Howdy from Bob Duff, August 17, 2008, 2250 hours,
On the right is Jim McCully hauling inflated marks out to the race course earlier this week. Jim, Susie and Rebecca Bennett had motored our boats to Rockport last weekend for the Junior Olympics Regatta. This makes an unusual picture taken by J. P. Dunn of Eastern Point Yacht Club while at Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport for that regatta.
It was another beautiful day on the water for eighteen "big" yachts racing a 10 mile long course starting near TINKERs gong. Weather could not have been nicer with wind at around thirteen knots from a little south of west and temperature in the mid 80s. The corrected handicap results below are "provisional and subject to modification" for these PHRF Divisions:
3 Multihull starters - winner Ted Grossbart in SUI 27 - AUDRA ;second #7 TRIAD for
Tom Cox. It was a rare site to see them and their exciting speed.
3 Class "A" yachts - winning in 2 races was Tom Linkas with # 52354 INDRA: second #9393 KATABATIC for Gordon Hall. Third was Seamus Hourihan in RUFFIAN #51373.
For 7 Class "B"s - Ward Blodgett #29 SIROCCO finished first but dropped to second on corrected time by about 1 minute behind Vern Polidoro in VIGILANTE #51563. Third was Gary Weisberg in #144 HEAT WAVE.
Jack Cochrane of EYC race committee had two other RC people, Joel Kinney and Russ Wells pulling strings to help him take home a couple of trophies which went with a first for #157 Class "D" FALL LINE. Jim Hosking got a first place gun in class "F" Cruising #30078 ARES.
Susie Schneider was her usual calm and effective PRO person. She squeezed in a second race for the big Class "A" boats and would have done that for Class "B" but their radio-con failed to get agreement. They just sailed home for the "prize giving".
Susie, Brad Marvin and I scurried around doing lots of jobs at once. Ross Peterson was our operator/gunner and will be with us for the rest of the season. Rebecca Bennett leaves tomorrow for freshman year at Arizona State.
Cherly Byrne was with Bill Schoenberg on the pin boat. Todd Sparling and Michael Costello handled the mark boat. The "lifting was quite light" for most of us.
Many of us will rturn next Fridayfor the three Day New England PHRF Championship. We expect most of today's yachts with an additional number joining in. We will run Line #1 which means that we get all the bigger boats.
I am calling it a day before midnight. See you back here Friday night!
