Resin Regatta Day 2

Nathan - tactics, foredeck

Mark trim

Mike trim

Andrea - pit

Serge doing lightship on Solar Wind

Roger's new boat

 

isn't it beautiful?

Misc Photos of Elise

Fixing up the vang

Nathan and Serge out practicing?

 Nathan and Serge out practicing?

 New vang pin

New jib sheets!

Serge rinsing Elise's bottom

Serge and Nathan at a race

 Nathan and Serge racing

Going out to the race course

Practice day? racing?

Photos courtesy of Serge

Boat Work

New hanks

New halyard

Artistic Pictures of Elise

Courtesy of Serge

inhabitants of the bay

Photo courtesy of Serge

Resin Regatta 2013 Results

Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club		1	2	3	4	5		Total	Pos
1	Get Happy!!	Brendan Busch	stfyc		4	4	1	2	1		12	1
28050	El Raton	Ray Lotto	St Francis Yacht Club		3	1	2	6	2		14T	2
11	Wile E Coyote	Dan Pruzan	EYC		1	3	4	3	3		14T	3
18364	Peaches	John Rivlin	StFYC		2	2	5	4	5		18	4
101	Elise	Nathalie Criou	stfyc		5	5	3	5	6		24	5
91	Make Me Smile	NEAL HOLMLUND	RYC		7	7	6	7	7		34	6
28137	Motorcycle Irene	Zachery Anderson	Richmond Yacht Club		10/DNC	10/DNC	10/DNC	1	4		35	7
113	Libra	Sergey Lubarsky	SSS		6	6	10/DNF	8	8		38	8
77	Strega	Larry Levit	ryc		8	10/DNC	10/DNC	9	9		46	9

Heard on the boat
Andrea: why do you go to the bathroom over the side?
Nat: I can feel the wind on my butt
Nathan: what is your butt telling you right now?
Nat: there isn't a whole lot of wind, although both cheeks don't seem to quite agree on the exact velocity right now.

Mark: so a wind generator generates wind
Nat: just so you know, a wind generator does not generate wind

Practice Day on Elise

Last Saturday the Elise team went out on a practice session to practice key maneuvers

 Raising a glass, seen performed here by Elise's bosun

 Working the hand-cranked blender in heavy seas (simulated by the stampede up on deck as Suzanne shifts her weight from port to starboard and Nathan pulls the boat one way to simulate heel)

Drinking in precarious conditions

 

while maintaining a strong sense of style

Sleeping

It was a very tiring day.

More seriously, we had about 15 to 20 knots out on the city front and we practice tacking with the jib and mainly gybing. The sets and douses were obviously also practices but we did as long a downwind and then upwind legs as we could thus limiting these two maneuvers to the bare minimum to get the gybes in.

We had two rotations going and we did a pretty good job at everything - tacks were smooth and fast and gybes happened without any hair rising incidents :)

Photos courtesy of Nat and Serge

New Butt Padding

Courtesy of Serge

huh oh

Interesting dinghy style

Elise's new backup autopilot

Getting ready for LongPac
Photo and work courtesy of Brian.