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by alex
Wed Sep 08, 2021 23:30 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-09-08 Haukkis
Replies: 11
Views: 3702

Re: 2021-09-08 Haukkis

The forecast was pretty heavy for the outer areas and milder for the inshore. Weakening later, anyways. The short-time forecast - SW 8 m/s - was as such, so we went out with full main and G3. While out, with actual readings of SW 5(6) m/s, we switched to G1 and noticed that Charlotta and Estelle wer...
by alex
Wed Sep 08, 2021 23:19 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-09-01 Haukkis
Replies: 24
Views: 7912

Re: 2021-09-01 Haukkis

...you are also expected to make a protest if someone else breaks the rules! Yes, indeed you're right. But we still expect that people follow the rules. One cannot be police for everyone, it never works and never pays out. Lately, I have seen many cases where people claim privilege they have no rig...
by alex
Thu Sep 02, 2021 08:38 am
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-09-01 Haukkis
Replies: 24
Views: 7912

Re: 2021-09-01 Haukkis

Meillä olisi ollut 3 kpl protestin paikkaa tänä iltana. It looked to me lately that people became a lot more flexible about breaking rules. Yesterday Sans Rival was flying spinnaker on port tack towards the green mark and at least two boats coming upwind also on port tack had to avoid a collision w...
by alex
Wed Sep 01, 2021 22:54 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-09-01 Haukkis
Replies: 24
Views: 7912

Re: 2021-09-01 Haukkis

NW wind 6-7 m/s with gusts up to 10 m/s - went out with full main and G3. We were wondering will it be racecourse 1 or 4, 5 came as a surprise. Nice choice, though, because of plenty of close boat contacts on the short racecourse. Started not far from the pin. At the start, Minnamari barged along th...
by alex
Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:58 am
Forum: Finn Express
Topic: Sailmaker advice
Replies: 17
Views: 6053

Re: Sailmaker advice

I have OneSails mainsail on Subbota for two seasons already. It is a triradial cut made of Dimension Polyant Pro Radial sailcloth. It's basically a high-quality Dacron. The sail shape is fuller compared to WB. WB typically makes pretty flat sail shapes, at least for FE. The shapes are superb when th...
by alex
Wed Sep 01, 2021 09:21 am
Forum: Racing
Topic: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021
Replies: 36
Views: 11607

Re: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021

Yes, it's what I am talking about - there could be many reasons and we don't know what they are. My point is that if we could ask people who changed their minds what were the reasons, it could have helped the club to make better planning next year.
by alex
Tue Aug 31, 2021 22:58 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021
Replies: 36
Views: 11607

Re: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021

For this specific race, we had 4,5 boats willing which then reduced to 2,5. For the Helsinki area, we had like 4 events planned for this season, out of which only 1 happened and we had to arrange a ghost boat for it to happen. It would be nice to understand why people don't come to these regattas - ...
by alex
Mon Aug 30, 2021 15:13 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021
Replies: 36
Views: 11607

Re: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021

Less than 9 hours to the deadline.
by alex
Thu Aug 26, 2021 19:52 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: Pentala-Nokkala su 29.8.2021
Replies: 4
Views: 1961

Re: Pentala-Nokkala su 29.8.2021

Subbota is in. Couldn't resist the laxsoppa.
by alex
Thu Aug 26, 2021 14:56 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-08-25 Haukkis
Replies: 10
Views: 3047

Re: 2021-08-25 Haukkis

olpalon wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 14:51 pmWe tried to lure you to hoist the spinnaker.
That would have been a breach of R2. [-X
by alex
Thu Aug 26, 2021 14:54 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-08-25 Haukkis
Replies: 10
Views: 3047

Re: 2021-08-25 Haukkis

RaceQs was set to auto-start for 18:00 and it started recording at 18:40. WTF?..
by alex
Thu Aug 26, 2021 14:16 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: 2021-08-25 Haukkis
Replies: 10
Views: 3047

Re: 2021-08-25 Haukkis

The weather forecast was awful, but we were committed to racing after we skipped the previous race, and the weather was a lot better than the forecast. So, we had about 11 m/s of SSE with gusts up to 15 m/s. We were expecting racecourse 2 or 5; the race committee selected 5. Subbota was equipped wit...
by alex
Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:20 am
Forum: Racing
Topic: FE-ranking #4 2021 Ratakilpailu Kruunuvuorenselkä elokuun lopussa MP
Replies: 3
Views: 1887

Re: FE-ranking #4 2021 Ratakilpailu Kruunuvuorenselkä elokuun lopussa MP

MP has nothing in their calendar for the dates; the case is closed.
by alex
Tue Aug 24, 2021 15:13 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: Drumsöregattan Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021
Replies: 36
Views: 11607

Re: Ratakisa 4-5.9.2021

Another call. Anyone?
by alex
Mon Aug 16, 2021 22:20 pm
Forum: Racing
Topic: Rysäkari Race 2021? 31.7
Replies: 19
Views: 6355

Re: Rysäkari Race 2021? 31.7

Yksi juttu mikä jäi kiinnostamaan on se, että miksi ajaa toisella halssilla purje twistattuna, ja toisella levynä? The waves were not aligned with the wind in the first half of the racing day. On one tack we were going against the waves yet 45 degrees to the wind and on another tack we were sailing...