Looks like a great year coming up for the WA. Apart from the normal program, we will have the state competition in January. Hopefully some of us can get to Chooks event at Esperence in March and then there is our yearly trip to Lefroy in September

Program for 2012-2013.

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Sandgropers Land Yacht Club (Inc)
ROCKINGHAM
Sailing / Event Calendar 2012/2013

Dec 16 Busy bee 10am BYO BBQ lunch for 1pm
Dec 23 Public/disabled day
Dec 30 Club 88, handicap

Jan 6 ?Class 5, scratch. Club Championship
Jan 13? Club 88, handicap
Jan 20 ?Class 5, scratch
Jan 26/27 WA Titles Regatta + blokarts

Feb 3 Class 5, scratch. Club Championship
Feb 10 ?Club 88, handicap
Feb16??Public/disabled day
Feb 17?Class 5 scratch
Feb 24?Club 88, handicap Sandgropers Memorial Trophy

Mar 3 ?Long weekend Public/disabled day or country event?
Mar 10?Class 5, scratch. Club Championship
Mar 17 Club 88, handicap
Mar 24?Class 5, scratch
Mar 29-31 Easter regatta/disabled/public open day

Apr 7? ?Club 88 handicap
Apr 14 Class 5, scratch Club Championship
Apr 21 ?Club 88, Handicap
Apr 28??Class 5, scratch

Jun 9 ?AGM, Presentation of trophies

Sep 28-30 Long Weekend Lake Lefroy

On days marked as Club Championship, scores count for the Club Champion trophy,
All other days, scores count for the Consistency trophy. Club 88 handicap results will be extracted from all consistency days.

Well, the wind made the first race day interesting. North west to west at 12 knots for a start, then becoming patchy later on to make it hard to pick.

Didn't matter of course, we all had fun

Great day sailing on the easterly today. Tricky wind changes from nor' east to south east at 10 knots down to about three at times.

Video from aus230 20-01-2013, 15k steady wind.

Will post Sundays results when they are processed







Chasing Ronnie and Graeme

Great yesterday today sailing with the Dreamfit crew and the disabled community - such a buzz to see happy smiling faces




More photos on smugmug.com

February 17th

Sundays racing had its moments with the wind at 25knots gusting to 35+Knots.
There was plenty of action during the racing with a few yachts biting the dust.
At time visibility was down to a few meters with dust clouds blowing across the lake.

Graeme Chandler was in a class of his own in the strong winds.
Don't know what Barry Mason was up to but his yacht showed a clear pair of heels to the rest of us for most of the day.

I found that my yacht(aus230) could keep sailing without a tire for a lap without loosing much time and finishing the race(who needs tires anyway)

We took several LLM to the event but considered that the conditions would have been a bit beyond them

Top places
Barry Mason 1st
Barry Pulford 2nd
Graeme Chandler 3rd

Race Results


Course


Sailing in a 25+knot dust storm


Wheel after racing with out a tire

Certainly a fun sailing day! Got some good speed of course which made it interesting in the areas where the surface is loose. Not very often get an opportunity to get past AUS230 but I will take it!

paul
see them trees that is where I ended up when fully sheeted. the wind was way over my comfort zone

Thanks Clem, I will keep that in mind. That was the most sever conditions that I have experienced since I started land sailing. How are things going over your way.
Cheers
Vic

glad i wasn't the mark being hit. disregard the capsize tally for the last 2 weeks as at least half+ were courtesy of me (luff pocket looks like swiss cheese)i lost count around 20
the mast is still too stiff

What a day, Very light winds and none in spots that made sailing very difficult if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But made for sum interesting sailing. Fun day as they all are with the sand gropers(great club)
Top scorers on the day.

1st Howard
2nd Baz M
3rd Merv S


Score Board




Course

Cant understand why you guys don't allow pushing at the starts for class5 races.... At least do a rolling start. You have so much room out there compared to our beaches, it would make the race so much more interesting, adding another skill. I found the NZ Blokarters are really good at those rolling starts.

You're dead right about the Mark White sail Paul.
My sail was at the sailmakers and not ready for sundays racing , so i rigged up the old man's original 85 Whitehot and found it to be extremely responsive off the start line.
The thing is 28 years old and yet i would have to say that in light conditions it's a real winner (medium battens). Mark sure knew how to design a futureproof sail.
I also think i may have solved the capsizing problem, my ratchet block was slow to disengage, so i put on a free rolling pulley. This has given me MUCH more control of spilling wind out of the sail.

Maybe your ratchet needs adjusting, I don't think I would sail without one. I was using one that was to small a couple of years ago and was having the same problem. Clem suggested I should get a larger one. I did and the problem went away.

How was the club88 event?
Cheers
Vic

aus230 said...
Maybe your ratchet needs adjusting, I don't think I would sail without one. I was using one that was to small a couple of years ago and was having the same problem. Clem suggested I should get a larger one. I did and the problem went away.

How was the club88 event?
Cheers
Vic

the club88 set up doesnt put as much strain on the sheeting as you have vic.
also you have been sheeting well forward on the boom, making it all the neccesary to have bigger blocks.
which makes my set up at 2/3rds back along the boom , with 40mm sheaves ,10mm sheet and a cleat, all the more interesting
new set up is stronger and cleaner running, none of the old steel spaghetti that snapped off at walyungup in January