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laser salience june 2012 laser salience tuesday june 12 2012 this weekend was an eventful one with both the edmonton yacht club intercity regatta and the cyc commodore s cup up at eyc we had a tight regatta with a lot of interesting situations coming out on the race course and the score sheet the regatta was not heavily attended but the numbers were more than made up for by the close competition the excellent eyc hospitality food festivity and weather on the first day it was 3 8 knots with big and at times ominous cumulus clouds passing by and affecting the wind generally when there is a big thunderhead or big thick cloud there will be a persistent shift towards it also generally when there are a lot of small cumulus clouds the wind will oscillate more or less randomly however this weekend the cumulus clouds were quite big and it seemed that this caused a persistent shift in one direction and then that would quit and it would start to oscillate again then a persistent shift would start again sometimes in the opposite direction but soon the wind would be back to shifting somewhere around it s mean direction the problem with this is that in an oscillating breeze you want to tack on the headers whereas in a persistent breeze you want to take the headers for a while and then tack later to sail on an inside radius so when the header came it was not clear which strategy to use quick reactions informed hunches and managing the fleet where essential to make things more interesting in the full rig fleet maura d and finn g put on standard rigs to play in the larger fleet maura started off by showing the full rig sailors that radial sailors are the real deal by winning the first two races saturday am r1 r2 total maura d 1 1 2 ian h 5 2 7 ian e 2 5 7 isaac b 4 3 7 given the interesting three way tie for second lets look at how tie breaking works ties are broken based on who has the most first place finishes after the morning that would be maura but she was not tied she is well ahead of the pack since ian h ian e and isaac b all have the same number of points we look as who has the most first place finishes the most second place finishes thirds and so on until the tie is broken that would put isaac in 4th but does not separate ian h and ian e they both have the same number of 1st place finishes 2nds 3rds 4ths 5ths etc respectively none one none none one none so we move on to the next tie breaker who beat who in the last race at lunch that was ian h s 2nd beating ian e s 5th even though isaac b beat ian e in the last race ian e won the first tie breaker and that put him in second place the placing here isn t important other than to show how close the competition was i am trying to draw attention to how the scoring works rather than who placed where when another less known point about finishing is that if a race committee is unable to tell which of two or more boats finishes ahead they can tally up the points from the positions that finished simultaneously and divide them by the number of boats that were tied for example if 3rd and 4th had tied they would each receive 3 5 points if 20th 21st 22nd and 23rd all came across the finish line at the exact same time they would all receive 21 5 points of course this is all very rare and unlikely but it also tends to come up in come up in x class fleets when two competitors in different boats end up with the same adjusted time in a race more often in one design class finish recorders are encouraged to take their best guess at which boat finished first based on a consistent sighting across the finish line for a more official explanation of these tying riles take a look at how the racing rules of sailing explains it in appendix a the only way that there could be any remaining ties mentioned in a8 2 is if rule a7 comes into play back to the tight racing at eyc at the end of saturday the close results looked like this r1 r2 r3 r4 total if we already had a drop actually awarded on race 5 ian e 2 5 2 2 11 6 bill p 3 8 1 1 13 5 ian h 5 2 3 4 14 9 isaac b 4 3 4 3 14 10 maura d 1 1 6 9 17 8 six points separated the top five people and bill p was leading the pack with the anticipated drop on sunday it blew around 15 to 20 knots and bill p had an equipment failure which didn t help his motivation and he headed in to let the rest of the fleet fight it out in the standings the radial sailors stayed in full rig and were in for a ride the waves were pretty big sharp and moving significantly slower than downwind laser boat speed as peter mcd pointed out at the wabamun open you needed to sail around the big waves and find the flat spots steep waves could give you a good acceleration but unless you had an exit strategy there was often the risk of burying your bow and submarining to make matters worse the wind and waves increased as you got further downwind so when most sailors arrived at the leeward mark on starboard tack without having braved the gybe and finally went for it it was the worst time to execute the gybe the steep troughs and strongest wind on the course caused a few yard sale type scenes with numerous boats capsized around the leeward mark as a large puff hit a couple sailors even executed chicken gybes tacking instead of risking the big gybe nick h and myself put our size to good use and climbed the standings in the heavy wind among a fleet of sailors who were either radial sized or had headed for shore rather than struggle with the demanding conditions at the end of the regatta the top of the standings went as follows r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 total net ian e 2 5 2 2 1 1 1 14 9 isaac b 4 3 4 3 4 3 3 24 20 maura d 1 1 6 9 3 4 6 30 21 nick h not sure 2 2 2 30 22 ian h 5 2 3 4 5 5 4 30 23 even after seven races it was extremely close from second to fifth and maura d and isaac b demonstrated that there is a lot more to heavy wind than being big their sails were as flat as possible and they were often sheeting out two feet from the back corner of the boat in the puffs managing to keep up speed through the chop without stalling out maybe we can have maura explain how she keeps up her boat speed when she is tremendously overpowered this evening at the tuesday night race team practice one last interesting point about the results is that before the drop maura d nick h and ian h all had even scores at 30 points which would indicate that the three of them were ranked from least consistent to most consistent in the final standings at first this would seem to be a counter intuitive scoring system why then do we have drops if it rewards inconsistency but as sailors we already know the answer anything can happen on the race course knowing we have a drop lets us feel more comfortable with taking big risks and so it makes the game more exciting and the competitors more daring maura d was regularly fighting tooth and nail this regatta for the coveted risky race committee position and she often won it or came out in a good position however in race 4 she got pushed over the line and got so tangled with other boats and the committee boat that it was many seconds before she could even turn around to head back across the start line let alone start catching the fleet but drop races let us take this as a calculated risk if we are free to take risks in this unpredictable sport of ours overall the quality of racing improves when these risks pay off in the radial fleet at eyc garret t and hanny b had a good battle for first with hanny b coming out on top the radials started with the full rig fleet and got some good practice in often climbing high up the fleet mike l also came out to eyc in his international canoe and had a blast in other news we worked on upwind and downwind lanes last tuesday night race team and had a gorgeous and well attended day of thursday night racing sunday was the commodores cup but it was blown out the race was not held i heard that thom s took out his radial and blasted back and forth and that the wind was up around 30 knots yikes the next regattas coming up are the gsc driftwood regatta and there are plans in the works for one trailer to rvanyc s waves regatta on the same weekend of the 23rd and 24th i hope too see lots of you out this evening for tuesday night training and thursday for racing ian posted by ian e at 2 52 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 5 2012 the 2012 wabamun open happened this weekend and it was a regatta to remember the typical race went as follows sun chilly breeze 13 16 knots which felt like 15 20 knots 3 ft of challenging and irregular chop which felt like 5 foot chop 45minute to 1 hour and 10 minute races where is the windward mark too far upwind to see with the naked eye oscillating wind punctual race committee good food and wonderful volunteers the first race was the longest race and it set the tone for tired legs arms and core muscles this regatta reminded the competitors how incredibly physically demanding our sport is everyone who braved it and went out on the water was exhausted but loving the champagne sailing conditions huge long screaming reaches and epic knuckle biting battles as we tried to take advantagr og the big waves upwind and down and sometimes the waves took advantage of us wabamun sailing club puts on a world class regatta on the registration form there is even a spot for you to put your isaf number if ben ainslie came to the wabamun open he would put gbrca1 to which i have hyperlinked his isaf biog page mike leigh would put canml1 long courses great race management and an excellent venue good job wsc i am very much looking forward to 2012 provincials at wsc september 1 3 here are some pictures of past wsc events wabamun open 2005 ian s ian e the background picture to this blog ian h and dave e cn rail and glenmore sailboats have both used this picture in advertisements ian e uh oh this is why you should turn onto a hotter reach or further by the lee as soon as you pick up speed down a wave back at the 2012 wabamun open link to the results page here in the laser full rig fleet isaac b was unable to repeat his victory at icebreaker due to his disadvantage in weight he battled valiantly and beat me to a couple marks he finishing ahead of nick h and dave c in some races but in the end he finished in fourth place the fight for second was hotly contested by nick and dave but finally settled it in the last race with dave c in second and nick h in third place overall i had good battles with each of isaac nick and dave but in each race i ended up ahead and won the regatta in the radial fleet hanny b was consistent in third finn g had a strong showing for second place catching maura at least twice there was a disagreement between the recorded results and those remembered by finn and maura in race 6 and maura came out ahead to win the regatta there was also a fireball fleet and we were introduced to the saying it is not a francis wind out there coined by international judge steve t at a fireball world championships that hamish f and francis f attended this saying means that it is windy there was an interesting x fleet with among other boats a formula 16 catamaran and some 505s there was a strong opti fleet there with more than half the fleet sailing almost all 14 of their races in spite of the demanding conditions nice work everyone thanks to asa s coaching staff for supporting the regatta for free they helped with the opties and supporting fleets on the big course as well peter m got some great footage of the lasers and radials and ran a great video debrief saturday night if i can get ahold of some of the footage i would lake to do another blog video with it soon don t miss today s tuesday night race team practice and make plans to come out to the eyc intercity regatta next week happy training and cross training nobody myself included was fit enough for the 2012 wabamun open regatta lets get running and hitting the gym with their permission i will try to post erin f s and hannah m s workout for some inspiration ian posted by ian e at 1 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2026 1 september 1 2019 1 january 1 2018 1 december 1 2017 3 march 2 january 1 2015 5 april 3 march 2 2014 1 october 1 2013 8 november 2 june 1 may 2 april 2 january 1 2012 14 september 1 august 1 july 3 june 2 this weekend was an eventful one with both the edm the 2012 wabamun open happened this weekend and it may 6 april 1 about me ian e view my complete profile picture window theme powered by blogger