The fleet racing portion of the Tako Cup has drawn to a close with some fine racing at the Olympic Course at Starboards Yacht Club. Ten skippers vied for eight opening to challenge the automatic qualifiers from the AmericasCupAnywhere Cup held earlier this summer.
 
Here is a link to information on the upcoming Tako Cup Match [...]

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Here is a link to my Flicker photos of the fourth act of the Tako Cup.
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/marktwainwhite/sets/72157602123363437/

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Here are my Flickr photos from Tako Cup Act II
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/marktwainwhite/sets/72157602043490801/

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Armchair Binder raced unopposed in the evening races to compile a first place combined time (after throwout) of 24 minutes, 54 seconds.The morning races were an exciting battle between seven skippers who exhibited some truly nice sailing. A number of protests/fouls occured that were resolved when offending boats did their 360 turns. And on even [...]

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Hans Zinnemann and Armchair Binder each won 3 of 4 races in Act III of the Tako Cup. Hans won three morning races and Armchair equaled the feat in the evening races. Cynthia Centaur and RnSdriver Lane were the other race winners. With the drop in wind speed at Act III windshadow effects definitely came [...]

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Be aware of what is around you. Have good situational awareness. The best way to do this is to zoom out with the control-8 keys. I sail with a double zoom out (control-8 twice). Be aware that when you zoom out there will be a distortion that makes things look further away than they really [...]

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The Sunday Regatta  (Sept 16) in Hollywood hosted a large fleet. The LONG Olympic Course was chosen to provide skippers a chance to practice for the upcoming Tako Cup Act IV next Sunday at SYC. RnSdriver Lane returned to her winning ways - winning four of the five races and winning the regatta. Armchair put [...]

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For those of you that are striving to improve your performance on the water here are some tips I originally wrote up on the Forum on setting sail angles. These tips were written in the days before sailing gestures to control sail postion became popular, but the principles do now change.
1. When sailing a Tako [...]

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 This posting catagory will contain Big Cat Results and Commentary.  Post your results and or comments here as a comment. Photo credit: Hans Zinnemann

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This posting catagory will contain AC Boat Results and Commentary. This includes the ACA32 Racer and Oyen’s AC Boat. Post your results and or comments here as a comment.
Photo credit: MarkTwain White

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