All posts by Nabeel

Lightning & Laser sailor/racer.

Memorial Day Weekend

2024-05-03 Nabeel

Whoever is not going to the 50th Anniversary of the No Gas Regatta at SSA on memorial day weekend, should help out with race committee for the PRSA Spring Regatta.

No Gas Registration is OPEN!!!

Please Register here for the 50th Annual No Gas Regatta 05/25 – 05/26

Also, please sign Up here for ILCA Who’s Coming List.

-Lisa-Marie Lane
Mobile 703.209.3653
#15126 As You Wish…Fleet Captain, Lightning Fleet 329
#186551 Buttercup, Laser District 10

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.—Mark Twain

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2024 Spring Series #1, #2, and #3

2024-04-30 Nabeel

Spring Series #1 was a windy chilly day. Stew Harris and team started off the four intrepid sailors on a W2. Only Barney and Justin Harler finished the race. And that was it.

Spring Series #2 was a light light day. Aaron Boesenecker and team were lucky to give us one W1.

Spring Series #3 started off light but the wind gradually filled in with the sail home after the four W2 that Dana Howe and team gave us being downright beautiful.

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2023 Fall Series – Nov 5

2023-11-06 Nabeel

Dane Pederson and team ran four races for us on a beautiful late fall day, which was the last of our fall series.

The wind was absent until about noon when it filled in gently from the north and by the third race there were stronger shots from the NW.

21 boats were on the water — racing and running them.

(races 18-21, but mis-numbered the races for Albacores and Lightnings which are numbered 18, 20-22)

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2023 Fall Series – Cumulative Scores thru 10-29

2023-11-04 Nabeel

November 5th will be the last of the fall series.

The cumulative scores below are intended to motivate you to come out. Please do!

A few notes about the scores:

The race dates and race number are out of order:

Sep 17 races 8-11
Oct 1 races 1-3 & 17
Oct 8 races 4-7
Oct 15 races 12-13
Oct 29 races 14-16

To be counted as a race for your class, there must have been 1 or more finishers

Half, rounded-down, of your worst scores are thrown out

If you were on RC when there was a race in your class, you will get RDG but that has not been calculated yet. Plus, I often did not know who (sail numbers) were on RC.

I20-thru 10-29 three TOs no RDG for RC

Laser-thru 10-29 4 TOs no RDG for RC

Bucs-thru 10-29 4 TOs no RDG for RC

Lightnings-thru-10-29 seven TOs no RDG for RC

Albacore-thru 10-29 seven TOs no RDG for RC

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2023 Fall Series – October 29

2023-10-30 Nabeel

Bobby Astrove with his team of Lars Rathjen, John Van Voorhis, and Kyra Talllon ran the races.

The winds were light from the NE shifting to the ENW on occasion. The first race was a T2 which took over an hour. The next was a W1 which finished quickly, and the last was a W2 with a shortened source at the leeward mark

Lightning-2023-10-29

Laser-2023-10-29

I20-2023-10-29

Flying Scot 2023-10-29

Buccaneer-2023-10-29

Albacore-2023-10-29

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2023 Fall Series October 15

2023-10-15 Nabeel

Dave Coughlin ran the races with the team of Justin Harler, Piercarlo Bruninol, and Mateo. (I think).

It must have been an ugly day because only two five showed up for the skippers meeting and only two Lasers sailed and just two races.

— Nabeel

Flying Scot 2023-10-15

Laser-2023-10-15

Lightning-2023-10-15

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2023 Fall Series – October 8

2023-10-08 Nabeel

Stew Harris and team ran the races. He reports:

A blustery day of racing. Results and sign-in attached.
Frank Gallagher capsized but got himself up and went in immediately.

I need some tips on best location for reaching mark with Olympic courses. At first, I was trying to imagine best location for symmetrical spinnaker but when they didnt open chutes I had trouble finding the right location so they could reach well. Less room for error when the winds are up. It took a couple races before I got close.

Also very interesting. I got reports the windward mark was seeing massive 60 degree shifts. Upon reflection, this may have been due to proximity to the airboat hanger on the shore of the airport. In the future, faced with westerlies, I will set the windward mark farther north or south of the hangar.

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2023 Fall Series – October 1

2023-10-01 Nabeel

Evan Hogan and team ran the races.

(I did not sail so I don’t know what the conditions were like that day. Also, apologies for the delay i getting these out. I was away and did not the computer with the scoring program with me.)

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2023 Fall Series Sept 17

2023-09-17 Nabeel

Cloudy conditions threatened rain all day, but we managed to escape with only a drizzle on the sail out.

A shifty southwesterly settled into a nice southerly after the second race allowing the racecourse to be stretched out for some longer races in the slightly stronger breeze.

In total, four races were sailed. A huge thank you to the rest of the race committee helping out this week: Bob, John, and Piercarlo, and thanks to all the sailors for coming out and making it a fun day off and on the water. See you all next week!

– Stephen

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