Bob Astrove ran the RC. He commented: “As you can see we did not have a lot of boats, but a beautiful day. 5 to 10 from the south.”
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Opening day was a light air day. The executive board treated the sailors to a post-race BBQ.
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10 races. Will Summers wins.
Len Guenther wins the series with Will Summers, Farley Will, and Tom Hutton in the chase.
Congratulations to Will Summers for winning our endurance award this year with the most races sailed!
Summer Wednesday night sailing: gather around the crane/dock area around 5:30 each Wednesday for informal sailing/racing in the cove. If you’re new, don’t hesitate to introduce yourself to the PRSA sailors that you see there!
Our PRSA Fall Series racing will start on September 13.
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.
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
Lower Course
Steve Spratt sailing a JY-15 sailed with the Lasers but was not scored against them.</>
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!
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:
Only one more week to go!
