend, and bawlmer-ese is definitely a different language...

Hey hon, I guess you've fully adopted the ling...

2009-06-18T12:18:41.310-04:00

Hey hon, I guess you've fully adopted the linguistic style of your new hometown, Baltimore, huh? :)

It was great to finally have some wind and a great race!

Wow, what consistency! Andante hopes to be back f...

2009-06-09T12:46:35.931-04:00

Wow, what consistency! Andante hopes to be back for the Canadians.

J, Calliope looks great! Could I get your email? T...

2009-06-02T21:34:53.792-04:00

J, Calliope looks great! Could I get your email? Thx

tom.forhan@gmail.com

Tim- Great report. Love the picture of David. Tha...

2009-05-28T10:47:17.720-04:00

Tim-

Great report. Love the picture of David. Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and congrats on the win!

J

Hey Glen there is nothing wrong with a little afte...

2009-05-14T16:38:00.000-04:00

Hey Glen there is nothing wrong with a little afterguy malfunction. It happens to all of us...

Wish I could have gotten some pictures though... Next time believe me I will have my finger on the shutter.

Congrats on the ace.

It was a great night to be sailing! Here's a summ...

2009-05-14T16:13:00.000-04:00

It was a great night to be sailing!

Here's a summary from LinGin's perspective:

Thanks to some crew foul-ups on my part we were a few seconds too late to the line for Tim to work his usual magic. But two Catalina's politely tacked away early and mostly cleared our air. We stayed on starboard, and saw some lift?, for longer than most which turned out to be plain lucky for us. I think it put us in a position further out in the river so that, when we tacked onto port, we had more room to go right. So much that we tacked back to starboard on what eventually, after a few dozen oscillations, turned out to be the layline for the windward mark. (With the boisterous sailing I was mostly head-down working on trim so I don't really know how everyone else negotiated the beat.)

At the rounding we went for what might have been an ill-advised gybe set. Ill-advised only in that I didn't have the afterguy set before the hoist and some drama ensued. The good news, in my opinion, is no photos means no evidence. :)

We ate into a good bit of Argo's lead, surfing at 7kts, on the run when they didn't fly the chute. A conservative douse and rounding at the red nun had us within 3-4 lengths of Argo and slightly to windward. We went into that slightly awkward not-quite-closehauled-trim regime and Tim worked the helm and called trim to stay tight with Argo.

Entering the harbor, we both came up tight on the wind. It was shifty and puffy hard to keep the sails filled without falling off quite a bit. Tim applied his finger-tip control to the 9000lb. A30. TC, probably due to shifts and boats, sailed a little lower. At the seawall they tacked and crossed us but the down-speed second tack back onto port robbed all the mo they had left. Tim's high wire tight-rope act at the helm just managed to keep us above the seawall and AYC docks to single-tack it to the line, sliding under Argo to take the gun at the last moment!

It was a great night for a sail.

-Glen

J, We had trouble at the start putting a reef in ...

2009-05-14T15:53:00.000-04:00

J,

We had trouble at the start putting a reef in the main. It was very painful watching the electronic sands drip through the electronic hourglass as my crew wrestled with rigging. The result was a boat end start that was about 1 minute after the gun. However, we aboard LinGin enjoy a challenge and to your point about better to be in clear air than on time, we found ourselves in very clear air with options abounding.

We had watched the previous classes and liked the progress of the boats that went left and did so ourselves. We rounded a good bit behind Argo and once we had our kite up, watched them raise and immediately douse theirs. I'm not sure what the issue was, but I definitely think there was a problem--T.C. would have preferred to fly it.

We didn't pass T.C. under spinnaker, but we caught up and were less than 1 boat length behind at the red nun. We followed closely all the way into the harbor.

The harbor was VERY puffy, with 20+ degree shifts. We were sometimes making the line without tacking and sometime ridiculously low, looking like we would ram the boats at AYC.

T.C. bore off a bit during one of the shifts and we held high, backwinding the jib quite a bit. It paid off, though. T.C. put in a hitch to get around the docks and pass in front. Once he tacked back, though, we had slid by, just barely making the docks.

It was quite a photo finish. Sometimes that trick works, other times we're not so lucky with the shifts.

All and all a GREAT night of sailing. Too much fun.

It's great to see the white sail boats out there! ...

2009-05-12T15:11:00.000-04:00

It's great to see the white sail boats out there! The more the merrier.

LinGin was sporting that same look right before the NOODs. You are such a follower, Larry. ;-)

Tim- I am made of bright ideas, buddy. It was a...

2009-05-11T21:31:00.000-04:00

Tim-

I am made of bright ideas, buddy.

It was a great event, and I can't overstate how much I enjoyed sailing with your crew. Truly a wonderful boat and a great crew.

J

J, great write up. It seems you and my crew get a...

2009-05-11T10:42:00.000-04:00

J, great write up. It seems you and my crew get along pretty well...don't get any bright ideas, okay?! ;-)

I'm glad everyone had a good time. It was killing me spending the day on shore with all that wind. Just killed me.

--Tim

J, great write-up. Thanks for the detail; I can ne...

2009-05-11T09:45:00.000-04:00

J, great write-up. Thanks for the detail; I can never remember the sequence so well. :) And thanks for coming out with us, it was great fun and educational as always.

I also want to say what a great job Garret did. Between main trim--critical in the slightly overpowered regime, tacking, and foredeck, he was everywhere. He's picked up foredeck especially well and put in a solid error-free performance up there. Both of you handled well the puffy, shifty conditions with an inexpert helmsman...even when he accidentally let the afterguy run free. :)

Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a great day.

Agreed. Garrett did an incredible job of working b...

2009-05-11T09:44:00.000-04:00

Agreed. Garrett did an incredible job of working both the point and the main, as well as trimming. He did, indeed, manage to be everywhere!

2009-05-11T09:29:00.000-04:00

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Looks nice! Great to see this award being put out...

2009-05-06T11:31:00.000-04:00

Looks nice! Great to see this award being put out there. I'm hoping we'll see some enthusiasm from the fleet to get involved with this.

J-- Coming around from Whitehall each week, we ge...

2009-05-05T12:01:00.000-04:00

J--

Coming around from Whitehall each week, we get a preview of the conditions and depending on how late we're running, we get to see the first class or two (or three...) coming up the windward leg. We liked what we saw on the boats that went left and decided to head that way ourselves at the start. There were a couple of moments when we saw some shifts right that made us nervous, but the pressure around Greenbury created a left shift, I think, and overall it worked out.

Once around the windward mark, we were keeping a close eye on big boats coming back and potentially covering us. The trip back in always becomes more of a nail-biter, since the wind decreases the further you get into the harbor. We rounded the red nun and kept quite high to (hopefully) ensure clear air into the creek.

In the WNR, it's never over until you cross the finish line. We saw a couple of boats (in other classes) get their wind sucked away by the Chart House "wind tractor beam" and worried it could happen to us. Argo and L'Esprit were getting closer...

In the end we maintained our lead and took the gun.

We enjoyed seeing Brian and the crew of L'Esprit sneak over T.C. and Argo right at the line. (Brian is former LinGin crew so we're alway proud when he's successful--just not too successful!)

Great fun. We're bummed about having a week off. Let's see everyone that's registered out there on the line next race!

Nice blog! Original yacht design found here

Yeah, peter we are at PSA on the 9th. I can't make...

2009-05-02T11:51:00.000-04:00

Yeah, peter we are at PSA on the 9th. I can't make it because I have an exam, but the rest of us will be there. It was good seeing you out there! See you on the water!

You guys were awesome. Are you racing MRSA on May...

2009-04-30T20:06:00.000-04:00

You guys were awesome. Are you racing MRSA on May 9?

If not we'll see you on the way to Miles River

P Zahn
Catalina 27 Fleet 8