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Lightning & Laser sailor/racer.

Capital City Laser Regatta 2015 – Results

Chris Bolton with the help of Lindsay Bach ran the line boat while Bill Kleysteuber & Frank Gallagher ran the mark boat.  The water was so low in the river from the previous two days of strong northerly winds that Chris was forced to set us up in the cove.  The wind was very patchy and  could switch 180 degrees between the windward and leeward mark.  The lead boat around the leeward mark often lossed that lead on the short beat to the finish as a result of big wind shifts that would lift the 2nd boat to the finish while leaving the lead boat stranded.

Len Guenther managed the conditions with patience and won the regatta.

Capital City Laser Regatta – Series Standing

Pictures from the mark boat by Lindsay Bach

2014 President’s Cup – Results

We had two great sailing days. Saturday was the best with rock steady 10-15 mph winds from the south. We just had to take advantage of it and so we decided to do 5 races. A front came through on Saturday evening and left us with cooler weather and N to NE winds in the 5 to 12 mph range. We did another 2 to 4 races.

44 boats in 8 classes competed on two courses. People came from as far as Hampton, Lynchburg, and the Solomons. They sailed a lot — as many as 9 reasonably long races. They partied — the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society treated us on Saturday evening and PRSA on Sunday. They had fun.

This year the Norman C. Schallor award goes to Eric Peterson who was the winner in the Laser fleet which mustered 10 boats, the largest fleet this year.

If you see inaccuracies with the results below, email me at nabeel.alsalam@gmail.com.

Upper Course

Albacores

Buccaneers

Flying Scots

Lightnings

Inland 20

Multihulls

Lower Course

Lasers

Steve Spratt sailing a JY-15 sailed with the Lasers but was not scored against them.</>

Penguins

Spring Series #2 – April 13, 2014

Sunday turned out to be a very nice day of sailing.  Winds were from 15 to 20 out of the south with a high around 80.  Thanks to Mike Heinsdorf for running RC and missing out on the awesome day of sailing.  We had 2 Lasers, 3 Albacores, and 4 Lightnings make it out.  The RC ran windward leewards for the lightnings and triangles for the albacores and lasers.  Lightnings got in 3 races before calling it due to high winds.  The albacores and lightnings stayed out for a 4th race before heading in.  Sorry to all that missed out and we look forward to seeing you out next weekend (4/27).  — Farley (your scorer)

Mike also got some great photos of the racing, and Scuttlebutt also covered the racing with some photos of Albacores and Cherry Blossoms!

Laser Spring#2   Lightnings Spring#2   Albacore Spring#2

Fall Series #8 Results

It started out very breezy Sunday, out of the north at 15-18 knots as reported by our RC Yates. The breeze slowly slacked off to 12 or so by the end of the day. Participation was light, however, probably because it was just a bit chilly out there. It was a good time for the brave few who showed up though. Here are the scores:

Albacore Fall Series #8

Buccaneer Fall Series #8

Lightning Fall Series #8

Only one more week to go!

Fall Series #6 & #7 Results

Well after the government upchuck shutdown we came back for the second half of our messed up truncated fall series. Fall Series #6 brought some stiff and shifty winds out of the NW W SW . Well you get the picture. Here are those scores:

Albacore Fall Series #6

Buccaneer Fall Series #6

Open Cat Fall Series #6

Lightning Fall Series #6

Fall Series #7 brought much less wind from sometimes no discernible direction at all. Here are those scores:

Open Cat Fall Series #7

Lightning Fall Series #7

Scow Fall Series #7

Only two more weeks to go folks, so you’re running out of time to go out and have some fun!

Fall Series #2 & #3 Results

Fall Series #2 was a beautiful day on the river. We had nice breezes out of the NW (Mostly) and the RC headed by Jason Ipe got us four races in. Here are the scores:

Buccaneer Fall Series #2

Open Cat Fall Series #2

Lightning Fall Series #2

Scow Fall Series #2

Fall Series #3 was a drifter with PRO Nabeel getting in two races by sheer force of will. Here are the scores for the intrepid few who made it up to the course:

Albacore Fall Series #3

Open Cat Fall Series #3

Lightning Fall Series #3

 

 

Fall Series #1 Results 09/15/13

Sunday was absolutely beautiful with nice southerly breezes. RC, Dan Miller set up a WL course and got 4 races in for the few smart sailors who showed up. Nice to see more than one Scow coming out. Hope that’s a trend.  Here are the scores:

Albacore Fall Series #1 091513

Buccaneer Fall Series #1 091513

Open Cat Fall Series #1 091513

Lightning Fall Series #1 091513

Scow Fall Series #1 091513