California Offshore Race Week 2017 J/109 "Junkyard Dog"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2017
- "Junkyard Dog" J/109 CORW 2017 Winds up to 40 knots, 10+ seas, 21 knots boat speed. California Offshore Race Week consists of a series of 3 races down the coast, 100 mile Spinnaker Cup from San Francisco to Monterey, 204 mile Coastal Cup (3:47) from Monterey to Santa Barbara and the SoCal 300 (7:00), a 254 mile race from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Our rockstar crew included Lana, Mark Werder, Mark E, Kerry and Leo
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Raced on one of these this summer at International Cork week, in Ireland. Raced her round the Fastnet Rock. Amazing boats, high performance, challenging and great fun. We too had a Porpoise escort. Ours provided by the Irish Tourist Board!
Thanks for watching. From what I've heard there's a very active fleet of 109's in your region. Must be something special about the 109 that porpoises all around the world love!
I just started to crew on a J 109 in the Puget Sound. I look at your videos to see what I can do better, you guys, and girl makes it look easy and fun!
Keep putting out great videos.
Thanks Mike!
Amazing Sailing!
You guys work well together! That's a small crew for such a long race, well done. We usually control the spin sheet with two people in high wind, one grinding and one standing by a shroud and controlling it by hand. That lady doing it by herself is amazingly strong, she's clearly an athlete. It's refreshing to see rotation of positions like you do, rotation gives everybody a break. Did you install the bobstay yourself, or was it stock on your boat?
Thanks Dave! Although she is small she is mighty :) I installed the bobstay myself, it's very similar to how Bill did his on the class website. Right now it retracts into the anchor locker but I'm thinking about changing it so it retracts into the sprit. Still thinking about the best way to do that though...
James, did you compress or upload this video any differently than the others? I ask because when sent my wife a link to it, she was unable to open the video on her new Iphone. She gets a message "this video is not available". I tried it with my very old Iphone and I get the same message, although I can watch it fine with my old mainframe Mac.
Hmm, that is strange, not sure what to make of that. We used a new GoPro Hero5 camera but the same editing program. Just tried it on an older iPhone and it seems to work for us. Maybe it was just a temporary problem?
with the main fully up, are you not worried about the pressure on the rigging? last time I went down to Monterey, rode down on 30knots wind, so I reefed.
if you are sailing upwind against 30 knots, I guess it would be impossible?
I think the rigging should be fine in those conditions (as long as it's in good shape). The sails on the other hand take a lot of abuse in heavy winds. I suppose the sails act as sort of a safety valve for the rigging. The sails would most likely vaporize well before the rigging fails. If I remember correctly I think we ended up reefing eventually on that race, just wasn't caught on camera because it was dark by then. Depending on the boat, upwind in 30 knots without reefing is doable, just not very enjoyable or efficient. Thanks for commenting and for watching!
@@PsychoTillerSailing were you guys bothered by the crab pots? we decided not to sail it overnight largely because there were a lot of crab pots around HMB. had to watch out at night for those lines.
@@yangyang3175 There are certainly a LOT of crab pots around HMB and luckily we've never had to sail there at night. I'm not sure if there just aren't that many in Monterey Bay or we were just lucky. We very well could have sailed right past numerous crab pots in the dark and never even knew it. Most of the offshore race week night sailing is far enough offshore where there aren't any crab pots though.
Why do you carry the tack Line so high?
With one design boats like the J/109 you're limited to a specific size kite. Some of the kites were designed to have the tack line out in order to have a wider and deeper kite. With a kite tight at the tack you'd give up some width and/or depth to stay in the same class legal Sq meter size. Having said all that, this was about 5 years ago, sail design and even class rules may have changed since we had a J/109. On our current boat the tack stays tight at the pole.
@@PsychoTillerSailing I am a 105 sailor, usually doing trim. We rarely extend the tack line more than 12” or so trying to get the kite to rotate to weather and get deeper. The new North VMG kites rotate really well. I was just curious. Thanks