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Hurricane Idalia
We had some interesting results this week. In the Low Cruiser fleet, there was a tie for first place between Spencer Gay (Revelry) and Greg Cash (Impetuous). The Tony Cellamare in Area 51 of the Melges 24 fleet had an impressive 2nd place finish while Michael Wroblewski in Drippin Wet finished 4th in this race. Kurt Stadele in Ole Sole Mio of the Mid PHRF fleet took line honors on this wild evening of wind and rain while his fleet member Jim Kingery in Sotally Tober has had excellent finishes in the last 2 races. Sotally Tober tied for 2nd in race 2-9 and then he won this race. This last race was crucial in the overall ranking in the one-design J-24 fleet with Tom Graham /Mark Turner winning the race. It was a very close contest in the Low PHRF fleet between Patrick Vrana in the J-88 and Sean O’Connor in the J-80 with this last race determining the winner. A big thanks to race committee of Tommy Sawchuck and Breakaway crew and Darryl Lanier and Instigator II crew. This race committee team not only had to deal with three (3) boats that ran aground on the “hump” by D mark but also an approaching hurricane. What I will remember most about this race is as I started my downwind run back to the finish, the race committee barge and all the boats in that vicinity suddenly disappeared from view. At that point I decided that going back to that area by the race committee barge did not seem like a good idea. We took down as much sail as possible and headed towards a safer area. But unfortunately, the one thing no one could escape was the downpour that occurred just as the first fleets began to finish. This was a challenging race for this team of volunteers and we thank you for your service. Also a big thank you to Will Brown,who has been working very hard to keep us fed. I am looking forward to our traditional Low County Boil again this year. The “boys” do a great job in providing an excellent Awards dinner. Thank you Dona Cardenas and Rachael Green for the stunning photos below. I call them the before and after shots. See you at the awards, Dana. ________________________________________________________________ Race 2-8 Thank you race committee of Sean O’Connor and Bailey White and their crews for abandoning the race for lack of wind.
Race 2-9; Aug. 23, 2023 Things are heating up in more ways than the weather. You could feel the sizzle at the start of the fleets on this next to last race of the series. In the two one design fleets there were 2 boats in each fleet that were called over early. Many people thought with increase in temperature we would have a decline in wind, but Mother Nature has shown some sympathy for us, because even though it was as hot as hades out there, we still had enough wind to sail the 3-4.5 nm course in an hour. A big thank you to race committee of Mike Harrington, Kyle Wheatley, Penny Johnson, Nick Eldridge, Ben Martelino, Mike Smith and special help from injured Brent McKenzie. With only 6 races sailed so far in this series, there will only be one throw out for everyone. We have some very hot contests in some of the fleets. In the Melges 24 fleet, there is a tie for first place between Premature Acceleration and Rapscallion and third place boat, Ex-Kahn is only ¼ (.25) point away from the leaders. Next week’s race is going to be a contest to watch. There is a tie for first in the battle of the J’s (88 vs 80) in our Low PHRF boats between Valkyrie and Meraki. While in the other one-design fleet of J-24’s, Althea and Hawkeye are less than one point away and will need to keep a close eye on each other. A big thank you to Dona Cardenas for the jambalaya that she cooked. There will be food for Race 2-10 and Will Brown and his elves have something special cooked up for us on the awards evening on Sept. 6 as well as the unique trophies that will be awarded. Thank you Dona Cardenas for these gorgeous shots. See you on the race course, Dana ____________________________________________________________  Let me start this with a plea for registered skippers to sign up for race committee for the next 3 races. We have a lot of experienced sailors and potential race committee teams, please do your part in making this a successful series. We can’t have a race without race committee. If you are inexperienced but interested in learning, contact Jonathan Stewart (770-598-4346) and he might be able to pair you with an experienced team. The view of a race from the RC barge (in this case the Jr barge) is always awesome and sometimes scary. Awesome is when everyone completes their course, don’t hit the race committee (I am talking to you, Melges 24 fleet) and comes across the finish line one at a time. But scary is always a possibility.
After all the fleets got started (just one small hiccup), it was time to look around and see what the weather was going to do. Considering the almost daily storms we have had for the last couple of weeks, it would be smart to watch the weather radar and shorten the course before the weather gets nasty. After looking around and seeing the sky (see picture from Otis Sisk on Iniki above), I started to keep one eye glued to the weather app on my phone and one on the 8 fleets that were sailing. In the end, I decided that making fleets 1-4 sail the last 1.5 of their course might put them in the storm. A big thank you to race committee members of Anne Howard, Heather Temske, Doug Early, Claire Bean, Michael Lenkeit and Klaus. We had some very exciting finishes and great performances in the fleet this Wed night. In the EXTREMELY competitive Mid PHRF fleet, Sotally Tober finished 2nd place while Iniki finally put on her hurricane cloak and finished first in the exceptionally fast Low PHRF fleet. The Melges 24 fleet had some remarkable finishes with the first boat, Premature Acceleration, finishing over 1 minute in front of the next 3 boats with only 12 seconds between 2nd and 4th place. That is a tough fleet which means fleet members have lots of room to grow. An exceptionally warm thank you goes to Wheeler Sutton and all those worked to produce a fine meal for after the race this week. Watch the LLSC keelboat facebook page for updates from Will Brown on upcoming meals. I know he has great plans for the awards dinner. See you on the race course, Dana __________________________________________________  We have finally completed 4 races and everyone gets a throw-out. Race Committee averages have been calculated and the results are attached. At the end of the overall results, will be the individual results for Race 2-6.
Competition is getting fierce in many fleets. In the Low Cruiser, Darryl Lanier and Will Lee and company have found the top speed for the Capri and have tied Greg Cash for king of the hill. David Wright is challenging Jim Chambers and his band of merry wine drinkers for the Silver trophy of the High Cruiser fleet. Davis Macleod and his band of Generation Z’s have managed to squeak into the top spot by throwing out the first race. Interesting fact; we have 2 fleets where one boat ended throwing out a first place. In the Low PHRF fleet the battle rages on between the J-80 and the J-88 with these two boats tied for the top spot in this fleet. It is the battle of C&C’s in the Mid PHRF fleet. Bailey White in his C&C 36 has been trying to hold off the challenger, Tommy Sawchuck in his C&C 99. These 2 boats are now tied for the gold. Brad Bowers and his bunch of pirates are dominating the J-24 fleet but we all have to watch out when the Stefan brings Cinderella out and races around the course and making it back to the dock before she becomes a pumpkin (maybe that is why she never sails in Moonlight races)!! Thanks to Davis Macleod and Kyle Meyhoefer for their excellent race course this week (Race 2-6) and thanks to David Wright, David Schenck, Justin Guido, John Antweiller, Mark Turner, Robert Burk, Chet Kemp and Glen Schmudde for their valiant attempt to run a race on July 26 (Race 2-5). Watch facebook for news from our Culinary Specialist about next week’s dinner. The awards and a great meal for this series will be on Wed, Sept 6. Mark your calendar and come join us for a great party, excellent food and unique awards. See you on the race course, Dana ________________________________________________________________  Sorry for the delay in scores y'all! The storms were the primary reason we had the morsel of dying breeze last week, but also created a few issues for us behind the scenes with intermittent power outages through the week. Hope everyone made it through the outages with relative ease and no one's milk went bad!
Big thanks to RC led by Brad Bowers, Bill Overend, Will Shirley, Samuel Trimble, Graham Bowers and Doug, who were able to get us a good race off in the dying breeze (with a good plan in place for a shortened course). It was definitely challenging to keep the boat moving through the midsummer motorboat lump and the spotty breeze. Of course the night wouldn't be complete with yet another fantastic meal led by Will Brown. I assumed we'd be on a burger and dog diet for a while with the current state of the LLSC Kitchen but Will's creativity this past week was a pleasant surprise! Thanks to Will and all those who help him set up and break down every week! Thank You, Kyle Another reminder from Dana: if you are using a different sail # than what you used for registration, you need to notify the RC so that you will get scored. We will not scores boats that are not registered. See you on the race course, Dana ______________________________________________________________  First, a reminder that we will NOT have a race next Wed, July 5, but we will resume racing on the Wed, July 12.
Another day and another awesome course by this week’s race committee team. Thanks to Mike and Rebecca Krantz, Jim Chambers, Linda Hoopes, Bob Burrgarden and JLillian Gray for a fine job this evening and they didn’t have to rescue anyone, that was a real plus. We always appreciate the VHF announcements because it often is hard to get close to the race committee barge because nobody wants to interfere in another fleet’s start. This was a night when the crew had to work harder than the skipper. I told my crew, pretend you are on a Melges 24 and you don’t have any cleats (at least that is what I heard). This was a night where you had to trim all of your sails all of the time, there was no time to cleat. It was quite enlightening to watch the different spinnaker tactics that came to play tonight in the long leg from H to X. We had some new starts in the sky!! In the Mid-PHRF fleet Sotally Tober had the perfect conditions to stomp all over his fleet, while the X-26 in the Low PHRF fleet has shown that this boat handles well in the extreme conditions we have on Lake Lanier. In the High Cruiser fleet, Wind Dancer is starting to put the moves on his fleet. This fleet is becoming very competitive, they are going to have to get new sails to be competitive with Maggie Mae and Wind Spinner. Thanks Chris Flynn for this great shot of the finishers. What a sight it must have been for people driving over Brown’s Bridge Road. See you on the race course, Dana ______________________________________________________________ Message from the scorer, Kyle Meyhoefer.
Whether you chose to brave the conditions or save your sails this week (ours were considerably floppier by the end of the night), you made the right choice! It was a very puffy and shifty night, making sailing quite the challenge, but when you caught one of the 20+ knot puffs it was well worth it. It's not often you see a J22 on plane on Lake Lanier, but we got there a couple of times last night. It's also not often you see a J-88 barreling at you at 16 knots but Patrick Vrana and crew had Valkyrie's bow up out of the water and were making a pretty serious wake as they made their way downwind. I'd be interested to hear what everyone's top recorded speeds were! Not all of the spectacles were good though, the view of the bottom of Hermes' hull was a reminder of Mother Nature's might (and the need to carry a radio). We made a quite wide leeward mark rounding to check on the crew, they were okay and had been able to radio for assistance. Special thanks to Lee and Jo Ann Estes, Jeff Freeman, and crew who took a rescue boat to assist! One thing is for sure, the races were quite the spectacle and many people will have many stories to come! Thanks to the Race Committee crew: Tony Cellamare, Ben Harbin, Caroline Speir, Dave Spiller, Donna Cardenas, and Maggie Moncrief. ______________________________________________________________ Thank you race committee members of Tom Graham, Mike Macleod, Mark Turner, Doug Early, April Macleod, and Paul Morris. When I think of this race, I will always think of the difficulties in starting while another fleet is going through the gate. As one competitor said, “It was an interesting race”. There were 45 boats out on this last night of series 1, but there were two fleets with outstanding attendance this evening with 9 boats participating in the Melges 24 fleet and 9 boats in the Mid-PHRF fleet. What a remarkable feat by these fleets.
There were some exceptional performances by individuals this evening. In the High Cruiser fleet, Bob Morris and Alex Mazurek were hunting down the top guys in their fleet, while in the Melges 24 fleet Mike Krantz and Tony Cellamare finished first and second in this very tough one-design fleet. John McCarthy rose to the 2nd place spot in his Low PHRF fleet this evening while the battle for the top spot in the Mid PHRF fleet was decided by this last race. She-Devil finally took the top spot this week in the J-24 fleet while Chris Beisner in Firefly cemented his 2nd place position in the High PHRF fleet. Just a reminder that we will have a fantastic dinner before the award ceremony on Wed, June 14 at the clubhouse with everyone gathering around 6:30. We will begin Series 2 next Wednesday, June 21 and will have 2 races before we break for a week during the week of the 4th of July. There will be no race on July 5 and series 2 will continue on July 12 for Race 2-3. Thanks to Betty Terrell and Brendon Martelino for these shots of the Mid-PHRF fleet and Large Sportboats. See you at the awards, Dana __________________________________________________________ Another beautiful sunset in the neighborhood and Mother Nature was at her best this evening.
What a great course by our race committee members of Jim Chambers, Pat Finnick, Linda Hoopes, Elizabeth Dixon, Kiri Masters and J. Lilian Gray. Once again, race committee showed their unique talents by setting up the starting pin at “C” mark. We need some help from the registrants/racers. Attached are the scores along with skipper/owner’s name, boat type, boat name and the number listed as your sail #. There were 48 boats that came out to sail on this evening, but too often many people are using sails with sail numbers that are NOT what is listed as their sail #. There are many reasons to use sails with a different number, but you are making it difficult for race committee and the scorer when you use a different sail #. PLEASE, PLEASE, if you find you have to use a sail # different than the one you registered with, you need to notify the scorer (me) by Tues or notify RC as you sail by or radio to RC that you are using a different sail #. This will help immeasurably as RC does a difficult job of finishing 40+ sailboats each Wednesday evening. See you on the race course, Dana _______________________________________________________________ Things are not always as they seem. Tonight was one of those situations. If you motored or hitched a ride to the starting line, you probably were placing bets whether there was going to be a race this night. But if you had bet on no race, you would have lost.
Thanks to the race committee of John McCarthy, Ken Blankenship, Doug Early, Jim Kingery, Bertrand, Betsy Culler, Manning, Tom, Beth, Morgan and Jay for the excellent job of waiting till the wind filled in and started the race. There was some confusion among the Cruisers about where they were in the starting order if the race was postponed. We did have some outstanding performances tonight. In the High Cruiser fleet, Maggie Mae put a crimp in Wind Spinners sails, while Lamorak after winning this week has moved into the top 3 of the Melges 24 fleet. In the Mid PHRF fleet, Super Bueno sailed an awesome race beating Breakaway by 8 seconds (ET), while Cinderella rose from the ashes and once again trounced the J-24 fleet. The big boats in the High PHRF fleet, Firefly, Strega and Hope are fighting over the second spot in their fleet. See you on the race course, Dana _________________________________________________________________ Have you ever asked the question, why are most Regattas, two days? Now we know the answer, because if you sail on Lake Lanier you never know what kind of wind conditions there will be from one day to the next and sometimes totally different in the morning than in the afternoon. Race Committee lead by Jonathan Stewart, David Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson and Mary Lyons did an excellent job in looking for the best wind possible. They moved the RC several times to different locations, but had no success in finding suitable wind conditions on Saturday. They did start the cruisers but after sailing to the windward mark for about an hour, the race was abandoned and we waited with lots of sun and diminishing hope as the Saturday afternoon wore on. But conditions on Sunday were totally different (and better) and with an east wind and all the accompanying shifts and puffs they were able to complete 3 races for the regatta.
Ga Tech students and alumni did their usual excellent job in feeding us Saturday night and a big thank you to Mike Harrington, for answering the call and providing a canopy for shade Saturday night. The is the scoring done by Kyle Meyhoefer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eFBV9OcY6gT-N8N_9mnRsxiCoT6x_PvBJiqU-RCc6D8/edit?usp=sharing Thank you Jack Jeffery (see the facebook page of LLSC Keelboat fleet) for these shots of the Dogwood participants. See you on the race course, Dana ___________________________________________________________________ Thank you race committee of David Jackson, Warren Collier, Doug Early, Dan Kalinowski, Scott Terrell and Mary Lyons. The race course we had this evening was unforgettable. We should have been filming the starboard roundings at the windward mark and sold the resulting video of bloopers for a lot of money. This is not a race I will forget for MANY reasons.
We had some outstanding performances this Wednesday in the Low Cruiser fleet, Instigator II, rose to the top of the fleet this evening while Bob Morris, in the Hunter 28.5, was fending off his closest competitor, Norman Plotkin in Starcatcher of the High Cruiser fleet. In the Low PHRF fleet, John McCarthy climbed into 2nd place in his fleet and what a great performance by Jim Kingery in Sotally Tober of the Mid PHRF fleet this week by almost catching Bailey White in Griffin. The real star of the evening was Stefan Schulze and Amy Larkin in the J-24, Cinderella, who managed with just the two them to glide into the top spot of their fleet. Dogwood/ Georgia Tech Open coming this weekend, it is mandatory that you come to registration from 9-9:45 am if you are going to race. Additional dinner tickets will be available at registration. Come join this great celebration of the 47th Dogwood Regatta. Great news for next week, I heard that Will Brown will again be feeding us at the Jr. Field on Wednesday night. Don’t be late. Thank you Linda Hoopes and Lara Vest Wittlin for these great shots from this Wednesday night. ________________________________________________________________________________ The star of the show on Wednesday night had to be Will Brown and his showmanship. He made a patch of grass and a couple of dinghys into a magical evening with your friends at the grill and did we have a great time!!! We are looking for some more magic on Dogwood/Ga Tech Open Regatta on May 20-21. Ga Tech will be manning the grill and making a sumptuous dinner for us on Saturday night once again at the Jr field. Watch for the lightshow.
If you haven’t signed up for the Dogwood regatta, registration is still open at LLSCKeelboat.com (especially dinghy sailors), now is the time to do it. Ga Tech will be offering dinners, hats, shirts and donations to their sailing program. Wednesday night skippers will be getting an email asking what boats will be planning on participating in the Dogwood so we can make plans for food, refreshments and fleet splits. A big thanks everyone that made last Wednesday something special. Thanks to Will Brown, Jonathan Stewart, Jill Mashburn, Chris Jackson and Dona Cardenas for setting up the dinner for this evening in the beautiful Junior area. And especially to the race committee who did a terrific job of not making the driftfest last any longer than necessary. This evening’s race was brought to you by Mike Iuvone, Paul Stouffer, Stefan Schulze, Amy Larkin, Hudson Brock, Bob, Jill Schulze and Nancy Dalman. See you on the race course, Dana _______________________________________________________________ Good news from our Culinary Specialist, Will Brown:
Allllllllrighty then sailors. The fair winds of last night brings the following news: next Wednesday (weather permitting) we will finally have a dinner after sailing! I will be grilling hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, and dessert (no salad) at the junior area near the RC docks. We chose this location because there is power and its proximity to the docks and bath house on the hill. Friendly reminder: clubhouse is still closed off until the repairs are completed. I'm excited to finally get everyone together so make sure word spreads to all the boats and crews. -Will Another day and another heavy air race, if you are not getting good at it, you haven’t been sailing enough. This was definitely a good night for those heavier boats and many with reefed mainsails. In the High PHRF fleet, Strega really strutted her stuff tonight and showed these were perfect conditions for the “Witch”. In the J-24 fleet only one boat, Althea, flew her spinnaker. While in the Mid PHRF fleet, the battle between the red boats ended with Breakaway taking the top spot. Uncle! Uncle! had her best race tonight, taking a 3rd in the biggest one-design fleet. It was not all fun, but we should give a big round applause for Spencer Gay in Revelry who stayed after the race and assisted #62, Matt Dollacker and crew on Maverick from their entanglement with “D” mountain. I hope they survived with little damage from the HATEFUL HUMP (bump in front of D island). Thanks to race committee of Chris Webster, Sean O’Connor, David Pope, Sophie Webster, Nancy O’Connor, Bruce Barrett, Randy Baker and Michele Golden. I have heard nothing but praise for the deviation in our usual W-L races and the Cruisers had the best of many worlds this night in their course. Watch Facebook for the overall results on Sunday. See you on the race course, Dana _________________________________________________________________  Once again, even though we had a rainy Wed. morning and afternoon, it cleared up for our Wed. night race. I think everyone was quite happy with the 8-10 knots of breezy wind and according to some 40 degree shifts (what else do expect from an easterly). RC used F as the windward mark and it must have been a great show for all the people who sit on the point and watch the sunset. A big thanks to RC of Steve Sudderth, Matt Dollacker, Daniel Postell, Savannah White, Doug Ireland, Tony and Jordan Milligan, Sidney Brown, and Rachael Green for the fantastic job this night.
In the Low Cruiser fleet, Greg Cash has successfully held off his competitors, but they are getting closer. Jim Chambers in the High Cruiser fleet has won 2 races while David Wright who won Race 2, is pushing him hard. Michael Linkeit and company are reigning top dogs in the Melges 24 fleet, while Davis Macleod and Tony Cellamare are waiting for them to make a mistake. Everybody in the Large Sportboat fleet has won a race, so this is going to be the fleet to watch in the upcoming weeks. The J-80 and the J-88 are duking it out in the Low PHRF fleet, while in the Mid PHRF fleet the big boys of Bailey White and Tommy Sawchuck are trying to keep the little guy, Parker Thran off their tails. The J-24 fleet has a rivalry going between the top 3 boats. They each have won one race. Kyle Meyhoefer continues to dominate the High PHRF fleet, but Tedd Meinersmann and Jim Rapp are giving him some stiff opposition. Thank you everyone for signing up for race committee for Series 1, we still need people to sign up for Series 2. On the food front, we are talking about having a cook out in the gravel parking lot by D dock. Will is waiting for fair weather to satisfy our hunger, we will keep you up to date about our plans. I am sure Mr. Brown will be happy to accept volunteers to help with the cooking when we plan to do this. Speaking of plans, the Dogwood / Ga Tech Open Regatta is being revamped post-storm style and we are planning a cook out (most likely at the beach) on our new date of May 20 after the races with trophies on Sun May 21. More details to come next week after we have our meeting. Scores will also be posted on our facebook page each week. Thank you Will Shirley for this great Wednesday night picture. See you on the race course, Dana ______________________________________________________________ Anyone else have a little deja-vu? This week played out quite similarly to last week with the exception of a bit more powerboats and some lighter air. Nonetheless, the left side seemed to pay yet again. Thanks to Revecca Barkley, Jeremy Tutor, Scott Mathis, Darryl Lanier, and Will Lee for a bang up RC job.! They even had to call a few boats over early this week! Congrats to our race winners:
Low Cruiser: Greg Cash, Impetuous High Cruiser: Jim Chambers, Wind Spinner Melges 24: Davis MacLeod, Premature Acceleration Large Sportboat: Jeff Freeman, Renegade Low PHRF: Patrick Vrana, J-88 Mid PHRF: Bailey White, Griffin J-24: Brad Bowers, Althea High PHRF: Kyle Meyhoefer, Highlander I've also created a google drive folder that should allow y'all to access all the scoring from this series without needing to search for the right email. Feel free to bookmark or save to your drive for ease of access! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P_25RE1tEwZW1BNUZnOeBiCZEA5c8xgG?usp=share_link As always let me know if there are any corrections needed and congrats to everyone for making it out to another wonderful Wednesday night! Thank you, Kyle Meyhoefer Highlander, USA-533 ________________________________________________________ Let me start with the most important information: YOU HAVE UNTIL MONDAY TO SIGN UP FOR RACE COMMITTEE. After that, Jonathan will assign primary and secondary race committee teams for the first series.
It has been an unusually stormy spring causing a lot of damage to the clubhouse. Because of this we will be unable to have Wed night dinners for the next couple of weeks, but there will be 10 Wed night dinners (as we had last year), but they will be delayed. We will announce when we commence Wed dinners again and the dates of these dinners will be announced ahead of time. A big thank you to our race committee members of Jonathan Stewart, Spencer Gay, Kyle Stadele, Mike Powell, Will Brown, Ryan Jones, Norm Barns and Missy Jaeger. Don’t forget to sign up for RC, now a word from our Scorer: Hello Everyone! My name is Kyle Meyhoefer and I've volunteered to help out with scoring this year. Dana will be helping as I transition in, but if you have concerns or correction requests feel free to reach out to me as well! This week we kicked off what has already proven to be an eventful Wednesday night series. We had to wait a week due to the storm damage that affected us, and wait again for the wind to fill in this week. However, a patient and prepared race committee led by Jonathan Stewart and Spencer Gay knew it would fill in and sent us on our way as soon as it did. The delayed start to the series had everyone itching to race and that was evident by the spirited starts in many of the fleets. Congratulations to the winners in each group this week: Low Cruiser: Greg Cash, Impetuous High Cruiser: Jim Chambers, Wind Spinner Melges 24: Michael Lenkeit, Rapscallion Large Sportboat: Matt Dollacker, Maverick Low PHRF: Sean O'Connor, Meraki Mid PHRF: Bailey White, Griffin J-24: Dana Stewart, She-Devil High PHRF: Kyle Meyhoefer, Highlander Something I like doing each Wednesday night is calculating the corrected time per nautical mile for each boat to see where I rank against boats in other fleets. Yes, conditions change between each start and generally the faster boats are still on top, but I think it is fun to look at, so I thought I'd share. This week, the light air and persistent left shift favored the asymmetrical sport boats but we'll see if that changes as the conditions change. This week, the fastest corrected boats on the water were: 1. Michael Lenkeit, Rapscallion - 16 min, 21 sec per Nm 2. Matt Dollacker, Maverick - 17:01 per Nm 3. Jeff Freeman, Renegade - 17:12 per Nm Congrats to everyone on a gorgeous first race of the year! Looking forward to seeing y'all next week! Kyle Meyhoefer Highlander, J22 USA-533 __________________________________________________________ Watch for information about the upcoming 47th annual Dogwood regatta on April 1-2 and registration details for the Wednesday night series.
The next LARC race will be Moonlight #1 hosted by BFSC and will be on Sat. June 3 with skipper’s meeting at Aqualand at 6pm. I will send a reminder to register the week before. Okay, I admit it … I got cheap and didn’t put enough money in the wind meter. Edith and Kent (thank you UYC ) asked if I had put in enough money and I said sure. Boy, did I learn a lesson! We had a triangular course and I figured surely we would get at least one weather and one downwind leg during this race. But not to be!!! It looked like it was going to being a downwind start and ended up being a very close reach and by the time we eventually rounded “A” (no SF because the leaders rounded before 3pm), I realized I had not put enough money in the wind meter and the wind EXPIRED. I want to thank everyone for their participation in the first LARC series of 2023, we had an average of 18 boats in each race and that is an excellent start to the new year. I especially want to thank Kent Rogers, Edith Collins and all the nice UYC folks who welcomed us to their club and gave us a nice breakfast before the first race. I will begin working on trophies for the Fall 2022 and Winter 2023 series and will send an email with time and place for their presentation. Attached are the overall results for the Winter 2023 series. See you on the race course, Dana ____________________________________________________________ Race committee of John McCarthy, Brad Bowers, Graham Bowers, Samuel Trimble, Will Shirley, Ken Blankenship, Paul Blesse, Ansley and Tim Thompson had a difficult job this evening because John McCarthy dropped our crystal ball and put a crack in it, making it very difficult to predict the weather this evening.
It was a difficult call for RC this night with the daily and sometimes twice daily storms we have had to deal with for the past week. When these pop up storms show up, you need a crystal ball to decide whether to continue, shorten or even abandon the race. A difficult decision when you see storms on the radar and need to decide how to proceed in the next couple of hours. The Weather Channel is not always right! But I want to thank this race committee as well as the other 30+ teams of sailors that have taken on this responsibility each week for the last 18 weeks of racing we have enjoyed. We appreciate your dedication in providing the best possible race course each week. The racing is getting tougher each week, this is obvious in watching the starts of each fleet. A big thanks to Will Shirley for taking photos of the starts, which in some fleets were very competitive. See you on the race course, Dana ________________________________________________________________ All I can say in my defense is that I requested the Moon to wait until after the fireworks were finished to put in an appearance. So, if you sailed to H and back after we Short Finished at X, you got a great view of the fireworks and then when you got back to the dock the Moon provided a gorgeous glimmering light. It was a fabulous ending to our Moonlight series.
This is the order of finishes by elapsed time. Since we SF- short finished at X, the distance changed to 1.52nm and then a handicap was given to determine the corrected time (see the file attached). But it is fun to look at how everyone finished: C&C 99 ET = 42 min 27 sec Wavelengh 24 ET = 43 min 35 sec J-22 ET= 49 min 35 sec Beneteau 310 ET= 49 min 43 sec C&C 36 ET= 51 min 41 sec Hunter 34 ET= 54 min 01 sec E33 ET= 51 min 03 sec Santa Cruz 27 ET= 54 min 59 sec Beneteau 285 ET= 1 hr 01min 47 sec I have bought some great trophies for this series and will be giving them out at the Wednesday Series 2 awards on Wednesday, September 7th. It was a great night for a Moonlight race. See you at the first Fall LARC race on Sun, Sept 18 at 1pm. Dana _________________________________________________________________ |
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