What a weekend. We're still shaking off the winter's cold chill, but at least the sun made an appearance. On Saturday, we had our best conditions with winds steady in the 7-10 knot range and scattered showers forecast throughout the day. Sunday was much more subdued, with winds at three knots. At least the rain held off. Here's how our favorite Bay boats performed. We'll see how everyone shakes out with competition this weekend, when we all meet up for the Annapolis NOODs. See you on the water.
Catherine Tobin with the Chessie crew
Etchells (6 boats)
1. Caramba Jose Fuentes
2. Make Mine a Double Jeff Borland
3. Annie Gary Gilbert
J/22 (10 boats)
1. Committed Chris Gaffney
2. Hot Toddy Jeff Todd
3. Scooby J.R. Maxwell
J/30 (6 boats)
1. Bebop Bob Rutsch
2. Rag Doll Rob Lundahl
3. Insatiable Ron Anderson
J/105 (11 boats)
1. Mirage Salvesen/Lewis
2. Bat IV Andrew Kennedy
3. Better Mousetrap Robert Putnam
J/70 (13 boats)
1. USA 419 Terry Hutchinson
2. USA 209 Pete McChesney
3. Occam’s Razor Walt Pletcher
Laser D11 Championship and Sunshine Open Laser (28 boats)
1. 198025 Luke Shingledecker
2. Stella John MacCausland
3. 178838 Eric Reitinger
Laser Radial (16 boats)
1. 121384 Mike Schmidt
2. 194577 Kim Couranz
3. 207144 Chase Carraway
Southern Bay: CCV Spring Series 21 boats tested navigational skills and trimming techniques on a middle distance course around fixed marks in Hampton Roads Harbor. As sometimes is true, the grim conditions predicted by weather prognosticators did not happen and sailors had a pleasant day on the course, although the winds were shifty
PHRF A (10 boats)
1. Meridian X Sledd Shelhorse
2. Sea Star Dave Eberwine
3. Voodoo 2 Leroi Lissenden
PHRF B (6 boats)
1. Cool Change Rusty Burshell
2. Rumble Weeks/Cochran
3. Bad Habit Bob Archer
PHRF C (5 boats)
1. Lona B Carey Hardesty
2. Black Widow Ken Copeland
3. Roundabout Alan Bomar
Fishing Bay YC Spring Series Saturday, after a two hour postponement followed by a soaking rain, 14 boats got in two races to open the action for the series. Last week’s racing was abandoned due to lack of breeze. This week the post-race gathering was around the a blazing fire in the clubhouse fireplace.
J/70 (2 boats)
1. E.L.E. Matt Braun
PHRF A (5 boats)
1. Double Eagle Sam Mitchener
2. Corryvreckan David Clark
3. Nanuq Glenn Doncaster
PHRF B (3 boats)
1. Mad Hatter Bob Fleck
2. Shananigan Miles Booth
PHRF C (2 boats)
1. Cheeky Monkey Paul Wash
