Sunday March 29, 2009
Hosted by Balboa Yacht Club
Early Bird Report...Robertson surprised to learn that he won the Harry Wood Memorial Regatta!
An overcast and slightly blustery day provided outstanding Lido 14 racing conditions on Newport Bay for the Harry Wood Memorial Regatta. With winds in vicinity of 10 mph, boats were fully powered up all day long, hiking muscles being worked, and inattention rewarded with capsizes.
Walter Johnson just blew away the competition in the first race owing to a great start. Kurt and Anne Wiese then stepped up and won the next two races. In the fourth race, the Wiese's were over early and were trapped by boats to windward and leeward - making the trip back to the start line just miserable. Due to some confusion about the OCS hails, Stu and Erin Robertson went back too. In the end, these two boats were both having terrible races. Only the Wiese's experience got worse - as they were trapped again going into the leeward mark - they were stuck without mark room rights had little option than to pass the mark to starboard - missing the rounding all together. They never recuperated and were last seen sailing home. Stu, faired slightly better thru that rounding and ended up with an 8th place finish. With no throw outs offered in this five race regatta, Stu assumed that there was no chance at winning. But of kept at it and finished the series with a first place in race number 5.
What Stu and Erin hadn't figured out was that everyone else was keeping at least an 8 in their score tally too. In fact, most everyone would have been delighted if their worst race was an 8th. Normally to A sailors have very accurate ideas of how their nearest competitors are fairing - it's essential to know who to defend against when things get tight and close to the end of the regatta. Not knowing that everyone else had a bad score is unusual in our sport but in this regatta, there were 15 "A" teams and 5 "B" teams sailing together and at times the fleet was quite tight. And consistency was really hard to come by. So it wasn't surprising that everyone - including Stu and Erin - were surprised that they had won the regatta.
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Sail |
Skipper & Crew |
Fleet |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
T |
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1st |
3113 |
**Stuart & Erin Robertson |
7 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
19 |
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2nd |
4910 |
Len Bose & Dini Corsi |
1 |
2 |
10 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
22 |
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3rd |
6288 |
Walter Johnson & Darrin Perrin |
1 |
1 |
3 |
10 |
6 |
3 |
23 |
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4th |
4782 |
**Kim McRae & Judi Gorski |
1 |
4 |
2 |
8 |
4 |
6 |
24 |
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5th |
4790 |
Mark Ryan & Richard Greenwood |
6 |
11 |
6 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
29 |
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6th |
6188 |
Chris Nesbitt & Stacie Brandt |
1 |
5 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
29 |
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7th |
6276 |
Bob Sherwood & Tony Beltran |
7 |
7 |
9 |
6 |
10 |
2 |
34 |
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8th |
6240 |
**Kurt & Anne Wiese |
1 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
16\DNF |
16\DNC |
40 |
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9th |
5051 |
**Bob Yates & Patrick Kincaid |
1 |
12 |
4 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
40 |
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10th |
5036 |
Kelly Cantley & Kevin Thomas |
2 |
10 |
11 |
5 |
11 |
7 |
44 |
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11th |
3281 |
**Dave & Jeanne Smith |
6 |
8 |
12 |
11 |
5 |
16\DNC |
52 |
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12th |
6274 |
**Peter Beale & Nikki Rambo |
2 |
13 |
14 |
12 |
9 |
9 |
57 |
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13th |
3747 |
Kathryn Reed & Lyndi Martinich |
6 |
14 |
13 |
14 |
12 |
11 |
64 |
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14th |
6026 |
Ross Nemeroff & Robert Rice |
1 |
9 |
8 |
16\DNF |
16\DNC |
16\DNC |
65 |
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15th |
3726 |
Steve & Kristina Potter |
1 |
16\DNC |
15 |
13 |
13 |
16\DNC |
73 |
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B |
Sail |
Skipper & Crew |
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R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
T |
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1st |
5127 |
**Jock & Lili McGraw |
6 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
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2nd |
3804 |
Mark & Sean Hunter |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
11 |
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3rd |
4452 |
**Barry & Andrea Wood |
1 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
6\DNC |
19 |
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4th |
4963 |
**Jim Drury & Bruce Wasson |
6 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
6\DNF |
6\DNC |
20 |
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5th |
4602 |
**Bob Hartung & Lyle Willits |
1 |
4 |
5 |
6\DNC |
4 |
6\DNC |
25 |
** = Grand Master Division Entrant
Stu & Erin Robertson won the A and Grand Master Divisions (GM shown with double asterisk on the BYC web page)
Jock & Lili McGraw won the B Division
A big thank you to Balboa Yacht Club and the following individuals that staffed and/or support this regatta:
Registration: Etta Williams & Nancy
Mellon
Judges: Wallace & Patty Cook, Gary Thorne
Mark Set: Gordon Wanlass & Scott Porter
Scribe: Stephanie Faillers
Photo: Bronny Joy
T-Shirts: Barry Wood
Trophies: John Papadopoulos & Barry Wood
Scoring & Much More: Becky Lenhart - BYC Sailing Administrator
On a related note Fleet 2 won the Crying Towel Award and Fleet 1 won the Bobble Head Trophy.
Please check back in to learn more about this regatta - we have hundreds of photographs to sort thru, more details to be given out, etc.
Pre-Regatta Information
You are invited to the best Lido 14 regatta in Newport Beach! We pack five full length windward/leeward races into one day of racing, followed by great food and awards!
And all for the low low price of just $15. So please print out the Notice of Race and Entry Form (below), grab a pen and fill out the Entry Form right now so you can join in the fun!
Please don't disappoint yourself this year by not showing up. Sign up now!
Lido 14 Racing Clinic
On Saturday March 28th, we will be hosting an all day Lido 14 racing clinic. We'll be working both on shore and on the water (weather permitting). The clinic is free.
The clinic will start at 10:00AM at Balboa Yacht Club (gather by the flag pole) and will continue until about 3 or 4pm. There will be a lunch break and we invite all participants to dine at BYC.
As is the case with the Harry Wood Memorial Regatta, all visitors will need to park their cars on the street.
Regatta Documents
Notice of Race (PDF) Entry Form (PDF) Click here for a history of the regatta and past winners