Pos Sail Boat Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 Total 1 27 Vorticity John Toole 1 1 1 2 (2) 5.00 2 444 Star Eyes Dailey/Wakeman 2 2 (5) 1 1 6.00 3 200 Witch Ken Colburn 3 3 2 (5) 4 12.00 4 317 Nordic Express John Eielson 4 4 3 (6) 3 14.00 5 51713 Roe Rage Jeff Davis (6) 5 4 3 5 17.00 6 240 Keemah Don Logan 5 6 6 4 (6) 21.00
First, we owe a sincere debt of gratitude to Sam and Hilary Vineyard and Brian Ladoceur who not only ran an incredible, fun, gracious, skillful one day regatta of five perfect races but then doubled as bartenders and award presenters at BYC.
Thanks more than we can say!!!! Thanks to BYC Rear Commodore Brian Ladoceur for pushing us to five races as part of the "BYC conditioning program". Today, some of us are aware of muscles we didn't have.
Thanks also to the stalwart crews from Maine -- Ken Colburn and WITCH and Don Logan and KEEMAH.
And Thanks to Pam Morris from JATO who drove all the way from New Rochelle to crew with Jeff Davis and ROE RAGE. We are indebted to you folks, and we welcome you now as members of our Marion Fleet. And thanks to Brian Keane and Jerry and Trudie Ficks who couldn't race but came out to support us all!
Congrats to John Toole and the VORTICITY crew. There were "dialed in" on shifty east breezes starting at 19 knots and moderating to 12 by 1500 - three bullets to win the regatta, and congrats to Ken colburn and WITCH for a tough third place.
-- Ed Dailey
NB: These races will not count toward the Season Championship due to the rule that there must be at least 7 entries (seen the Schedule page for the 2003 Rules). -- Nelson.
Pos Sail Boat Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 Total 1 486 Pretty Sketch Charles Enright 1 1 1 2 1 6.00 2 307 Wet Leopard James Sorensen 4 2 2 1 5 14.00 3 493 Indefatigable Philip Lotz 2 3 3 5 3 16.00 4 300 Kima Nelson Weiderman 3 5 8 6 2 24.00 5 526 Savasana Brian Keane 7 4 8(*)4 4 27.00 6 413 Picante Robert Salk 6 7 5 3 9 30.00 7 461 Jato Andrew Gillis 5 9 9 8 7 38.00 8 239 Cyan William Baldwin 8 6 7 7 10 38.00 9 332 Cloud Nine Brendan Kelley 10 8 6 9 8 41.00 10 43772 Sea Shadow Wilson Pollock 9 10 10 10 6 45.00 */ Forty percent penalty assessed in arbitration. What we lacked in quantity we had in spades in quality. We had the winner of Block Island Race Week, the 5th and 7th place finishers from the NAC last week, the winner of the Liberty Regatta, the winner of the Sail Newport Regatta, the winner and runner up from last season's Fleet #14 season championship, and the winner of two early season races. Not an easy lineup. And the weather for August in Narragansett Bay was simply astonishing. Instead of waiting for the sea breeze to come from the southwest, the breeze was strong and shifty from the NNW on both days of the regatta. A premium was placed on timing the shifts which were on the order of 20-30 degrees in many cases and which autotacked the boats in a few instances. PRETTY SKETCHY had it figured out pretty well and won all but the fourth (of five) races. The courses were set to approximately 330-340 both Saturday and Sunday. The winds blew at 12-22 knots for most of the racing with plenty of gusts. The RC ran two four leg races and a six legger on Saturday and followed up with two six leggers on Sunday. All with 1.5 mile weather legs. It was great racing. Andy Gillis deserves tremendous credit for organizing this regatta. He had help from Rob Salk and Tom Enright and a cast of many on the race committee and judging teams. Robin Wallace of the NYYC was RC Chair and set great courses under challenging conditions. There were sponsorships from Hall, Harpoon Beer, and others. We really need to build up the attendance for this great event. -- Nelson
Division: J/105's (20 boats)
Pos Sail Boat Skipper J105 day
1 race 1 J105 day 1 race 3
J105 day 1 race 2 J105 Day 2
race 2 J105 day 2 race 1
J105 day 2 race 3 J105
day 3 race 2 J105 day 3 race 3
Total
Points Pos
1 USA 237 Darden, Glenn
3 2 6 3 2 4
3 [8] 2 25.00 1
2 626 Anamchara Ryan, John [10]
1 3 8 5 2 4
4 5 32.00 2
3 493 Indefatigable Lotz, Philip
1 5 2 4 7 [21/NoFin]
2 9 3 33.00 3
4 358 NBX Clayton, Chuck 2
4 12 2 1 1 8
[15] 4 34.00 4
5 413 Picante Salk, Robert 4
6 5 5 [9] 3 6
3 8 40.00 5
6 526 Savasana Keane, Brian
6 8 4 [11] 6 9
7 1 7 48.00 6
7 USA 444 Star Eyes Dailey, Ed
[11] 7 10 6 8 6
11 6 1 55.00 7
8 US 500 Casey Taylor, John
12 10 11 9 4 [17]
9 2 14 71.00 8
9 27 Vorticity Toole, John [21/OCS]
3 1 1 10 14 17
16 10 72.00 9
10 USA 300 KIMA Weiderman, Nelson
8 9 15 7 3 10
[16] 13 9 74.00 10
11 51439 Aegir Gierhart/Cooney, Charles/Coles
9 13 [16] 10 11
5 13 5 16 82.00
11
12 486 Maji Moto Bender, Scott
[16] 15 8 13 16
12 5 7 13 89.00
12
13 240 Keemah Logan, Donald
13 11 [18] 17 13
7 14 14 6 95.00
13
14 461 Jato Gillis, Andrew 7
18 [19] 12 18 8
12 10 11 96.00 14
15 353 Woody Hennessy, Larry
5 17 14 14 [19]
15 10 17 12 104.00
15
16 630 Taste Like Chicken MITCHELL, DAN
18 19 9 [21/ZFP] 16/ZFP
11 1 12 21/NoFin 107.00
16
17 51713 Roe Rage Davis, Jeff
15 [16] 7 16 15
13 15 11 15 107.00
17
18 354 40 Whacks Purdy, Bill
14 12 13 15 14 20/ZFP
[21/NoFin] 21/NoFin 21/NoFin 130.00
18
19 50803 Gioia Mortara, Ronald
19 14 17 20 17 19
[21/NoFin] 21/NoFin 21/NoFin 148.00
19
20 520 August West Shachoy, Jamey
17 20 20 19 20 18
18 18 [21/NoFin] 150.00 20
When you have nine races, they all seem to blend together, so I'll have to forego the race-by-race commentary in favor of some overall flavor of the regatta. For those who have never attended the BBR, the first thing to understand is that it is dominated by small boats and youth sailors. Three of the five circles are for the Lasers, 420s, and Vanguards. More than 300 of the 400 boats at the Regatta are in those categories and it indeed satisfying to see all the young sailors (and future J/105 crew) learning their sport.
Next, I can tell you about weather. In general, it was good, but light, sailing breeze. I'd say it was rarely under six or over twelve knots. I didn't see many whitecaps, but there were no postponements due to wind. On Friday it was more southerly and on Saturday and Sunday more southwesterly. We had fog. Friday they postponed ashore due to the fog when we had the most breeze and when they finally started it had calmed down. On Saturday they were going to give us a fourth race, but the fog was so thick that the RC could not see the pin. On Sunday it was full GPS mode to find the weather mark in at least one of the races.
The competition was intense. On the first day, Phil Lotz was leading with a 1-5-2. On the second day, Chuck Clayton (all the way from Toronto) dropped his 15 and added a 2-1-1 for a commanding lead. After an OCS, John Toole started with a blistering 3-1-1. But in the end it was the consistency of Glenn Darden that won the regatta. With no wins, three seconds, and a worst (throwout) of 8, he captured the gold with 25 points, an average finish of 3.25 for the 8 counting races. After racing on Saturday he told me, "You can't pick a side of the course. What NBX seemed to be doing today was getting in phase with the small 5-10 degree oscillations."
One of the great disappointments to me was that the RC had little understanding of what it takes to run a circle with 105s. (You could guess there might be problems when they put us in a "one-design circle" with J/22's, 210s, and Rhodes 19s.) They did not understand that one mile legs in a twenty boad fleet cause severe problems at the weather mark (especially without an offset mark) and heavily favor starting at the RC boat. They did not understand that a two mile race is not a sufficient test of skill for a 35 foot boat (they ran two such races and the longest race was under five miles). They did not understand that the primary reason for general recalls was a skewed line. Their solution to generals was to lengthen the line to almost a quarter of a mile. Fleet 14 needs to exert their influence to make this better next year.
Many thanks to Jeff Davis for entertaining us on his big cat after racing on Friday and to John Taylor for providing the venue and the beer for a get together after racing on Saturday. You might have learned a few things if you were there.
-- Nelson
PS: A J/105 owner named Weiderman won the raffle (a Mecray print), which more than paid for his entry fee and made him feel better after a less than stellar performance.
Pos Sail Boat Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 Total 1 526 Savasana Brian Keane 2 4 4 5 4 19.00 2 307 Wet Leopard James Sorensen 5 9 5 2 1 22.00 3 51012 Wet Paint Donald Priestly 4 7 6 4 2 23.00 4 237 Hoss Hillard/ Darden 8 2 2 6 7 25.00 5 300 Kima Nelson Weiderman 1 6 10 3 6 26.00 6 413 Picante Robert Salk 3 1 7 11 5 27.00 7 21 Vorticity John Toole 12 3 3 7 9 34.00 8 493 Indefatigable Philip Lotz 11 17 1 1 10 40.00 9 239 Cyan William Baldwin 6 11 13 12 3 45.00 10 51439 Aegir Gierhart/ Cooney 10 5 8 14 14 51.00 11 332 Cloud Nine Brendan Kelley 9 12 9 10 11 51.00 12 461 Jato Andrew Gillis 7 16 11 8 13 55.00 13 43772 Sea Shadow Wilson Pollock 13 8 15 9 12 57.00 14 353 Woody Larry Hennessey 16 10 14 13 8 61.00 15 354 40 Whacks Steve Purdy 17 13 12 16 16 74.00 16 247 Vale Victor Bell 15 15 17 15 15 77.00 17 526 Anamchara Jay Ryan 14 14 16 DNC DNC 80.00
You could not possibly imagine better sailing and better racing for two days on Block Island Sound. Sail Newport lived up to its reputation for "more sailing, less waiting" and the weather cooperated with two sunny days with plenty of wind. On a circle with six Farr 40s and six Frers 33s, the seventeen J/105s got three races in on Saturday and two on Sunday. There was a very short delay at the beginning of Saturday when the RC was getting their line set, but after that it was "bang, bang, bang" with the next race starting shortly after the last had ended. Crews were hard pressed to get in a five minute lunch break between races.
On Saturday the first race was in 8-10 knots of breeze. KIMA started late at the boat end behind SAVASANA and immediately tacked for the right side. Five boats were called back to restart. The right seemed to be the favored side all weekend and when they came back to the middle they had the lead over SAVASANA who also played the right. KIMA and SAVA kept their positions around the course even though they badly overstood to the right going downwind on the first downwind leg, which narrowed the gap. The wind built for the two successive races and the edge went to the boats that had more crew weight aboard and who could skillfully de-power their rigs. In the second race PICANTE and HOSS came to the fore, and also INDEFATIGABLE, but the latter shrimped and had to drop out. The last race of the day was re-started after a general recall. Again the boats going right seemed to do well, both up and down where there seemed to be more breeze. INDEFATIGABLE avenged their humiliation of the previous race by getting the win. VORTICITY showed excellent speed with two thirds on the day. After the first day of racing, Brian Keane had 10 points, Rob Salk had 11 and Glen Darden had 12. By the end of the day the sea breeze was honking up to nearly 20 knots.
Day two started with somewhat lighter breeze, but it was still weather hiking all the way around for both races. All five races of the regatta were four leg courses going 1.8 miles to approximately 220 to 240 degrees. The shifts were generally moderate in the 5 degree range, but with a few as much as 20 degrees sprinkled in. INDEFATIGABLE continued where she left off on Saturday with a win over WET LEOPARD and KIMA. WET PAINT had been second into the final leg, but in the final 50 yards, and in quick succession, both WET LEOPARD and KIMA sat on their air and they had to settle for fourth. In the final race, the wind picked up a couple of knots. Around the first weather mark, a tug towing a huge barge came across the course blowing five horns after half the fleet had rounded. Fortunately for the back half, they slowed and allowed all the boats to cross ahead of them rather than split the fleet in two. WET LEOPARD had a huge lead in this race and was never challenged. WET PAINT and CYAN were next. Again, some rather large gains were had on the left (facing downwind). KIMA went from next-to-last on the first leg to sixth by playing that side down the course.
In the end, there were only eight points separating the top six boats. It was extremely challenging racing with great competitors. Sail Newport put on a great shin dig on Saturday night with dinner and drinks. Mark this one on your race calendars for next year.
-- Nelson Weiderman
NYYC 149th Annual Regatta
June 7-8, 2003J105 GREEN CLASS 3 CLASS TOTALS THRU |----- FINISH POSITIONS ----| RACE # 3 RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE ----------- SAIL NO YACHT NAME YACHT TYPE SKIPPER CLUB AFFIL RATING #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 POINTS FIN -------- --------------- ---------- ------------------------- ---------- ------ ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------ --- 485 PRETTY SKETCHY J105 Thomas P Enright New York -- 2 3 2 -- -- -- 7 1 413 PICANTE J105 Robert Salk Conanicut -- 4 1 4 -- -- -- 9 2 626 ANAMACHARA J105 John Ryan Barrington -- 3 4 5 -- -- -- 12 3 51012 WET PAINT J105 Donald H Priestly US Sailing -- 7 9 1 -- -- -- 17 4 307 WET LEOPARD J105 Jim Sorensen St. Barth -- 8 2 7 -- -- -- 17 5 493 INDEFATIGABLE J105 Philip A Lotz New York -- 5 5 8 -- -- -- 18 6 461 JATO J105 Andrew Gillis New York -- 1 8 10 -- -- -- 19 7 332 CLOUD 9 J105 Brendan Kelley New York -- 9 7 3 -- -- -- 19 8 526 SAVASANA J105 Brian Keane Beverly -- OCS 6 6 -- -- -- 24 9 500 CASEY J105 Ned Seinonite/Ted Hood New York -- 6 10 9 -- -- -- 25 10 43772 SEA SHADOW J105 Wilson F Pollock New York -- DNF 11 11 -- -- -- 34 11The NYYC race committee made the most of 5 knots from the southwest on Saturday and set us off on 4-leg course in the relatively flat waters of Rhode Island Sound. Heavy traffic at the pin-end resulted in 5 boats over early which immediately separated the fleet. JATO lead at the top mark, followed closely by Savasana. Starboard jibe was favored and the fleet tightened somewhat as Savasana took the lead and Pretty Sketchy came on strong. JATO and Savasana traded tacks up the middle with Savasana ultimately heading left along with Picante. Meanwhile, Pretty Sketchy gained on the far right. At the top mark, it was JATO out ahead of Savasana by 3 boat lengths with Pretty Sketchy, Picante and Anamachara in pursuit. The breeze lightened and went west leaving starboard significantly favored. Deft downwind work by Savasana put her ahead by a nose at the finish. Alas, Savasana, unaware that they had started early, was scored OCS. A second race was signaled but never started. For the day it was JATO, Pretty Sketchy, and Anamachera.
Sunday saw a puffy 10 knots from the NE. Seas were lumpy. The first race was twice around. With the advantage of a good start, Picante extended and lead convincingly at each mark. The second race was 5 legs in the strongest breeze of the weekend. Once again, Picante established an early lead. I think they lost the lead to Wet Paint by the downwind mark after having worked the middle of the course. Northerly shifts again left starboard jibe generally favored. Unfortunately JATO was so far behind at this point I can't say anything except that a protest was heard over the radio. I assume that the posted results reflect the resolution of that protest.-- Andy Gillis
Liberty Regatta
May 31-June 1, 2003
Position Bow/Sail Boat Skipper Home 1 2 3 4 Total
Points1 300 Kima Weiderman, Nelson Wakefield, RI 7 1 1 3 2 51012 Wet Paint Priestly, Donald Mashpee, MA 5 3 2 2 3 71501 Savasana Keane, Brian Marion, MA 2 2 9 1 4 398 Woody Hennessy/ Westport, CT 3 7 5 4 5 461 Jato Gillis/Morris New Rochelle, NY 1 4 9 9 6 247 Vale Stone/Bell Jamestown, RI 4 8 3 9 7 332 Cloud 9 Kelley, Brendan Newport, RI 6 5 4 9 8 43772 Sea Shadow Pollock, Wilson Weston, MA 8 6 6 9 You can never tell what kind of a mix you will get with an early June regatta on Narragansett Bay and the Liberty Regatta was no exception. (Liberty was a replacement regatta for Newport Gold, which was cancelled.) On Saturday (WOODY and CLOUD 9 took advantage of two practice races on Friday), we waited for an hour and a half for the wind to build to an acceptable level from the South. The 105s were the third start (after the Farr 40s and Mumm 30s, and before the 1D35s and PHRF boats). KIMA took advantage of a big right shift after starting last and rounded the first mark ahead of the fleet. But on the second leg the wind went against them and they fell back to the middle of the pack. WOODY took the third leg going hard left and had the lead at the second windward. But then the wind gods turned off the wind for the second downwind leg and JATO and SAVASANA drifted to 1, 2 at the shortened finish at the leeward mark. The second race saw light but consistent breeze. KIMA started at the boat end above SAVASANA and rode them and the entire fleet to leeward almost to the layline. KIMA kept the lead throughout in the two lap race with SAVASANA second again. After day one it was SAVASANA by one over JATO and by four over KIMA and WET PAINT.
On day two the monsoons descended with high winds and piercing rain. The winds were gusting into the mid to high twenties from the North. The sailmakers turned out to be the big winners. The RC called for the racing to be "inside" just north of Gould. All the 105 came out to the line and started racing. SAVASANA (the regatta leader) got the best of the first leg and rounded just ahead of KIMA. But then they shrimped their kite and had to withdraw. KIMA did a deliberate set and pulled away from pack. They were surfing at 12+ knots and got the boat humming (literally). Some boats, including WOODY, used small kites which blew up. JATO (the second place boat after Saturday) not only lost a kite, but their main ripped as well. They withdrew from both races. This opened the door for KIMA and WET PAINT. KIMA went into the last race with a one point lead and had to stay next to WP to win a tiebreaker. SAVASANA again showed good speed to win the last race (once around), with WP second, KIMA third and WOODY fourth. This time it was KIMA who blew up their 77, ripped their jib, and lost their mast chocks. But they eked out the Regatta win.
-- Nelson
