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Offline Will_Lee

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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2009, 02:30:18 PM »
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2009, 04:27:48 PM »
was a brillant sail indeed, sailed it in a friends b14, downwind was amazing, until the boat started sinking after somehow hitting the bottom 500m away from the shore  :-\
didnt quite make it to the bridge!!

but at least the Captain(me) went down with his ship :D

Loco's, due to me having to spend the afternoon recovering the boat and not being able to get back to the club to collect my harness. Did you guys grab it for me? if so i'll collect it at lymington.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2009, 09:37:06 PM »
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2009, 07:17:44 AM »
This was an incredible sail, had everything, 20-25kt downwind full on for 10 miles, big beat accross the estuary and interesting times getting to and under the bridge. We never had a hint of running aground although did have to do 2 tactical capsises to remove enormours clumps of weed from the T-foil !

Once again sheppey showed itself to be a freindly and hospitable club, I'll be there again next year, would be great to think it might become a bit of a cherub thing !
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2009, 08:24:45 AM »
http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/compare/round-sheppey-2009/activity-2009-09-05-084510#

This is us and the other bosun. I can't synch them up - but you can adjust the sliders so we start together, which is what actually happened.

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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2009, 12:33:26 PM »
A bosun eh!

One of the most unchanged classes from the original design/layout in my experience.  They  only allowed hyfield levers in the mid 1990's after a rule change.

i have had the pleasure of sailing the quite heavy bosuns on three ocasions and notice that the weather/lee helm is very sensitive to heel angle due to the round bottom.  more so than other boats I've sailed.   Consequently they need a lot of wind to plane and when they do they kick up a lot of spray.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2009, 02:26:14 PM »
Yes - it was great. And slow!

I am not sure I believe the story of weather/lee helm and round bilges or hard chines. Some people think that it is chines which cause and some people think that it is round bilges which cause it! An explanation is the movement of the centre of drive of the rig over the centre of drag of the hull. Move the drive out to windward and the boat bears away. Move it to leeward and you are in Luffsville Tenessee.

If the Bosun's rudder load is v sensitive to heel, could it be down to the tall rig and the non-balanced rudder?

We have a great photo of the bow nearly going in IOR style, with much spray all around.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2009, 12:45:03 PM »
But when you are planning in something like a bosun or a wayfarer, at the incredible speeds of 7-8 knots, with sheets of spray everywhere you know it is going to take a lot to stop you.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2009, 02:52:07 PM »
I believe Eddie summed this one up best in one word AWESOME . From the start to shellness was a huge downhill blast with big waves and bigger wind, it took us 40 mins to cover the distance with riot van just behind us. On the beat up the Swale we pulled  a little ahead only to stuff it in (wobbly leg syndrome), so we were close right up to the bridge. We got through ahead of the pack while Graham and Eddie were caught up as a windsurfer got stuck under a pontoon. It ended with a flat water downhill blast to the finish where we maxed out at 28.2 kmh. Results are a little optimistic as the club had us down for 975 but we were 4th, Riot van 14th, Will & dad 78th and James aka Ratface Davey jones' locker.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2009, 01:42:24 AM »
I'm gutted to have missed this one - conditions sounded great. I did it in a RS700 several years ago and have never managed to get back since.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2009, 08:11:08 AM »
Dean and Simon and Graham and Eddie:

Do you have your GPS tracks? Yours compared to ours would be v amusing!
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2009, 02:34:13 PM »
Will I do have our gps track, however being a bit dim with computers I'm not sure how to put it on the website. If someone can let me know how ( in english) it would be interesting.
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2009, 04:01:24 PM »
Errr, I know what II am doing with computers .... but dont own a GPS, so embarrassing ....
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #28 on: September 16, 2009, 11:10:17 PM »
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Re: Round Sheppy Race - Sat 5th September
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2009, 07:43:49 PM »
Video of the event:

(Not much cherub action - you all went past our Bosun so fast!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVPezcYbZDM
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