Results from May 5th

It was an awesome night to start the season! Not a cloud in the sky, plenty of wind, and very warm for early May.

Well, it wasn't completely perfect. The wind was a bit troublesome for the start of the race. We Set up the course with a dying wind that was clocking to the west, but we were expecting it to fill in and hold on for the evening. Good guess, but bad timing. By the time we had set the starting line, the the wind had already started to shift back south. Once the sequence was underway, we had another huge shift requiring us to postpone and reset everything.

Fortunately, the wind was increasing and people could see that the wind was messing with the start. After a 15-minute pause to reset the marks, we were underway for a very active evening evening.   As the race progressed, the wind from the south filled in even more to allow most boats to race in about 10 knots of breeze. We had two new people on the RC this week, so I couldn't follow the races as close as I usually do. Thanks to Anita and Dick for helping out.

The Stars had plenty of open water and a fairly long course for a Wednesday night. Jim Ryan on Locus managed to build up an impressive lead coming into the finish. The Stars had a second pick-up race with four competitors after the main race. Andrew Parish on Black Seal managed a commanding lead in the second race - good thing since the pick-up races are his idea!

PHRF A class had a new boat come out for the first race; the Cal 40 named Freestyle with the crew from last year's  PHRF B class boat of the same name.We were also happy to see Harry Seeman's Rumor back out on the course this year. We thought she might be headed to other waters. But the boat of the day was Bob larsen's Blue Bird who held in after to big boats sailed away and managed to correct over all to come in first!

PHRF B class had most of the usual suspects along with Jan White's Irwin 28 Whisper and Mike Kabler on a Freedom 21 called Solo. Solo will only make a few races this year, but we hope Whisper will be around all year. The big story was Norm Brown's Pagan which dominated the race course. Not only did Pagan take the gun, but her time was good enough to correct over all PHRF A boats. Fortunately for A, the classes are not scored together.

All the results can be found in the link below:

May 5th, 2010, WNR results for Race 1