Strictly Sail Chicago - Anyone going?

[BrianSokol]

I'm planning to be there both days this weekend, leaving plenty early to catch the Bears on Sunday.

Anyone else going? Any interest in trying to meet up?

 

[Seth]

Saturday

I plan on lurking around the show on Saturday-most likely between 11-2 ish.
S

 

[Jason]

My wife and I will be there Thursday afternoon.

 

[bnye]

Saturday

I plan on making it Sat afternoon

Bill

 

[Rob Hessenius]

Chicago

I'll be there all afternoon and into the evening on Thursday. Rob Hessenius

 

[BrianSokol]

If there's interest, we can plan to meet by the lunch tables around noon Sat.

 

[Mindscape]

The 'Karma'

Seth - was that your Karma at the show? Ok not excatly yours but the one you race on? She looked in good shape, if was the boat you race you must be very nice to her while squeezing knots out of her.

 

[Seth]

Yep

That was the new Karma-this year's Mac ride....She is owned by the dealer (Karma Yachts)...deal is they have to have the "latest" model as a demonstrator, so they sold the last one over the winter, and upgraded to the new model. The big diff is the pedestal arrangement-much better for the driver's seating position, and the new girl gets real instruments (woo hoo!) for me to play with....Somehow we managed the last 3 wins with raymarine stuff (not to trash the raymarine gear, but for racing it is not as capable as the B&G gear)...
No excuses this year, I guess!

Cheers,
S

 

[Mindscape]

Insturments

Excuses - didn't you win your class the last couple of years?? the other guys are going to start asking for handicaps

Your comment on Raymarine vs. B&G is interesting, what makes an instrument better for racing? On our pier a couple of us have used Raymarine and are ok with them, but we aren't racing seriously.

 

[Seth]

B&g

The biggest and best feature is the ability to download the boats' polars and have one of the screens display target speeds for a given wind speed and wind angle. This way you have something meaningful to gauge your performance against. You can set the system so that it "learns"-meaning that if you exceed the loaded target speed in a given condition, it will update the polars and make them even more accurate.

Other benefits are better processors so that things like opposite tack angle, true wind speed and angle calculations are more accurate, and those BIG bright displays mounted on the back of the mast are WONDERFUL for night sailing!

Here are a couple of shots showing some nice form in this years' Mac

S