Charlie Bell
A nice hot Tuesday afternoon. The weather has been very hot. The wind forecast was going to drop to 8 knots gusting 12. I thought I would change the headsail for the light winds. Norm agreed to arrive early to give me a hand.
I biked to the club. It was windy and I had second thoughts. But I trusted the sailflow forecast and changed the headsail.
Norm, Maud, Bob and a new guy Richard crewed. Richard is a new boat owner of a Catalina 30 in the North Channel. We met Richard at the CPS dinner a month prior.
We left early and motored to the gut and put up the sails. Norm took the helm, we sailed around for a while until the start. We ended up doing trying a Port Start due to bad planning but we switched to starboard just before the start, near the pin. We crossed the line after some interference from a single-handed sailor on port.
Winds dropped and the boat sailed very well on the refurbished 150. Winds dropped and directions were very fluky. We veered off the windward mark as the wind shifted and there was a mess at the windward mark. We overshot the mark passed AD22, tacked and headed for the gybe mark on starboard in at almost close haul.
We came up to the windward mark when Capricorn (the Alberg) was port passing the windward mark. There was space for her to turn but she did not. Instead, she headed towards us and hitting us in the aft port quarter. She was caught in our lifeline and we had to fend and untangle things. Once apart, we protested her, opening the protest flag and hailing PROTEST.
A couple of stanchions bent and a stanchion base broke, some scuffing on fibreglass and lifeline and toe rail.
A nice evening with a slow return to the club.
All was calm. Folded the headsail on the dock and norm and I went for Big Mac's. I slept aboard and the next morning I removed the stainless parts to bring to Provige for repairs.
 |
| Bent and broken stanchions |
No comments:
Post a Comment