No floaters..

Sunday was a glorious sailing day, with several Laser sailors out on the water and the RS Aero being taken for a spin by a couple of interested sailors.

But the most interesting video of the day is the Moth. The learning curve on a Moth is steep and long, but progress comes to those who persist.

Here we have a recent convert, Neil O'Toole, demonstrating his progress in the Moth skills on a windy Dun Laoghaire harbour. He still capsizes occasionally, but most of the time he's fast and upright. Foiling gybes are only a little wobbly and foiling tacks are nearly there.



The video was taken by Brian Spence from McCready Sailboats, who was down giving demos in the RS Aero.  It passes by at one stage...upright.

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Gareth Craig / Foto Sail on Sailing Anarchy.

http://sailinganarchy.com/2014/07/15/young-gun/

George regatta

George Regatta '14 Social & Sailing Programme  08.00 – 10:00 Registration in the Junior Room 08.00 – 11:30 Breakfast on The Quarterdeck 11:30 Racing Begins! 12:00 – 18:00 Family Fun on The Quarterdeck Balloon Model Making, Face Painting & More! 12:30 Try Sailing Experience Registration with the sailing office on sec@rsgyc.ie is essential as spaces are limited  12:30 – 14:30 Lunch in the Casual Bar 12:30 Ladies' Regatta Lunch in association with Charlotte & Jane 15:00 Sailors Return! 15:00 Summer Jazz on The Quarterdeck The Aprés Sail Entertainment begins with Jig Jam 15:00 – 20:00 Big Club BBQ on The Quarterdeck BBQ Delights, the Pig on the Spit and a Seafood Buffet will be available throughout the day! 18:00 Prize Giving Ceremony on The Quarterdeck After Prize Giving  -  Free Drinks Promotions on The Quarterdeck  19:00 Stedfast will take to the stage on The Quarterdeck  19:30 Gala Dinner in the Dining Room Celebrate the Regatta with your friends, family and Club Members. Booked Out! Dress Code: Smart Casual 22:00 Big Band: Radio Shack on The Quarterdeck 23:00 DJ 'til Late on The Quarterdeck More below!!

Jelly Bean National Yacht Club Regatta

A great day and great photos from the Jelly Bean NYC Regatta.

These pics and more at the Aidan Tarbett Gallery here.  Copyright is Aidan's

• Paul Keane won in the Lasers (results here)
• Louise McKenna and Goodness Gracious won the Fireballs on a countback (result here) 
• ...and we can't find the Moth results yet....where are they?

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Island Trial??

People kept asking what happened to The Island Trial.

http://islandtrial.blogspot.ie/2014/06/suspended-for-legal-risk.html

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Last Friday - this Friday

The Friday evening series will be on at the George again this week, with friendly sailing and good BBQ.

Meantime, here are some pics from last week showing the tight mark roundings that the RS and Laser fleets had on many occasions.

All good stuff!

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5 in 2

Tuesday night saw tight racing at the top, with 5 boats finishing inside two minutes on corrected time.

Tom Murphy's K1 split the four leading Lasers, finishing 3rd. Keanneally finished 1st, Galavan 2nd and Murphy pipping O'Leary and Dwyer - also in Lasers - to the podium.

The gaps got a bit bigger after that, with two Mermaids next in line and the asymmetrics pullling up the rear - handicapped most by the light airs perhaps.

See results here.

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Saturday - OK & RS alone

Saturday was a beautiful day with sun and unexpectedly strong winds, peaking with 30 knot gusts instead of the forecast 15-20 knots. Seapoint was playing rough too, with short steep chop in the shallow water on a very low tide.

Disappointingly there were only two PY dinghies on the course, sharing the water with three Fireballs, three (?) IDRA14s and three Mermaids.

Sunny Saturdays

The course was set for three laps of a W-L, and set LONG too. In PY Sheehy's OK Dinghy finished the first race in a little under an hour while the RS actually sailed the Flying Fifteen course and completed 4 laps, gifting the win to the OK and making that first race extra hard work!

For Race 2 the OK had to head for home after one leg, having underestimated the length of the races and needing to be back ashore, leaving O'Hare's RS400 to complete the course and take the win.

Race 1
Race 2

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Live Tracking for the OCD Laser Sailor

If you're obsessive compulsive you'll be able to spend hours and hours looking at this stuff.

These are the tracks from the LogMeIn Irish Laser Masters 2014 last weekend. These are the tracks that go with the videos from the previous post. 

Race 1

Race 2

Race 3

Race 4

Race 5

Race 6

 

You need to zoom in a lot and it's best to orient the course to have windward at the top rather than North at the top, but it's well worth it.  You can see when you were going fast and slow and/or just in the wrong direction. 

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Review the LogMeIn Laser Masters!

See who were the clever sailors in the LogMeIn Laser Masters last weekend. The full GPS logs should be available online soon, but meantime the blow-by-blow videos are already available.

Here's a selection.

  

Lots to learn!!

Get a good start. Sail fast. Keep out of trouble. Doh.

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