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his year's Big Daddy wasn't the biggest ever, but the unofficial start to the Bay's summer racing season delivered nonetheless for the 74 boats in six PHRF and four one design divisions that showed up March 12. With competition for entries coming from the St. Francis YC's Spring Dinghy Regatta and the Island YC's Doublehanded Lightship,
attendance was down just slightly compared to years past. With breeze into the mid-teens, each division got off two or three races. In PHRF A, Philipe Paturel's wildly-patterned black and red Archambault 40 RC Ciao! scored straight bullets to win handily. In PHRF B, it was Dan Woolery's Sydney 36 CR Encore — with which he's
had as much success of late as his other boat, the King 40 Soozal — taking top honors. In PHRF C Ed Durbin's Beneteau 36.7 Mistral came out on top, and in PHRF D, it was Michael Quinn's C&C 99 Sheeba. PHRF E went to Gordie Nash's Modernized Santana 27 Arcadia, while Scott Easom's Moore 24 Eight Ball won PHRF F.
