Santa Cruz Fall Open
Posted by: mikeholt on Sep 30, 2009 - 07:03 AM
Regatta Reports
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Thirteen 505's turned up for the last Santa Cruz event of '09, Aaron Ross reports.
Thirteen 5O5's turned up last weekend for the Santa Cruz YC Fall Open Regatta. Saturday was beautiful, with a warm 12-15 knots of breeze and gentle seas. We shared the course with plenty of kelp, a herd of sea lions, and a handful of Contenders. In the first race, Jeff and Mike gybe-set, and lost big. Greg and I passed them on the run. Jeff and Mike got past us on the next beat after the gate, but we held on to finish third, the highlight of our day, so we celebrated with cold beverages.
The two Pegasus (Pegasi?) were slow to take flight, but made the second race, bringing the boat count up to 9. I don't recall many details after that, but Greg and I continued celebrating, and got three sevenths. The sailing was delightful. Race 3, Mike and Bruce swapped boats, and each experienced string dyslexia. That might also be when Holtie did a back flip swim mid-race.
Race four saw a heavily favored boat (left) end of the line, but most teams lined up on starboard. With the courage of a few post race beverages, Greg and I went for a port tack approach. Unfortunately, the beverages may have thrown our timing off, arriving 5 seconds too soon. With discretion prevailing, we ducked a few boats, and were off. The rest of the beat was a blur, but I'm sure we did really, really well. The breeze had finally filled enough to gybe-set, but we had only practiced bearing off. So we capsized. I stayed dry, so I don't know why Greg had a problem with it.
The fleet then assembled on the yacht club deck for an excellent debrief and happy hour.
A few more teams showed up Sunday, but unfortunately, the beautiful conditions did not hold, and light wind prevailed. With visions of a Betty Burger and the nascar race, Greg and I drifted back to the harbor. Thick fog rolled in by the second race, and Wahle shortened after the first lap.
Mark and Mike Lazarro had a very nice showing in their new to them Kyrwood. This one should float a bit better than their old one did last month. Ian was like a kid on Christmas, grinning ear to ear with his new Hamlin. Jason and Mark arrived late and took some time rigging their new Waterat, but made it out for the last race. This was Mark's first time crewing, Jason was glad the light wind prevented Mark from attempting the trapeze. Eben and Stephen have each moved their boats to Santa Cruz, so we should have decent numbers for our winter series.
The next event is StFYC Fall Dinghy October 24+25
Aaron
5O5 SCYC Sept 26+27, 2009
Sail Helm, Crew Position Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Total
9002 Mike, Shane 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 10
7875 Jeff, Mike 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 14
8813 Steve, Matthias 3 5 5 6 3 3 2 24
8829 Eben, Pat 4 4 6 3 5 6 7 31
8854 Bruce, Pete 5 10 2 2 6 10 10 40
8888 Mark, Arthur 6 10 4 5 4 10 10 43
7156 Aaron, Greg 7 3 7 7 7 10 10 44
7886 Mark, Mike 8 6 10 8 8 9 5 46
6983 Zhenya, Kurt 9 8 9 9 10 8 4 48
7069 Ian, Alex 10 7 8 10 9 7 8 49
8987 David, Steve 11 10 10 10 10 4 7 51
8822 Chuck, Stephen 12 10 10 10 10 5 6 51
8680 Jason, Mark 13 10 10 10 10 10 9 59
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