September 10
We had beautiful cloudless skies, moderate temperatures, and wind of
all speeds from every direction. Nockamixon is the other home club for
the Bensons, where they race a Thistle or Lightning. Some of us
participated in an informal rules seminar hosted by the Thistle fleet.
The Jets opted to take the third start, letting the Thistles go first
and the other big boats, Flying Scots, Impulse-21s , Lightning, go
second. We still ended up overtaking some in the other fleets.
With great winds before the first start, the course was set for a TWW.
Then the breeze died at the Jet start. The RC shortened the race in
differing amounts for the different fleets, and ended up finishing
boats from both directions on the same line at the same time.
Interesting but well done. The Bensons got off the line a little
quicker than the others and sailed away to the first mark. Then they
went into a wind hole and were passed by everyone else at the start of
the reach leg. They dropped their chute first on a big header, and
sailed back past the bunch, and on to the win. Caleb Zimmermann picked
the right side on the next “windward” leg, and finished a comfortable
second.
The wind did a 180 shift and back during the second race start
sequence, and the Jets were almost sent off in the opposite direction
from the other fleets. We ended up going the same way, but with the
committee boat end highly favored. The Bensons squeezed in at the
favored end and sailed away from the fleet. Charlie Engler came off
second and ended up in that position after considerable close
interaction during the race. The wind died as he neared the finish
line, letting Charlie Smith almost catch him. Caleb couldn’t come back
from penalty turns caused by drifting into another boat at a mark
rounding.
The third race had considerably more wind, but it was across the narrow
direction of the lake. The windward mark near the marina had all sorts
of strange wind shifts causing five or six quick tacks all three times
we were there on the TTW course. The Bensons were first, stretching it
out on one of the infrequent spinnaker runs. Charlie Engler was again
second, assuring second place in the regatta. The third for Charlie
Smith pulled him into a third place tie with Caleb, but Caleb held the
tie-breaker.
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Race |
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Place |
Sail |
Skipper |
Crew |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Total |
|
1 |
1007 |
Br. Benson |
Ba. Benson |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
1129 |
C. Engler |
A. DeMatteo |
3 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
|
3 |
1107 |
C. Zimmerman |
E. Zimmerman |
2 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
|
4 |
1151 |
C. Smith |
J. Smith |
4 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
Results Posted 9/13/05
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