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Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:27 am
by Chuck Luscomb
Howdy Gents,

Just a little more than a month away before the next installment of the New England Cup which will be Mystic Seaport. On EC12 regatta on Saturday and Sunday August 9th and 10th will be preceded by they Star 45 Nationals on Thursday and Friday. The Skippers list is looking like we may reach 30 boats for the EC12 portion which will is pretty exciting since we have been able to sail as a single fleet for the past few years. We will be sailing with two fleets with this high a turn out. Mystic is an excellent venue and our Hosts at the Seaport could not be more accommodating. I will be posting the Skippers list shortly and the NOR and Entry forms will be posted in the next day or so. Stay tuned!

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 6:35 pm
by Chuck Luscomb
All,

We are anticipating a record turn out for Mystic this year. Not sure what the magic is but it looks like from early tally's that we will be approaching 30 boats. We don't have a cap on entries but 30 is a ton of boats. I will have a skippers list shortly and the NOR and Entry should be posted tonight for those who have been asking. Been having some e-mail issues and computer crashes which had all my data on it. All better now.

With the Star 45 Nationals preceding our EC12 Regatta, we will have a number of sailors already in town. Don't forget the Friday night river cruise on the Sabino which will take us down to the mouth of the Mystic River and back. Takes about an hour and if your not from around here, it is one of the more spectacular views of some beautiful New England coast line.

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:07 am
by Capt. Flak
The NOR and Entry form is posted on the EC12.org site regatta schedule.

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:20 pm
by Chuck Luscomb
Skippers list as of 7/22

Dave Ramos MD
Dave Branning MD
Ernest Freeland MD
Don Barker MD
Alex Ramos MD
Ernest Freeland MD
Mark Fleckenstein NY
Chuck Luscomb CT
Kevin MacLellan CT
John Pelly CT
Ron Rhault CT
Al Dion CT
Bob Shluger CT
Brian Kerrigan CT
Tim Stone VT
JD Langdon VT
Phil Tonks VT
Geroge Townsend VT
Ken Shaw VT
Eddie Wolfe MA
Biff Martin MA

Still more coming...


By the way, for those who have been following the happenings of the Charles W. Morgan, she has just completed her first voyage and will be returning to the Seaport during our event. There will be a huge party on Saturday Night to celebrate her return. I imagine we will see more river traffic than in years past but hey, we can handle it...

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:33 pm
by Rick West
Cool. I wish I could see that. What a magnificent achievement.

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:08 pm
by greerdr
Chuck,
If you have a guest skipper needing a boat-Blue Moon is there.

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:19 am
by Chuck Luscomb
Not sure whats going on Bob but the use of all the loaner boats seems to be working. EVERYONE OWNS THEIR OWN BOAT! All the loaners are languishing with their covers on LOL.

OK, on the last stretch into Mystic with the Star 45 Nationals on Thursday and Friday. 19 boats registered for the Star and 23 for the EC12 Regatta. Humm.

Looks like the weather will cooperate with this TS moving quickly up the coast should be up and by on Wed. No effects felt here. Oh but it is still New England. Anything can happen and it usually does.

Skippers list as of 8/4

Dave Ramos MD
Chuck Luscomb CT
Alex Ramos MD
Don Barker MD
David Branning MD
Ernest Freeland MD
George Towsend VT
Phil Tonks VT
Ron Rhault CT
Bob Shluger CT
Ken Shaw VT
Rodger Baldwin MD
Jamey Betz PA
JD Langdon VT
Micheal Flynn MA
Kevin MacLellan CT
Brian Kerrigan CT
Tim Stone VT
John Pelly CT
Al Dion VT
Mark Fleckenstein NY
Eddie Wolf MA

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 4:51 pm
by Capt. Flak
SO...any results to share?

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 5:40 pm
by Chuck Luscomb
Sitting in traffic on I95 at the moment. Score board is in the back. The top 5 are as follows

1 D Ramos
2 J Betz
3 A Dion
4.D Barker
5 A Ramos

Congratulations to Dave Ramos for his victory! Very difficult regatta. Lighter breezes with some real lulls really steimied the fleet. As the breeze died, the skippers discovered that the tide was a force to be reckoned with. The starboard tack lay line into the weather mark was a mystery. As the wind died in our last race on Saturday, the boats were bucking a tide that wanted to push them over the line and the only defense was to sail away from the line dead down wind.

Full report in the next day or so.

Chuck.

Ps I did not sail.

Re: Mystic Race Week 2014

PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 7:54 pm
by daramos
Great regatta
Mystic never disappoints and this year was no exception. Good breeze but not too steady, just shifty enough to keep everyone on their toes, current that made you think about where you were going and weather you really want to go there, great competition, awesome friends and competition.
Brand new EC12 owner joe Siegel made the day on Sat evening. After flying his Carbon Cub down pick up his new boat Thursday we convinced him to stay and sail with us Sat. As the day went on he really started to get the hang of sailing his beautiful new sky blue EC12 and is a great new member to our class. After saying goodby we were all hanging out under the tents when we spotted a Piper Cub flying towards us. As the plane came closer Joe pulsed the throttle to say hi and goodby but the show was not over as he lit off his smoke system and cranked the cub onto a wing edge and made a tight U turn over us departing with a wing waggle and cheers from us all. Wow!! Very cool. I want a ride.
When he called later he said he wanted to do a few barel rolls but was close to restricted air space (US sub base in near by Groton) and he just had time to shoot and scoot. Looking forward to getting together with him soon.
Thanks to everyone that helped out this weekend with everything and to Chuck Luscomb our RD
Great time
Dave