3 Rivers Race 2018

[Polly]

Sloooow race.

[TheQ]

This mornings forecast has gone up to a whole 6mph, a  huge improvement, I think it's going to be an A rater / Punt / tall cruiser race unless it keeps increasing.. and a very long night for most...

At this low wind speed the many boats will miss the window for going to Hickling first and have to go down with the tide to Acle, then back to Hickling..

[stumpy]

We'll be watching on wheels this year from the Bridge beer garden on Saturday - look out for the lady with the crazy blue hair!

[TheQ]

29 minutes ago, stumpy said:

We'll be watching on wheels this year from the Bridge beer garden on Saturday - look out for the lady with the crazy blue hair!

Acle or Potter? if it's Acle no jumping up and down in front of the camera,  the Acle Bridge camera  is courtesy of the Inn this year and it's already up and running..

[stumpy]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

Acle or Potter? if it's Acle no jumping up and down in front of the camera,  the Acle Bridge camera  is courtesy of the Inn this year and it's already up and running..

Q - It'll be Acle, we used to moor for the weekend at the 'lecky point until we got comprehensively thrutched by a 42' hire boat trying to get into a 30' space in front of us. Decided discretion was the better part.

[TheQ]

The forecast is up to 9mph at 11am for the start

north westerly through to 16:00

easterly 19:00

Southerly  22:00

south westerly 01:00

Westerly 04:00 through to 07:00

then back to North easterly..

if it's foggy as well they will not know where they are!!

[MauriceMynah]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

if it's foggy as well they will not know where they are!!

No change there then :)

[TheQ]

Well the weather forecast continues to evolve, now showing a westerly 8mph at the start. Interestingly it also shows it dropping from 6mph at 13:00 to 1mph at 19:00 that should slow the A raters down.. They may see what darkness is!!

[MauriceMynah]

Night sailing is so much easier than daytime sailing. Nobody can see the electric outboard and of course they're virtually silent.

[Polly]

Oh for shame! Are you suggesting that tactics may be involved?

[MauriceMynah]

Would I ever 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, MauriceMynah said:

Night sailing is so much easier than daytime sailing. Nobody can see the electric outboard and of course they're virtually silent.

There's always a 'lace curtain twitcher' watching or listening, night and day on the rivers and only too happy to let everyone know what they've seen or heard...

 

[TheQ]

It's something we are keeping an eye out for on the dozen guardships, as do other competitors. Mobile phones are good for recording errant behavior.

It's also why we record the times of every boat that comes past a guardship, these are sent back the the club house and recorded. I believe more than one competitor has in the past recorded a suspiciously fast time between points when everyone else ground to a halt. They have been spoken to ...

I had a chat about using trackers and the type that use the mobile phone system are £10 to 15  per boat for the weekend, but on board, low down in a small dinghy or keelboat they unlikely to work around much of the course.

Attaching to the mast would be difficult as they have to go through all the bridges, and would probably be knocked off during the raising and lowering..

[Polly]

Not worth the hassle ? Unless you tied it to the skipper! 

[grendel]

44 minutes ago, Polly said:

Not worth the hassle ? Unless you tied it to the skipper! 

at least you would know where the crew tossed them overboard that way.

[Polly]

That is undeniable .

[TheQ]

Morning Awl, this time Tomorrow I will be about to depart for Hickling Sailing club, to get one of their boats out for use as a rescue boat. Get a brush to brush the goose carp off of the pier, so we don't trample it into one of Martham hire boats especially as they have lent it to us at no cost.... Two others will head that way and collect the boat from Martham to bring it up to Hickling.

Then four of us will set up the radio, do radio checks back to the club, and settle in to wait for

 Boat to arrive, Normally that will be about 14:00 this year…..

The forecast For Horning

Tomorrow     Sat 2 Jun

Hour    Wind     Avg.  Gust           Temp. Rain          Cloud Press.

10:00    SSE       3 mph to 5 mph  19 °C  3.9 mm    66 % 1018 mb

13:00    WSW    5 mph to 7 mph  20 °C  8.7 mm   100 % 1017 mb

16:00    W          3 mph to 6 mph  20 °C  2.3 mm    90 % 1017 mb

19:00    WSW    2 mph to 5 mph  20 °C  0 mm       92 % 1017 mb

22:00    SW         5 mph to 6 mph  17 °C  0 mm      31 % 1018 mb

 

Sun 3 Jun

 Hour      Wind    Avg.  Gust               Temp.  Rain        Cloud  Press

01:00     WSW      7 mph to 10 mph  15 °C   0 mm      0 % 1018 mb

04:00      W           6 mph to 7 mph    14 °C   0 mm      0 % 1018 mb

07:00      WNW     6 mph to 8 mph    16 °C   0 mm      12 % 1019 mb

10:00       NNW     6 mph to 7 mph    20 °C   0.1 mm   64 % 1019 mb

13:00       N            8 mph to 8 mph     21 °C   0.1 mm   27 % 1019 mb

 

I hope to be able to send the odd Picture and comment tomorrow as we the guardship , will be closer to the clubhouse this year, unless we get told to shorten course and move nearer the entrance to the broad…

 

Good Luck every one…

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[LizG]

I shall be at Thurne on the Acle leg as usual but we are not over staffed so might not have time to acknowledge or chat - sorry!

[TheQ]

Just found a little video of preparations for the 2013 race, it shows the sort of thing that will be going on round the club this afternoon.

 

[ChrisB]

It is now looking like good foulies are going to be the order of the day for Saturday, damn shame after all the dry we have had.

[TheQ]

It's going to be warm so you don't wear water proofs you'll get wet, you do wear water proofs and you get hot sweaty and wet...

I've just been to the sailing club and the light you'll be looking for on the buoy is orange as is the one on the guardship, so if you arrive in the likely fog , make sure you go round the buoy, as we'll be tied up to the Hickling sailing club pier..

[ChrisB]

32 minutes ago, TheQ said:

It's going to be warm so you don't wear water proofs you'll get wet, you do wear water proofs and you get hot sweaty and wet...

 

The answer could be to wear what a lot of dinghy cruisers and raiders wear.

"Ventile" some folk swear by it, there is a place in Scotland do made to measure. 

[Polly]

Bit late to get any made to measure now Chris 

[Polly]

 Good luck to everyone floating in the fog tomorrow. We will be in there next year all being well. 

[ChrisB]

6 hours ago, Polly said:

 Good luck to everyone floating in the fog tomorrow. We will be in there next year all being well. 

So shall some of the boats from this year's race looking out of my window at 0530, flat calm and steady drizzle.

Good luck to all from me also.