Around the World of Sailing

6 February 2002

News: Ice Sailing
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0206/ms.htm

SEB sails through the bergs
Credit: ©Magnus Woxen Team SEB

Day 7, the 1st of February was the day that water borne ice
entered into the race. Ross Field of News Corp. described
it this way, "Never seen so many icebergs and growlers in
all my sailing in the Southern Ocean. Spotted our first one
and then all of a sudden sighted many others with growlers
everywhere."

Although we often think of house sized ice bergs that sink
the unsinkable, it's often smaller ice that can be a
problem. illbruck's John Kostecki says, "We do keep an eye
out on the radar and hope that the ice is big enough that it
shows up on the screen." Does this work? Paul Cayard
writes, "However, while watching the radar and seeing
nothing, we sailed just 100 feet away from a growler that
was 10 feet out of water."

Stefano Rizzi & Paul Cayard enjoy a brew

Ross Field once again, "Those jokes 'the ice bergs go away
at night' have disappeared and there is real concern."

How does Djuice handle the ice? Grant Wharington reports,
"Just to add to the action we have two men on ice watch, one
staring at the radar and another checking forward with night
vision goggles...As for the night vision, well I don't know
what the call would be if the spotter at the mast saw one
anyway because your range of vision at 25-30 knots of boat
speed would take only seconds to reach what you saw."

Eventually 20 knots and sailing amongst ice came to this.
News Corp. hit a growler as speeds throughout the fleet were
20 knots. There was damage to the right and miles lost.

News Corp. Southern Ocean View
Credit: ©Nick White

With illbruck 52 miles ahead of Tyco there's still another
1450 miles of icy, dicey sailing to Cape Horn.

Links:
Iceberg Collision
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020206_growlersinthemist.html
Ice Alert
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/news/leg_4/n4_020202_growler.html
Iceberg Strike
http://www.teamnewscorp.com/news/latest/tnc_Latest_News_Leg5/0,1533,736,00.html
Cayard Email
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/team/aone/email/leg_4/20020206_cayard.html
Iceberg Watch
http://www.volvooceanrace.com/team/djce/email/leg_4/20020205_frostad.html

Theme: Radar Part I
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0206/ms.htm

From the Southern Ocean Assa Abloy navigator Mark Rudiger
writes, "I don't think you could put a price on a good radar
now, and our Raytheon Pathfinder is one of our best friends
lately." He's using it to spot ice, just one of the uses of
radar.

Torresen Marine is a Raytheon dealer. So, we'll use the
Pathfinder radar as a base for a series of 4 articles about
radar.

First, what is radar? Essentially it's a system where radio
waves are transmitted and their reflections are transmitted
to display the surroundings.

The Pathfinder radar from Raytheon is really not just one or
two pieces of equipment. It's a system that can have
radomes or open arrays, color or CRT displays, single or
dual stations.

A system will include the following: an antenna either a
radome or an open array. A method of mounting the antenna
either to the backstay, stern pulpit or mast. Cable from
the antenna to the display. Finally a display either down
below or on deck.

The next 3 articles will go through selecting, and
installing a Raytheon Pathfinder system. If installation is
not something you want to tackle, call the Torresen Marine
Service Department @ 231 759 8596 to discuss us doing it for
you!

Links:
Raytheon
http://www.raymarine.com

Event News: Miami Olympic Classes Regatta
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0206/ms.htm

The USA's major Olympic Class regatta concluded Saturday.
282 boats from 26 countries sailed.

Perhaps the top American performance was turned in by the
Tornado team of Lars Guck and Johnathan Farrar. They won 5
of 8 races winning by 4 points.

The USA's Meg Galliare beat an international fleet to win by
6 points.

In the 470 fleet Steve Hunt and Michael Miller won 6 of the
7 races they sailed to post a comfortable win.

Sailors from Great Britain won in two of the single-handed
classes. Andrew Simpson posted a victory in the Finn class
and Paul Goodison was the Laser winner by 12 points over
Andrew Campbell of the USA.

The Star class only got in 2 days of sailing. Germany's
team of Pickel and Giles was 1st. Top US team was Vince
Brun and Mike Dorgan in 4th.

The Yngling team skippered by Carrol Cronin won the final 2
races to overcome Jody Swanson's team.

Also recently announced is a regatta, which will be sailed at
the 2004 Olympic sailing venue near Athens this August 12th
to the 25th.

Link: Results and Info
http://www.ussailing.org/olympics/MiamiOCR/index.htm

Event News: College Sailing
Available on line at:
http://www.torresen.com/news/atwos/2002/fe/0206/ms.htm

Collegiate sailing is split into two seasons: spring and
fall. With the fall season completed we'll look at rankings,
winners and more.

Two of college sailing's major championships are fall
events. This year the single handed championships was
sailed at Old Dominion University. Winners were David
Wright of Kings Point in the Men's and Amanda Clark of
Connecticut College in the Women's.

The sloop championships were sailed at the University of
Florida on Tampa Bay. Harvard won by 2 points over
Charleston. Sean Doyle was Harvard's skipper and also
finished 5th at the Single Handed's.

Co-ed rankings at the end of fall season put Harvard 1st,
followed by Old Dominion and Charleston. St. Mary's leads
the women's ranking then Old Dominion and Connecticut
College.

Michigan leads the Midwest co-ed rankings with Wisconsin and
then Miami Ohio. Miami is the top ranked women's team
followed by Michigan and Wisconsin. Marquette also shows in
both top 5's, 5th in co-ed and 4th in women's.

Winners and top Midwest finisher at major Midwest regattas
were: South Florida/Wisconsin in 2nd at the Irish
Intersectional, Dartmouth/Minnesota in 3rd at the Cary Price
and Washington/Michigan in 9th at the Timme Angsten.

Links:
Sloop Results
http://www.collegesailing.org/nas/fall01/sloopres.htm
Single Handed Results:
http://www.collegesailing.org/nas/fall01/singlesres.htm
Rankings
http://www.collegesailing.org/00docs/latest_rankings.shtml