Historical 18-Footers Australian Championships 2020
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2020
- In three heats in January and February 2020 the Australian Historical 18-footers fleet decided their national Championships. The main contenders were multiple previous winner John “Woody” Winning, and Harold Cudmore who won two years ago. Woody has changed to a different boat, The Mistake, but Harold and his crew have Yendys, the boat in which they won 2 years ago. Yendys is generally faster upwind and in the light, The Mistake is generally faster downwind and in fresh conditions. Who can predict what will happen?
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The traffic added some excitement in the first heat, but the wind in the third made for some wet action!
Thanks for sharing.
Tiny boats. Virtually no freeboard. *RIDICULOUS* amounts of sail.
Looks like fun!
Nice to see these boats still being used!
Damned good race series video.
Also, damned shame capsize in the third heat there, would have been a dandy of a last leg. I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing it.
Excellent narration. Not much excessive flotation in those boats.
pure chaos, how many races going on at once ? surprised the ferries and cruise ship didn't get tangled too
How nice they are!!!!! (the boats)
Thanks Ian! Love these yachts so much; a massive treasure for Sydney & Australia. Are Saturday’s race day & are random crew spots still often available? Cheers
We race every Saturday from October to Easter except for a 3-week break over Xmas. Crew spots are occasionally available particularly early in the season.
@@SmithysBoatshed Thanks Ian. Whose the best person to contact regarding looking for a fill-in crew spot or best to contact the club on their email? Cheers
Sorry Bryce, missed your comment until now. Best to turn up on Saturday from about 11am and ask around. Keep trying till you find a spot.SFS, MacDougall St Kirribilli.
Ian Smith Boats Thanks Ian
Interesting to see a set of sails made by Jonkind
At 13:30 it appears that Yendies Doesn't have a forestay as they bring the pole straight across, is that correct?
Wire luff jib is only forestay. Jib is dropped to swing pole through then raised again.
WOW! That's just nuts. They need to practice allot before this
Are these Bermuda One designs, similar to Bermuda fitted dinghy?
There are some similarities but Aussie 18-footers have a separate history going back well over a century. See www..openboat.com.au
were the fiberglass boats trying to ram them? 1:50
Not deliberately.
Hey in a Moody 30 did a chicken run (with my Virgin crew) on a Greek ferry He didn't chicken I don't know why ;-))
These people must be crazy.
But a little crazy makes life a lot more fun.
In 50 years sailing, I’ve never heard the expression “a shy reach”. Explanation?
Not quite fetching?
Capt Termite. A “fetch” or “fetching”, is not a common term in Canada. It is a close-hauled up-wind course to a windward mark that can be achieved without tacking or “beating” to windward. That makes fetching a course in relation to a lee mark, rather than a sail trim in relation to just the wind. One could be close-hauled (for the sake of example on a port tack) with the mark lying off the starboard bow. I’m accustom to a reach being a course roughly at right angle to the wind a close reach being less than 90° to the wind and a broad reach being a course roughly in the range +- of 90° with running being much greater than 90° to 180°.
It’s rather like boxing a compass.
What
Anne Teve I guess it must be a local expression here in Sydney. If the wind is beyond say 3/4 off the stern to on the beam or even forward of it we say it is shy. If not too shy it will be a shy run, if very shy it will be a shy reach.
A shy reach is what I used to get in the back row of the pictures