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Update From Vincent in British Columbia

2010-04-20T16:12:00.000-07:00

We always love hearing stories of sailing adventures from alumni. Here's an email from Vincent in Salt Spring Island, BC. Send us your own stories!

I wanted to once again share with you what great strides I feel I am making out on the water.

Last Sunday, I volunteered to crew on the fastest boat in our Club, a bright red C&C 110. Skippered by a highly experienced sailor and racer in our group. Right away, I felt like I had stepped into "graduate school". The boat is really powerful, and has lots of fine controls that I had not used before (jib tweakers, spinnaker downhaul, etc.), but within a few miles, I was well integrated into the crew and working quickly and correctly at my various trimming duties. By the second half of the race, I was starting to anticipate my skipper's trimming commands and was right at the ready for adjustment. Even though we lead the race on the water throughout, we were unlucky with wind shifts and we lost badly on corrected time (the boat is PHRF 72!). Nonetheless, it was a victory for me in tackling such a demanding crewing responsibility with no big stumbles.

Last Thursday, I was out for a day sail with my friend on his C&C 29. I suggested an ambitious goal of sailing south right to the US border and around Moresby Island. The wind was blowing steadily from the SE at 8-12 knots, so we reached into it all the way to our goal. At that point the wind died for a while and we were forced (by the advancing hour) to motor around most of our island "mark" and through one busy ferry lane. But then, I noticed that the shroud telltales went slowly limp, and then crept forward. We had a building following wind! I convinced my friend to cut his particularly noisy diesel and we trimmed for a very broad reach. What followed was 90 minutes or so of pure bliss, as I helmed the boat home in golden light, a softly burbling wake, and full confidence.

Here we are, captured by my friends' wife as we sailed past their house. I was managing an easy wing-on-wing at 5 knots or so, the big flood current giving us another knot or so over ground.

Again, thanks so much for the great start,
Vincent

Contest Answer

2010-01-20T10:07:00.000-08:00

The effect shown in the picture below is a Fata Morgana. Read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage))

The winner has been contacted. Thanks to all for your interest. Keep posted for more contests soon.

Name the effect

2010-01-11T16:08:00.000-08:00

We're offering J World San Diego gear to the first person who can correctly identify the phenomenon shown here. Good Luck.

Send answers to info@jworldsandiego.com

Sunset over SDYC

2010-01-11T16:07:00.001-08:00

A beautiful sunset to follow a great day of racing.

All I want for christmas...

2009-12-09T12:50:00.000-08:00

Is a J World San Diego Gift Certificate! Our holiday special makes them a great deal for your favorite sailors. Our gift certificates come in any amount, and are good for classes, charters, and races. Call or email soon to make sure that it gets under the tree in time.

1(800)666-1050

info@jworld-sailing.com

BMW Oracle Trimaran

2009-11-10T15:37:00.001-08:00

A beautiful boat out for a day sail in San Diego. If everything goes as planned, Alinghi might never see them this close up.

BMW Oracle Trimaran sailing with hard wing

2009-11-10T15:30:00.001-08:00

We caught the Oracle boys out for a test sail today.

J Fest Results

2009-09-29T09:51:00.000-07:00

We had a great regatta here in San Diego this past weekend. Check out the results.

Sunshine, warm weather, and 15 knots of wind makes for great sailing conditions. There were 42 boats in 4 one-design classes. All featured close competition and tight mark roundings like this one.

SailKarma sailing news

2009-09-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

Check out this great site to keep you up to date on what's happening in the sailing world. One of our personal favorites. http://www.sailkarma.com/

J Fest crew positions available 9/25-27

2009-09-08T15:14:00.000-07:00

We would like to offer a rare opportunity to the sailing world. For the upcoming J Fest regatta in San Diego, we are offering positions on our J/80's. Sail in a one design regatta, not stuck in one position, but able to rotate positions and experience everything. This is a unique learning experience that you will not find anywhere else. Please contact rob@jworld-sailing.com or call the office at (619)224-4774 for more information.

J World's New Blog

2009-09-08T11:21:00.000-07:00

Welcome one and all to the newest creation of J World San Diego. We hope that this will help us to interact with our past, present and future students. We also want to invite you all to participate. We will post regatta results, articles, questions, and crew requests that are submitted to rob@jworld-sailing.com.