Saturday started off with a light SW breeze that died to nothing as the boats left the dock, but as predicted by the regatta chair (and of course the national weather service) picked back up to about 8 knots for the start of the 5 race, no throwout series. We waited around for a while as the Lightning Fleet had a general recall, only to have multiple recalls ourselves. Eventually PRO, Annapolis Sniper Griff Hall, got off a clean start. The second race of the day also had several recalls ending up with the Z flag and some OCS/Z-flag penalties. When the dust cleared Hal Gilreath/Ned Jones posted two firsts with 2nd-6th separated by only 4 points.
Sunday looked to be a little more exciting with the passing of a cold front and 10-15 knot (very) shifty breeze from the NE that lightened as the day went on. This is a very difficult wind direction in Annapolis and it gave everyone fits. Positions were pretty jumbled except for David Van Cleef in his new Jibe Tech, coskippering with Nancy Haberland, who posted a 1,1,2 although not quite enough to catch Gilreath/Stout. Paul Cronin/Kate Fears also had a relatively consistent day with a 4,4,1 to finish 3rd, unfortunately an 11th on Saturday kept them from placing higher.
The top three were awarded with a Kinder Rudder Cover (skipper) and a fleece vest (crew) both with fine embroidery work done by Riff Raff Embroidery in Cleveland Ohio (216-241-4420 ask for Terry).
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| 1 | 29324 | Hal Gilreath/Ned Jones | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 29801 | David Van Cleef/Nancy Haberland | 7 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 29592 | Paul Cronin/Kate Fears | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 27733 | Andrew Pimental/Monique Gaylor | 9 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 29147 | Alex Pline/Lisa Pline | 5 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 5 | 6 | 29727 | John MacRae/Barb Evans | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 35 | 6 | 7 | 28702 | Eric Reike/Kim Couranz | 13 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 7 | 8 | 28050 | Bill Kelley/Lorie Stout | 8 | 6 | 3 | 19/DSQ | 3 | 39 | 8 | 9 | 28044 | Pedro Lorsen/Mimi Berry | 4 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 39 | 9 | 10 | 29204 | Lee Griffith/Andrea Griffith | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 50 | 10 | 11 | 28575 | Tod Sackett/Mandy Sackett | 2 | 15/ZPG | 11 | 9 | 14 | 51 | 11 | 12 | 26336 | Jeff Clark/Matt Clark | 15 | 13 | 11.5/AVG | 12 | 6 | 57.5 | 12 | 13 | 29099 | Ted Pinkerton/Bill Kubicek | 6 | 19/ZPG | 6 | 13 | 15 | 59 | 13 | 14 | 29536 | Mike Delaney/Maggie Delaney | 12 | 19/OCS | 12.5/AVG | 10 | 9 | 62.5 | 14 | 15 | 28680 | Brad Dunn/Jason Mullins | 14 | 14 | 13.8/AVG | 14 | 13 | 68.8 | 15 | 16 | 22212 | Erik Schuster/Alex Schuster | 18 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 78 | 16 | 17 | 25377 | Scott Myers/Rhonda Myers | 16 | 12 | 19/DNC | 19/DNC | 19/DNC | 85 | 17 | 18 | 22392 | Jay Bugenhagen/Gaye Bugenhagen | 17 | 19/DNC | 19/DNC | 19/DNC | 19/DNC | 93 | 18 |
Notes:
- A 20% penalty is: 4.0 points.