Here's your SpinSheet racing roundup for May 26-29 including the Down the Bay Race, Miles River Race, and America's Cup.
It was an epic 120-nautical-mile Down the Bay Race for the Virginia Cruising Cup, starting Friday, May 26 off Annapolis and ending Saturday into Sunday in Hampton, VA. The race is hosted jointly by the Hampton Yacht Club and Storm Trysail Chesapeake Station and acts as a warmup for many for the Annapolis to Newport Race or a way to get their boats south for Southern Bay Race Week, both of which start Friday, June 2.
Find full results here. Look here for more SpinSheet photos. Find the full report with racers' perspectives in the July SpinSheet.
ORC C
1 USA 61017 Jeroboam (ORC) Farr 400 Laurent Givry
1.2129 26/May/17 - 21:24:30 0:11:09:30 0:13:32:02 1 1
2 USA 93664 Rival (ORC) XP44 Bob Cantwell
1.1095 26/May/17 - 23:58:01 0:13:43:01 0:15:13:08 2 2
3 USA 99 Sitella (ORC) XP44 Ian Hill
1.1128 26/May/17 - 23:59:08 0:13:44:08 0:15:17:06 3 3
PHRF A
1 North Sails USA 61017 Jeroboam Farr 400 Laurent Givry
-24.0 / 1.2357 26/May/17 - 21:24:30 0:11:09:30 0:13:47:18 1 3
2 Quantum Sails USA 93664 Rival XP44 Bob Cantwell
21.0 / 1.1384 26/May/17 - 23:58:01 0:13:43:01 0:15:36:55 2 4
3 USA 99 Sitella XP44 Ian Hill
21.0 / 1.1384 26/May/17 - 23:59:08 0:13:44:08 0:15:38:12 3 5
PHRF B
1 USA 399 Danger Paws Melges 24 Neil Ford Lis Biondi Ford
99.0 / 1.0015 27/May/17 - 06:06:22 0:19:56:22 0:19:58:10 1 7
2 USA 93555 Nanuq Sabre 426 Glenn Doncaster
78.0 / 1.0350 27/May/17 - 06:07:54 0:19:57:54 0:20:39:50 2 8
3 North Sails USA 7070 Afterthought J 109 Craig Wright
69.0 / 1.0501 27/May/17 - 07:25:23 0:21:15:23 0:22:19:17 3 11
Doublehanded
1 USA 2804 Diablo Andrews 28 Greg and Carie Cutter
93.0 / 1.0109 27/May/17 - 09:19:31 0:23:14:31 0:23:29:43 1 17
2 USA 32624 Dirigo C&C 41 Eric M. Johnson
84.0 / 1.0252 27/May/17 - 09:33:33 0:23:28:33 1:00:04:03 2 18
3 USA 12 Jane Says J 124 Robert Dunigan
48.0 / 1.0870 27/May/17 - 09:17:00 0:23:12:00 1:01:13:06 3 20
PHRF nonspin
1 USA 93475 Restless Irwin 38 Jay Thompson
168.0 / 0.9053 27/May/17 - 10:23:21 1:00:18:21 0:22:00:15 1 10
1 USA 48 Entourage Corsair F-27F Ben Carver
125.0 / 0.9630 26/May/17 - 20:55:31 0:10:35:31 0:10:12:00 1 1
2 USA 131 OrgaZmatron Corsair F-31R Josh Colwell
98.0 / 1.0031 26/May/17 - 21:19:07 0:10:59:07 0:11:01:10 2
Mother Nature did not show up at the start line for the Annapolis to Miles River Race, although the race committee did everything they could to work with her. They and racers patiently waited, they changed the course to accommodate lighter winds—they TRIED—but no go. Thank you to Eastport Yacht Club and Miles River Yacht Club RC volunteers for your hard work. MRYC offered anyone who’d show up at the party a free drink, also a generous gesture, so thank you for your efforts to keep racers happy! Although fewer showed up and a few dropped out due to light air, some did finish the Sunday Race Back:
Cal 25
1 Love Shack Barton Goldenberg Shearwater Sailing Club
2. Chicken Little 231 Charles Husar AYC/SSC
3. David Hoyt Shearwater Sailing Club
J/105
- Chessie John Kircher PRSA
- Peregrine Bill Carruth BCYA
- BREAKAWAY Richard Hinds
PHRF A
- Tuebor 72 Hal Wurster EYC
- SqueeZeplay 45 Gregg Brinegar NYYC
- Snow Day 78 Richard Snow CBYRA
PHRF C
- Rush Hour 171 Kelly FitzGerald
- Spaceman Spiff 171 Peter Kassal Eastport YC
- Chapter 2 153 Paul Kelm Nyack Boat Club
Beach Cats
- Skinny Sheila 63 Constantine Seremetis WRSC
- S.S. Marion Barry 59.3 John Peil WRSC
Multihull A
- Triple Threat 1.011 Tim Lyons CMA
So you might have heard by now that there’s this little sailing event they call the AMERICA’S CUP down in Bermuda this year. The Louis Vuitton AC Qualifiers began over the weekend and brought some drama with it including collisions and upsets.
Find results and current standings here.
Round robin 2 begins today through Saturday. Sailing Illustrated is doing a great job covering it.
Want to watch? Check your options here.
We’ll keep you posted.
