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Since there are three fleet websites that contain results, I'll refer you directly to those:
I'll still post any results for other regattas not sponsored by Fleets 1 and 6.
1. Ian Charles, SAILS CALL, #112
2. Tom Thayer & Dick Watts, SPEEDWELL, #35 & JUXTAPOSE, #257
3. Tom Kassberg, WALLOPING SWEDE, #157
1. Robert Baker, PLANET B, #238
2. James Rathbun, HEY JUDE, #110
3. Ian Farquharson, SONIC BOOM, #36
1. George Petkovic, REVELATION, #64
2. Pat Clarke, EN GARDE, #168
3. Tom & Marilyn Edman, PRONTO II, #101
1. Damian Emery, ECLIPSE, #50
2. Jim Sorensen, WET LEOPARD, #175
3. Terry Laughren & Leslie Velde, WINGED VICTORY, #170
1. Jack Colby, NO SURRENDER, #74
2. Nelson Weiderman, KIMA, #37
3. Bob Taylor, HIJINX, #263
Note from the Skipper: My crew has raced my J/30 "Wild Turkey" offshore for 18 years. This was our first offshore race in my 3-week old J/105 "Rare Breed" #279. The Harvest Moon Regatta is a fun race from Galveston Texas to Aransas Pass 154 miles. It started at noon Friday October 22 with a finish deadline of Saturday October 23 @ 5:00pm. It is normally an off-the-wind race, and this year there were 255 starters. --Bob Wright
At 13th Harvest Moon Regatta It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. We got a good start up by the Flag Ship Pier into a moderate west wind and a little foul current. We beat along the rumb line to Freeport, watching the J-35 "Leading Edge" pull out ahead. After Freeport and dark we took a hitch offshore and noticed a little lift as we went out. We tacked back to the rumb line and decided that the current and lift were more favorable off shore, so we tacked back out. The wind had built to 18 true, and was still on the nose. The seas were lumpy and we had a rough, wet ride. At midnight, the GPS predicted an ETA of midnight Saturday, if this held we would miss the deadline and more important, the party! As we sailed out, we found the lift again and this time it took us up almost to the mark. When the sun came up, the front finally came through and wind went north and then northeast and BUILT! We popped the big chute on starboard jibe sailing just above the mark. The boat planes nicely in 20 knots, doing up to 14 over the ground. A wild ride. The winds laid as we approached Port Aransas, but we were still moving well and finished around 2pm, just behind the Mumm 36. We were the sixth boat to finish. Lee Demerest, in his Tayana 52, finished a few minutes behind us, but then, he had ice cream aboard. We had a feeling we had done well. Only forty boats finished before the time limit. The party was great: Rum, Bar BQ, and live music by Key West (The Band). Later that night, we were forced to drink rum straight from the Bacardi Cup (first in PHRF Fleet). Which explains my slight case of rumnesia. We left Port A Sunday morning and had a pleasant motor back up the ditch. The end of our trip was capped of by meeting the USS San Jacinto coming down the ship channel (Pictures) -- Bruce Huckaba - Navigator
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/bruce.huckaba/Moon/TripBack.HTM
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/bruce.huckaba/RB1.HTM
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/bruce.huckaba/RB2.HTM
J/105 owners volunteered their boats and new women to the class enjoyed the boats simplicity as well as how easy it is to sail. Both regattas were light shifty conditions resulting in only once race per day as 2-3 races were scheduled. There were many women from other classes as well as women from other states that I was able to get on the boat.
We had five boats in May and six in August. The results of each are as follows:
West River Big Boat Regatta, May 22, 1999
Carolyn Grooby Java Sue Mikulski Levitation Kathy Weber/Mary Driver Thoosa Bonnie Urban El Toro Jill Danzig J'Amakin WavesRoy Smith Women's Regatta, August 28, 1999
Sue Mikulski Freedom Kathy Weber/Mary Driver Thoosa Cap Pin J'Amakin Waves Suzanne Acevedo Blonde Attack Anita Gallitano Orangutan Bonnie Urban El ToroThis was Anita Gallitano's (hull no. 264) first time driving a race! I think this is an incredible tribute to the boat and in promoting the class as I had people call me out of the woodwork to get on boats. It was fun to watch 10 women on a J/30 and 5 or 6 on the J/105's! We hope to see it grow even more next year.
Thanks to owners for lending boats or sails....Paul Mikulski, Pete Schellie, Steve Olinger, Tom Bond, John Driver, Chris Groobey and Bill Sutton. Steve Phillips from LeRenard sponsored the regatta. Maybe next year out of town boats may want to time their visits around the NOOD in May and the women's regatta, or late August before the NA's. Just a thought. Thanks. -- Sue Mikulski
J/105 Boat Skipper R1 R2 R3 Tot J-Ok, Stewart Cannon, 3 2 1 6 J-Hawk, Abbott Brown, 5 1 2 8 Legacy, Brian Dougherty, 1 4 3 8 Belly Dancer, Art McMillan, 2 3 4 9 Grace Dances, John Seitz, 4 6 6 16 Energy, Glyn Davies, 6 5 5 16All boats used PHRF sail numbers in the J/105 class. There were 17 J/120's, 22 J/24's, 5 J/30's, and 2 classes of J/PHRF racing on 2 circles. Hosted by Bahia Corinthian YC and Sail California in the waters off of Newport Beach, CA. No racing on Saturday due to a lack of wind, and 3 races were completed Sunday in 3 - 6kts. of breeze.
YACHT SAIL SKIPPER R1 R2 PTS POS ARCHANGEL US97 MARK SORENSEN 4 3 7 1 Le RENARD US113 STEPHEN PHILLIPS 2 6 8 2 NO MORE TROUBLE US83136 JAY CORCORAN 5 4 9 3 WITCH US200 GLENN ROBBINS 1 11 12 4 BAM US62 G. SMERNOFF 6 8 14 5 JAVA US83161 C - C GROOBEY 13 2 15 6 BLONDE ATTACK US93111 B. SUTTON 10 5 15 7 PLUM CRAZY US83263 ANDREW SKIBO 15 1 16 8 THOOSA US163 J. DRIVER 7 10 17 9 J'MAIKIN WAVES US83466 S. OLINGER 3 15 18 10 BEEP BEEP US216 D. MITCHELL 14 9 23 11 CURLEW US98 J. DETWEILLER 12 12 24 12 BREAKAWAY US251 R. HINDS 8 17 25 13 MACCABEE US203 RICHARD LEVITT 11 14 25 14 UNDERDOG US220 TOM BEHRLE DNC 7 28 15 JAY BOAT US208 J. BENTCHIKOU 16 13 29 16 ORANGUTAN US264 D. GALLITANO 9 DNC 30 17 ZEPHYR US252 W. NUSCHKE 18 16 34 18 SASSY US205 R. PERCIVAL 17 19 36 19 EL TORO US250 T. BOND DNC 18 39 20
While the rules specify that all of the skippers had to be at least 55 years old, the only invited skipper under 60 was John Jennings from Florida. Happily, crewmembers only had to be 45 years old, which really helped when the breeze built into the 20-knot range.
The San Francisco Bay was on its best behavior, dishing up great racing in 10-20 knots of breeze, with both flood and ebb tide conditions. The field was so deep only one skipper -- third place Roy Dickson from New Zealand -- was able to complete the five races with all single digit finishes.
Bruce Munro, Vice Commodore from the host club won the event with a 1-1-9-14-1 series. The curmudgeon tied Munro on points with a 3-2-3-15-3 series, but lost the tiebreaker to take the second place trophy. (Don't ask me what happened in the fourth race when we dropped to 15th. Suffice to say, it once again proved Murphy know what he was talking about when he wrote his much-quoted rule.)
Munro sailed with Ed Bennett, Paul Heikeken, Jim Coggan and Steve Yong. And while it may not be customary to name the crew on the second place boat, I want to publicly thank Anne Hendry, Kevin Riley, Robin Sodaro and Rob Moore. Collectively, they made the curmudgeon look better than he really is!
One final note. It was a real credit to the local J/105 fleet that most of the owners who donated their boats left their A" sails aboard for the regatta. The three boats the curmudgeon sailed were all marvelous prepared with great racing sails. And the owners who came along each day as the sixth member of our crew were truly great guys -- people I'd love to sail with again.
Final Results: 1. Bruce Munro (26) 2. Tom Leweck (26) 3. Roy Dickson (28) 4. Dick Deaver (29) 5. Malin Burnham (34) 6. Lowell North (37) 7. Dennis Surtees (40) 8. Hank Easom (42) 9. John Scarborough (43) 10. Bob Johnstone (51)
Hopefully, St. Francis will post the complete results soon at: http://www.stfyc.com/race-office/99race/99raceresults.html
Fleet: J105
Races: 1 to 7
I = Infringement, D = DSQ, Y = Yacht Materially Prejudiced, P = Protest Pending
No. Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7
No. Sail No. Yacht Name Skipper Name Rating Strt 28 Str 28 Str 28 Str 28 Str 28 Str 28 Str 28 Str Total
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1 28558 JOSE CUERVO Sam Hock 7 9.00 6.00 6.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 6.00 30.00
2 112 SAILS CALL Ian Charles 7 3.00 1.00 1.00 11.00 6.00 5.00 3.00 30.00
3 84 ADVANTAGE 3 Will & Pat Benedict 7 2.00 7.00 7.00 10.00 2.00 3.00 17.00 48.00
4 268 JUXTAPOSE Dick Watts / Tom Thayer 7 4.00 2.00 5.00 3.00 19.00 7.00 13.00 53.00
5 28682 BLACKHAWK Dean Dietrich 7 13.00 5.00 4.00 8.00 10.00 2.00 15.00 57.00
6 46481 BELLY DANCER Brandon Colgan 7 5.00 8.00 21.00 5.00 8.00 13.00 4.00 64.00
7 111 CHARADE Thomas Coates 7 1.00 10.00 2.00 2.00 16.00 29.00D 7.00 67.00
8 173 HOKU'LELE Robert Cooper 7 7.00 9.00 13.00 20.00 5.00 8.00 5.00 67.00
9 105 THRASHER Steve Podell 7 18.00 3.00 10.00 6.00 11.00 12.00 8.00 68.00
10 157 WALLOPING SWEDE Tom Kassberg 7 6.00 14.00 20.00 12.00 4.00 10.50 2.00 68.50
11 46456 IRRATIONALAGAIN Jaren Leet 7 15.00 18.00 3.00 9.00 3.00 18.00 10.00 76.00
12 96 SOLDINI Steve Nurse 7 20.00 15.00 12.00 7.00 7.00 6.00 11.00 78.00
13 128 BELLA ROSA David Tambellini 7 19.00 13.00 9.00 15.00 12.00 15.00 1.00 84.00
14 28905 ORION Gary Kneeland 7 12.00 11.00 15.00 18.00 9.00 14.00 20.00 99.00
15 116 ARBITRAGE Bruce J. Stone 7 10.00 19.00 29.00D 4.00 18.00 4.00 19.00 103.00
16 265 TIBURON Steve Stroub 7 8.00 12.00 18.00 22.00 23.00 17.00 9.00 109.00
17 266 #266 Tom Kennelly 7 14.00 16.00 14.00 14.00 14.00 16.00 23.00 111.00
18 196 CAPRICORN Bill Booth 7 17.00 22.00 11.00 16.00 22.00 10.50 14.00 112.50
19 151 HELE ON Eugene Rooney 7 11.00 4.00 19.00 21.00 21.00 19.50 21.00 116.50
20 222 SABERTOOTH Mike Eagan 7 29.00D 21.00 16.00 17.00 13.00 9.00 12.00 117.00
21 103 AQUAVIT Roy Steiner 7 21.00 22.00 8.00 13.00 15.00 23.00 16.00 118.00
22 217 PIPPIN David Owen 7 23.00 20.00 17.00 19.00 17.00 19.50 22.00 137.50
23 28142 WIANO John Sullivan 7 22.00 23.00 22.00 23.00 24.00 22.00 24.00 160.00
24 16 RONIN Kris Jacob 7 16.00 24.00 23.00 24.00 25.00 24.00 25.00 161.00
25 180 JOUST Alan Kelly 7 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 20.00 21.00 18.00 175.00
26 255 LUNA George Vare 7 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 203.00
26 28447 ULTIMATUM Vince DiLorenzo 7 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 203.00
26 93 WE BE JAMMIN Jon Zarkin 7 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 29.00 203.00
The J/105 fleet gets the award for the most hours logged in Jury room. Winning that fleet is Sam Hock on Jose Cuervo and Sails Call ties for
points but gets a close second. Third place is the father/son team Will and Pat Benedict on Advantage 3. Will is the lead tender driver for
AmericaOne on his way to New Zealand.
The option to charter a boat for the event was decided upon and turned out to be quite a struggle to acquire. With a week to go prior to the start of the regatta, I still did not firmly have a boat in hand. A last minute phone call to a great gentleman and J/105 owner from San Francisco, Tom Coates, turned out to be my salvation. Without any hesitation, he confirmed the availability of his boat to my team. I had gotten to know Tom from his east coast campaign with Masquerade and he had seen firsthand, our abilities on the 105. So it is with the deepest appreciation Tom, I say THANK YOU. Needless to say, my sleeping hours increased dramatically.
Our sail inventory was on the usual sail purchase limitations for the class, which meant I had put into the rotation prior to a mid-July Newport event, a Banks mainsail from their East Greenwich, R.I. loft. The jib was due for replacement after the first of August, which again I got from the Banks loft, this one differing slightly from our old one only in that it included Pentex. The spinnaker inventory was the source of much discussion among the crew in that I had not put a new one into the rotation at the designated time prior to Block Island Race Week in June. I believed that the .75 Quantum still had one of the best shapes after a year of racing, and out on the course observations bore this out. The wild card was that for SF, did we need the 1.5oz backup kite as allowed by Fleet#1? I'll address my final decision making on this later.
Our focus on the local conditions and wind and current patterns really intensified after our completion of the Sail Newport event in mid-July. We felt as a team, prior to the regatta, each one of us had to have a basic understanding of the big picture for each day of racing. While everyone on the boat is not involved in the final strategy and tactical decision-making, having everyone's head on the same page, certainly helps. Information was gathered from any available source regarding wind and current patterns. I personally went to a few available websites and archived the past three years data for the wind and current patterns on the two days prior to the regatta dates, the dates of the regatta, and the two dates following the scheduled regatta dates. While this may have been an exercise in trivia, it helped me bring into focus the overall wind patterns for the race areas, as well as the historic tendencies of the wind for mid-August. The usual charts were assembled and current patterns were visualized over the racing circles. Attempting to leave no stone unturned, the available daily computer current patterns were purchased from GoFlow after their presentation to the participants in a pre-regatta briefing. These would be used as a reference to what we actually saw once out on the racecourse. Getting back to the spinnaker inventory, after looking over the historic wind velocity data and verifying the the max. velocity was not reached until 5PM or so, I made the decision not to purchase or pursue the 1.5oz spinnaker option. We would bring our 14 month old .75 Quantum and 3 year old Halsey .75 kite as a back up.
The hurdle of using a charter boat was an issue the team handled from the start of the 99 sailing season. HIJINX is a tiller equipped boat and we know her well. The round thing in the back of the boat is different to say the least and time on the wheel is the only way to have our helmsman, Todd Berman, develop some sense of comfort. In early May of this year we did a weekend regatta on a borrowed wheel 105. Again in early June we did a weekend regatta with a borrowed wheel 105 as my new boat was not out of TPI just yet. Finally, with just two weekends left to the NAs, and not knowing whether we would be sailing a tiller or wheel boat in SF, the team did a final sail tune up and boat to boat tune up with HIJINX and KIMA, which is wheel equipped. THANK YOU Nelson for making her available. The previous time on the borrowed boats helped me get a timeframe for how long it would take me to tune the rigs and get them race ready. It also allowed me to make any necessary tuning adjustments and confirm them when switching from HIJINX to an older or newer version 105. This way once a charter boat was firmed up for our use, I could get going directly to make the necessary tuning modifications in the least amount of time upon our arrival in SF.
Upon our arrival on Wednesday in SF, we located Charade and got to the business of unloading her and getting the rig tuned. Only one huge problem, our sails were nowhere to be found. Calls were made and they did make it to us by noon on Thursday. So the first afternoon was spent tuning and checking out the hardware and finally calling it quits after a long travel day. The boat was ready and in good shape, but was she fast?
Early Thursday was spent at St. Francis having the crew weigh-in, measuring spinnakers and going over the boat with local Measurer Don Trask. Our forestay was measured and required checklist was completed. We set out for the Berkley Circle area with sails set a little after noon and expected to do some tuning with the local boats in the designated racing area to be used for the first two days of the regatta. Much to my surprise, we spent the next two hours sailing by ourselves. No other 105s were out in the Berkley Circle area during our time there. This time was spent getting a feel for the wind and current effects over the racecourse area. The team got the kinks out and we tried to start getting our timing down. It had been near to a month since we had sailed in a regatta. We got oriented to the topography and its effect on the wind. By the time we were finished, we had a feel for the boat and the environs we would be racing in the first day. On the way in we toured around Alcatraz checking out the wind and current effects in the so called "cone of Alcatraz".
Later that afternoon, at the pre-regatta presentation, Norm from Local Knowledge, gave a lengthy presentation of the computer projections. For formulating our strategy this information would be a good reference, but not "Gospel". Around this time the team begins to get into the regatta mindset, have a good dinner, and not stay out too late.
A quick summary of the racing,peaks and valleys:
Bob Taylor, of Charlestown, Rhode Island and his team of Todd Berman, Larry Lombardo, Tim Kohl and Glenn Hunter swept the final three races to win the 1999 J/105 North American Championship held in San Francisco Bay over the weekend. St. Francis Yacht Club and J/105 Fleet #1 played host to the six race, no-throw series, with 18 qualifying boats from five fleets participating. Don Priestly of Mashpee, Massachussets trailered his boat WET PAINT across country to participate. Three other teams, including Taylor, borrowed boats from local fleet members. "It took us 40 minutes to switch the rig tuning to our settings. That's all the boat prep we had to do," said Taylor, who won last year's event in Newport, Rhode Island.
The J/105 fleet sailed their top event without professionals aboard, but you wouldn't have know it by watching. St. Francis Race Chairman Tony Chargin and Race Manager John Craig supervised an all-star cast of race officers to keep control of the fleet. Windward mark offsets and leeward gates kept protests to a minimum. Wind conditions were ideal ranging from 14-22 over the three days, with most races sailed in a 2-3 knot flood current. The fleet sailed windward-leewards on Berkeley Circle for two days, then moved to the city front for a final windward leeward and mid-distance Bay race. After Day 1, Taylor trailed the early regatta leaders Vince Dilorenzo on ULTIMATUM, and Tom Thayer/Dick Watts on JUXTAPOSE. "I sailed a J/24 for 18 years and now the J/105 for the past three, and this is the first bullet we've gotten!" said a happy Dilorenzo after winning race two. He would later back that up with a solid last day including a 2nd in the distance race to capture 2nd overall. Day 2, the early regatta leaders slipped, while Taylor moved into higher gear with a 3rd and 1st. Before the final day on the city front, Taylor and Berman could be seen wandering the yacht club with chart in hand seeking local knowledge. Whatever they found served them well as they played the city front flawlessly to win the final two races. In true Corinthian fashion, the first person waiting at the dock to greet the winning HIJINX team was not a bearing a bottle of champagne, but a wad of $100 bills to buy their sails.
Prior to the event, the J/105 Fleet Captains meeting was held and the following owners were elected to run the J/105 Class Association: Bill Sutton (Annapolis, MD) President; Bob Taylor (Charlestown, RI) Vice-President; Nelson Weiderman (Wickford, RI) Secretary-Treasurer. The 2000 J/105 Midwinters will be at Key West in January. The 2000 J/105 North Americans will be held in Annapolis in September.
No. Hull No. Yacht Name Skipper Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 TOTAL --- -------- --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 111 CHARADE R. TAYLOR 4 4 3 1 1 1 14 2 153 ULTIMATUM V. DILORENZO 2 1 12 13 3 2 33 3 40 BLACKHAWK D. DIETRICH 8 6 5 2 13 3 37 4 159 BELLY DANCER MCMILL/MSSN/COLGN 9 5 1 5 9 11 40 5 268 JUXTAPOSE WATTS/THAYER 1 3 7 16 2 16 45 6 157 WALLOPING SWEDE T. KASSBERG 17 12 8 3 7 4 51 7 152 IRRATIONAL AGAIN J. LEET 3 7 4 12 17 8 51 8 44 ORION G. KNEELAND 11 14 9 4 4 15 57 9 93 WE BE JAMMIN' 2 J. ZAKIN 12 11 10 8 5 12 58 10 116 ARBITRAGE STONE/WEINTRAUT 10 15 6 11 6 10 58 11 173 HOKULELE DEISINGER/COOPER 13 18 2 10 8 9 60 12 128 BELLA ROSA D. TAMBELLINI 7 17 13 6 15 5 63 13 189 WET PAINT D. PRIESTLY 6 13 15 7 10 13 64 14 42 JOSE CUERVO S. HOCK 5 9 DSQ 17 11 6 67 15 84 ADVANTAGE^3 W. & P. BENEDICT 14 2 14 14 12 14 70 16 151 HELE ON W. SUTTON 18 10 11 18 16 7 80 17 180 JOUST A. KELLY 16 8 17 15 14 17 87 18 96 SOLDINI J. SORENSEN 15 16 16 9 18 18 92
-- Nelson
Bob Taylor and his crew of Todd Berman, Tim Kohl, Larry Lombardo, and Glen Hunter studied their current charts carefully and picked up two bullets for the day. In the first race they headed out for the last of the ebb and rounded the first mark in first place in their chartered CHARADE. On the second time around the flood had started and they tacked up the shoreline extending their lead as they went. ORION was second at the second mark and third marks, but was overtaken on the last leg by SPEEDWELL and ULTIMATUM. The last race was sailed in a heavy flood. After the first general recall of the regatta, the fleet paraded up the shore tacking as close as they dared. CHARADE got a decent conservative start and was in the lead again in short order. She rounded the weather mark in first followed closely by WALLOPING SWEDE. By the time they reached Harding Rock, it was CHARADE closely followed by BLACKHAWK and WALLOPING SWEDE. On the close reach past Alcatraz, CHARADE made gains, but lost it all at the mark when they had trouble dousing. BLACKHAWK took the lead, but tried to get current relief in "the cone of Alcatraz" while CHARADE went directly for the harborfront. From there it was a long hard beat back up to Blackaller. For the first half of the beat BLACKHAWK pressed CHARADE hard with CHARADE tacking again for the shore at every close crossing. But BLACKHAWK went too far out into the flow and was eventually passed by both ULTIMATUM and WALLOPING SWEDE. That same order prevailed for the downwind leg back to the harborfront and the upwind leg back to Anita Rock past St. Francis.
The Race Committee work was flawless and the racers had a great North Americans. Be there next year in Annapolis!
Bob Taylor set the pace aboard CHARADE taking a third and first. In the first race they built a comfortable lead going into the first mark, but lost it and more going downhill when the boats on the left got a better angle and better pressure. After being as far back as 6th, they clawed back to third at the finish. Bruce Stone's ARBITRAGE pushed hard for second around the first mark, but a bad spinnaker wrap pushed them down. HOKULELE rounded the third and fourth marks in first, with BELLY DANCER trailing closely behind, but B.D. pulled it out on the last leg to give the team of McMillan, Messenger, and Colgan the win.
In the last race, Taylor's crew got off the line with alacrity and never looked back. BELLY DANCER rounded with them at the second mark, but after that it was all CHARADE, winning by more than a minute. Both Dean Dietrich on BLACKHAWK and Tom Kasseberg on WALLOPING SWEDE had their best races of the regatta at two and three. After four races there have been four different winners with two out-of-towners moving into first and second. The leaders from Friday fell to six and five.
In the first race, the SF champion and the NA champion duked it out for the first three legs with Tom Thayer and Dick Watts (the locals) leading the Rhode Island crew of Bob Taylor. But Taylor on CHARADE had some trouble on the first takedown and the second hoist and fell back with ULTIMATUM taking his place in second. Thayer/Watts extended all the way and took the gun on their new JUXTAPOSE. In the second race Vince DiLorenzo's ULTIMATUM held the lead for the whole race. This time it was ADVANTAGE^3 taking second. Taylor on CHARADE was shadowing JUXTAPOSE and the pair eventually finished third and fourth after being deep in the pack.
No. Hull No. Yacht Name Skipper Name FLEET SAILS --- -------- --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 40 BLACKHAWK D. DIETRICH 1 QUANTUM/NORTH 2 42 JOSE CUERVO S. HOCK 1 QUANTUM/QUANTUM 3 44 ORION G. KNEELAND 1 NORTH/NORTH 4 84 ADVANTAGE^3 W. & P. BENEDICT 1 UK/UK 5 93 WE BE JAMMIN' 2 J. ZAKIN 1 NORTH/NORTH 6 96 SOLDINI J. SORENSEN 6 (CHARTER) QUANTUM/QUANTUM 7 111 CHARADE R. TAYLOR 6 (CHARTER) BANKS/QUANTUM 8 116 ARBITRAGE STONE/WEINTRAUT 6 QUANTUM/NORTH 9 128 BELLA ROSA D. TAMBELLINI 1 NORTH/NORTH 10 151 HELE ON C. GROOBEY 3 (CHARTER) QUANTUM/NORTH 11 152 IRRATIONAL AGAIN J. LEET 1 ULLMAN/ULLMAN 12 153 ULTIMATUM V. DILORENZO 1 QUANTUM/NORTH 13 157 WALLOPING SWEDE T. KASSBERG 1 QUANTUM/NORTH 14 173 HOKULELE DEISINGER/COOPER 1 NORTH/NORTH 15 159 BELLY DANCER BRANDON/MCMILLIAN 8 QUANTUM/NORTH 16 180 JOUST A. KELLY 1 QUANTUM/NORTH 17 189 WET PAINT D. PRIESTLY 14 NORTH/NORTH 18 268 JUXTAPOSE WATTS/THAYER 1 QUANTUM/NORTH
Division J-105 Hull Boatname Helmsperson 1 2 3 Total pos 245 WONDER WAGON Rick Wright 1 1 1 2.75 1 55 PHENIX Bob Swirbalis 2 2 2 6.00 2 145 HEART THROB Bill Strauss 4 3 3 10.00 3 151 DARK HORSE2 Lowden/Hill 3 4 4 11.00 4 102 JAGUAR Ernie Hardy 5 5 5 15.00 5Of particular note is that Rick is a new owner in his first season of competition.
Course A Division J-105 Hull Boatname Helmsperson 1 2 3 4 Total pos 136 SONIC BOOM FARQUHARSON, IAN 2 2 3 2 9 1 110 HEY JUDE RATHBUN, JAMES 1 3 1 6 11 2 238 PLANET B BAKER, ROBERT 3 1 2 8 14 3 148 WISH MALM, SKIP 4 8 4 1 17 4 192 HEIDI C. II REPPLE, GERRY 5 4 5 3 17 5 72 HIGHLANDER BALUTA, ALEX 7 6 7 4 24 6 158 SIRMISE MCKEEN, LLOYD 6 5 6 7 24 7 214 PRIME TIME KITRENOS, JACK 8 7 8 5 28 8Of particular note is that Ian worked his way to the top on his fourth try, finished last (6th) in 1996, 5th (PHRF) in 1997, and second last year. This is the biggest turnout ever for Fleet #4 and it looks like they are reaching critical mass on Lake Ontario.
BLOCK ISLAND RACE WEEK 1999
JUNE 20-25, 1999(BLUE FLEET)
Date: Jun 24, 1999 (c)STORM TRYSAIL CLUB
Time: 6:52pm Yacht Race Scoring Systems
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NOTE: '*' denotes a manual adjustment made to finish position
BLUE CL-1 PHRF J-105
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|SAIL NO YACHT NAME YACHT TYPE SKIPPER CLUB AFFIL RATING #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 POINTS FIN
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50 ECLIPSE J105 DAMIAN EMERY MSSA 0 1 1 2 (6) 2 2 3 6 17 1
263 HI JINX J105 ROBERT TAYLOR JAMESTOWN 0 (7) 3 6 3 1 3 2 3 21 2
83263 PLUM CRAZY J105 ANDREW SKIBO OCEAN CITY 0 8 6 1 2 (18) 5 1 1 24 3
50479 PHANTOM J105 PIERINI/LEITNER RARITAN 0 4 (14) 8 1 7 4 8 2 34 4
17 MASQUERADE J105 THOMAS COATES ST FRANCIS 0 6 2 3 5 9 1 9 (17) 35 5
175 WET LEOPARD J105 JIM SORENSEN 0 3 16 13 4 3 9 4 (19) 52 6
51012 WET PAINT J105 DON PRIESTLY US SAILING 0 2 (17) 11 9 4 8 10 14 58 7
50143 KIMA J105 NELSON WEIDERMAN WICKFORD 0 5 12 4 (16) 13 14 7 4 59 8
240 PEEKABOO J105 MARVIN POZEFSKY FAYERWEATH 0 10 10 9 7 10 (13) 6 8 60 9
50938 KETCHUPLESS J105 RICHARD BARKER BLOCK ISL. 0 11 4 5 8 11 12 (14) 12 63 10
50848 CATAMOUNT J105 DAVID GREENHOUSE AMERICAN 0 12 15 12 11 6 6 (19) 15 77 11
163 THOOSA J105 JOHN & MARY DRIVER EASTPORT 6 9 (19) 14 10 5 18 12 11 79 12
50702 CAPRICORN "3" J105 WILLIAM C. HAUSNER SETAUKET 0 20 11 18 12 (OCS) 7 5 7 80 13
44105 RIGADOON J105 BILL & DOUG RIGGS E.GREENWIC 0 21 13 7 13 14 10 (DSQ) 5 83 14
43937 ALL RIGHT J105 HUGH McLEAN MYSTIC RIV 0 13 8 17 (*22) 16 11 15 9 89 15
98 CURLEW J105 JOHN & MARTY DETWEILER NASS 6 18 5 (22) 14 12 17 17 10 93 16
43955 PHENIX J105 BOB SWIRBALUS US SAILING 0 14 (18) 15 18 8 15 13 13 96 17
170 WINGED VICTORY J105 TERRY & LESLIE LAUGREN NORWALK 0 15 9 10 19 (OCS) 16 11 18 98 18
256 CAT CAME BACK J105 LINC MOSSOP JAMESTOWN 0 17 7 16 17 15 (19) 16 16 104 19
212 LAST TANGO J105 JOHN PETERSON CITY ISLAN 0 22 20 21 15 (OCS) 20 18 20 104 20
80 EQUINOX J105 ED WHITMORE AMERICAN 0 19 (21) 19 20 19 21 20 21 139 21
239 CYAN J105 WILLIAM BALDWIN 0 *16 (22) 20 21 17 22 21 22 145 22
250 EL TORO J105 Thomas O. Bond EYC 6 23 23 23 (DNC) DNC 23 DNC DNC 164 23
The fleet wallowed under dull grey skies during a two-hour postponement while the race committee waited for a predicted 10 knot easterly to materialize. The wind eventually filled in from the northeast and built slowly to 6-7 knots, which was enough to start, and complete, one race on each course.
J/105s made up the largest one-design group competing and the class, 23 boats strong, saw Damian Emery on Eclipse take a hotly-contested pin-end start. After 10 lengths, Emery tacked and crossed the fleet. "We got launched off the start and headed to the right towards the island," says Emery. "We kept getting lifted, but fortunately we were getting the breeze before the guys on the left. Once we rounded the weather mark in the lead, we just followed the breeze lines and held our breath.
The class compressed at the leeward mark and Eclipse stayed in front by heading right on the second beat and covering Nelson Weiderman's Kima, from Wickford, RI. For a class newcomer, Emery is already on a roll. He recently won the J/105 class at the Port Jefferson Harbor Cup, and qualified to sail in the 1999 North Americans in San Francisco.
Eclipse continues to dominate the J/105 fleet with skipper Damien Emery's excellent mastery of the pin-end start. Emery, from Shoreham, NY, has four points, with a clear lead over the 11 points of Thomas Coates of San Francisco, CA, sailing Masquerade.
Conditions improved for the second races of the day, sailed late in the afternoon on two courses. "This was the best race of the regatta, thus far, with a nice steady ten knot breeze," Cook added. "It made for good close racing."
Phantom and HiJinx earned their first bullets as the fleet continued to fight for space on an all-too-short starting line. General recalls pushed the J/105's to then end of the line twice in a circle of 7 fleets.
Nineteen of the 20 classes started the race in reverse order of size under sunny skies in an hour-long sequence from two starting lines as the sea breeze started to build in strength for the first time this week. For the fourth day in a row Block Island's traditional foggy conditions failed to materialize.
Masquerade repeated their mastery the long, point-to-point, high-wind, and high-current races that they showed at Nantucket Gold, by earning their only bullet of the week. All Right and Phenix made nice gains on the back side by holding their spinnakers all the way to 1BI, while the rest of the fleet doused and reraised for a rhumbline course. Kima completed a trifecta by being early at the start for the third time in a row. The race committee had raised the "I-flag" for all competitors at the first start to discourage early starts with the following current.
Andy Skibo found the conditions to his liking as he found precious space in the front row at the starts and moved out sharply to take the lead in each race. Once in the lead, he could not be touched. With two bullets for the day and by throwing out his 18, Andy dropped 16 points and moved into the money at third place (from 5th). The RC finally got their act together and gave us the line we needed to start properly. No general recalls and only a couple of boats over early in the second race.
Thanks to Jim Sorensen for hosting the class party on Thursday (postponed from Wednesday because of the late finish). Everybody seemed to have a great time at the party and at the regatta. See you all next year for an even bigger event.
FINAL RESULTS - J-105
06/13/99 GMC YUKON/SAILING WORLD NOOD REGATTA '99 14:34:35
4 RACES 0 THROWOUTS
SCORING: IYRU5A-2 TIEBREAKER: Most 1sts, most 2nds, ...
NO ID BOAT 1 2 3 4 TOTAL
NO NAME 06/11 06/11 06/12 06/12 PTS
1 50106 REVELATION 4.00 2.00 3.00 1.00 10.00
2 50785 MOSQUITO 2.00 3.00 7.00 4.00 16.00
3 50872 ENGARDE 1.00 5.00 8.00 3.00 17.00
4 46 LUCKY DOBIE 5.00 6.00 1.00 7.00 19.00
5 81 MAD DOG 9.00 1.00 2.00 8.00 20.00
6 50638 PRONTO II 6.00 9.00 5.00 2.00 22.00
7 104 VYTIS 11.00 4.00 10.00 5.00 30.00
8 123 JOIE DE VIE 8.00 8.00 9.00 6.00 31.00
9 51050 LIQUID COURAGE 7.00 11.00 6.00 9.00 33.00
10 51078 FAST FORWARD 10.00 10.00 4.00 11.00 35.00
11 233 TEMPEST 3.00 12.00 12.00 10.00 37.00
12 231 LA CHAMAD 12.00 7.00 11.00 12.00 42.00
Scoring software by Tom Pederson (401) 847-1410
J105 CLASS 83263 PLUM CRAZY A. SKIBO 3 2 2 15 .75 2 24.75 1 200 WITCH G. ROBBINS 4 3 4 3 8 9 31 2 83161 JAVA GROOBEY/HRONEK 13 6 5 2 3 7 36 3 93105 FREEDOM P. SCHELLIE 2 5 15 5 6 6 39 4 163 THOOSA J&M DRIVER 9 14 3 9 7 4 46 5 93111 BLONDE ATTACK B. SUTTON 17 7 6 19 2 5 56 6 83466 J'MAKIN WAVES S&D OLINGER 16 8 16 12 4 .75 56.75 7 113 LE-RENARD S. PHILLIPS .75 .75 DSQ 7 12 15 57.5 8 83415 DARK STAR D. AUSTIN 5 16 8 4 14 12 59 9 83136 NO MORE TROUBLE J. CORCORAN 6 13 10 .75 11 19 59.75 10 97 ARCHANGEL M. SORENSEN 8 11 7 10 19 8 63 11 62 BAM G. SMERNOFF 7 19 .75 11 20 16 73.75 12 98 CURLEW J&M DETWEILER 19 12 9 18 13 3 74 13 216 BEEP BEEP D. MITCHELL 11 17 12 13 5 17 75 14 203 MACCABEE R. LEVITT 14 15 14 14 10 11 78 15 251 R. HINDS 10 4 RET 16 16 13 81 16 220 UNDERDOG T. BEHRLE 12 9 11 6 DNC DNC 82 17 68 LEVITATION P&S MIKULSKI 15 10 17 8 15 20 85 18 208 JAY BOAT BENTCHIKOU/KIRC 20 18 18 21 9 14 100 19 250 EL TORO T. BOND 21 21 18 17 17 10 104 20 83438 LEGACY S. BURNETT 18 20 12 20 18 18 106 21A fleet of 22 J/105s, the largest fleet in the regatta, mixed it up in the standing more than most other classes at this event. A different boat lead after every day of racing, and boats with a first-place race in their score went as deep as the 10th-place boat. Steven Brice Phillips' LE-RENARD (Arnold, MD) took an early lead with a 1-1 score; Glenn Robbins' WITCH (Pasadena, MD), with Gary Jobson in the afetrguard, was leading after Day 2; PLUM CRAZY, owned by Andrew Skibo of Chudds Ford (PA), sailed a 1-2 finale to take the class win. Skibo counts his two sons, who handle the foredeck, in his crew.
Fleet: J105
Races: 1 to 4
I = Infringement, D = DSQ, Y = Yacht Materially Prejudiced, P = Protest Pending
No. Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4
No. Sail No. Yacht Name Skipper Name Rating Strt 23 Str 23 Str 23 Str 23 Str Total
--- -------- --------------- -------------------------------- ------ ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
1 84 ADVANTAGE^3 W. & P. BENEDICT 4 6.00 5.00 3.00 2.00 16.00
2 128 BELLA ROSA D. TAMBELLINI 4 1.00 9.00 4.00 4.00 18.00
3 35 SPEEDWELL WATTS/THAYER 4 8.00 14.00 1.00 6.00 29.00
4 93 WE BE JAMMIN 2 J. ZAKIN 4 10.00 7.00 11.00 1.00 29.00
5 112 SAILS CALL I. CHARLES 4 15.00 4.00 7.00 3.00 29.00
6 28558 JOSE CUERVO S. HOCK 4 5.00 19.00 2.00 7.00 33.00
7 28905 ORION G. KNEELAND 4 2.00 8.00 6.00 17.00 33.00
8 111 CHARADE T. COATES 4 4.00 11.00 5.00 15.00 35.00
9 222 SABERTOOTH M. EAGAN 4 9.00 3.00 15.00 10.00 37.00
10 28682 BLACKHAWK D. DIETRICH 4 13.00 11.00 8.00 8.00 40.00
11 196 CAPRICORN B. BOOTH 4 3.00 10.00 14.00 14.00 41.00
12 46456 IRRATIONAL AGAI J. LEET 4 14.00 13.00 10.00 5.00 42.00
13 157 WALLOPING SWEDE T. KASSBERG 4 21.00 1.00 12.00 11.00 45.00
14 96 SOLDINI S. NURSE 4 17.00 2.00 16.00 12.00 47.00
15 173 HOKULELE R. COOPER 4 11.00 6.00 18.00 13.00 48.00
16 28447 ULTIMATUM V. DILORENZO 4 7.00 15.00 9.00 24.00 55.00
17 103 AQUAVIT R. STEINER 4 16.00 16.00 17.00 9.00 58.00
18 217 PIPPIN D. OWEN 4 22.00 18.00 13.00 16.00 69.00
19 180 JOUST A. KELLY 4 12.00 17.00 24.00 24.00 77.00
20 28142 WIANNO J. SULLIVAN 4 18.00 21.00 21.00 19.00 79.00
21 105 THRASHER S. PODELL 4 24.00 20.00 19.00 18.00 81.00
22 151 HELE ON E. ROONEY 4 19.00 24.00 20.00 20.00 83.00
23 28831 JOYRIDE B. HOELER 4 20.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 92.00
Full results are on the StFYC Web Site, see
http://www.stfyc.com/race-office/99race/0399/springonedesign/results/spring_one_design_invitational.htm.
45 J-OK Stewart Cannon 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 10 1 229 Perfect Timing 2 Dan Durbeck 2 3 4 1 1 3 2 16 2 190 Legacy Betsy Dougherty 4 2 6 3 2 2 3 22 3 120 Thor Paul Wager 3 5 2 4 6 4 4 28 4 149 Juno Al Simon 5 6 3 6 5 5 dnf 38 5 230 Grace Dances John Seitz 6 4 5 5 4 dnsdns 40 6 4For all NOOD Regatta Results, see http://www.sailingworld.com/nood/noodin99.htm.
120 Thor Paul Wager 1 190 Legacy Brian Dougherty 2 71 Energy Glyn Davies 3 125 Simple Elegance Chip Cheasley 4 159 Belly Dancer Art McMillan 5
CLASS B2 - J/105
FOR ALL RACES UP TO January 22, 1999
43955 Phenix Bob Swirbalus 3 2 7 2 1 1 4 3 23 1
35 Hi-Jinx Tom Thayer 1 5 6 3 2 3 1 5 26 2
144 Elizabeth Bill Helming 5 3 3 1 5 6 5 1 29 3
187 Southern Crescent Daniel Kerckhoff 2 3 4 7 3 7 3 4 33 4
51012 Wet Paint Donald Priestly 4 4 2 4 6 4 2 7 33 4
224 USA 224 Tom Coates 6 6 1 5 7 5 7 2 39 6
50554 Odyssey Dimitrios Spentzos RET RET 5 6 4 2 8 DNC 52 7
172 Emesis Basin William Chambers 7 7 8 8 8 8 6 6 58 8
J/105 competitors had their first one-design competition at Key West
Race Week with eight competitors representing at least six fleets. The
class competed in Division II and were started with eight Viper 830s.
Two boats came from Florida, one from South Carolina, and the remainder
came from the Northeast. Bob Taylor, the NA Champion, facilitated the
good turnout by lining up transport, finding boats for charter, and
putting crews together. The weather was perfect with no rain, temps in
the low 80s, and with breezes starting the week on the light side and
building all week to the final blast on Friday.The racing for the week was so close that the winner barely averaged better than third place. The top two boats had a collection of owners and crew from eight boats. Winner Bob Swirbalus of Boston on PHOENIX had Andy Skibo and his two sons from New Jersey's PLUM CRAZY, Pat Clark from Chicago's EN GARDE and Kevin Kelly from Long Island Sound's CAPRICORN. Second place finisher Tom Thayer from San Francisco brought along his tactician Rob Milligan from SPEEDWELL and was joined by Nelson Weiderman and his son Mark from Narragansett Bay's KIMA, Kevin Kienast from SF's WALLOPING SWEDE, and Lisa Bennett from LIS's WINGED VICTORY. Wet Paint and Emesis Basin sailed with their regular crews, but the remainder of the crews were put together especially for this regatta.
Two races were sailed each of the first three days and one race was sailed on Thursday and Friday. Monday was the lightest day. The RC set out a triple windward-leeward with 1.5 mile legs. The first race lasted approximately 1-1/2 hours and the second about 3 hours. Tom Thayer was hoping for SF breezes, but managed a first in the light air. Bill Helming finished first on ELIZABETH in the second race but took a 20% scoring penalty for a tacking-too-close violation. Tuesday the breeze was still in the 5-10 knot range, and the fleet produced a new winnner, Tom Coates from SF sailing 224 from South Carolina. Bill Helming picked up a legitimate first in the second race. The fleet was not expecting current to be a big factor, but tactician Jeff Johnstone on 224 found some current on the left that was worth avoiding going upwind and capitalizing on going downwind. Staying in the middle after the first beat proved to be deadly with the downwind traffic. After two days racing, ELIZABETH held the lead with PHENIX and WET PAINT two back, HIJINX three back, and SOUTHERN CRESCENT four back, and 224 six back, but still in contention.
On day three it was all PHENIX. Swirbalus just went right each upwind leg, avoided tacking, and found more breeze. By Wednesday the wind was in the solid 10 knot range. Bob's two bullets put him firmly in control, with Tom Thayer moving up to second with a solid 2-3 for the day. Thursday the wind kicked up to 15-18 knots which was more to the liking of the flat sails that Thayer brought from San Francisco. After a 720 penalty at the start for barging, Thayer gradually pulled into the lead and held it, but he certainly didn't run away. After nine miles of racing, the first five boats finished within 63 seconds of each other, with HIJINX holding off WET PAINT by just a couple of boatlengths. The close finish earned the J/105 Class the Boat of the Day award for Thayer (tactical watch and crystal bowl). The win put Thayer within a point of the leader and set up a winner-take-all situation for the final day between PHENIX and HIJINX.
On Friday the wind kicked up to 20-25 knots and the RC called for twice around a 2.4 mile windward-leeward course. Tom Coates pulled out to the lead at the first weather mark with the 105s literally jumping out of the 3-5 foot waves (we have photos by Tim Wilkes) and trying to avoid the fleet of pesky Vipers. Coates was followed closely by HIJINX and ELIZABETH at the first mark. On their first jibe, HIJINX tore their spinnaker and blew it out trying to duck behind ELIZABETH for inside position at the leeward gate. HIJINX finished the race with their white sails, turning their glee at getting the heavy air to dismay for blowing out a spinnaker. They rounded the second weather mark behind 224 and ELIZABETH, but ahead of PHENIX, but it was surfing all the way down the final leg under spinnaker. PHENIX reported speeds in excess of 15 knots through the water. ELIZABETH got her second gun of the series and moved up to third for the regatta. HIJINX held on to second place.
Another highlight of the regatta was the solid performances of the shoal draft boats, SOUTHERN CRESCENT and EMESIS BASIN. The six second a mile handicap seemed about right in both light and heavy air. SOUTHERN CRESCENT always seemed to be competitive and EMESIS BASIN finally picked up the pace in the last two races in breeze.
