A great summary of the race and conditions Neil. It was challenging. We too
had equipment issues, with a horizontal tear in our headsail about 5 feet from
the head, and a vertical tear in our race main 2 feet back from mast. both
held on with a little babying through the night. Finished 8th behind Neil. A
disappointing year, but all home safe, though two crew, a newbie and a vet were
sick the entire race.
Great to meet you Neil.
Bill Walker
CnC 36
Pentwater, Mi
On Sunday, June 24, 2018 schiller via CnC-List wrote:
Just got home last night from running the Queen's Cup race on Glenn Gambel's
C 36. Quite a race, we went across Lake Michigan Tuesday night, 19 June 2018
in the rain with 12-15 kt winds right on our tail. We sailed about a third of
the run and motor sailed under main only for the rest. Motor didn't have to
run hard. It rained or was overcast all the time that we were in Milwaukee.
Race conditions at start (15:25 CDT) were 12-15 kt NNE with 4-7 foot waves,
mostly 5 (for those of you who sail on the bigger waters, Great Lake waves a
short and steep. Our 4-7 footers come with a 3-5 second period and are quite a
challenge to steer in). The QC course this year was almost due east
(Milwaukee, WI to Grand Haven, MI) and the winds were expected to be NNE at the
start shifting a little north late in the night and then backing back to NE by
morning. The weather prediction was pretty accurate. The route was to head as
much NE as possible to mid lake and then make the turn down toward GH. Glenn's
C 36 did pretty well with a reef in the main and the jib extended to about a
#1 a the start. We shook out the reef and rolled out the jib just before last
light. Did well until we blew a seal in the backstay adjuster. Lost most of
our preload on the backstay. I rigged a line through the adjuster to hold what
we had left and we used a sail tie to draw it back toward the pushpit to keep
it from pumping. It severely restricted our pointing ability and we ended up
getting blown south of our desired course. We corrected with a couple of tacks
and finished in the morning at 06:27 EDT. I think we sailed the boat about as
well as we could, under the conditions.
C was well represented in the race. It was nice to meet Bill Walker from
Evening Star. There were 14 C's in the race. We ranged from a C 30-1 to a
Redwing 41. We had old and new represented. Celerity, a C 40 flew by us so
fast that I almost got off the boat to see why we were stopped :).
We finished 7th in our fleet, which I feel good about with the floppy forestay
that we had. We brought home everybody that we left with and the boat still
floats. We do have a crew member with a pretty good knot on his head from
cartwheeling through the cabin. Why he decided to go below in 4-7 footers I'll
never understand.
Neil Schiller
1983 C 35-3, #28
"Grace"
Whitehall, Mi
WLYC
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