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Chariad's Season Highlights to Date June 2009 |
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Summerset
June 7th |
CHARIAD won the Corinthian Yacht Club
Summerset Regatta on Sunday. I am lost for words to describe magnitude of
the success of the CHARIAD crew. CHARIAD not only won its class (Class B)
but also beat all of the Class A boats across the finish line except one
– a Farr 40 that finished shortly before we did. The Class A boats
started about seven minutes before we started. CHARIAD crew experienced a
wonderful sailing day with lots of changes and interesting challenges. We
felt good about how well we sailed the boat and had an exhilarating
sailing day.
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Patton
Bowl
June13th |
CHARIAD finished 1st and 4th in the two races
for an overall finish of 3rd. The conditions were good for the boat in
both races, but we were working to get focused on boat speed targets and
heel angle targets and it took time to get that working smoothly. All
rigging issues were correctly set for the second race, in which we sailed
the lifted side of the small wind shifts almost perfectly. That was really
the difference in the race.
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Hospice
Regatta
June 21st |
The mighty CHARIAD and its valiant crew won
the Hospice Regatta on Sunday
in very challenging conditions.
We again beat all of the Class A boats and were the first boat to finish
the race. Most of the boats that registered for the regatta did not
venture out for the race. But if you want to play in the big leagues, you
need to be able to sail in all conditions! We have now won in very light
conditions and in very heavy conditions. There was so much wind before the
start that we did not want to put the sails up if we were not going to
actually race.
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