2nd place Sail and Oar boat

[Daniel Noyes]

1 Innisfree Tony Ciarmitaro 4:14:12 4:02:20
2 Beachcomber Daniel Noyes, Jole Peck 5:09:56 5:03:08
3 Jesse Boyce Gardner Winchester 5:35:39 5:35:39
(Class 4 calculations based on 10.4 nautical mile course.)

21' Beachcomber-Alpha sailing dory
we placed 2nd at the schooner races this yr. sailing with 5 boats in class, 2 droped out.
The other boats were sloops, and cutters, 28-40 footers.
We passed 2 or 3 boats much bigger than us, on the run down wind 5.2 miles toward Boston
wind was light 7-10 for start droping and dead about 1 1/2 mile from finish, drifted over line with tide and rowed back to Gloucester harbour.
I was happy with our performance but disapointed the wind did not hold through the finish of race.
We got a nice silver plate for 2nd place that I let Joel keep, because he got us to finish the race when I was ready to run out the oars and start rowing home.

Dan

[switters]

Congratulations!

Now where are the pics?:)

[kenjamin]

Hey Dan, good goin'. Second place ain't too shabby. What are the areas of sail for your main and your jib? Just curious.

[Daniel Noyes]

We shot some video when the wind died, just us in the boat bobing there, watching the jelly fish float along with us, seriously we were not moving at all, boat lost all steerage way, we paddled along with our hands, a small schooner and a Friendship sloop had also lost steerage and drifted together they had to fend off with boat hooks and bumpers while a ground swell jostled them together.

We were in Marconi rig class, and we missed the start by 3-5 munites but in the 7-10 mph breeze slowly reeled in several of the boats in our class, we had an excelent mark rounding, we had just passed a big 40+- ft cutter and were 200 ft ahead, we held close to the mark as I saw the Story in the previous class having trouble leaving the mark to port with tide and the up wind tack (we started down wind) we cut it close and sheeted in, when the cutter had the mark amidships we were probably 1000+ ft ahead.

Sail area on my Alpha is larger than in gardners book, I have 140-150 ft in the main and 45 +- in the jib
the main sail sets on a 19.5' mast and a 18' boom

Dan
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/3882378845_43e6a2f0ee.jpg

[Thorne]

Congrats!

[neilm]

Sounds like a beautiful boat. Congrats!

Neil