Howdy from Bob Duff - July 19,2008 2250 hours revised and corrected July 20th AM,
The Timer's Log sheet at the top above shows details about the MIDWAY line races 7/19/2008. The photo taken by Bob Vessot Saturday shows Brad Marvin, Susie Schneider and me steaming home on ETO after a wonderful day of races. I have asked my "other" photographer Jim Ayer to consider clearing the facial shadows with his digital "magic". If he does that I will publish the results sometime in the future.
As of early Saturday morning , the ETCHELLS fleet was being dominated by three yachts who are scored first, second and third both in this Series #3 and for the entire season. By rank they are: (1) Hannah & Greg Heffer #1105 CHEMICAL IMBALANCE; (2) Micheal Jobin & John Stitzer #741 noname and (3) Don Miller & Bill Douglas #62 VALKYRIE. One question: "where are those other folks including Pat Stadel #1111 CRAPSHOOT"? She usually gives the boys a run for their money.
She failed to show again today among 8 then 7 starters in two races where the Heffers continued to dominate with two firsts for CHEMICAL IMBALANCE. Neither #741 nor #62 reported for racing. Mark Luckes with PEREZOSO #575 took a second and a fifth. Eugene Ho in #46 noname was seventh then second in an unusual final race for the day. He and the Heffers seemed to get a private heavy wind for their top finishes in that race.
The INTERNATIONAL ONE DESIGNs (IODs) presented a more diverse picture. 1st in series and 7th for the season was Timothy Dittrich #51 SAGACIOUS. 2nd in both series and season was Bob Lyons & Fred Collari #45 POMPANO. 3rd for series and 1st for season was Sheila and Bill Widnall #130 JAVELIN. 4th and 10th for season was Herbert J. Motley #49 KUNGSORNEN. Tied for this series in 5th and scoring 9th for the season is Lori Bate #33 SMALL HOTEL. Also tied for 5th and showing 8th for the season was Peter Stahle #76 SPIRIT.
Peter had a heart breaker back on July 5th. He led the 1st race all day until, in the last few seconds, a dying breeze found Bruce and Timothy drifting smartly across the finish line inches ahead of Peter. This dropped him back to 3rd. We have all been there! It is both painful and joyful to watch everyone from the comforts of the ETO signal boat.
Filling in the gaps for season standings is 3rd GYPSY #7 Bruce Dyson with "ringer" Norm Cressy: 4th ELECTRA #2 Greg & Jennifer Mancusa-Ungaro: 5th Rachel & Ian Morrison #16 TANGO and 6th Api A. Rudich #4 KALLISTE. Please notice that when we deal with these REAL yachts, there are no "nonames" or disrespectful slurs like CRAPSHOOT. Any questions?
As of early Saturday morning , the ETCHELLS fleet was being dominated by three yachts who are scored first, second and third both in this Series #3 and for the entire season. By rank they are: (1) Hannah & Greg Heffer #1105 CHEMICAL IMBALANCE; (2) Micheal Jobin & John Stitzer #741 noname and (3) Don Miller & Bill Douglas #62 VALKYRIE. One question: "where are those other folks including Pat Stadel #1111 CRAPSHOOT"? She usually gives the boys a run for their money.
She failed to show again today among 8 then 7 starters in two races where the Heffers continued to dominate with two firsts for CHEMICAL IMBALANCE. Neither #741 nor #62 reported for racing. Mark Luckes with PEREZOSO #575 took a second and a fifth. Eugene Ho in #46 noname was seventh then second in an unusual final race for the day. He and the Heffers seemed to get a private heavy wind for their top finishes in that race.
The INTERNATIONAL ONE DESIGNs (IODs) presented a more diverse picture. 1st in series and 7th for the season was Timothy Dittrich #51 SAGACIOUS. 2nd in both series and season was Bob Lyons & Fred Collari #45 POMPANO. 3rd for series and 1st for season was Sheila and Bill Widnall #130 JAVELIN. 4th and 10th for season was Herbert J. Motley #49 KUNGSORNEN. Tied for this series in 5th and scoring 9th for the season is Lori Bate #33 SMALL HOTEL. Also tied for 5th and showing 8th for the season was Peter Stahle #76 SPIRIT.
Peter had a heart breaker back on July 5th. He led the 1st race all day until, in the last few seconds, a dying breeze found Bruce and Timothy drifting smartly across the finish line inches ahead of Peter. This dropped him back to 3rd. We have all been there! It is both painful and joyful to watch everyone from the comforts of the ETO signal boat.
Filling in the gaps for season standings is 3rd GYPSY #7 Bruce Dyson with "ringer" Norm Cressy: 4th ELECTRA #2 Greg & Jennifer Mancusa-Ungaro: 5th Rachel & Ian Morrison #16 TANGO and 6th Api A. Rudich #4 KALLISTE. Please notice that when we deal with these REAL yachts, there are no "nonames" or disrespectful slurs like CRAPSHOOT. Any questions?
Today, Bruce Dyson & Norm Cressy took two firsts in GYPSY #7! Lori Bate in SMALL HOTEL #33 got 2nd and 5th. Api A. Rudich showed versatility with KALLISTE #4 LAST then 2nd. Sheila and Bill Widnall fell from grace with JAVELIN #130 5th and 3rd. We did not see Sheila taking videos!
Race Committee crew today was PRO Susie Schneider, Bob Vesso, Brad Marvin, Rebecca Bennett and me on ETO. Jack Cochrane and Jennifer Tegfeldt ran the pin boat. In her first support boat duty, Jennifer took a header overboard. They would not comment about PFDs or other details. Jack said she forgot to call him "SIR" and he kicked her overboard. Jim McCully had Thomas Rogers on the pin without incident.
Click MRA below and later (not yet posted Sunday AM) to see completed postings:
http://www.mheadrace.org/Scoring_2008/MidwayScoringSeries32008.htm#Etchells
Photographer Jim Ayer was busy making custom wooden jigsaw puzzles today. Susie Schneider's camera was also not available. In desperation I went to the archives and stole the following beauties from the Long Island Sound IOD Fleet. As with Jim's pictures (and now Bob Vessot's) you can click on any of the 85 shots to get an expanded view. Look at the #5 boat! I would have loved competing against that bunch with what looks like a "hippopotamus" on the foredeck! Whoops! I forgot to be "PC". Click to view:
http://www.iod-lis.com/gallery/racing/070206.htm
The pictures there were provided by George Petrides from July 2006. Some commentary would be nice, but this is all we have.
The EYC Annual Cruise disbanded yesterday in Marion, MA. Race Committee for just 16 yachts was Phyllis and Gordon Vinyard with Ronna and Dana Woodward on the Vinyard's yacht HAWKES. The easternyc.org site forecasts that they will disband (again?) on August 14th!
A recent ETO guest, EYC Club Manager Jeff Wargo wrote to us as follows in green: "The highlight of the entire time out on the water was the "shtick" between you (that's me) and Brad Marvin. I would suggest that this aspect of the RC on the water is not properly exploited as a means of recruiting more volunteers".
Further comments from Jeff are pasted here in green with his permission:
From: Jeffrey Wargo
Date: 7/17/2008 19:38:09 PM
To: rduff19@comcast.net
Subject: Please add these comments
Hi Duff,
After I posted my thoughts on your blog I felt remiss in not mentioning
(and hope you can assist by editing here) that I gained an appreciation
for the professionalism and knowledge of those involved with the Race
Committee which certainly didn't suffer nor get in the way of the
apparent camaraderie of all.
Thank you,
Jeff
Marblehead Junior Race Week starts this Monday July 21st followed immediately by Senior Race Week/NOOD Regatta for four days beginning July 24th. I plan a short blog each evening centered around my hand written timer's start sheet. Crew call is 1000 hours at the beginning.
Monday's crew is Peter Frisch, Todd Sparling, Nick Burke and Judy and Joel Gardiner. Susie is Pro with Brad Marvin and me certain on ETO.
On Sunday July 27th Eastern Yacht Club is scheduled to start the CASTINE YACHT CLUB classic yacht race off Marblehead - first warning gun at 1030 hours. Many beautiful old yachts will race. Details, sailing instructions and entry forms are available by clicking:
http://www.castineyachtclub.org/
The start will be east of Halfway Rock at approximately 42.30.48 N/70.45.61 W. After that start, ETO signal boat will steam back to the MIDWAY line for the last day of Race Week/NOOD.
There is no information available about Marblehead Junior Race Week either at easternyc.org or at the Pleon Yacht club site - click:
http://www.pleon.org/page/alumni_parents
You can read there about sailing acomplishments by Pleon alumni.
I was directed to SAILINGWORLD.COM for news about Senior Race Week/NOOD. Hidden there was a list of registrants for SPERRY TOP-SIDER MARBLEHEAD NOOD REGATTA Hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club. We will be at MIDWAY for 15 ETCHELLS, 12 IODs, 16 J-105s and 12 STARS who have registered. Reportedly the "Js" and STARS will come in closer to the week end. Race crew call is 0930 hours except for Sunday when 0900 is needed for the CASTINE early start.
See you again Monday night!
