by scottgraf » Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:38 pm
The 10th Annual Annapolis Regatta, Region 2 Championship and third leg of the Colonial Cup is in the books. The racing did not disappoint despite chasing breeze for much of the weekend. Saturday provided the best day with 4-8 knots of breeze, which was 45 degrees off the best angles of the pond making a good start rather important. So with two skewed courses the sailors had to pick the best lanes to get to the top marks. The group got 14 decent races in on Saturday because the predictions for Sunday were not pretty--hot, humid and little wind. There were three lead changes in the last four races of the day. The top three places after day one were separated by only 3 points, with Jamey Betz leading Dave Brawner and Dave Ramos.
Betz 29
Brawner 30
Ramos 32
Freeland 77.2
Branning 83
Bonanno 88
CM Ray 95
Boulay 104
Hall 107
Littleton 143.2
Sunday the breeze was 0-4 from the same predominant direction--the four in the early hours of the morning was nice as the prediction was for it to fill in at 1pm. We fit in three races after a brief delay for the fan to turn on. We took an early lunch when the fan broke again, and decided to call the regatta with the fickle forecast and the scorching sun.
I'd like to give a couple shout outs to Dave Ramos for providing the individual trophies, the floating dock and a bunch of preliminary effort. To Rick Boulay for providing the awesome chase boat, I'm so happy not to have had to paddle all weekend. To Earnest Freeland for providing support items and assistance with scoring. To David Branning for providing the marketing and Ginger Beer! To Judy Bonanno for photographing the event, check back for the SmugMug links. And finally to Spencer Graf for assisting with the chase boat, splashing and retrieving boats and all around helping me run the regatta. The final scores are listed below.
Name Race #
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Gross Throwout Total Place
Brawner 2 3 2 2 2 3 1 1 4 1 2 1 4 2 1 1 2 34 -8 26 1
Ramos 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 3 1 4 3 4 2 3 2 2 1 37 -8 29 2
Betz 3 2 4 1 4 1 2 2 2 2 1 3 1 1 5 3 3 40 -9 31 3
Branning 6 4 6 11 7 4 5 11 5 5 5 5 3 6 4 7 4 98 -22 76 4
Freeland 4 7 5 5 5 6.2 8 8 3 8 6 2 5 5 6 4 6 93.2 -16 77.2 5
Bonnano 8 5 3 11 11 11 4 5 6 3 4 6 7 4 3 5 7 103 -22 81 6
Szulczewski 5 8 7 4 3 7 9 6 7 9 7 7 9 7 8 6 5 114 -18 96 7
Boulay 10 9 10 7 6 5 7 4 8 7 9 8 6 8 9 8 11 132 -21 111 8
Hall 7 10 8 6 8 6 6 7 9 6 8 9 8 9 7 9 8 131 -19 112 9
Littleton 9 6 9 9.2 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 176.2 -22 154.2 10
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