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This year's Big Daddy wasn't the biggest ever, but the unoffi cial 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.
Spread from left, 'War Pony', 'Alfa Puppy' and 'Deception' rumble downwind; inset, opposite page, Philipe Paturel's 'Ciao!' sports some of the wildest graphics on the Bay, if you'd like to see sport catch the eyes of non-sailors, start here; inset this page, Sy Kleinman's 'Swiftsure II' powers uphill.
The J/105 honors went Phil Laby's Racer X, while Rick Smith's Más Rapido took home the honors in the Olson 30 class. Trent Watkins' UFO won the Ultimate 20 class and Kim Desenberg's Mr. McGregor was the top Wylie Wabbit. With Saturday's racing in the books, the focus turned to the St. Patrick's Daythemed party before anyone would even think about Sunday's pursuit race. Eighty-seven boats — more than a few Doublehhanded Lightship entries included — showed up on Sunday, and after a 1-hour postponement, things got rolling. The little boats headed mostly for Alcatraz fi rst in the choose-your-ownadventure race around Alcatraz and Angel Islands. By the time they reached the entrance to Raccoon Strait, the ebb was ripping and they found themselves parked while the bigger boats rode the
current going the other direction. It was a classic bigger-boat race, but the biggest, or should we say, fastest were the most blessed. Peter Stoneberg's Formula 40 catamaran Shadow — which gets no shortage of complaints about its -99 rating — broke with the other fast boats' style and headed to Alcatraz fi rst. It was a strategy that paid big enough dividends for them to horizon the fl eet and win by a large margin. The rest of the top-three also were multis — Alan O'Driscoll's D-Class cat Beowulf V and Bill Erkelens' Tornado Go Granny Go!. The top monohull was Andy Costello and Peter Krueger's J/125 Double Trouble. — latitude/rg
RICHMOND YC BIG DADDY SATURDAY BUOY RACING (3/12, 2-3r, 0t) PHRF A — 1) Ciao!, A40 RC, Philipe Paturel, 2 points; 2) TNT, Tripp 43, Brad Copper, 7; 3) Double Trouble, J/125, Andy Costello/Peter Kreuger, 7. (7 boats) PHRF B — 1) Encore, Sydney 36 CR, Dan Woolery, 3; 2) Desdemona, J/120, John Wimer, 3; 3) Jeannette, Frers 40, Henry King, 7. (8 boats) PHRF C — 1) Mistral, Benetau 36.7, Ed Durbin, 2; 2) Kuai, Sabre 386, Daniel Thieman, 5;
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3) Always Friday, Antrim 27, John Liebenberg. (7 boats) PHRF D — 1) Sheeba, C&C 99, Michael Quinn, 7 points; 2) Maguro, Santana 35, Jack Feller, 8; 3) Two Scoops, Express 34, Chris Longaker, 10. (8 boats) PHRF E — 1) Arcadia, Modernized Santana 27, Gordie Nash, 4 points; 2) Uno, Wyliecat 30, Steve Wonner, 9; 3) Preparation J, J/30, Robert Hrubes, 10. (7 boats) PHRF F — 1) Eight Ball, Moore 24, Scott Easom, 3 points; 2) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Chris Nash, 8; 3) Froglips, J/24, Richard Stockdale, 10. (8 boats) J/105 — 1) Racer X, Phil Laby/Rich Pipkin, 3 points; 2) Donkey Jack, Rolf Kaiser, 3; 3) Whisper, Marc Vayn, 6. (5 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Mas Rapido, Rick Smith, 4 points; 2) Hot Betty, John Scarborough, 7; 3) Hoot, Andrew Macfi e, 8. (6 boats) ULTIMATE 20 — 1) UFO, Trent Watkins, 3 points; 2) Indecision, Phil Kangesberg, 9; 3) Salsa, Matt Borough, 10. (8 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Mr. McGregor, Kim Desenberg, 5 points; 2) Weckless, Tim Russell, 8; 3) Better With Butter, Erik Menzel. (8 boats)
SUNDAY PURSUIT RACE (3/13) — 1) Shadow, Formula 40, Peter Stoneberg; 2) Beowulf V, Customized D-Class Cat, Allen O'Driscoll; 3) Go Granny Go!, Tornado, Bill Erkelens; 4) Double Trouble; 5) War Pony, Farr 36 OD, Mark Howe; 6) Deception, SC 50, Bill Helvestine; 7) Tiburon, SC 37, Steve Stroub; 8) Quiver, N/M 36, Jeff McCord; 9) Swiftsure II, Schumacher 54, Sy Kleinman; 10) Bodacious, Farr 40 1-Ton, John Clauser. (87 boats) Complete results at: www.richmondyc.org
