{"id":239,"date":"2009-03-22T04:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-03-26T04:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T12:38:03","slug":"oyra-crewed-lightship-race-more-fun-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/oyra-crewed-lightship-race-more-fun-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"OYRA Crewed Lightship Race (more fun in SF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240 colorbox-239\" title=\"lightship\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lightship.jpg\" alt=\"lightship\" width=\"275\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lightship.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lightship-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The guys on the rail&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped on the Quest 33 for the lightship race on Saturday before heading for the red eye to take me back to Yeoman in St Maarten. Wayne the owner wrote about the race. It started in light air that got lighter right next to the mark so we carried our number one. Then a front came through and the sunny blue skies went away with gusts up to 26 knots making the downwind a fun affair. We ended up peeling the kite but as we only have one spin halyard this involved jib up and kite down and then kite up and jib down. It was a fun race all in all.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief post-mortem &#8212; We had a poor start (my fault) but got onto<br \/>\nthe right side and wind immediately.\u00a0 Made the right choices up wind and<br \/>\nsailed well to the lightship, hitting the shifts, keeping in good<br \/>\npressure and steering well.\u00a0 (Passing Deception which indeed is a Santa<br \/>\nCruz 50 was fun.) We also made the right last minute decision to go<br \/>\nsouth after rounding (notwithstanding the forecast shift to the north,<br \/>\nwhich never materialized).\u00a0 We probably should have gone even farther<br \/>\nsouth for relief from the current, but damn fast boat speed (and fast,<br \/>\nhold on to the boat steering by Ashley) more than made up for the ebb.<br \/>\n(17+ knots!\u00a0 Loved the spray.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys on the rail&#8230;. I jumped on the Quest 33 for the lightship race on Saturday before heading for the red eye to take me back to Yeoman in St Maarten. Wayne the owner wrote about the race. It started in light air that got lighter right next to the mark so we carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}