So you want sailing pictures..... ?

[Concordia...41]

Well it started Saturday with a "test fly" of the new-to-me / loaner spinnaker, but first, for Todd Bradshaw, a shot of my absolutely perfect mainsail :D It's so perfect it looks painted on!

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Don and Steve tweaking the chute:

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(You know, it's a wonder sailors don't have more neck problems... :rolleyes:)

Don and Davis Murray (if the name sounds familiar, check your last issue of Cruising World or my posts about a year ago when Davis set up Sarah's mast).

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[Concordia...41]

The first three pictures are from Saturday, which was nasty and overcast, but Sunday was a sunny day designed especially by God to drop the most beautiful golden light on my beautiful boat. :)

Going out the cut was a little rough

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but my beautiful girl just sang :)

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On the other hand, as gallons of water poured over the bow, I was regretting my decision to remove a loose vent on the foredeck, which although seemed like a good idea at the dock, again made me question which two brain cells ganged up to make that decision... :(

[Concordia...41]

Don Stagg (my UK-Halsey connection) and David Gage:

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Steve, my boss, friend, captain, sailing coach, Sarah's patron saint and guardian angel:

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Yours truly:

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(If you put your ear close to the screen, you can just hear Donna Fargo singing "Shine on me sunshine, walk with me world it's a skip a dee do da day... I'm the happiest girl in the whole USA" :D)

[Concordia...41]

OK, enough about us. The club photographer, Janet McNabb, was aboard the committee boat and the following are her pictures.

Pre-start, after we changed out the tiller bolt while underway, but that's another story... :eek:

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And no, I'm not happy with the mizzen sail :(. We never really got it right and I don't know if it's us (which I doubt considering the experience and caliber of the crew [David-Steve-Don]) or if it's the sail. It was a hand-me-down from another Concordia owner, and I'm not convinced it fits exactly right and/or I may have something set up wrong. Don, naturally, is ready to build me a new one, which is the direction I'm going...

OK, back to the regularly scheduled pictures...

We're in the starting sequence here, dueling with the C&C. The line is running from the sea buoy to the committee boat where the photographer is working from:

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[Concordia...41]

A couple of runs back and forth:

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And we nailed it :D

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Don is a master at the helm, I'm no slacker on the count, and Steve runs the sails and calls traffic. I think all season (+/- 18 races on various boats) we blew one start and were a little late on another, but we've pretty much got it down. With David Gage in the pit, we had a fourth good body, and it worked well.

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[Concordia...41]

We didn't accelerate fast enough to suit Don, but we nailed it!

See ya! Ya quarter-million-dollar red bucket of FRP :p

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We held him for a while. I guess David didn't get any shots :confused: but we held off our new nemesis for a while.

I even went up on the bow and did the "I'm the king of the world" scene from Titanic :D

Then, well, he points a bit higher, and there he went :(

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[Concordia...41]

Fast forward three rough and bouncy hours and here we come to the finish...

Don's on the helm, Steve is flying the chute, I'm flying the mizzen staysail, and David is running everything else:

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It was really choppy - especially when we got in close to the surf, and incredibly hard to keep the spinnaker flying.

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One from our perspective:

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And of course... right at the line....

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(If you put your ear up to the screen here, you can hear the cussing from the foredeck...)

[Concordia...41]

But we pulled it off

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Spinnaker take down (actually I'm getting yelled at for pulling on the wrong line.. )

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David Gage bringing us back through the Bridge of Lions:

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My beautiful girl back at the dock

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I'm smiling, but the fine print on the trophy is a VERY disappointing third place. If they gave points for style, we'd of had it hands down ;)

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The End

[willmarsh3]

Great pictures! May you win the next one.

[seanz]

(If you put your ear close to the screen, you can just hear Donna Fargo singing "Shine on me sunshine, walk with me world it's a skip a dee do da day... I'm the happiest girl in the whole USA" :D)

:eek:
Wow, it really works.
:D

Great pics, my thanks to you and all involved.

[Concordia...41]

Just for effect, here's a "before" picture (5/23/08). You'll notice in the "before" picture the mizzen was the pick of the litter... :eek: -

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So that was:

Before another Concordia owner gave me two headsails;

Before my patron saint got Sarah a new roller furling;

Before Don measured her for the new main;

Before the new boom ...

Speaking of songs, another theme here should be "I get by with a little help from my friends..." - make that A LOT of help from my friends ... :)

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[JC 72]

Gorgeous, Thanks for the the great pics. So cool to see you from both perspectives, on the same run.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

I'm smitten!

[Doug Wood]

The 'before' and 'after' shots are striking. Fix that Mizzen and Sarah's golden.

She sure is beautiful.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Wow, Margo those are great pictures... really really awesome:)

[Duncan Gibbs]

Drooooool!! :)

[boylesboats]

That is wonderful Margo...
seeing those sails filled with breeze, she really moves right along..

Thanks for sharing those sailing pictures.. they are great..

[Robbie 2]

Beautiful Margo

[Thad]

Excellent!! Thanks.

[Clinton B Chase]

Did Todd cut that main? Man is that nicely shaped!

[Concordia...41]

Did Todd cut that main? Man is that nicely shaped!

No, it's not Todd's work. I don't know if he's doing anything that size. It's just that when we got it and I first posted pictures Todd was extremely complimentary, and we all know what it means when Todd Bradshaw compliments your sail shape. :)

My friend, crew mate, and local UK Halsey connection, Don Stagg, did the measuring and design, and the sail was made in the USA by Pedro Gianotti of UK-Halsey Texas.

[Bob Perkins]

Great set of Pictures! I know how long it takes just to put that together and we all appreciate it.

Now we have Sarah and Pheonix updates.. Who Hoo!!

How is the interior of Sarah coming along?

Thanks

[Russ Manheimer]

Delightful my dear. Still have a see through head?

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Delightful my dear. Still have a see through head?

I take it you mean Sarah's head not Margo's.:D

[Concordia...41]

I take it you mean Sarah's head not Margo's.:D

Well, both are just as open as before :D

[htom]

I feel my cavities growing. Wonderfully sweet story, Margo.

[Hughman]

Oh, yeah. :)

[abe]

Yes and more please!

abe

[Concordia...41]

Yes and more please!



Well, since you're nice enough to insist ;) :o - these just landed in my in-box.

These were taken just post-spinnaker set by the blue Hunter that was our nemesis in cruising class. (Moving into performance class allowed us to fly the spinnaker and mizzen staysail.)

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See ya! :p

[Michael s/v Sannyasin]

On the other hand, as gallons of water poured over the bow, I was regretting my decision to remove a loose vent on the foredeck, which although seemed like a good idea at the dock, again made me question which two brain cells ganged up to make that decision... :(

You have more than two that are still functioning? :D

Just kidding, what a happy happy sight! Good on ya Margo.

[Steve Lansdowne]

Wow, what fun! Those of us with cartoppers sure do appreciate your sharing!

[davidagage]

That had to be one of the funnest sails ever. As part of the performance fleet we started 15 minutes after the cruising fleet. By the first mark, 5 miles to wind on a buckin' sea, we had past 3 and rounded to pass the others. Only 1 cruising class boat beat us:D

Here is a little vid of the beats to wind...

Sailing on Sarah (http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/Claudia_David/Launching/?action=view&current=SailingonSarah.flv)

Oh yeah, and who ever is nearest me during breakfast.....coffee only for me thank you very much....:o

Sailing with the devine Ms. M is an opportunity that if given, nobody should ever pass up, Thank you Margo for another wonderful sail

DG

[shamus]

You don't use a spinnaker pole?

[Concordia...41]

You don't use a spinnaker pole?

Spinnaker poles are a subject of debate right now and I just got yelled at (again) :(.

Apparently there are various opinions on the subject :rolleyes: ;)

[John B]

Great photos Margo , she's looking the business all right.
You're not going to need a pole for an asymetric which is what I assume you'll want to get first. Just stay asym and run the angles. Flat running and symetric with pole means a hell of a lot more string and cluster ,er , potential for problems. And big crew numbers.

Maybe set up a lightish pole for poling out the jib.

[Concordia...41]

John - that was pretty much what was just ... um... er.... emphasized ;) to me.

Again, just for effect... it was exactly a year ago (October 27th) that we got her back in the water. :)

Top, bottom, nuts, bolts... it's been a good year. :D

[Clinton B Chase]

I sailed with friends who flew a symmetrical spin without a pole and with the sheets through the genoa track...the sheet led through the gate in the life lines. I was amazed how well this set up work. They think the need for a pole is a commercial move to get people to spend money on them and on assymetricals. We were able to sail very deep on a reach and quite high.

Clint

[Jay Greer]

Now that is one beautiful suit of sails!!!!!
That main is over the top! Maybe the mizzen will change its attitude with some tweaking.
Jay