Round The Island - 20 June 09
Discussion
we only took ours out for the first time on saturday (hence why you haven't seen us out on thursday evenings this year)... we have a rip in our masthead kite, no turning block for the fractional kite halyard, only one winch handle, no shackle for the tack of the main and no vang (we pulled the fitting out of the mast last season).... not entirely sure we'll be ready for saturday!
I'm crewing for a friend whose yacht is moored in Southampton.
Boat name ''Kariwara''
Really looking forward to it. Only drawback for us is we're on the last start time of 9:10am.
Roll on Friday. Day off work drive to Southampton from Kent. Then up at 5:00am to get to the start in time.
Depending on how quick we get round, will depend if we get a moooring to enjoy the evening entertainment.
Boat name ''Kariwara''
Really looking forward to it. Only drawback for us is we're on the last start time of 9:10am.
Roll on Friday. Day off work drive to Southampton from Kent. Then up at 5:00am to get to the start in time.
Depending on how quick we get round, will depend if we get a moooring to enjoy the evening entertainment.
Its my Stag Do and we are on a Benny 44.7, Vespuccis Blacksheep
So we shouldn't be hard to see.
The boat I think has all 3DL sails and did quite well a few years ago, half the chaps coming have never been sailing before so it should be great day.
If you see any of us in Cowes later say hello.
I think its looking like F2 in the morning, developing into F3-4 in the afternoon, from the W - WNW.
Schmalex you could have quite a nice reach around the back of the IOW.
So we shouldn't be hard to see.
The boat I think has all 3DL sails and did quite well a few years ago, half the chaps coming have never been sailing before so it should be great day.
If you see any of us in Cowes later say hello.
I think its looking like F2 in the morning, developing into F3-4 in the afternoon, from the W - WNW.
Schmalex you could have quite a nice reach around the back of the IOW.
village idiot said:
change of plan for us... we've ditched the 27ft racer and gone for a 72ft racer instead - keep your eyes peeled for a big bright orange boat with bikini-clad girlies and hung-over blokes... (can't be that hard to spot i would have thought)
Will there be a lot of Big Spirts on board? 
ALawson said:
Its my Stag Do and we are on a Benny 44.7, Vespuccis Blacksheep
So we shouldn't be hard to see.
The boat I think has all 3DL sails and did quite well a few years ago, half the chaps coming have never been sailing before so it should be great day.
If you see any of us in Cowes later say hello.
I think its looking like F2 in the morning, developing into F3-4 in the afternoon, from the W - WNW.
Schmalex you could have quite a nice reach around the back of the IOW.
The scary thing is that our 32ft Archambault rates the same as the 44.7 So we shouldn't be hard to see.
The boat I think has all 3DL sails and did quite well a few years ago, half the chaps coming have never been sailing before so it should be great day.
If you see any of us in Cowes later say hello.
I think its looking like F2 in the morning, developing into F3-4 in the afternoon, from the W - WNW.
Schmalex you could have quite a nice reach around the back of the IOW.
We need around 17kts of breeze to be able to hop up on the plane for a long time to make up the time....
long & slow. A reasonable blast down the back of the island - we touched 12kts a couple of times, but there wasn't quite enough breeze to get up on the plane for sustained periods. A bit of fun getting round Bembridge, as therewas a complete hole in the wind, meaning the whole fleet parked up - I think we rounded the mark with about 300 other boats all doing 0.1 kts, resulting in a lot of heated discussion between various owners & tacticians!!
Overall, a fun race but about 3 hours slower than our fastest time.
Overall, a fun race but about 3 hours slower than our fastest time.
We were 68th over the line 21st in Class 1A, 297th on corrected time.
We were first in class around the Needles and had a good sail round to St Catherines Pt, made up quite a few places on the other vessels before we parked up at Benbridge, in the end we went in shore at Benbridge for some wind before sailing onto the mark on Stb, we called water on the mark and it got very interesting. No gelcoat damage.
There was lots of shouting about for a boat call PEANUT!!
Great day and lots of fun.
We saw BIG SPIRT most of the way round, looks like they went a little south of IOW with only one gybe, was someone on here racing on here.
We were first in class around the Needles and had a good sail round to St Catherines Pt, made up quite a few places on the other vessels before we parked up at Benbridge, in the end we went in shore at Benbridge for some wind before sailing onto the mark on Stb, we called water on the mark and it got very interesting. No gelcoat damage.
There was lots of shouting about for a boat call PEANUT!!
Great day and lots of fun.
We saw BIG SPIRT most of the way round, looks like they went a little south of IOW with only one gybe, was someone on here racing on here.
Lost money on the Varvassi sweepstake - only 6 hit this year! Later on more incidents off St Catherines - 1 head injury which we attended then 2 MOB's and a dismasting which we stood by for. Didn't get released until 4:30 off Horse Ledge - a toss up whether to go back home North or South about! 1500 Litres of fuel used 
ALawson said:
We were 68th over the line 21st in Class 1A, 297th on corrected time.
We were first in class around the Needles and had a good sail round to St Catherines Pt, made up quite a few places on the other vessels before we parked up at Benbridge, in the end we went in shore at Benbridge for some wind before sailing onto the mark on Stb, we called water on the mark and it got very interesting. No gelcoat damage.
There was lots of shouting about for a boat call PEANUT!!
Great day and lots of fun.
We saw BIG SPIRT most of the way round, looks like they went a little south of IOW with only one gybe, was someone on here racing on here.
yup... that was me... along with one or two other pistonheads members (including the owner of the yacht).We were first in class around the Needles and had a good sail round to St Catherines Pt, made up quite a few places on the other vessels before we parked up at Benbridge, in the end we went in shore at Benbridge for some wind before sailing onto the mark on Stb, we called water on the mark and it got very interesting. No gelcoat damage.
There was lots of shouting about for a boat call PEANUT!!
Great day and lots of fun.
We saw BIG SPIRT most of the way round, looks like they went a little south of IOW with only one gybe, was someone on here racing on here.
good day...
at 45 tons we were a little on the heavy side for the conditions, but the spinnaker run round the back of the island was great (our shiny new spinnaker was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!). Had one or two run-ins with little boats who seemed to think we could gybe at the click of their fingers (it takes us about 10 minutes to complete a gybe!) and an orange clipper boat that tried to t-bone us.
we got around in a whisker over 10hrs, but our rating forces us to give time on every minute, so overall we didn't fare as well as the smaller boats (as is always the way on the round the island race).
best bit was sailing straight past the massive log jam at bembridge... there were yachts there that must have been sat static for over an hour... we just went around the outside and kept going.
Edited by village idiot on Monday 22 June 13:24
Garlick said:
This was my boat for the weekend (Volvo) 
I'm in the cap looking behind the boat.
Sailed mast on Chernikeef for the RTI a couple of years ago. Great fun, although the multiple A-Sail peels from the needles to St Cats were a bit exhausting I'm in the cap looking behind the boat. This year helmed an old 1/2 tonner, and despite being OCS at the start and it taking 20 minutes to get back, managed 1st in class and 5th overall. Very sore head on Sunday morning.
See a Lymington legend won overall.
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