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perjantai 30. kesäkuuta 2017
R1374: RDV2017 Helsinki - Halifax
torstai 29. kesäkuuta 2017
RSC1336: Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Virgin - Race Day 4
After Saturday evening’s party we still had one more race day ahead of us. Wake up was at normal time on Sunday morning and after breakfast we headed towards the start area. First upwind leg was not good at all. Or maybe we had just become more critical ourselves. After very well sailed downwind leg we ad again upwind leg ahead us and at the same place where we on earlier race days had seen quite strong currents. Price giving ceremony was scheduled and we started to calculate if we would be able to finish the race in time or not. After some calculations and discussion we made hard decision to retire from the race. We still wanted to see price giving and it would not be possible if we would sail the race course.
Our crew were on time at price giving ceremony and we were all wearing our team’s official RSCC 2017 outfit. Winners of each race day got their pricing and at the end regatta winners got their Rolexes and trophies. After ceremony we had dinner at Vahine and then couple of beers at local bar. Monday morning we would head back to St. Maarten.
tiistai 21. maaliskuuta 2017
RSC1336: Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Virgin - Race Day 3
After the first racing day the race committee had decided to postpone start with one hour. This left us plenty of time in the morning before the race would start. Therefor we decided to start third racing day with testing of the downwind foresail. Getting it up was ok, as well as getting it down. So nothing would stop us from using it in today’s race. Race committee informed that we shall downwind start. It is quite challenging as it is not possible to “put break on” before start lane if you are early. Again we were well positioned at the starting lane and after the start we hoisted downwind foresail really quickly, taking into account that we have no electrical equipment to help with sail handling, everything is done manually with real man power.
After third racing day we had regatta barbecue in the evening together with all other teams. Good food, music, dancing and videos from first three days of racing were the formula for nice evening for all the sailors. Crew enjoyed the evening and it was quite late, at least for some of us, before we were all in deb in the evening.
Tunnin viive alkua ilmoitettuun starttiin käytettiin päällikön ilmoituksella. Vahine irtosi kilpailualueelle heti kun alus oli valmis. Keulakansi aloitti kisapäivän haasteella painia avotuulipurjeen kanssa. Suuren epäsymmetrisen avotuulipurjeen, puolikupolin nostamiseen tilaus oli ollut ilmassa jo hetken. Miehistön mielipiteet Vahinen nopeuteen kohti alamerkkiä tuskin erosivat mielipiteistä nopeudesta kohti ensimmäistä ylämerkkiä. Mutta nyt meillä kaikilla oli tarjolla kilpailussa onnistumisia ja joiden tuloksia kisavauhtiin haettiin monin tavoin.
Päivän kilpailu käynnistyi Vahinen leikatessa lähtölinjan hyvässä asemassa. Veneen potentiaali oli läpi kisan käytössä mutta joutui myötäämään kilpailijoiden edessä.




























