Corsair Dash 750 Very Windy Race
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Feb 4 2024
Long Beach CA
Reefed Main and Jib only. Holding on for life!
This was a race we thought would be cancelled but wasn't and so we decided at the last minute to go and do it. She wasn't really ready for it and it wasn't pretty, but the little boat hung in there pretty nicely.
We won! Sort of... It was a "pursuit" race which means the boats start at different times based on their performance ratings. We started 7 minutes after the boats starting before us and you can see where we pass them. We finished about 15 minutes before anyone else but.... Alas as you can see at the beginning of this movie, we crossed the start line about 10 seconds too early and decided we were having too much fun to go back and fix it. "OCS" as they call it. Sometimes in life, the journey matters more than how it is recorded by the race committee... or so that was what we thought at the time. Maybe not...
This was the same race where sadly one the other boats in our Long Beach Sailing community didn't make it. • Flyingfiche II dismast... . It was definitely the kind of day where I wondered if we would make it and the same thing that happened to them could have happened to us. Fortunately I had had the mast down about a week ago due to losing a halyard recently and took the opportunity to inspect all the bits and pieces that hold the mast up so I was pretty certain it would not be falling down... but still, it happens. My deepest sympathies to the owner and crew of Flying Fiche. Very glad everyone came out of it alive and safe.
Winds were... seemingly a solid and consistent high twenties gusting to 35 or so.
DATA:
For some reason the GPS data on the GOPRO was not captured, so all the data is coming from a CSV export from my Vakaros Atlas which seemed to work alright. According to the GPS clock on that data, the race start horn was about 7 seconds off, but we were still over the line too early anyway.
We started at 12:24 and finished at 1:54 so roughly 1 hour and 30... I wonder if that's some kind of course record for the Two Gates?
I tried out displaying some Wind Info which... seems good sometimes... other times nonsensical. I think it has to do with turbulence based on wind angle.
The sensor is mounted directly about 1/2 meter above the camera. In strong wind like this, there are certain angles where the sails just interfere with the wind hitting the sensor I think.
Impresive - A bit faster than my Hobie TI! Keep the videos coming!
Looks great. Zipping along. Would placing a crew member on the aft of the windward hull help the leeward hull not to get this submerged?
Yes it helps quite a bit. There were only two of us and I tried to get out there when possible.
@@damon_c That makes sense. I didn't know you were short on crew 🙂
Nice goin. Some scary moments.
Nice video. Could you describe the camera system with AWA (Apparent Wind Angle), AWS (Speed) and boat speed ?
Thank you.
It’s not working great in this video but it’s a calypso ultrasonic wireless sensor mounted on the bowsprit. It was getting recorded into my Vakaros Atlas 2 which is where boatspeed came from.
I rendered the graphics using a thing called python GoPro-overlay which I hacked a bit to get the Vakaros data into GPX format. pypi.org/project/gopro-overlay/
Great video! amazing speed! I am surprised by how loose the forestay seems to be, is that how it is supposed to be? I am an ignorant about trimaran, I have only been sailing on monohull but I am more and more interested about multihull. thank you for your answer
No it is not supposed to be so loose. The boat has no back stay and so relies on the main sail sheet being tight to tighten the forestay. Because it was so windy we needed to loosen it a bit and this effected the forestay which was not great. It was a chaotic situation and there was a lot to deal with and… trimming the sails to go a little faster was not on the list of things to do!
I used to race F18 and A-cats and - well I wished a camera was in the back but was that ride as rough as it appeared by front camera? When you stuffed it (what's that like?) I couldn't see it as we were underwater... My boats would STOP and or Cartwheel. What does the corsair do? Did it stop or just slow a bit? Really loving the Corsair in the videos. So the outriggers snap in place? of do you have to use a tool to lock them out and release them? Looked like a beating. I like to be out on a trap wire in such conditions!
Could you add a trap wire on this boat? Just for the thrill of it?
Well, one thing to know about the "stuff" is that the camera itself is actually about 10" below the end of the sprit in this video. So it wasn't as deep of a stuff as it seems. We did slow down a bit but didn't really totally stop. We did take a few liters of water right down the bowsprit during that moment... It happens. This boat is pretty resilient to it, maybe less so if it happened with a spinnaker up...
The ride though, actually felt rougher than it looks. The waves felt WAY bigger... You can't see me but I'm generally putting my weight out on the tramps for most of this, my helmsman was sitting in the cockpit. We were almost catching air over some of those waves... it was like riding a bull sometimes.
You can see me folding the boat up in this older video right here ua-cam.com/video/tBsSGK1GkrY/v-deo.htmlsi=9PPE-SRWItuU_CgV&t=594
I was in the same situation 3 years ago but with only the gib. The boat was perfect. The problem was the coast in Cannes were the anckor did nt want to fix in the sand. I was luky at the end of the day. My Corsair 24 was very seaworthy. I dont recommand the gib in Mylar which was totally destroy. I sold my boat after that. I stopped to sail and I feel really good on the earth. Mediterannee sea is too dangerous. You never know what happen 5 minutes before. Life is too precious to take such risks.
Jibs take a beating on days like this. The one in this video is being repaired from the events of this day...
I heard that Flyingfiche hit the rocks, was it on this race?
Yep :( I linked to a video in the description.
Wind speeds over 40 knots!! This is hard to believe.
Well, first of all it is "Apparent Wind", which means it's the actual wind speed + the boat speed. So... maybe if the boat is going 14 that means depending on if the boat is going toward or away from the wind, the real wind is more like 40-10=30 or something like that. Also, I'm not sure how accurate those measurements are. That's why I put "BETA" next to them. Will try and improve that in the future.
@@damon_c - Thanks for the clarification thanks for your awesome vids! The thought of sailing to a destination for the weekend, and passing every other boat on the water sounds quite gratifying.
47 min to watch the same scenery 😴😴😴😴😴😴