Close cross

kloudie1 · Aug 18, 2017

Nice shot by the club photog! The telephoto lens makes it look even closer!

SFS · Aug 18, 2017

When I saw the picture, I thought "glad somebody likes that", as in, no way baby. When I saw the video, I thought "man, that's really cool, and they are not all that close, with plenty of room to move to starboard as needed". Interesting dichotomy. Thanks for posting it, Clay.

weinie · Aug 18, 2017

Main trimmer was definitely on the case.

plenny7 · Aug 18, 2017

Awesome! I need to show the photo and video to my wife. She thinks I get far to close when I duck under and I'm no where near THAT close.

shemandr · Aug 18, 2017

Cool. You were in total control. Sometimes I'd rather be the ducker than the starboard tacker waiting to see what will happen. It can be a distraction for the driver to watch a port tacker. Take the duck. Little loss especially if you like that side of the course.

thinwater · Aug 18, 2017

Just remember that this is racing. In the real world, the other guy does not see you or understand stand on/give way. He'll do something dumb at the last moment. Folks hit sea buoys, for heaven's sake.

Ned Ludd · Aug 18, 2017

Nice! I love the close duck, people freak out when tons of sailboat pass within feet of one another.

All U Get · Aug 19, 2017

The nice thing about losing the cup is winning it back. (or so I've heard.)

All U Get

Bill19233 · Aug 19, 2017

We've had a lot of cool, close crosses racing this year as the starboard and port tacker, but we've also had too many like this photo from last month with a lot of yelling and hand gesturing.

jviss · Aug 19, 2017

Nice pics and video. I love yacht racing, but have only been in one race, probably 30 years ago. Not much of it going on in my harbor, that I know of, but lots of it all around us!

Joe · Aug 19, 2017

Well... that looked like fun.

Dan_Y · Aug 20, 2017

Bill19233 - that is an awesome photo like jackdaw's, but yours just plain irritates me! Maybe bring a megaphone on board so you can yell "starboard... Is that allowed??? haha

Stu Jackson · Aug 20, 2017

Bill19233 said:
We've had a lot of cool, close crosses racing this year as the starboard and port tacker, but we've also had too many like this photo from last month with a lot of yelling and hand gesturing.

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Truly frightening.

Help me guess...they weren't racing? And even if YOU were cruising, they still had NO clue...sheez...glad you survived.

Bill19233 · Aug 20, 2017

Stu Jackson said:
Truly frightening.

Help me guess...they weren't racing? And even if YOU were cruising, they still had NO clue...sheez...glad you survived.

The photo may be a little misleading because of the zoom lens on the DSLR, we ducked and cleared them by at least a boat length. We were both racing in different classes in the same race.
Jackdaw asked for pics of close crosses, if it's not hijacking the thread, here's a few more on a video, including the one in the photo. All but one are from 2017 races and all the boats in the clips are racing. The 160 degree field of view on the action camera shots makes the crossings appear not near as close as they actually were.

jssailem · Aug 20, 2017

Guys, It is racing. It is about deciding you can make it and making it. You win. Miss it, you get DQ'd and you have to pay the damage. That is what draws the best to the experience. The only thing that bothered me when I raced was to be racing against novice folk at the start line.

Stu Jackson · Aug 20, 2017

Bill19233 said:
The photo may be a little misleading because of the zoom lens on the DSLR, we ducked and cleared them by at least a boat length. We were both racing in different classes in the same race.

Good point about photo compression. I was just noting the port/starboard tack positions.