Sonar Fleet 1
Noroton YC
Last week’s version of team 500. Now we know their secret weapon!
Racing News:
The northerly last Sunday did its usual thing...shifty, puffy conditions. Still, at the end of the day, we got in three races thanks to PRO Chris Zaleski and his RC.
The LIS Championships at Sachem’s Head attracted some of our fleet, Lee Morrison, Scott Harrison and Peter Galloway to be precise, but we still managed to get 10 boats on the line. Winning the day was team 500 (l to r above) Randy Tankoos, Bill Jayson, Gillian Jayson and Will Graves. Second went to Ed Sweeney and third was Kevin Sheehan with partner Palmer Sparkman.
Here are the results:
Jayson 1 5 1 = 7
Sweeney 3 2 3 = 8
Sheehan/Sparkman 4 1 5 = 10
Each race was a D2. It is interesting to note that there was only a 2 minute separation between the first and last boats for each race. So even the last place boats had lots of action at each mark rounding...trust me, I know! :(
LIS Championships:
As I mentioned, Fleet 1 had three boats participate in the LIS Championships. Scott Harrison, with crew Warren Costikyan and Adam Westerman finished third behind two local boats. Peter Galloway finished 4th and Lee Morrison finished 9th.
Kirby Cup:
The Kirby Cup team race, hosted by Noroton YC is coming this weekend. Sailed in Sonars, teams represented are Noroton YC Fleet 1, Marblehead, MA Fleet 14, Texas Corinthian YC Fleet 13, New York YC Fleet 15, Vineyard Haven YC Fleet 28 and Seawanhaka YC Fleet 24.
Spectators are welcome to come out to watch the racing from Volunteer which will be on station in the vicinity of the race course. If you are not familiar with team racing, you should come and check it out. The races are short with lots of action so there is very little down time!
Peter’s Corner: Rule’s questions and answers from Senior Judge Peter Wilson.
Answers to last week’s questions:
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If we take the zone away, when Blue becomes overlapped to leeward of yellow as a result of yellow crossing head to wind in her tack, blue can luff to prevent yellow from completing her tack so long as she gives yellow room to keep clear. Yellow is subject to rule 13, and must keep clear. Blue does not have to let yellow complete her tack.
However, as this incident happens inside the zone at the pin end of the finish, some other rules come into play that put some other obligations on blue. As the boats were on opposite tacks when the first of them (yellow) entered the zone, rule 18 does not apply at position 1 or 2. However, once yellow passes head to wind both she and blue are on port tack at position 3. Now rule 18.2(a) applies and blue must immediately begin to give yellow mark-room. And, as neither boat is fetching the mark (see definition of fetching), rule 18.3 does not apply.
Yellow is entitled to mark room, which is room to sail a seamanlike course to the mark and then her proper course while at the mark. Blue cannot luff up to force yellow to steer a course at or above the pin because this is not ‘to the mark’. At position 4 yellow has come down to close-hauled and blue is still a little above close-hauled, giving yellow mark-room.
After yellow passes head-to-wind in position 3, she is still a tacking boat and then in position 4 a windward boat, so she must keep clear of blue, which she does. If there is contact between yellow and blue at position 3 or 4, as long as yellow is sailing to the mark she will be exonerated from breaking rule 13 or 11, and blue would break 18.2(a). Blue must be very careful trying to break up the slam dunk inside the zone and is taking a big risk once yellow is on port tack.
This week’s question:
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Fleet Racing:
As a reminder, there will be no fleet racing this Sunday, September 20, due to the Kirby Cup.
I Have Way to Much Time on my Hands:
I guess creating this newsletter and posting it here wasn’t enough for me. I still felt unfulfilled so I created a new online destination for everyone. It is a new social network for all things Sonar. You can find it by clicking on the following link:
http://sonarclass.ning.com/
It is a work in progress but the cool thing is everyone can participate! If you have any questions, whether it be rules or measurement or whatever, just create a forum discussion. Anything you want to blog about? Just do it! Add or check out events. Download photos or video. Create groups (I created a Fleet 1 group for any discussions specific to our our fleet). It’s kinda like a mini Facebook or MySpace only interesting!
I hope everyone will sign in and try it out. The more we use it, the more we’ll want to use it.
This week’s events:
Saturday 9/19 - Sunday 9/20 - Kirby Cup team race.
Upcoming events:
Sunday 9/27 - Last fleet race before the Worlds
Tuesday 9/29 - Sunday 10/4 - Sonar World Championships
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