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In this issue: Summer Action
• Lake Ontario 300
• Hot crew photos
• J22 action in Kingston
• Keven analyses whisker poles
• Skiff Week
• International results for Sail Canada
• Terry McLaughlin’s Defiant log
Contributors this issue: Penny McLaren, Elizabeth Harries, Sharon Green, Roger Renaud, Terry McLaughlin, Rob Clark, Kevin Brown, Dave Dellenbaug, Sail Canada
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Regattas
PCYC Steerers’ Invitational and Four Sisters Open Goes International!
Sailors came from as far as Hong Kong, Mexico, Vancouver, Nova Scotia, Beaconsfield, Frenchman’s Bay, Lake of Bays, Sarnia, Kingston and South Portland more to the 64th PCYC Steerers’ Invitational and the 22nd Four Sisters Open events this past weekend at Port Credit Yacht Club. PCYC hosted 560 sailors and 112 coaches over the back-to-back two-day events. Lead sponsor DriveHG.ca festooned PCYC’s tents with festive flags and logos for the events. Both regattas included four courses and Race Committees set for Optimist Green sailors (many for whom these were their first regattas sailed).
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Racing
LOWISA 57 in NW Ontario
Serious racing, serious fun. Short for Lake of the Woods International Sailing Association, the LOWISA 57 Regatta is taking place this year from August 5 – August 12, 2023. The regatta departs from Northern Harbour (near Kenora, Ontario) and includes seven days of racing and cruising through beautiful Lake of the Woods. Our fleet is composed of both racers and cruisers. The Racers will be divided into two classes (a Regular Race Class and Leisure Race Class). Boats in the Regular Class will race along a full-length course (18-20 nm) each day and will be divided into different starting divisions based on PHRF ratings.
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CORK Fleets
J/22 NAs: Glenn Darden’s Baby Doll Wins
Earlier this month 22 teams, split evenly Canadian and US, travelled to CORK in Kingston to battle it out over seven races. Glenn Darden’s Baby Doll, sailing with Willem Van Waay, Jackson Benvenutti and Min Min Kelly, have been crowned 2023 J/22 North American Champions. Darden is from Fort Worth Boat Club in Texas. Able to discard a sixth from race one, Baby Doll pounded out only top three scores and took to the shores for the final race to let the fleet sort out the top group. Only two points separated places two through four, with Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger taking the silver position (24 points).
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LO300
Break Free: Three Hundred and Forty One Nautical Miles of Joy!
At Mimico Cruising Club, Captain Paul is as happy as I’ve ever seen him at the awards ceremony. The crew, our wives, girlfriends and daughters are having a fine dinner in good company, enjoying a drink or two (or three) at the MCC. A vicious thunderstorm outside has decided to join our chorus to help us celebrate. We partied until they kicked us out! The Race: “Break Free” careens eastward, downwind at 2am on a run of over 20 knots toward Main Duck Island. Prince Edward County is directly to our north. We are about 110 nautical miles into the race with the spinnaker and jib wing on wing.
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Speed & Smarts
Take Control of Your Mainsail – Part 2 – Traveler
Just like flaps on an airplane wing. The traveler controls the angle of attack of the mainsail in much the same way as hydraulic cylinders control the flaps on an airplane wing. When the plane is going slowly and needs a lot of lift (e.g. to take off or land), the flaps go down to make the wing more curved and more angled to the oncoming wind. Similarly, when a boat needs to point higher, the traveler goes to windward so the sail is in the middle of the boat. This makes the entire sail plan more curved and generates lift and helm. When the plane wants to go fast, the flaps are retracted to make the wing more streamlined...
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The Big Picture
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News
Sail Canada International Racing Roundup
ILCA 4 Youth World Championships. Carlos Charabati from Montreal earned 6th (of 287 competitors) at the 2023 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships held until today in Greece. This is the best Canadian performance at this competition or Laser 4.7 Youth World Championships since at least 2005. Full results: FINAL: M/H (/287): 6. Carlos Charabati 105. Andre Deseau 130. Gustave Deseau 233. Brodie Sorensen 247. Theo Chapman 268. Baruch Saffer. W/F (/150): 131. Maya Wolf. Results here. Nacra 17 Junior World Championships: Duinbergen, Belgium.
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Race Report
Defiant at IC37 Nationals
Our third regatta in Newport this summer was the IC37 US Nationals held July 13-16, hosted by the New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court. Two races were held on Friday inside on Narragansett Bay in very shifty, puffy conditions. We ended up with an 8, 10 in the 16 boat fleet. In both races we finished just behind a pack of 4-5 boats, which is always a little frustrating. We didn’t feel that we were going that fast and initially we were not sure why that was so. On the previous Monday, after the Sail Newport Regatta, I had asked the class measurers to come take a look at our mast tuning.
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Advice
The 17 Commandments…
Racing a sailboat, especially one-design racing, makes a sailor learn a new set of skills, tactical skills, needed to navigate through that 10 – 40 boat fleet of identical boats to win races. There are two distinct areas of focus for the tactician: First, it’s defining an overall strategy for the race, and second, the more detailed tactical aspects involved with the interaction between the other competitors on the racecourse. There has been that long-standing debate about whether a racing sailboat should have two separate people assigned to the task of navigating the racecourse: a strategist, and a tactician.
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Keven Talks Sails
Whisker Pole Basics
Club Racing has evolved over the years, from primarily racer/cruisers flying spinnakers, to a fairly serious level of non-spinnaker racers. A quick look at race registrations around the Great Lakes shows most clubs having more NFS (Non-Flying Sails = no spinnakers) racers than Flying Sails racers. I find this interesting, and almost inevitable with the average sized sailboat getting larger and more people interested in sailing with less crew. Back when I was growing up club racing, you were only allowed your spinnaker pole limited to your rated J length as a whisker pole.
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Racing
Kingston Delivers Tremendous Racing for Skiff Week!
Three skiff classes – 29ers, 505s and VX Ones – were treated to warm freshwater and dependable winds that CORK has become known for. Over four days the Canadian Champions in the 29er class was settled after 15 races in a wind range of conditions. Taking top spots were: 1st place: Johanna Pickart & Rebecca Driscol; 2nd: Henry Sims & Ethan Thompson; 3rd: Hailey Nichols & Kat Lowe. Arriving for their Canadian championships, a two-day regatta, were the well-established 505 class along with a newer skiff class – VX Ones. The racers, wind, and weather came together over eight races.
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New Gear
Introducing Orbit Winches
Ronstan’s Orbit Winches™ are a new benchmark in high performance alloy winches. With a combination of fresh design thinking and proven manufacturing expertise, Orbit Winches weigh significantly less and offer lower line entry heights than any other winch in their class. Remarkably easy to service, they require no tools for disassembly or maintenance. The fully machined aluminium drums feature the same Power Ribs™ that many will recognize from Andersen Stainless Steel Winches®, well-known for their impressive line grip, smooth control, and minimal rope wear.
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News
Whitecap with Lee Parkhill
The new episode of Whitecap, the Canadian sailing podcast supported by Sail Canada’s BMO MasterCard, is now available and the guest is Lee Parkhill, 2016 Olympian in Laser who qualified to be nominated for Santiago 2023 Pan American Games Canadian Team in Sunfish. 3 ways to listen/watch this interview: Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
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