Racing Results
2005 Fall Schedule
2005-08-12 Bay Retriever came out for the final EYC Friday Night race with her clean bottom, functioning instruments, and a crew of four. Though the winds had been forecast to be less than 6 knots, we never saw less than 10 during the entire race. The course was two laps skewed windward/leeward, with the finish directly upwind. With sustained winds around 13 knots and frequent gusts to 18, Bay Retriever started the race with a reef. At the windward mark, we were the second boat from our start around the mark, but the first boat in our class. Downwind we picked off the first boat as they went for the wrong mark and shook out the reef. On the next upwind leg, with gusts approaching 20, we buried the rail on several occasions, prompting some of the guest crew to complain that they didn't like looking across the boat and seeing water at that angle. Nonetheless we held our position, and even put more distance between us and the next nearest boat. Downwind was a beam-broad reach in 15-18 knots, and Bay Retriever came to life. After rounding the final downwind mark, we hardened up for the leg up Spa Creek into the finish. Despite a check of traffic before rounding, a rather close-sounding "starboard" call with no visual on the boat suggested a 360 was the best way to both avoid the approaching vessel and get back on course. Although this allowed a Cal 25 to close with us again, we put another 30 seconds on her by the finish and took the gun.2004 Summary
2004-05-02 Skippered Cal 25 #681 Ronin in the 2004 Annapolis NOODs. The winds never dropped below 14 knots all weekend, and in 7 W/L races with 4 legs each we only flew the spinnaker 7 times (exactly half the downwind legs, ironically). The first day, with the highest winds, we were tied for 4th but in 5th by the tiebreaker. With our 5th place in the very last race, we secured our 5th place position out of 11 boats entered. Three of them dropped out throughout the weekend from damage, two from a port/starboard 'incident.' Eh, we would have beaten them anyway.
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