Round the Island Report
An eventful day had by all, involving a broken outhaul, 2 capsizes, a river pitchpole, a broken headboard (ya the one on the sail Jimmy!), a quadmaran and of course loads of pints to finish the day off.
4 Cats arrived on the start line for the 2006 Irish Examiner Round the Island race, Brendan & Rob Gill sailing A-cats and James & Chris helming their Tigers. Brendan and Rob decided to go out an hour early to get acquainted with the 25 Kts of breeze (and later on each other). After doing a couple of fast reaches up to the eastern end of spike, Rob and Brendan sailed back to the starting area to wait for the gun. Unfortunately the 2 A’s heaving too on opposite tacks proved to be the wrong decision when the two boats interlocked head on. With no control Rob’s boat bore off and I proceeded to sail backwards at 4/5 knots towards Camden. Finally within 30m of Camden I climbed out the bow to capsize the boat push Rob off. Phew!
After the gun, Chris managed the cleanest start on the busy line and we all fetched to the eastern tip of spike (missing James who broke his outhaul prior to the start). Brendan, then Rob, who started to pass Chris but unfortunatly broke his headboard, ending his race. By the time we reached spike the 2 cats had pulled a substantial lead over the mixed fleet. One tack brought Brendan across the top of spike with Chris a few minutes behind having to throw in an extra few tacks due to some unlucky shifts. Then an exciting and very slow bear away in the back channel where the wind was gusting in the late 20’s giving a very scary broad reach back to the finish line off Currabinny peer, which off course had 0 kts of breeze. Unfortunately Chris at this stage was upside down in the backchannel being caught out by a gust on the bear away.
The elapsed time for Brendan in the A-Class was 21 mins 24secs, with a 5 minute lead on corrected time.
4 Cats arrived on the start line for the 2006 Irish Examiner Round the Island race, Brendan & Rob Gill sailing A-cats and James & Chris helming their Tigers. Brendan and Rob decided to go out an hour early to get acquainted with the 25 Kts of breeze (and later on each other). After doing a couple of fast reaches up to the eastern end of spike, Rob and Brendan sailed back to the starting area to wait for the gun. Unfortunately the 2 A’s heaving too on opposite tacks proved to be the wrong decision when the two boats interlocked head on. With no control Rob’s boat bore off and I proceeded to sail backwards at 4/5 knots towards Camden. Finally within 30m of Camden I climbed out the bow to capsize the boat push Rob off. Phew!
After the gun, Chris managed the cleanest start on the busy line and we all fetched to the eastern tip of spike (missing James who broke his outhaul prior to the start). Brendan, then Rob, who started to pass Chris but unfortunatly broke his headboard, ending his race. By the time we reached spike the 2 cats had pulled a substantial lead over the mixed fleet. One tack brought Brendan across the top of spike with Chris a few minutes behind having to throw in an extra few tacks due to some unlucky shifts. Then an exciting and very slow bear away in the back channel where the wind was gusting in the late 20’s giving a very scary broad reach back to the finish line off Currabinny peer, which off course had 0 kts of breeze. Unfortunately Chris at this stage was upside down in the backchannel being caught out by a gust on the bear away.
The elapsed time for Brendan in the A-Class was 21 mins 24secs, with a 5 minute lead on corrected time.
posted by Rob Doyle at 5:28 p.m.
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