Stew Harris Dave Huber, and team ran the races I wasn’t there but I think it was another light air day.
The Day’s Results:
The Provisional Fall Series Results (RC duty requirement and RDG for that duty have not been applied): (Notice of Race)
Category Archives: Results
2024 Fall Series #7 – Oct 27
Aaron Boesenecker, Lisbet Kugler, Lars and Janet Rathjen, and team ran the races. Knowing the wind was going to die, they got the first race off on time and that was it for the day.
Although the morning started off chilly, it turned into a beautiful sunny afternoon. Dogs and burgers were thrown on the grill and home made pickles and other goodies put out on the tables. We whiled away the afternoon chatting, snacking, and eating.
Even a low wind day can be great day.
PRSA President’s Cup Results
Over 40 boats across 6 different fleets participated in the 2024 PRSA President’s Cup Regatta. PRO Nelson Pemberton and his RC crew worked hard to get each class 9 races–no easy feat! We had a nice moderate southerly breeze on Saturday and then a shift, somewhat fickle easterly on Sunday (making the RC’s job even harder!). Many thanks to all of the volunteers who made the event possible as well as all of the sailors–especially those who traveled some distance to participate!
Results: https://nextsailor.com/app/scoring/view_regatta/736
2024 Fall Series #2 Sept 15
Nabeel Alsalam, Mark Rickling, Natalie Rehberger, and Jon ran the races. (Lindsay Bach got a pass when RC decided to take only one boat out due to lack of motor peeing.) The wind was east-northeast which is a challenge on the river. So they set up the windward mark at the mouth of the Anacostia and a gybe mark half the distance to Roaches run. The wind took big shifts left and right.
Nevertheless, it was a great day to be on the water and the sailors got five O-2 races (triangle, windward-leeward). The Lightnings had a hard carrying their spinnaker on the reaching legs depending on the phase of the wind but the Albacores got in some reaching fun.
2024 Fall Series #1 – Sept 8
Mike Heinsdorf, Dave Huber, Tim Dickson, and John Van Voorhis ran the races.
11 Albacores, 1 Buccaneer, 3 I-20s, 2 Lasers, and 4 Lightnings competed. All 5 fleets were able to compete in the first 3 races, after we started the 4th race for the Albacores the wind died so we opted to send the rest of the fleets home. The early high winds were a bit too much for the I-20s.
The first 2 races were W2, the last 2 races were W1.
2024 Lightning Dixie District Championships & 38th Annual Potomac Cup Regatta
This double-header regatta was held at Leesylvania State Park on June 29 and 30 where the Potomac is 2.5 miles wide!
Six races were scheduled and completed in solid 10-15 mph breezes. Well, it went light in one race which challenged the sailors as the boats had to choose the best VMG angles downwind.
Trevor Prior and team from the Susquehanna Yacht Club won. PRSA’s own Aaron Boesenecker with Rick Welch and Lisbet Kugler were second. Joe Buczkowski and team were third.
PRO Nelson Pemberton, mark boat captain, Barney Harris, and team set up the courses and ran the races. Dan Trammel, our judge, ran a redress hearing and provided anyone who asked with help interpreting the rules, Thank you!
Red Fehrle and Suzanne Humphrey prepared a steak and salmon dinner for us while we were out racing. Lindsay Bach, Sheila Campbell, Maryann Gallagher, Christy Chen and many others brought sides to complement the main course. Frank Gallagher and Pam Maple brought breakfast to get the sailors going.
Jim Dillard was one of the forces behind the creation of Leesylvania State Park back in the 1970s. And he made sure it was sailboat friendly with two cranes for launching out boats. It is now the home of a sailing school. Jim was there competing at age 90 in the latest of his series of green Lightnings with his son-in-law Justin and daughter Christy as crew.
Yuengling was again the sponsor of our regatta and we appreciate that continued support.
Results:
2024 PRSA Spring Series #7, #8, and Whole Series
Dane Pederson and team ran Spring Series #7.
John Van Voorhis and team ran Spring Series #8. A front came through and we had a westerly with strong gust from the northwest and a strong current running out. A line of thunderstorms caused the RC to send us home after two races. The storms broke up but its better to be safe rather than sorry.
Key Rules for Scoring the Series:
- For the series total, I asked the program to exclude each sailor’s worst 50% of races — if there were 13 races, 6 were excluded.
- If you registered on shore but did not start a race you should get the number of finishers + 2.
- If you started a race but did not finish you should get the number of finishers + 1.
- If you did not sign up on shore and did not race, you get the number registered in the series + 1.
Spring Series #7 (June 2)
Spring Series #8 (June 9)
Spring Series Total
Spring Series Total (Fixed)
(DNS = Number came + 2, DNF = number came + 1)
2024 PRSA Spring Regatta – Final Results
Spring Regatta racers had a great two days on the water! Yesterday winds ranged from 10-15mph and were ideal Potomac conditions for five races. Albacores, however, earned the eye flag for their starts after two general recalls to start the day – currents pushed many boats across the line and were strong both days. Today we fit in one race before winds emptied to then fill in from the South after we got off the water. There was a lot of paddling and taking advantage of the airplane wash to get back to shore.
PRSA Spring Regatta – Day 1
Jim Graham and team ran the races More wind than forecast and most of the fleet got five races.
2023 ILCA Frostbite Series #18
Hi everybody,
Greetings from 3rd place — belatedly, thanks for your patience! — on the last day of the frostbite season (can hardly believe it). Many thanks to Tom and Jim for taking one for our collective team and doing race committee and helping us get in 6 races – glad it was a nice afternoon for you guys! Kudos also to Steen and Farley for taking the top two spots.
This is otherwise going to be a short writeup b/c Farley kindly accepted the trade for — what I hope will also become a tradition, at least occasionally — a travel regatta write-up. So see an email shortly about my experience sailing in the Uganda Laser Open earlier this month.
But back to Sunday, briefly. It was forecasted to be a dying wind after gale/near-gale conditions and sometimes it was quite light – but the wind generally held up. The current was going out all afternoon and sometimes it felt like it was the main propellant downwind. The wind was fluky – sometimes the left was better, sometimes the right. Mostly, I tried to look for puffs and keep the boat going fast regardless of where my wind indicator was pointing. I also tried to keep tabs on who was where and how they seemed to be doing (but could have done this more, it would likely have helped!).
Finally – don’t forget to sign up for the Capital City Regatta next weekend!!! —> https://nextsailor.com/app/
See you there!!
Laura
Laura