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Re: 2017 Jacksonville Regatta

PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:54 pm
by bigfoot55
Alan Perkins takes the Jacksonville MYC 2017 regatta as well as the Florida EC12 Association Championship for the 5th time in a row.

Re: 2017 Jacksonville Regatta

PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:27 pm
by Capt. Flak
What, no shirt for me Reichard?

Re: 2017 Jacksonville Regatta

PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:34 pm
by Capt. Flak
I sure did want to post Saturday results, but by the time I got home from the full day of RDing, attending the Annual Meeting for the Florida EC12 Association, and then going to the great dinner outing at Murray Bother's Caddie Shack, I was just too tired to turn on the computer.

We decided to nickname this regatta "The Maytag Regatta." The wind was fighting us the whole weekend. It mostly came from the SE, but it would also swirl over the top of the hotel or wrap around the hotel from the west and cause all kinds of trouble at the leeward end of the course. It was also anything from light As to Bs. Fortunes were won and loss on a single tack choice. Baron Bremer seemed to figure it out better than most, but that darn Alan Perkins always found a way to get back to the front and take the win. Nine wins out of 14 races sailed to be exact. Aside from his 12th place finish in the first heat and a trip to B-fleet, Alan never finished worse than 3rd place for the rest of the regatta. It seemed like Baron was always leading the way around the course, only to have Alan slip buy on the final beat. Baron did score 4 bullets and 4 second places.

The only other skipper to score a bullet was Jon Luscomb who shot out of the blocks on the first race in A-fleet to sail a near horizon job on the rest of the fleet. After that, he was racking up a lot of 3rd, 4th and 5th place finishes, but just could not break into the Perkins and Bremer show. Meanwhile, Doc Greer was quietly crossing the line with a lot of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places to edge out Jon for third place by just 0.6 points. Martin Gray and Jack Ward were separated by just 1.6 points for 5th and 6th respectively.

There was some really great racing from all of the 21 skippers entered. Only 4 skippers didn't make it into A-fleet this weekend, but all of them came really close. As the nick name implies, the regatta was a bit of a washing machine and even the most talented skippers struggled. With so many wind shifts and swirls on the course, nobody should go home feeling like they did not do well.

We did put Ken Morrison, our USSailing judge to work, but only to decide redresses. There were no protests filed and all turns were done on the water. The reason for six different skippers getting redress was mostly due to the swirling winds tangling boats up around marks. I think I saw two dozen auto tacks at just one windward mark rounding. There is just no way to anticipate that. Hats off to Scott Vernon for coming forward in one of the tangles. "I'm not sure Joe, but I think I am the reason for those boats being tangled." Scott said to me. He then withdrew and informed Ken. That is the kind of sportsmanship we like to see.

The trophies were cheap certificates that I printed out at home and stuck in a $3 frame. Ok, so I really wasn't that cheap. The top three skippers also received YETI tumblers to hold their special Cokes. A Tervis Tumbler with a lid and naked mermaid artwork was awarded to John Goldsworthy who was Bubble Boy this weekend. John sailed in 21 of the 28 total heats. I told him I was going to put a bungee cord on his clothespin. That way I could just unclip it and it would snap back to him.

I want to thank John Bottensek and Jim Pardee for running the start line; Robbie Susan for writing down the finishes and keeping me focused; Bill Wells for watching the marks, chasing boats and "herding the cats"; Baron, Martin, Tom, and Frank for helping set up and haul gear before and after the regatta; Cheryl Bremer for getting lunch and setting up and cleaning up; and last but most importantly Trish Gray for doing an excellent job keeping score.

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Re: 2017 Jacksonville Regatta

PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2017 11:29 am
by rs vernon
Great fun. Very well done regatta. Thank you to Joe and his staff. I and a whole lot of other people love sailing at this regatta year after year.
I took some pictures of the last race on Sunday and hopefully they can be seen by hitting or copy/pasting this link. I put up a good fight with Google photos.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP ... hpYW90dHVB
Scott

Re: 2017 Jacksonville Regatta

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 9:40 am
by Jon Luscomb
Reichard:

If you send me Doc's, George's and Dick's and mine, I will get them to them.