by rs vernon » Sun Apr 08, 2018 8:12 pm
Fun challenging regatta. Verywell done by John Muhlhausen and his team. 16 boats. As I remember it, good wind from the left on Saturday morning, building to B or almost B rig when we got back to it after lunch. John called a rig change break after 2 races. The puffs were in the 20s and always from the left. Great racing. Sunday was a day of some wind sometimes from some direction - from the left early on - and then wind or not for the rest of the morning. Very shifty and spotty.
Joe Walter was the class of the regatta with 7 bullets in the first seven races and 11 for the 17 races in the regatta. Other race winners were Tom Phillips (2), Dave Linville, Scott Vernon, Robert Mitchell, and Martin Van Wolfswinkel.
The results after 17 races with 2 drops.
Joe Walter 19
Tom Phillips 49. Not fair. His old lifting keel relic goes very fast in light air and fast enough in heavy wind. We needed more middlin wind range races to foil him. Great going Tom.
Dave Linville 68
Skip Steagall 80
Scott Vernon 83
Ian Elliott 106
Chuck Ellis 115
Robert Mitchell 129
Bill Tumlin 134
Mike Klime in his first regatta with his new pretty red boat. 134. His speed secret is no twist in his jib and not much in his main. A 3rd place on Saturday and another on Sunday.
Martin V W 135
Tom Evans 136
David Pulling
Dennis Headberg
Ann Gates
Don Hackbarth
Scott