Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race today- Wx

[DryArmour]

It is looking modest in the wind department. A 34' F air temperature differential between the coast and the desert isn't the normally 40+ degrees that we see this time of year primarily because the sea temps are 69-74'F over much of the coastal waters (That's warm by California coastal standards) and almost 10'F warmer than two years ago. Bill Gibbs and the AFTERBURNER TEAM should be in for dinner at King Harbor Yacht Club as long as the tall pointy thing in the middle of the boat remains skyward. The medium size J boats should be in between 10PM and 1:10AM. The fast 50s also get in pretty quickly and should beat the shutoff. Overall looks like a generally ho-hum year with NWS calling for 5-15 from the SSW becoming West 10-15 in the afternoon and then light and variable overnight. Still, it beats working.

I look forward to being back up there for the event next year as this year we are simply swamped with event and team shirt orders and I need to make sure everyone gets their gear for several upcoming August events. The deal is still on...Get your team the premium UPF 50+ Pro-Tech for under $25 including your logo. We are through the TransPac insanity so turn times are pretty quick now.

 

[Dawg]

The Santa Monica Bay Buoy forecast on SF looks awesome 20 to 25 at 6pm and staying up.

 

[DryArmour]

The Santa Monica Bay Buoy forecast on SF looks awesome 20 to 25 at 6pm and staying up.

I think you will find that is way overly generous.

 

[Dawg]

The Santa Monica Bay Buoy forecast on SF looks awesome 20 to 25 at 6pm and staying up.

I think you will find that is way overly generous.

Yea, I think your right.

Buoy reports are pretty light right now and just starting to fill in from the west.

 

[DryArmour]

The Santa Monica Bay Buoy forecast on SF looks awesome 20 to 25 at 6pm and staying up.

I think you will find that is way overly generous.

Yea, I think your right.

Buoy reports are pretty light right now and just starting to fill in from the west.

Whopping 6 knots at the mid channel buoy. It is going to be a long afternoon/evening/night for those boats. Blowing 9 knots here in Long Beach...

 

[silent bob]

Unfortunately, service at the Charthouse at King Harbor has been lousy recently. If you're not in by dark, you're not eating or drinking! A few years back, it took 90 minutes to get from the Charthouse to the finish line.

And how many times have we slatted off El Suckundo at 2AM?

And, as always....

If you're not in bed by midnight, go home!

 

[Dawg]

SBYC live results. not final

http://s429497468.onlinehome.us/raceresults/SBtoKH/2015/Landscape/index_single.html

Small boats are still out there.......ouch

 

[Hitchhiker]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

 

[DryArmour]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

Actually our WxRouting racer's forecast was spot on . Many thanks to those that purchased this years routing and congratulations on the hardware (Assuming the results hold up).

 

[unShirley]

Mundt took me and another friend out from Ventura to watch the race on his L7 trimaran. Light southerly wind allowed us to sail right up the middle of the channel on port tack towards SB. We saw the gold platers & AB heading out to Anacapa. Then Mundt spotted the M32 catamaran in by the beach with his reacher up and his windward hull flying. He was definitely moving much faster than the boats on the rhumb line. Eventually he hardened up and started across the channel to Anacapa passing to windward of Gilda and, before we lost sight of him, it looked like he was way ahead of everybody else.

He beat everybody to King Harbor by over 2 hours and won overall. Well done Miller Racing!

http://s429497468.onlinehome.us/raceresults/SBtoKH/2015/Landscape/index_single.html

 

[Dawg]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

That's funny you call your boat a small boat.

From the C&C 30 website

The C&C 30 OD is an over canvased sprite boat that will plane. You could wrap my boat in that kite.

I find it funny that the SBKH calls your class ULDB B

PHRF has ULDB on my Cert and I have a 26' 3100 lb boat that surfs, maybe plane in 25+ for short distances with big wave assist.

Seems that Race Organizers and PHRF should get their boat classifications straight.

small boat uldb my ass.

 

[DryArmour]

Mundt took me and another friend out from Ventura to watch the race on his L7 trimaran. Light southerly wind allowed us to sail right up the middle of the channel on port tack towards SB. We saw the gold platers & AB heading out to Anacapa. Then Mundt spotted the M32 catamaran in by the beach with his reacher up and his windward hull flying. He was definitely moving much faster than the boats on the rhumb line. Eventually he hardened up and started across the channel to Anacapa passing to windward of Gilda and, before we lost sight of him, it looked like he was way ahead of everybody else.

He beat everybody to King Harbor by over 2 hours and won overall. Well done Miller Racing!

http://s429497468.onlinehome.us/raceresults/SBtoKH/2015/Landscape/index_single.html

Wild Oats and now Miller Racing...Yet another example of a team wearing the FASTEST SHIRTS AVAILABLE. ;-)... Coincidence? We think not.

 

[Dawg]

I just got word from a crew on an Olson 40.
It took 7 hours to get from SB to Arch Rock on Anacapa.

That means they did not clear Anacapa until around 7 pm, that's dinner time.

OUCH

Maybe this is why Online Race Registration is "Last Minute"?

 

[RandyM81]

Here's our track from M32 Miller Racing:



We deployed our gennaker right from the start and that kept us moving through the glass at 6-8kts but at least 15 degrees lower than most everyone else. We made two short miserable tacks back to the fleet through about 120 degrees and then made up our minds that we needed to just keep the boat moving down the course, sail our own race, and that patience and perseverance would win the day. Credit to our most excellent navigator. So we followed the beach with the gennaker up trying to sail as tight as we could without parking the boat and waiting for the pressure to build and clock North. It finally happened at around 14:30. The wind began filling in and clocking North and we got lifted right up to the West end of Anacapa doing 12-15kts close reaching in the light but building breeze.

Near Anacapa we saw a ton of wildlife. Several whales, a large pod of dolphins, seals jumping out of the water, big fishing jumping out of the water. All very cool to see.

On the back side of Anacapa the wind was steady and mostly West with still some South I think so no lee off of Santa Cruz Island. We bore away around Anacapa but stayed on Starboard for another 45 minutes making 17-18kts with great VMG towards King Harbor. Then we gybed in for Malibu and slowly accelerated up to 20-22kts. We had to gybe twice to clear a freighter in the channel but kept on building speed until we blasted by Pt Dume doing 24-25kts.

From Pt. Dume we had just about a perfect layline all the way into King Harbor that allowed us to come up at the end into the fading breeze to keep the speed on all the way to the bell buoy.

Even with 150lbs of extra safety gear and a painful start, we kept the boat moving and had a blast sailing 97.7 miles at an average speed through the water of 13.4kts. We had a great crew that sailed well and stayed focused for the whole day. This after 3 straight days of loading, and trailering, and building, and launching, and staging vehicles and driving around LA. What a mission. Thanks guys.

This was my first mid-distance race on the boat and it was a fantastic experience. I can't wait to do more. Hopefully the ORCA guys didn't mind us playing in their sandbox. Thank you ORCA for helping me satisfy the safety requirements for the race. Santa Barbara and the whole coast and waters were absolutely beautiful.

The only negative was getting a call from the race committee this morning delivering the infuriating news that one of the TP52s (guess which one) lodged a protest against us saying they were "sure didn't complete the proper course in the Santa Barbara race and should withdraw." And I, "should have rounded Anacapa Island."

 

I replied by providing my GPS track. This satisfied the race committee but not these guys because according to them, "not one person in the fleet saw [us] round Anacapa Island." Apparently the mind cannot comprehend that inshore and in coastal waters an M32 beach cat crushes a TP52 lead mine all day long.

 

Despite the annoyance of managing the protest today I still managed to take my wife, uncle, and 93-year-old grandpa for a joyride out of Marina Del Rey and get down to King Harbor for the party and to pick up my winning silver octopus cupcake stand trophy. Good times!

 

 

[DryArmour]

Here's our track from M32 Miller Racing:

SB-KH Track.jpg

We deployed our gennaker right from the start and that kept us moving through the glass at 6-8kts but at least 15 degrees lower than most everyone else. We made two short miserable tacks back to the fleet through about 120 degrees and then made up our minds that we needed to just keep the boat moving down the course, sail our own race, and that patience and perseverance would win the day. Credit to our most excellent navigator. So we followed the beach with the gennaker up trying to sail as tight as we could without parking the boat and waiting for the pressure to build and clock North. It finally happened at around 14:30. The wind began filling in and clocking North and we got lifted right up to the West end of Anacapa doing 12-15kts close reaching in the light but building breeze.

Near Anacapa we saw a ton of wildlife. Several whales, a large pod of dolphins, seals jumping out of the water, big fishing jumping out of the water. All very cool to see.

On the back side of Anacapa the wind was steady and mostly West with still some South I think so no lee off of Santa Cruz Island. We bore away around Anacapa but stayed on Starboard for another 45 minutes making 17-18kts with great VMG towards King Harbor. Then we gybed in for Malibu and slowly accelerated up to 20-22kts. We had to gybe twice to clear a freighter in the channel but kept on building speed until we blasted by Pt Dume doing 24-25kts.

From Pt. Dume we had just about a perfect layline all the way into King Harbor that allowed us to come up at the end into the fading breeze to keep the speed on all the way to the bell buoy.

Even with 150lbs of extra safety gear and a painful start, we kept the boat moving and had a blast sailing 97.7 miles at an average speed through the water of 13.4kts. We had a great crew that sailed well and stayed focused for the whole day. This after 3 straight days of loading, and trailering, and building, and launching, and staging vehicles and driving around LA. What a mission. Thanks guys.

This was my first mid-distance race on the boat and it was a fantastic experience. I can't wait to do more. Hopefully the ORCA guys didn't mind us playing in their sandbox. Thank you ORCA for helping me satisfy the safety requirements for the race. Santa Barbara and the whole coast and waters were absolutely beautiful.

The only negative was getting a call from the race committee this morning delivering the infuriating news that one of the TP52s (guess which one) lodged a protest against us saying they were "sure didn't complete the proper course in the Santa Barbara race and should withdraw." And I, "should have rounded Anacapa Island."

 

I replied by providing my GPS track. This satisfied the race committee but not these guys because according to them, "not one person in the fleet saw [us] round Anacapa Island." Apparently the mind cannot comprehend that inshore and in coastal waters an M32 beach cat crushes a TP52 lead mine all day long.

 

Despite the annoyance of managing the protest today I still managed to take my wife, uncle, and 93-year-old grandpa for a joyride out of Marina Del Rey and get down to King Harbor for the party and to pick up my winning silver octopus cupcake stand trophy. Good times!

 

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Awesome recap! Thank you.

 

[Hitchhiker]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

Actually our WxRouting racer's forecast was spot on . Many thanks to those that purchased this years routing and congratulations on the hardware (Assuming the results hold up).

Cool! Who were your winners?

I should clarify that the conditions we had were about two hours behind the model forecasts, but tended to be off in both velocity and direction, especially evident in the early stages of the race.

The fact that we were second overall, I think shows two things. Routing on the fly is a very strong decider in one's race results and it doesn't hurt to be on a 30' grand prix sport boat with a really strong team!

 

[Hitchhiker]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

That's funny you call your boat a small boat.

I didn't......I wrote: "Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"! "

 

[DryArmour]

Sailed on the C&C 30 "Loco", this year. Slow start as usual, jib then code 0 reaching to the island. Gybing inshore on the backside of Anacapa with the A2 as usual. Pretty slow exit then a deep reach into Zuma beach with building pressure. Several hours of 15 to 18, maybe up to 20 in gusts. Gybed at Pt. Dume and VMG mode into the bay. Gybing down the ladder rungs towards the finish. Made it in at 0001 in time for a small rum front at the bar. Nice to be the smallest boat tied up amongst the "gold platers"!

Weather did not meet the predictions of the models!

Our track is in blue vs the routing in red.

Actually our WxRouting racer's forecast was spot on . Many thanks to those that purchased this years routing and congratulations on the hardware (Assuming the results hold up).

Cool! Who were your winners?

I should clarify that the conditions we had were about two hours behind the model forecasts, but tended to be off in both velocity and direction, especially evident in the early stages of the race.

The fact that we were second overall, I think shows two things. Routing on the fly is a very strong decider in one's race results and it doesn't hurt to be on a 30' grand prix sport boat with a really strong team!

We NEVER* report on who we provide routing for unless they specifically tell us it is okay. I agree with you that routing the whole race is key as too many teams take the predicted weather as gospel and then never get their head outside the boat and make adjustments to what is actually happening. The same is true of the instruments on board. You have to lft your head up and look around constantly and treat it like a dinghy race. Have a great week everyone!

 

[MR.CLEAN]

Thanks randy. great story.

http://sailinganarchy.com/2015/07/28/the-inshore-route