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Spring Race #7-Glorious Print
Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:20

Glorious Night at The Donzo

Looking for the sizzle in sailboat racing?  I think we found some of it last night on the last leg of Spring Race # 7.  At least from the RC boat, we could see some happy faces holding on to those spinnaker sheets coming to the finish.  Kind of makes us understand why we do this dance with mother nature every week.   The night started with a solid Westerly dead out of 270 at 10 knots in a building flood.  A few lumpy seas, but a fast upwind leg and then some tactics downwind...behind the reef, stay out for pressure.   The mark roundings were crowded and that's always fun.  Rule book, please!  I'm sorry, sir, but I do believe I have an overlap.  Crunch!   ah, sorry!

Then a 30 degree windshift to the NW.  Too late to change the course, so fetch the mark and then pop the chute and rip on home.  Bill Canning's Wild Horses came from way back on the outside to take the fleet gun again.  The Vipers got to kick up their heels, too.  As the puffs came in from Bluff Point, it was surge and go, baby!  And such a sunlite sky.  Why, you would almost think summer was here to stay.

Leda, Patriot, Ursa Minor and Salud had the other guns on the night.  But they all corrected backward to make way for Sans Souci, Stealth, Looney Tunes and Quantum Leap for the Class wins. 

Dark N'Stormy had to retire before the start due to a visit to Horseshoe Reef.  Ouch!  Boat is pulled for repairs.  So, we have our first giveaway for the Annual Awards Dinner!  But, yawn, not MudCup Worthy.  Good to see Peter Rugg and the Fishers Island sailing academy back in action on Jaded.  And Peb and Meg are proud to announce the name of their new arrival...TBD is now Eclipse.  Hmmm, tastey! 

Still time to enter Friday's Mudnight Madness Overnight.  We have about a dozen boats including Leda, Zig Zag Zoom, 2nd Chance, Spartan, She's the Boss, Looney Tunes to defend, Ursa Minor, Lindy, Balance, Arabesque and Brakin' Wind.  Finally, next Wednesday night is the mid season party.  Short race to cap the Spring Series.  5 in the books.   GTG

Here are results:

Class One
PTS Boat Name Sail No. PHRF Elapsed Corrected
1 Sans Souci    1623 273 01:22:19 01:05:01
2 Cosmic Debris 22422 212 01:17:27 01:06:04
3 Salud * 33692 172 01:14:47 01:07:20
4 Watercolors 42916 208 01:18:46 01:07:33
5 Jolly Mon        37 195 01:19:15 01:09:09
6 Mayaro    101 241 01:24:20 01:09:18
7 Breakin' Wind    277 197 01:20:20 01:09:54
8 Blue Bayou    3774 222 01:28:27 01:14:28
10 SeTherin    9472 273 DNC DNC
Class Two
1 Stealth 30524 174 01:08:50 01:01:48
2 Plummet    790 186 01:10:32 01:02:18
3 Wunder Dog    4198 171 01:09:55 01:03:02
4 Ursa Minor *        3 148 01:08:27 01:03:45
5 Plain Vanilla    1328 186 01:12:28 01:04:00
6 Clockwork    2704 171 01:13:44 01:06:28
7 Dragin-Z-Balz    1344 171 01:14:07 01:06:49
Class Three
1 Looney Tunes 53353 120 01:03:03 01:01:10
2 Brer Rabbit III 20201 149 01:06:55 01:02:14
3 Patriot * 42422 94 01:02:37 01:03:12
4 2nd Chance 42482 117 01:05:05 01:03:25
5 Pursuit 33672 132 01:08:09 01:04:57
6 Defiant 30036 132 01:08:17 01:05:05
7 Crystal Slipper 40877 115 01:07:51 01:06:19
8 Corona        44 132 01:14:04 01:10:35
Class Four
1 Quantum Leap 25359 97 01:01:06 01:01:23
2 3 Grins        18 99 01:01:20 01:01:26
3 Banjo    1314 121 01:03:29 01:01:30
4 Leda   *    115 90 01:00:47 01:01:44
5 Area 51    109 99 01:02:10 01:02:16
6 Eclipse        43 90 01:03:36 01:04:36
7 Smilin' Bob        15 93 01:04:12 01:04:54
8 Workboat        88 114 01:07:16 01:05:51
9 Banshee        18 75 01:03:59 01:06:33
10 RedLine    128 99 01:08:40 01:08:46
11 Dreamland Express    263 115 01:15:39 01:13:57
Class Five
1 Wild Horses *    123 24 00:51:34 00:58:24
2 Shearwater    256 73 00:57:48 01:00:18
3 Balance        78 67 00:57:40 01:00:45
4 Jaded        92 85 01:00:12 01:01:37
5 Ringle 52762 31 00:55:20 01:01:54
6 Don Quixote 50474 48 00:58:35 01:03:41
7 Sanibel    334 67 01:01:17 01:04:34
8 She's The Boss    343 81 01:03:05 01:04:59
10 Dark 'n Stormy        77 81 DNS DNS
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 23:02