With a name like mine I get lots of variety with spelling, doesn't bother me at all.

It was a good Nationals, aside from the regulars doing well was great to see newcomers to the class up front as well, Matt Stone and Ben Cutmore were right up there and Ross Bennett just got faster each day as he blew the cobwebs out of the boat.

Darryn
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Hey All
Great Nationals. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Thanks to all involved and Darryn,Tim,Neil & every one else who helped me with good advice. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I got a lot out of sailing with such a fast group of mozzie sailors. The big wind on Friday was great fun, just wait until the photos are posted... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
Cheers

Hi to all,

I thought that I might show a few photos from the week. Most of mine are of the 'Toy', (as expected) <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Boats on the beach...

Try again...

A broken Toy getting a tow - And on the first day!.

An easy fix though.

Matt Stone and 'The Tiger' battling the sea and wind on Friday...

1733 putting the beating back into beating to windward...

Trevor,

Hope you had a great regatta despite the dis-mast experience. What was the cause ?

Would you please try another download of the first photo.
It's a great photo of the top half of the sails. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Would love to see the rest of the image.

Regards,


Peter

Some more photos here.

Here's some photo's from the last day.

and another

Hi Peter,

Certainly was a great regatta, Warrnambool YC did a great job with everything.

The dismast was a loss of the starboard shroud pin while going up wind on port. A tack saw the rig fall gently over. I heard it described as graceful! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I got off lightly - an altercation with another boat saw Rob on Grey Matter lose part of the starboard bow, it was temp repaired with epoxy and a lot of tape, prompting a name change to Grey Tape. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

The Cobdens on Try Hard broke a diamond and seconds later the mast in the wind on Friday. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Hi all,

love the photo's of the last day, wish I was there.

It's a pity the photos can't do justice to the first couple of days. There were some awesome sights at the gybe mark (the gybe mark was closest to the shore).

I remember vividly sitting at the top of one wave, with the gybe mark sitting at the top of the next wave but I was still a long way from the mark (I would guess about 15 to 20 boatlengths) and there was just this huge hole (like a crater) between us.

Peter Nikitin had an interesting time gybing around that mark while the 4 metre wave actually broke right behind him. A few spectators on other boats watched this and just waited for the crunch which, fortunately for Peter, never came.

The amazing thing was that even when the wind got really light (4 knots or less) we could still make forward progress against these waves, going upwind.

There are some more nationals photos in the album now.

And some more:











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Hey Tim
Thanks for posting the photos <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />any chance of getting the video someone took on the last day <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Great Photos
Just had a look at the elapsed times for Mk1 versus Mk2 - dont think that they are correct - maybe the 5min start time difference has not been taken into account?
Does anyone have any ideas.

Looking at the races where I remember being near Warwick at the finish, we have about the same elapsed time, so I would say you are dead right. Either the sloops should have an extra 5 minutes or the cats should have 5 minutes less. It's probably the later, since the sloops started first and that's when they probably started the timer on the committee boat.

This is why it's always bad practise to use elapsed times when recording finishers. If actual start and finish times are recorded and software used to calculate the elapsed times this kind of mistake doesn't happen (and it's so easy to record real times - you only need a wristwatch).

When elapsed times are recorded stuff-ups often happen (like this, or the timer accidentally gets reset during the race, or it falls overboard or someone spills their beer into it or the battery goes flat or .....).

Fortunately it doesn't actually affect the results.

Not sure I feel like going right through that page of results adjusting all the times though - took long enough to build it in the first place

Hi Ben

Peter Cobden has the video. I can send you a copy when I get it. I'm looking forward to seeing it myself.