Alamitos Bay Yacht Club did it again!!! What did they do? They hosted another perfect regatta. The conditions were unbelievable with warm temperatures and moderate to strong breeze, the courses were square, and the social scene was festive.
Twenty-seven excellent snipe teams competed in the ocean off of Long Beach, California. The strongest breeze was on Friday when we had a 2:00 PM start and two races scheduled. The veteran team of Kevin Funch and Watt Duffy from New Orleans were off to strong start with a first race victory with myself and, new to the snipe crew from USC, Jessica Amen close behind in second. Augie Diaz from Miami, Florida with San Diegan crew Brian Janney showed that they were fast with a come from behind third place in race one.
Saturday came with an earlier start time and lighter breeze. The seas were still rough which made for some challenging conditions. The lighter teams showed there stuff when Doug Hart and Jeff Baker took a win with long time snipe sailors Jim Grubbs and Ruth Paulling close behind in second. After three races it was a close day between the Augie Diaz team and Jessica and myself. Doug Hart and Jeff baker had a very respectable day with a 1, 6,and 8.
With two races remaining we had to keep a close eye on Mr. Diaz and continue to have good performance ourselves. Diaz came on strong with a second place but we managed to use our speed to come from behind to finish third in the first race of the day. Now, Diaz's only hope of overall victory would be to win the last race and have us finish behind third. He almost had the lead but gambled on the usually favorable left side when the right side finally paid. Jessica and I were battling from the teens after a not so desirable first windward leg. Augie fought hard to finish fifth in the race and we used our great upwind speed to finish sixth and take the title of Pacific Coast Champions.
Tot Pts.
Sail No. Competitor Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 W/ Throw Rank
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1 29222 BILL HARDESTY SDYC 2 .75 4 .75 5 3 (6) 15.5 1
JESSICA AMEN
2 28810 AUGIE DIAZ CORAL 3 (6) 5 2 .75 2 5 17.75 2
BRIAN JANNEY
3 28702 HENRY FILTER SSA 4 3 6 (12) 4 5 2 24 3
LORIE STOUT
4 29628 KEVIN FUNSCH OBYC .75 4 (13) 8 3 6 4 25.75 4
WATT DUFFY
5 29314 DOUG HART MBYC 6 2 .75 6 8 4 (9) 26.75 5
JEFF BAKER
6 29672 GEORGE SZAB0 SDYC 5 5 7 4 6 (8) .75 27.75 6
CLAY
7 27569 RICK ARNESON SDYC 11 (14) 3 5 7 .75 7 33.75 7
CLARE LYON
8 28467 JIM GRUBBS ABYC 7 7 2 7 (18) 7 13 43 8
RUTH PAULLING
9 20369 CHRIS RAAB ABYC 10 10 9 (14) 9 10 3 51 9
NICK SCANDONE
10 29204 LEE GRIFFITH SURF 8 9 10 9 12 (16) 11 59 10
CAROL MERRIMAN
11 29315 KEN REDLER MBYC 12 11 12 10 (13) 9 10 64 11
TUCKER GILLIAM
12 29112 DAVID TILLSON MBYC 9 12 14 (16) 11 12 14 72 12
HOLLY O'HARE
13 29702 JACK FRANCO BYC 13 15 8 3 10 (30)-DNS 30-DNS 79 13
GRAHAM BEIL
14 28854 RANDY LAKE SDYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 11 15 2 11 12 81 14
PIET VAN OS
15 29537 JIM ELMS MBYC (21) 19 18 13 19 14 15 98 15
KELLY O/BRYAN
16 29108 STEVE STEWART MBYC 14 13 (23) 23 16 17 18 101 16
BERNADETTE
17 24702 JERRY THOMPSON ABYC 15 16 17 17 14 24-DNF (30)-DNS 103 17
LYNN FITZPATRICK
18 29302 CHUCK TRIPP ABYC 19 8 15 18 26-DNF 20 (30)-DNS 106 18
STACEY SZABO
19 29614 JORGE SUAREZ ABYC 17 18 (22) 19 20 19 16 109 19
SHELLY SUAREZ
20 28225 ROBIN GALES MBYC 16 17 21 21 22 15 (30)-DNS 112 20
ROBBY GALES
21 29016 GAVIN O'HARE OBYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 19 22 23 13 8 115 21
22 28858 RUSSELL OIRING MBYC 20 20 (24) 24 21 18 17 120 22
GUS WIRTH
23 29539 TOM O'NEILL MBYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 16 11 15 30-DNS 30-DNS 132 23
JIM RICHARDSON
24 28369 GEORGE WALKER MBYC 18 (30)-DNS 20 20 17 30-DNS 30-DNS 135 24
THERESA O'DEAY
25 26477 MAX GODSIL MBYC 22-DNF (30)-DNS 25 25 24 21 30-DNS 147 25
TRACEY GODSIL
26 29316 TODD SMITH ABYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 26 26 30-DNS 22 19 153 26
CATHY BLACK-SMITH
27 23777 ANN CHAMBERLIN CYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 27 25 23 20 155 27
SAMI REVAH
28 29151 CHRIS SNOW MBYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 180 28
CHAD HOUGH
28 29109 STU ROBERTSON LBYC (30)-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 30-DNS 180 28