Herb Shear – Final

Mission Bay, May 16-17, 2015. Results and regatta report by Seith Siegler

Final results after 6 races (1 discard)

1. Doug Hart & Jon Rogers, 5

2. Eric Heim & Melissa Denman, 15

3. Rick Arneson & Diana Waterbury, 19

The snipe fleet hosted their annual Herb Shear invitational on May 16th and 17th. This year we mixed things up and held the racing in the ocean instead of the bay, as a warm-up for our upcoming national championship, being held right here at Mission Bay Yacht Club, this August.

With 21 boats registered, the fleet made it’s way out of the jettys and into the ocean on Saturday morning with solid breeze. Unfortunately, that breeze was mostly part of the backend of a passing storm that had soaked the area for two days prior and it was leaving San Diego quickly. By race one, it was down to about seven kts from the southwest and pretty serious 5+ ft rollers from the west. The misaligned swell made fast-sailing extremely hard and not throwing up, even harder! But race we did!

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In true snipe fashion we kicked things off with a general recall. In fact by the end of the day, we would have earned two generals and an “I” flag for two of the three completed races. Twenty competitive snipe sailors on a starting line often ends up like this…

Throughout the day the fleet squeaked whatever forward momentum they could from their snipes as they dodged storm swells and massive kelp islands. Challenging stuff!

By the end of the day, positions 2 through 9 were separated by just 4 points. Doug Hart and Jon Rogers, who appeared to have won all three races actually learned that they were OCS in the first race and so found themselves further down the leaderboard than they were expecting, behind a number of other teams from MBYC and San Diego Yacht Club. They would be counting on the RC getting to six races so there could be a throwout race. Eric Heim and Melissa Denman ended the day on top of the scoreboard with a 1-2-3.

Evening entertainment was provided by the sounds of John Fretwell and his band, 2 Bit Liquor and actual liquor from the MBYC bar. Serious sailing, serious fun indeed…

Conditions for day two were quite a bit better with the normal westerly in effect and much more manageable swell. Three more races in 10-12 knots under sunny skies was what we were all looking for.

After the fleet made their way to the race course and finished their pre-race tuning lineups we kicked things off under “I” flag and earned year another general recall. (Sorry RC!) But eventually, things rolling. Racing was noticeably tighter on Sunday in the steadier conditions and a few inches here there really meant the difference between crossing in front of or behind a pack of boats. Passing lanes were hard to come by so getting ahead early was crucial.

Consistency was tough to come by for most but not for Hart and Rogers, who, with straight bullets (except for that one little OCS), took the 2015 Herb Shear Invitational by a mile.

It was another great san diego snipe event and a nice warm-up for the Junior, Women’s and Open Nationals being held at MBYC this August.

Will we see you there?

 

Place	#	Skipper	Crew	Club	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Total
1	29941	Doug Hart	Jon Rogers	MBYC	– 22 ocs	1	1	1	1	1	5
2	2922	Eric Heim	Melissa Denman	SDYC	1	2	3	5	4	– 8	15
3	30800	Rick Arneson	Diana Waterbury	SDYC	4	– 8	5	4	3	3	19
4	28854	Randy Lake	Maddy McGrath	SDYC	7	3	– 9	8	2	2	22
5	28858	Nick Kaschak	Krystal Treiberg	SDYC	5	6	– 7	2	6	7	26
6	29222	Chris Snow	Alejandro Folger	SDYC	3	– 11	4	6	10	10	33
7	31114	Seth Siegler	Adam Bennett	MBYC	2	9	10	3	– 13	11	35
8	29439	Gene Ratliffe	Blaire Herron	MBYC	8	4	6	10	7	– 14	35
9	29013	Chris Wright	Megan Lansdale	MBYC	6	5	– 22 dnc	13	5	9	38
10	30733	Packy Davis	Julie Calvert	StFYC	– 12	12	8	7	8	5	40
11	30618	Don Bedford	Willem Perry	MBYC	11	7	2	11	– 12	12	43
12	29315	Ken Redler	Emily Latham	MBYC	13	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	9	11	4	59
13	29811	Scott Dalin	Meghan Sheehan	MBYC	15	14	– 22 dnc	12	14	6	61
14	29250	Augie Sturm	Aaron Sturm	MBYC	10	– 17	12	17	16	15	70
15	29356	Craig Storms	Mariana Shand	MBYC	– 16	15	13	14	15	16	73
16	29248	Aine Fretwell	Jesse Mcknight	MBYC	9	10	11	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	74
17	7	Aimee Heim	Bruno Mello	SDYC	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	16	9	13	82
18	30017	Dick Davidson	Tripp Davidson	MBYC	17	16	14	15	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	84
19	129248	John Fretwell	Bruno Mello	MBYC	14	13	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	93
20	30109	David Tillson	Barbie Tillson	MBYC	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	110
21	3068	Dale Bull	Jason Brooks	MBYC	– 22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	22 dnc	110

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