UK Cherub Inlands - Corus SC

[phil_kirk]

I agree with you on that one Jim

When ever we tried to be tactical we lost out from having done the extra tacks or at best came out with no gain.

We did keep looking to the left to see Shiny going faster and pointing higher and wishing we were there too.

You can't teach an old DOG new tricks but it does seem to remember all the old ones.

Andy,

We are back at Corus this Sunday for the final event of our regional enterprise series. De ja vue?  I'd rather be sailing the Cherub!

[dave_ching]

It was just Shiny then.
We went for the tacking on the shifts and gained most of the time.
We would go around the leeward mark behind Andy and hit the windward mark ahead or level.
The only time we would loose out is the time we spent going in the same direction.

[paul_croote]

I found on the Saturday that most of the time there was a wind bend on the right side of the coarse abeam the clubhouse. Most beats we tacked on it  and when we got to the middle of the lake we tacked back onto starboard where we seemed to get a bit of a lift towards the mark. It didnt work every beat but seemed to work more often than not. Did anyone else find somethng like this or was I imagining it? 

[andy_peters]

I think it changed.  On Saturday doing less tacks and ignoring the shifts to a large extent seemed to work.  On Sunday it didn't and taking the shifts was quicker.  We used boat speed to keep Dave level or behind, and when that didn't seem to work (and he right in saying on Sunday it didn't) we took a couple of shifts on the last beat.  Shifts plus an E5 is a winning combination - please no one else build one, I'm liking this boat speed advantage 

[paul_croote]

I download the GPS and we did get some good upwind taking angles. But as you say we did loose alot of distance in the tacks. Shame we lost the mainsheet on the last race (my dodgy knot) as we were taking the same track and it would have been interesting to see the difference

[dave_ching]

I tend to agree there were some good angles to get on Saturday but we were traveling faster so the gains are less. So probably not qute banging the angles.
Sunday was slower and taking on shifts was the way to go.

[phil_kirk]

We sailed the ent at the regatta at Corus last Sunday.

We were recognised by some of the locals who asked where's the cherub then! 

Similar conditions and there were some noticeable shifts . 

It felt a lot slower than the cherub and the boat felt as if it was carrying about 50 litres of water in the tank.  Actually it was 50kgs of additional tree (in the construction). 

One bonus of sailing the ent is that the Cherub always feels a good deal faster afterwards.