Great Race 2012

The latest news is that Steve Sherring has taken the line honours and handicap win in the 37nm Southport to Manly Great Race with an elapsed time of 2:29:58.

The Great Race

Results

Word is that it is a course record!

Conditions were generally 15-20 knots from the east. Those that experienced it can give a better indication.

Jack also competed finishing in 2:53:20, about 8th across the line.

Rob Green also competed, however succumbed to the conditions and pulled in to Victoria Point, about half way, after too many crashes.

Markla and I piked on the Great Race, preferring to sail at Lake Samsonvale on the Sunday. We had our own mini marathon that was completed in about an hour. Not much of a marathon so they sent us out again for a course race. I spent the race chasing A's, losing to them upwind (geez they can point), and catching them downwind, (hunting the wind pays in marginal stuff). Markla spent the day in the piss, I think he's forgotten how to sail on flat water since the nationals.

count teh convolutions

bow is to the right in all renders.

the pushrod input is the pair of rod ends in olive colour on the right hand side. the pushrod is not perpendicular to the centreline, hence the rod ends. 

this goes into the first rocker (pinkish). it has the same ratio and phase as the wand lever so the rotation of the bolt at the bow is exactly telegraphed (not sure if this is important, but may help with future development). 

phase can be adjusted on this rocker by spinning (nigga) the on board bolt,  draging the right hand side of the green linkage around that arc track. this is set up for adjustment on the land only. i may add a nob (ur) to the top to make it adjustable from the cockpit. 

green linkage is a turnbuckle that is needed to use the extreme range of the phase adjustment. for minor adjustments to phase, it shouldn't be required, the brown rocker just won't stand up straight. 

brown rocker is the gearing. spinning the bolt drags the input pin up it's track. going up amplifies the signal. it has a rope guide on one side only that moves with the rocker, however i expect it will be able to be adjusted from both sides of the boat, it will just need to remain rather tight, and i may need to make some sort of lead for it. 

next is a blue linkage made from a turnbuckle. this acts as a dial. just before it exits the machine there are two nuts on either side of a plate. these are limit screws that mean no matter what you do upstream, it will bottom out on this plate before damaging the centreboard pushrod. will also be a convenient way to see what the flap is doing. 

bearings are to be pressed in, then retained with worm screws. i have just bought some shock aborbers to add into there somewhere (probably on the pink one, with a screw to adjust lever to for dampening). wand length, bungie and wand stopper will also be run to the tramp, seperate to this machine but equally complicated. 

all plate parts are watercut 4mm aluminium hard coat anodized. bolted to the boat with 5x M5 countersunk fasteners into a carbon channel bonded to the deck. 

Nationals QOTD

Nationals Quote of the Day Round Up:


All of the people quoted below were heard second or third hand and are probably taken out of context if not all together wrong.


Day 1: "If another local says 'it's not normally like this' i am going to throttle them cause I have sailed here seven times and it has always been like this" (les, standing in teh rain)

Day 2: "Every wave is laughing at me" (scott's report after being sent out to check the course)

Day 3: "Is there sailing school on today? All of the boats are capsized." (random old guy on the beach)

Layday Eve Dinner: "While I was in the change rooms this afternoon I saw something very impressive" (leigh on budgie, later budgie dropped his pants to show it off)

Rough as Guts

Rough conditions yesterday, perfect for rum drinking.

Invitation Race

Jack Sherring (QLD) won in a lumpy drift-a-thon (with some marginal foiling) while the rest of us got seasick and heat stroke. Well done Jack.


Race 1
Rumour mill was rife with 20 knots predicted to come soon. After a long wait for the wind to fill in (from nothing) the starter was keen to get some racing in before a front arrived. With some boats still trying to get to the line the race got underway in sub-foiling conditions. This wasn't to last long and within a minute it was all systems go, ~15knots. Upwind was fine in the lumpy stuff but downwind was another story. Plenty of cartwheels ensued as ppl tried to sort setups.


Race 2
I don't know what happened because I pussied out of the first race but the procession of borken or flooded boats was enough to validate my decision to retire for the day and drink rum.


Today is shaping up to be a bit windier from the West. Don't know what that means for the waves, we'll soon find out. End of the week is looking good.


Oddball results to follow but we think Markla is winning, which is very odd.

Rum Squad

One from our part time contributer, Alanla?... Alanarkla?... Alla?

       Rum Squad has not had a tunning seesion together in quite some time, individuals have been training hard during the year.  With an appropriate warm up even this weekend I'm sure the performances of the squad members in apperance at the Nationals will do us all proud.

Rum Squad shall be on the attack at this year's Australian Moth Nationals