Laser finishes for the May 5 and 6, 2012 races.

Sam Chapin      1-3-1+1-1-1-1-1-2-2         14

Marc Solal         5-4-3+2-2-2-2-2-1-1          24

Rob Krentel      3-2-2+ns                               70

Luke Yates        2-1-capsize+ns                     74

Chris Nagy        6-7-4+ns                                80

Bailey Verkaik  4-5-ns+ns                               81

Vince Renzoni   ns-6-5+ns                              83

Michael Gapuz 7-8-6+ns                                 84

The two 420’s racing with us were not recorded.  Will try to do better next time.

Michael Gapuz has an Eagle Scout project to work on and then he will be sailing more with us.  Saturday he sailed a radial without any battens and the roach curled over.  He did fine considering what he was sailing with.

Vince Renzoni is still struggling with the move up to Mt Dora, but the six and five finishes are not at the bottom.

Bailey sailed well with a 4 and 5, but missed the last race so he could get his boat put away by noon.

Chris Nagy was the first of the radials.  We didn’t have times recorded so he might have placed a little higher on corrected time.

Luke Yates was a lot of fun.  Second in the first race and won the second and then in the third was talking a lot to Rob on the run and did a capsize with the mast stuck in the mud pretty good.  It took Rob a couple of passes to get him unhooked.

Rob Krentel let a couple of us by him on Saturday and then took a crack at the Flying Sots on Sunday.  He did better with them on Sunday than with us on Saturday, but that was just one day.

Marc Solal sail both days and sailed himself into second.  His finishes on Saturday were not bad 5-4-3.  Those 3’s are hard to come by.

Sam had a good day on Saturday and here is a little WOW (Words of Wisdom) on that 1-3-1 day. 

WOW…  We had some big right shifts and you had to be sure you were taking that long task first (starboard) and working to the right carefully.  Delay going to the lay line for the windward mark.  You can approach it, but tack before you get there.

Sail fast – that is “bow down” with windward and leeward telltales flowing, boat flat or windward heel.  Sail trimmed into 6 to 8 inches between the boom blocks and if you are sitting out to hold the boat down, then two block.  Check what the boats near you are doing and how they are moving.  If you have a boat to leeward you can see easily, work on sailing faster than they are.  If you can see shore in front of them, then try and be “making trees”...  seeing for shore in front of them as you move faster.   Or just to increase you angle to them … bow down a little more … a little different trim.  Work at going fast – that make your tactics smarter.  If you get in a really light wind spot, heel to leeward and weight forward.  Get the roll tacks working.  It takes the curse out of tacking to much with the short wind shifts.  Try to link the areas of dark water together.   If the roll tacks are a problem and you don’t live close for sailing practice, then get some practice in before, after the races or after lunch.

The fun is not necessarily winning, but sailing better.