Fun Weekend

I think we can call it a successful event. We had 15 boats and great conditions for three days of sailing here in Long Beach. This was the club's first moth regatta and so much was learned. I'm sure the next one will be even better. There was talk of getting together some sort of west coast circuit, which I think is a great idea now that we have a few venues to choose from. Results are here: http://abyc.org/upload/Moth1.htm

As far as how I went it was a fairly inconsistent weekend. I had been sailing the boat a bunch and pushing my settings pretty hard. The week beforehand I broke a bunch of stuff and my boat never recovered. My extendable wand and gearing system ended up getting sorted out during the regatta which resulted in a lot of letter scores. I never came back to the comfortable place that I had been at before the regatta so had my head in the boat worrying about whether it was going to fly out most of the time. That said, the conditions were great and I had a lot of fun getting the opportunity to line up against some of the best guys around.

The wind came up after the last race on Sunday to a solid 20 knots and after some stupid steering on my part the horizontal foil on my rudder decided it didn't like being attached to the vertical. It was quite an adventure trying to bear away without a horizontal back there. I can make a new one as I have the tooling still, but I'd be interested in trying something new for my rudder and maybe seeing what the Bladerider or Mach 2 rudders are like on my boat. If anyone has a rudder that they want to sell cheap I'd be interested, some assembly/fairing required is ok. How long is a typical vertical? I measured my vertical and its about 4'3" from upper attachment to the bottom end.

In any case, the top priority on my development agenda is boathandling, boathandling, boathandling.