Seattle J/80 Owners are Sailing at Nationals and Worlds in Denmark
Three Seattle J/80 homeowners have mixed forces to constitution a ship and produce a number of the enjoyable J/80 fleet spirit within the Puget Sound area to world-level competitors for the 2021 J/80 Danish Nationwide Championship and the J/80 World Championship in Denmark.
What can we are saying…? We’re jealous. Impressed. Excited. Positively dwelling vicariously!
Emre Can “John” Sezer (J/80 Reckless), Lek Dimarucot (J/80 Underdog), and Ryan Porter (J/80 Jolly Inexperienced) live the dream. They’ve put collectively a Seattle-based crew for the J/80 Worlds in Denmark and are calling their workforce Jolly Reckless Underdog. This week, they’ve been crusing within the pre-worlds occasion, which can also be the Danish Nationals. After a disappointing day one, they’ve began to dial of their chartered J/80 and notched two top-five finishes (two 4th locations) on day two. Extra importantly they’re having a load of enjoyable and studying loads. The fleet doubles in dimension subsequent week for Worlds.
Lek advised us in a latest chat: “So cool to be racing J/80s abroad and seeing how far more of the world loves our sport and feeling a part of a much bigger neighborhood. Tremendous attention-grabbing seeing what issues folks do in another way right here, and but we’ve got a ton in frequent too.” If that isn’t good and provoking, we don’t know what’s.
Under are a few of their updates from social media. They’re posting some within the J/80 Pacific Northwest Fleet 18 Fb group. You may comply with their outcomes right here.
From Ryan on June 29:
The J/80 Open Danish Nationals begin tomorrow, with 25 boats registered. Racing will occur north of Copenhagen within the Øresund, which connects the North and Baltic Seas and separates Denmark and Sweden. Seattle has despatched the one workforce from the U.S. We’ll be chartering a membership boat from the Royal Danish Yacht Membership and calling ourselves Jolly Reckless Underdog (a group of our particular person boats’ names). The Nationals are our probability to show a bunch of skippers right into a workforce. The true enjoyable begins with 46 boats on the road for the Worlds on Monday. Yippee Ki Yay.
From Lek on June 30:
Crew Jolly Reckless Underdog earned a advantage badge packing race sails for air journey to Worlds. We took battens out, flaked the sails, rolled the jib round a 4” plastic pipe (lighter than PVC), then rolled the flaked most important beginning on the leech finish across the jib, and stuffed the entire Dacron burrito inside a sail bag and right into a 12” extensive concrete type tube. The entire package deal was simply inside the airline’s 50lb weight restrict, and we one way or the other finagled half off the outsized baggage payment. The one hiccup was a baggage handlers’ strike in Copenhagen that delayed unloading.
From John on June 30:
Up to now all of the Danish folks we met have been very pleasant. We had been fortunate to be across the marina because the native J/80 fleet was coming back from their Tuesday evening racing. Met the chair of the J/80 class affiliation in addition to the vice chair, Annett the occasion organizer, French and Irish rivals, in addition to a Spanish crusing workforce. We additionally had an opportunity to fulfill Lukas, a neighborhood sailor who will probably be becoming a member of us for the Danish Nationals. Hopefully we will be taught a factor or two from him.
Our little AirBnb is out of a storybook and we discovered a neighborhood French bakery proper by it to start out our day.
From John on July 1 – Day One in all Danish Nationals:
Right this moment was the primary day of the Danish Nationals and it’s clear we’ve got our work minimize out. Our greatest end was 13 out of 21 boats. We struggled with the begins and with boat pace. Our rig was out of tune and we couldn’t tune it on the water.
There have been some upsides although. First, we had been fairly quick downwind, overtaking a number of boats. Second, we had been in a position to determine the rig tuning after the race. It’s a contraption I hadn’t seen earlier than, inbuilt handles to tune the rig. Turns on the market are locking screws that have to be eased first. We bought the rig to a base setting and will be capable of nice tune it on the water tomorrow. Lastly, our maneuvers had been fairly stable, hoists douses and gybes.
On one other be aware, we haven’t seen the underside of the boat but. Low-cost diver and a brush is the very best we will do for now. Hopefully we’ll have her out of the water for a great scrub earlier than the worlds.
Out for now. I’m swaying like loopy. It was a tricky day with 4 races in 14-18 kts breeze. Tomorrow’s forecast is lighter. Cheers for now.
From John on July 2 – Day Two of Danish Nationals:
Day two of the Danish Nationals was a lot better. It was a lighter day right now, starting from 6-12 kts. We had been in a position to repair a few the problems on the boat, particularly discovering a approach to safe the instrument brackets.
We had been much more within the combine and bought into a few binds in mark roundings. In a single race we needed to do a 720. That was our worst end at sixteenth. The opposite races had been 4, 4 and 6. We completed thirteenth general however we’re very pleased with the progress. Within the image, discover in a number of the boats are behind us 
One other attention-grabbing factor is the the Danish sail out and in of the marina virtually solely.
After the race, we hoisted the boat and gave it a great stress wash and likewise sanded it down with 320 after which the grey 3M pads (roughly 600-800 grit). It’s bought plenty of orange peel that we will’t repair, however we’re hoping it’s higher than it was.
Don Sarin (our fourth crew member for Worlds) made it to Denmark all secure and sound. Tomorrow we’ll exit training with our full Worlds crew.
CYC Seattle and STYC burgees are on full show! Cheers all.
All pictures and posts courtesy of Emre Can Sezer, Lek Dimarucot, and Ryan Porter.
The put up Seattle J/80 Homeowners are Crusing at Nationals and Worlds in Denmark appeared first on 48° North.
from WordPress https://ift.tt/3Atgkj4
via IFTTT
Nhận xét
Đăng nhận xét