Marblehead Race Week - July 29-31

[Matt Rowlinson]

http://www.sailingworld.com/nood-regattas/marblehead/2011-sperry-top-sider-marblehead-nood-results

awesome sailing today--10-15 under cloudless skies & enough big shifts & puffs to make everyone look smart sometimes.  On the other hand--when things go a bit wonky, do we do 720s or 360s?  We opted for twice around but someone hailed that we only needed one--is that a class rule? News to me.   See you on the water tomorrow--team Grendel

[Justin Scott]

http://www.sailingworld.com/nood-regattas/marblehead/2011-sperry-top-sider-marblehead-nood-results

awesome sailing today--10-15 under cloudless skies & enough big shifts & puffs to make everyone look smart sometimes.  On the other hand--when things go a bit wonky, do we do 720s or 360s?  We opted for twice around but someone hailed that we only needed one--is that a class rule? News to me.   See you on the water tomorrow--team Grendel

Class rule: Twice for infractions at a mark and one otherwise.

More later.

In my elderly and befuddled state I confess that is news to me as well. Which class rule?

[Olaf Bleck]

Class rule: Twice for infractions at a mark and one otherwise.

More later.

In my elderly and befuddled state I confess that is news to me as well. Which class rule?

Hmm... interesting.  I'm directly blind-quoting someone from earlier in the weekend.   Gotta do that fact checking...!

So in fact not a rule and its thus 2 circles everywhere except when a regatta's rules say otherwise.

Maybe it's an MRA rule?  (Marblehead)

[Peter Beardsley]

Posting results from this weekend since Sailing World does not seem to archive them on the site from past years, so at least we'll have a record of Steinberg's big win down the line.  Conditions were great (I am told it is always like that in Marblehead?), 9 races on our course, variety of conditions including planing on two of the three days, Viper social events, etc.  Neither of the top two boats won a race.   Patched Up needs more patching unfortunately but that's another story -- they were sailing extremely well until that spreader failed...

Pos,Sail, Boat, Skipper, Yacht Club, Results, Total Points
1. 22, Mongoose, Ben Steinberg, none, 3-3-3-6-6-5-3-2-[9]- ; 31   
2. 18, 3 Grins, Moise Solomon, MRMHSA, 2-4-2-4-[13]-6-2-4-12- ; 36   
3. 81, Viper 172, Charles Goodrich, Stamford Yacht Club, 4-[10]-6-5-3-1-7-10-4- ; 40   
4. 98, Lo.Qi, Kay VanValkenburgh, none, 7-7-7-2-2-[12]-10-6-2- ; 43   
5. 121, Live Wire, Joseph Healey, Noroton YC, [20/OCS]-5-5-3-1-13-6-5-7- ; 45   
6. 161, Vicious Panda, Peter Beardsley, Larchmont YC, 5-2-[13]-8-7-10-5-8-5- ; 50   
7. 92, Adrenaline, Brian Barmmer, Boston Yacht Club, 10-8-8-[13]-4-8-4-1-8- ; 51   
8. USA 050, Rattler, Daniel Tucker, SAYC, [13]-11-10-1-8-3-11-7-1- ; 52   
9. 54, Mambo Kings, Justin Scott, Royal Thames YC, 11-9-4-11-12-2-1-[14]-3- ; 53   
10. CAN70, Grendel, Matt/Mark Rowlinson, Bronte Harbour YC, [15]-6-12-9-5-11-8-3-6- ; 60   
11. 56, USA 56, Olaf Bleck, byr, [16]-13-9-7-11-7-9-13-14- ; 83   
12. 39, Patched Up, Daan Goedkoop, EYC, 1-1-1-[20/DNF]-20/DNC-20/DNC-20/DNC-20/DNC-20/DNC- ; 103   
13. 108, Double D, Dawn Kozak, Raritan Yacht Club, 17-15-[20/RAF]-14-9-4-13-16-20/DNF- ; 108T   
14. 52, Business Time, Fletcher Boland, Marblehead Boating Center, 8-12-15-16-17-[20/DNF]-20/DNC-9-11- ; 108T   
15. 110, RUT ROW, Jep Peacock, Newport YC, [20/OCS]-18-16-12-15-14-12-12-10- ; 109   
16. 124, Playstation, Paul Zimmerman, Marblehead Boating Center, 12-14-14-10-14-9-[20/DNF]-20/DNC-20/DNC- ; 113   
17. 83, Purplexed, Barry Canton, Marblehead Boating, 9-16-11-[20/RAF]-10-15-14-20/DNC-20/DNC- ; 115   
18. 45, Timi's Sun, Chip Schwartz, Marblehead Boating Center, 6-19-17-15-16-16-[20/DNC]-15-13- ; 117   
19. USA 163, Eclipse, Cameron McKnight, Larchmont Yacht Club, 14-17-[20/RAF]-17-20/RAF-20/DNF-20/DNC-11-15- ; 134   

[Jason Hyerstay]

AFAIK, 720 for most fouls, 360 for hitting a mark.

jason

[Paul Zimmerman]

was not the spreader that failed.  Upper shroud attachment point on the mast. rivet must of loosened enough to shift plate bearing point. spreader broke as a result of shroud giving way

[Peter Beardsley]

Paul (or others), are there any take home maintenance tips for the rest of us on that one on what we need to be inspecting for on a semi-regular basis?