THE RACING
About the only local racing that went on last month was The Great Pumpkin Regatta, the Adams Cup Semi-Finals, and a bunch of Midwinters. We managed to fill these pages with previews of the Southern Cross Series; a piece on Bruce Nelson; quick takes on Irv Loube’s new boat and the Ultimate Yacht Race, and much more.
Loube’s Latest One Tonner Sometime in mid-December, East Bay attorney Irv Loube’s newest nautical weapon will be rolled off a freighter in Oakland. This one’s a state-of-the-art Farr One Ton, which was recently finished by Cookson boats down in New Zealand. It’s a development of Fram X — the crown prince of Norway’s boat that won the recent One Ton Worlds — with improvements to the keel and rudder. Loube will give the new rocketship the same name that has graced the transoms of several of his previous boats: Bravura. Peter Cameron will be charged with putting the deck hardware on the boat and readying it for battle. Bravura will live in Pt. Richmond’s Brickyard Cove, near Irv’s other One Ton-
Irv Loube is setting his sights on the One-Ton Worlds.
ner, ’86 NA champ Coyote. Loube plans to use Coypte as a sparring partner to help tune-up Bravura, afterwhich Coyote becomes “seriously for sale”. Loube’s program for the new boat is in¬ credibly ambitious: the Yachting Pro-Am Regatta in Long Beach in April, the Stone Cup on the Bay in May, and then either Long Beach Race Week or the One Ton
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NA’s in Detroit in June. After that, it’s off to Hawaii for the Kenwood Cup in August, fol¬ lowed by a full-tilt turnaround to get to the One Ton Worlds on the Bay between Sep¬ tember 3-15. Finally, if she’s still in one piece, Bravura will race iq the Big Boat Series, which begins three daysxafter the Worlds end. We’re burned out just contemplating such a schedule! “We’re deadly serious about winning the One Ton Worlds,” said Loube. With his ex¬ tensive experience and organizational skills, we wouldn’t bet against him. Adams Cup Semi-Finals San Francisco YC’s Susie Madragali won the Northern California (USYRU Area G) Adams Cup semi-finals on the weekend of October 24-25. She and her crew — Anna Peachy, Stephanie Wondolleck, and Jan Dorland — beat seven other all-women crews in the six race series to earn a berth at the U.S. Women’s Sailing Championship in the drug capital of the world, Miami, Florida, on January 13-18. The Encinal YC-hosted regatta was sailed in J/24s, using four woman crews and, per USYRU regulations, no genoas. The Js proved underpowered in Saturday’s two light, flukey races in Ballena Bay. On Sun¬ day, the race committee moved the start north of the Bay Bridge and got off four races in perfect 10 knot breezes. All six races were so short that it was difficult to recover from any mistakes. Madragali — who’s put in a lot of time on her borrowed J/24 Sowickcited — scored a near-perfect series (1-1-2-1-1-2) in the one-throwout event. Linda Corrado Roy, who’s run the regatta for the last four years, claims this was the best fleet she’s seen yet. Rhonda Fleming, who crewed for runner-up Liz Baylis, con¬ curred: “Ordinarily, I’m not that interested in single-sex racing, but this was really fun! It was a whole lot more competitive than the WRA league.” Next summer, after three years in J/24s, the regatta will be held in Olson 25s. In the
meantime, Madragali is busy trying to raise the funds to get to Florida in two months. The racing there will be a round-robin J/24 showdown between the best women in each of the ten USYRU areas of the country. It would be a shame if our area wasn’t represented. Send those donations — preferably in small unmarked bills — to Susie, care of the San Francisco YC.
1) Susie Madragali, SFYC, 6.25 points; 2) Liz Baylis, RYC, 8.5; 3) Marsha Peck Mahone, CYC, 18; 4) Marcia Schnapps, SFYC, 18; 5) Shirley Temming, EYC, 22.75; 6) Linda Corrado Roy, CYC, 28; 7) Stephanie Hock, SYC, 33; 8) Gail Vial, BYC, 36.
Red Rock Regatta Forty-five boats were on hand for Tiburon YC’s annual Red Rock Regatta on October 24, but for the second year in a row some¬ one forgot to put the wind on the guest list. Only two boats managed to limp around the course before the time limit expired — Joe Starritt’s Wylie 34 Leading Edge won, followed by Jerry Tostenson’s oddly named J/30, Preparation J. “This year the only thrills we had were afterwards!” said TYC’s Caroline Fitz¬ Gerald. Tiburon YC is an organization that
