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Written by:
Jeff O'Brien
4/20/2010 5:50 AM
Rob Kells Memorial - Day One
The story of the comp thus far has been rain. Seemingly torrential rain. I'm probably not in the proper head space for an all roses account, but it's all rain induced. On Sunday we had torrential rain for hours. We staved off boredom with a movie and lunch out, but "my home" in the back of my truck slowly got soaked. Those in tents have been sleeping in puddles.
Trying to dry out...
Monday broke and by the time we flew, the sun was drying things out. I cleaned out the truck and put an industrial fan on things for a couple of hours and the evening was epic. Lots of sweet evening air and people enjoying it.
Monday night before bed, the rain came in again, hard. Re-soaked everything that had been dried throughout the day. Spent another damp night in bed trying to ensure that electronics stayed dry. More stories of sleeping in puddles. At least we're getting to fly.
On to the day. I launched in the first 1/3 of the field, pinned off at 1200ft. as I though I was in good lift. The lift was disorganized and eventually I landed. I wanted to land near the front of the staging line and probably left myself with too narrow of a tolerance coming into the field. Got dumped behind a couple trees and had a powerline and van to contend with. It worked out, but tolerances were tight and I had less energy in the system than I would have liked.
Got re-towed quickly and took it to 2200. Found better lift and tried to stage for the start. Zippy and Davis went north one cloud just before the start while Carl Walbank and I stayed with our dying cloud. We only had a couple minutes to wait and I felt the cloud to the north was too far away considering the pilots climbing under it.
The cloud to the north was the ticket, and those boys immediately had a minute on us as we began the task.
There was a dark cloud line off course to the north, and I made the decision to slide over as the boys pressing out under the light cumies weren't getting anything yet. We were only topping out at around 3400ft. so there wasn't much room for mistakes.
After a season in hibernation, Kozmo is in heaven. Plenty of exercise and dogs to play with. One of the nicest evenings I've had with the dog.
The dark clouds provided decent lift, and I topped out at 4000ft. and popped out the edge of a cloud as I followed Greg Dinauer with Carl Walbank somewhere near. We hit the first turnpoint, and now had to head out in the blue.
I found the going difficult in the blue even though there were pilots around. Zippy and Max from Brazil got down to 800ft. or so as I struggled to stay over 2000ft. Things were disorganized and I just couldn't find the one or two strong climbs I needed.
I survived through the slow section, but by the time I found a decent thermal to get me up and over the few miles of trees before goal, Carl and Zippy had caught me. We took the 200fpm lift up until we were 9 to 1 to goal and had a moderate run in. (cross head wind) The goal cylinder was far away from parking or landing at our airport, so we didn't take final down to the deck. Burbled to the end of the runway, turned and landed.
Shapiro won the day over Jonny, then Dustin. It's his second day win so a memorable one for him.
The evening was magic. One of the still, sunny Florida spring days. My favorite. I had a great time with the dog, stretching in the field with Joe Bostik, and soaking in the last rays.
The weather is improving, so we should be able to fly everyday. Hopefully I just have to dry things out one more time :) Short task call yesterday, but not necessarily easy.
Airtime: 2:00. Flights: 2. Miles: 30.
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