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.
The season started of with a great day, Most of the club turned up for the busy bee and all got stuck in and did a great job. This was followed by a Barby and we met some new members.The Perth Blokart joined in the clean up which was a great help.
In the after noon we had a social sail for those who brought there yachts along all in all it was a great day.
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
Sun 6th January.
Sunday was the first class5 championship day, We where a bit worried about the wind forecast but the wind remained steady for the first five races but died of towards the end of race six with a lot of us struggling to get to the finish line. The last two races were called off due to lack of wind.
Results
Equal first
Graeme c aus20
Ronnie aus55
Second place
vic aus230
Third
Ewen aus199
Barry Ronnie
Vic
Start
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.
Class5 Scratch 20-01-2013
We had a great days racing, we had a steady light wind all after noon which allowed all eight races to be completed. We had a Barby and a few tinnies to finish of a great day.
The course setter did a great job which kept all yachts moving and was great fun.
Top Placers
1st Vic aus230
2nd Ronnie aus55
3rd Howard aus23
score
course
start
Great sailing day today, the sea breeze (aka Fremantle Doctor) was in early pm to ensure a good pace was enjoyed by all.
Wind shift half way through the afternoon gave cause for the start line to be relocated so that the first mark remained upwind.
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
Vic; What I do when in those strong gusty conditions is move the whole sheeting system forward on the boom and on the floor. This has the effect of letting the sail twist out reducing the angle of attack of the foil (and the draft) allowing you to keep sheeted in hard. Looks like the guy in front of you has done that.
As you well know a flogging sail creates a hell of a lot of drag which can lift the front wheel off the ground and get you into all sorts of trouble.
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
24th Feb. Club88 handicap
Sounds like a fun days racing.15-20 knots
First report received from Barry
Funny sort of a day, good wind but much carnage. Couple of collisions, yachts
capsizing (Megan of all people 3 times!) marks being hit (3 times) broken
steering and wheel coming off(me twice)
winner H. Fryer
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
Light and variable predominantly northerly conditions for Class 5 scratch race day today, with occasional calm pockets to keep everybody on their toes. Good fun enjoyed by all.
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
March 10th
Getting setup for the days event
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.
Ratchet blocks if you want to sail a land yacht .you don't use a ratchet , you have other probems
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
