The first day was about 12 to 14 knots. We took a 3rd the first race but because we overstood the windward mark we took 9th in the 2nd race. Undeterred Bob as tactician was determined to go up the left side of the course and took two 4ths. This was one the strangest race start days I have experienced. The race committee announced the boats on the radio over early 1 minute before the start. We got called over early because we were on the pin side and they could not see us go back down before the gun so we had to restart. The second day we noticed they had a RC boat on the pin side to help with the over early calls. The DSQ was really was incident that should of never happened. Before the start we tacked inside the J35 and were both on starboard and the J35 to leward. For some reason unexplained to us from astern he decided to head up way too fast and ram our stern pulpit. He threw the flag and then claimed we did not stay clear. This guy rounded up so fast that the scrape on the stern pulpit was at a 45 degree angle forward. He therefore lied when he got in the room about us staying clear and on the way out asked one of the judges, his uncle about the coming family reunion. We got tossed and the J35 did not. Without the throwout we would of taken second. This guy took almost all lasts in the regatta and his only thing he managed to do is get one of the lead boats tossed. Needless to say we did appeal it to US Sailing and we have not yet heard the result yet. The last day was pretty good where we tied for first with K2 because of his 3 seconds a mile PHRF handicap. We sailed a good regatta and it certainly added to my learning experience. We had a boat full of pretty good sailors and yet we managed to get along well. Jeff Johnstone was down sailing one of the J109's and we managed to stuff him at the start of the last race. Maybe he should of been promoting the J120's instead!Results:
PHRF B 9 Discards: 1
Boat Name Class Sail # Bow # Helm Course State PHRF R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Nett Rank Fleet
K2 J120 120 25 Gonzales 1 VT 54 6.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 7.0 3.0 1.5 4.0 5.0 24.5 2
Carinthia J120 25497 24 Kern 1 MI 51 3.0 9.0 4.0 4.0 DSQ 2.0 1.5 2.0 3.0 28.5 3
Cash Flow Hadley 40 83015 23 Griffin 1 NC 48 2.0 1.0 8.0 5.0 2.0 8.0 6.0 5.0 1.0 30.0 4
Pamlico Andrews 38 767 1 Muller 1 MD 69 5.0 4.0 7.0 7.0 1.0 1.0 8.0 3.0 4.0 32.0 5
Teamwork J120 51334 40 Team 1 NC 54 7.0 3.0 5.0 1.0 4.0 5.0 9.0 1.0 9.0 35.0 6
Ecclesiastes J109 37 26 Thompson 1 CO 69 1.0 5.0 3.0 8.0 3.0 7.0 5.0 8.0 6.0 38.0 7
evonne.com/2 J109 SD 142 29 Yonover 1 IL 75 9.0 8.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 4.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 43.0 8
Hoodoo J109 126 43 Campeau 1 SC 69 4.0 6.5 6.0 9.0 6.0 9.0 3.0 9.0 2.0 45.5 9
Arrow J35 32864 28 Schwenzfeier 1 SC 72 8.0 6.5 DNC 6.0 8.0 6.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 52.5
We brought Commodore Bayer's gas engine blender on the second day for the "hummer party". Invited guest were the other crews of the J120's. It made a lot of noise so even Tim Allen would of been proud.
