Carolyn Nute Regatta

Mission Bay, October 25-26, 2014. Results and regatta report by Seith Siegler

(photo courtesy of Judy Tillson)

1. Rick Arneson & Diana Waterbury, 12

2. Seith Siegler & Jenny Lyons, 36

3. Chick Sinks & Katherine Bowman, 38

The 2014 Carolyn Nute Memorial (and unofficial Halloween) Regatta was another San Diego classic with 22 boats on the water and standard, ideal Socal weather and sailing conditions.

Saturday morning started slow with Mission Bay looking more like a glass table and clocking about zero knots. At just about the exact time that boats started touching into the water, the wind gods changed their mind and ordered up about eight knots of solid breeze.

…

 

Running two windward-leewards and one olympic triangle, a mix of teams found themselves in and out of the mix. The breeze actually built into the low teens, which in San Diego, is considered to be quite breezy! Teams stretched their legs, working to stay in the pressure, in phase with the big shifts and out of the holes. Consistency was key and Rick Arneson and Diana Waterbury did it best, holding a three point day-one lead over David Tillson and Blaire Herron.

Post-racing on Saturday featured a keg of local Ballast Point Brewing refreshment and an amazing spread of homemade chili, cookies and snacks brought together by the competitors. Fleet 495 takes the Snipe motto of “Serious Sailing, Serious Fun” damn seriously.

The three races on Sunday featured a bit less breeze but it was plenty good and shifty to have some good, fun competition. Not to mention a few sailors embracing the Halloween spirit and racing in full costume…

The fleet pushed things a little harder on the starting line on Sunday and scored two general recalls and a couple of “I” flags as a result. Arneson and Waterbury picked up two more bullets to secure the overall win, but were kept company, the whole way, by the likes of Chuck Sinks and Katherine Bowman and Eric Heim and Melissa Denman. Final scores got shuffled with Tillson getting called away by work (earning a few DNS’s) and a handful of OCS’s handed out to others, thanks to those “I” flags. When the dust settled Chris and Lauren Wright and Seth Siegler with Jenny Lyons rode solid sundays into the top five, joining Arneson/Waterbury, Sinks/Bowman and Heim/Denman.

Place	#	Ghoul	Goblin	Club	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Total
1	30800	Rick Arneson	Diana Waterbury	SDYC	2	3	1	4	1	1	12
2	30687	Seth Siegler	Jenny Lyons	MBYC	8	10	4	6	2	6	36
3	28687	Chuck Sinks	Katherine Bowman	SDYC	1	5	5	1	24 ocs	2	38
4	29013	Chris Wright	Lauren Wright	MBYC	7	7	13	2	7	8	44
5	30337	Eric Heim	Melissa Denman	SDYC	3	6	3	5	24 ocs	4	45
6	30113	Bob Bowden	Gus Wirth	MBYC	13	12	9	7	3	3	47
7	30618	Don Bedford	Taisei Hatter	MBYC	5	4	11	15	4	9	48
8	30733	Packy Davis	Julie Calvert	STFYC	4	2	8	10	24 ocs	7	55
9	30611	Ray Treppa	Emma Batcher	SDYC	9	8	16	8	6	11	58
10	28858	Ryan Sullivan	Krystal Treiberg	SDYC	16	15	10	3	9	10	63
11	29646	Aimee Heim	Jerelyn Biehl	SDYC	11	9	12	13	10	12	67
12	28464	Akane Nakagaki	Nobu Nakagaki	MBYC	15	16	17	9	11	5	73
13	30109	David Tillson	Blaire Herron	MBYC	6	1	2	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	81
14	29811	Scott Dalin	Megan Lansdale	MBYC	17	18	15	24 ocs	5	13	92
15	24702	Danny North	Darin Hayden	SDYC	18	11	14	19	13	19	94
16	9013	Scott Hoffman	Katie Leisure	MBYC	12	14	6	16	24 dnc	24 dnc	96
17	29044	Sonya Smith	Steve Pickel	MBYC	10	13	7	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	102
18	30359	Jack Plavan	John Majernik		22	21	22	17	8	14	104
19	27927	Steve Ross	Marlene Ross	MBYC	14	19	18	11	24 ocs	18	104
20	31188	Ed Machado	Jon Robertson	MBYC	20	20	21	12	15	16	104
21	29356	Craig Storms	Stefanie Storms	MBYC	19	24 dnc	19	14	12	17	105
22	29316	Todd Smith	Cathy Black-Smith	ABYC	21	17	20	18	14	15	105
23	29941	Doug Hart	Beth Hart	MBYC	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	24 dnc	144