Current

I know many of you are used to big current, but in the Chesapeake Bay, currents above 1.5 knots (maybe 2) are very rare. Here is a shot of a mark in the NOOD regatta last Friday. It was taking us an hour to do a 1 NM windward leg. Many boats hit the marks, and several got stuck to them. Saw one scene of a guy standing on the mark behind his boat trying to free the line. http://annapolisyc.org.x.m6.net/uploads/images/Mark_Tide.jpg Cheers Charlie

On May 2, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Husar Charlie wrote: > I know many of you are used to big current, but in the Chesapeake Bay, > currents above 1.5 knots (maybe 2) are very rare. Here is a shot of a > mark in the NOOD regatta last Friday. It was taking us an hour to > do a > 1 NM windward leg. Many boats hit the marks, and several got stuck to > them. Saw one scene of a guy standing on the mark behind his boat > trying to free the line. > > > http://annapolisyc.org.x.m6.net/uploads/images/Mark_Tide.jpg I was racing my Peterson 35 about 25 years ago and we had an encounter with a mark and strong current. People don't think of current as a factor in southern California but it is if you want to win. We were rounding a reaching mark off Newport Beach and my helmsman was going too close to the mark as I could see a lot of current running and I was yelling, "Keep it up ! Keep it up !" We didn't. As soon as we saw we were going to miss the mark, we tacked. We then sat there stopped as boat after boat went zooming by sailing with the current. It was almost an hour before we got high enough to round. We spent the time 100 yards from the mark with our speed exactly balancing the current. Finally we got high enough and zipped past it. The fleet had run into a lull close in and we actually caught up. Still, we had been far ahead until the mistake. Oh well. That was long ago and I'm lucky I can remember it at my age. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96 > > > Cheers > Charlie > > > SPONSORED LINKS > Boating sailing Sailing boat Sailing > Boating > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > Visit your group "Cal_Boats" on the web. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > >