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rilateral course with Blackaller Buoy as the first mark — a spinnaker start. All then sailed to Harding Rock Buoy on a one-tack beat. The fastest divisions were sent on a run to Blossom Rock, the slower ones to Fort Mason. But after the rounding of Harding Rock, the flood current took over from the dying breeze and the racers found themselves drifting backward toward Emeryville. Many simply turned the ignition key and headed back to GGYC for hot food, cold drinks and warm sunshine. Patience paid off, however, as the breeze did eventually return, and many boats were able to finish. No shocker that Hank Easom's Sabre Spirit Serenade was first to finish, with an elapsed time of 3 hours, 4 minutes on the longer, 7.4mile course. For standings, see www. jibeset.net. The second of five races will be held on December 7. — latitude / chris JESSICA CUP, StFYC, 10/19 (2r, 0t) GAFF — 1) Brigadoon, Terry Klaus, 2 points; 2) Makani Kai, Ken Inouye, 4. (2 boats) MARCONI I — 1) Mayan, Beau Vrolyk, 2 points; 2) Fairwyn, Richard Leland, 4; 3) Water Witch, John Egelston, 6. (5 boats) MARCONI II — 1) Cuckoo, Bird, Bill Claussen, 5 points; 2) Youngster, IOD, Ron Young, 5; 3) The Shadow, Mull 30, Bruce Sinclair, 6. (6 boats) FARALLON CLIPPER — 1) VIP, Don Taylor, 2 points; 2) Hana, Brian Boyd, 6; 3) Mistress II, Richard vonEhrenkrook, 6. (4 boats) StFYC FALL DINGHY, 10/26 (4r, 0t) 5O5 — 1) Michael Holt/Rob Woelfel, 9 points; 2) Jeffrey Miller/Steve Bourdow, 10; 3) Howard Hamlin/Andy Zinn, 11. (9 boats) Page 90 •
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• December, 2019
Light-air spinnaker wrangling in the GGYC Midwinter aboard Larry Baskin's Express 37 'Bullit'.
Into and Out of the Fog with BYC At the appointed hour of 11:55 on November 9, in the middle of the Olympic Circle, there was no wind. There were racers, a signal boat, a mark-set boat with blown-up buoys, but no wind. Thirty-two boats came out to race in the first of four monthly Berkeley YC Midwinter races. The race committee attempted many different ploys to bring on the wind. The lunches were brought out. No help. Snacks and complicated dips and chips were set up. Nada. A doable breeze appeared, but the buoy disappeared in the fog. The buoy reappeared, but the little breeze stopped. Finally, the conditions improved, and after bobbing around for almost two hours, all 32 boats were still hanging out and ready to go racing. The wind was existent
BOX SCORES C420 — 1) Julian Skerrett/Theodore Knobel, 5 points; 2) Alec Van Kerckhove/Dylan Murphy, 11; 3) Kyra Phelan/Sophia Browne, 15; 4) Reade Decker/Will Glasson, 17; 5) Jack Murphy/Tatum Gee, 18. (26 boats) CFJ — 1) Anson Walker/Arthur Serra, 7 points; 2) Cal Smolenski/Corbett Malenfant/Silas Lambros, 20; 3) Dawson Xuan/Jonathan Veis, 25. (15 boats) LASER STANDARD — 1) Caleb Yoslov, 3 points; 2) Will Foox, 7; 3) Andrew Holdsworth, 8; 4) Julian Soto, 13. (17 boats)
but pretty light, so a short 4-mile course was chosen. The first division started at 1:50. Naturally, the wind picked up, and — zoom — the last racer was finished before 3 p.m. Congratulations go to Bryce Griffith in his Antrim 27 Arch Angel. He snagged a first in Division A by a mere 56 seconds over Dan Hauserman in the Melges 24 Personal Puff Puff. Reuben Rocci in his J/111 Swift Ness got third place only 65 seconds behind first. Division B also had some close finishes. Only 1 minute, 29 seconds separated first place and third. Mike Devries in his Wilderness 30 Special Edition took first, Donald Newman in the Olson 30 Yankee Air Pirate got second, and Andrew Macfie in the Olson 30 Hoot got third. Twelve of the 16 Express 27 entries showed up and raced. First was Will Paxton on Motorcycle Irene, second was Seth Clark on Current Affair, and Andrew Groetz on Phoenix grabbed third. These three were separated by only 44 seconds. Division C was led by Joan Byrne in her Olson 911S Heart of Gold, second was James Fair in his Merit 25 Chesapeake, and third went to Rick Raduziner in his SC27 Lickety Split. The last division of Saturday is the Cal 20s, and Richard vonEhrenkrook in Can O'Whoopass successfully grabbed first by virtue of being the only one to show up. The fog on Sunday, November 10 wasn't as bad as Saturday's had been. A light but reasonable breeze appeared LASER RADIAL — 1) Lindsey Baab, 5 points; 2) Sarah Young, 8; 3) Toshinari Takayanagi, 12; 4) Walt Spevak, 12; 5) Benjamin Stevens, 13. (22 boats) LASER 4.7 — 1) Tor Svendsen, 7 points; 2) Michele Biral, 8; 3) Hailey Thompson, 9. (5 boats) OPTIMIST CHAMP — 1) Morgan Headington, 3 points; 2) Yann Menard, 11; 3) Gavin Murphy, 16; 4) Nathan Posard, 18; 5) Akira Sophie Bratti, 19; 6) Talia Hamlin, 19; 7) Parker Stacy, 22. (30 boats) OPTIMIST GREEN — 1) Merritt Sellers, 5 points; 2) Blake Oberbauer, 11; 3) Kai Watters, 22; 4) Abel Toth, 35; 5) Ava Adamson, 41. (20 boats) RS TERA — 1) Omar Alami, 6 points; 2) Evie Littler, 7; 3) Ella Brady, 11. (9 boats) Full results at www.stfyc.com
