OYRAOMORA
Last month we told you we d bring you the one-design and off¬ shore winners for the 1981 season in this issue. We were half right. Due to the scheduling of the banquets for the respective winners, we decided to present the OYRA and MORA champions on/y. We think we got them right, but this is a complicated game; there were spring winners, fall winners, overall winners, individual race winners, etc. It took some figuring out as to who to feature and who not to. In any case, here's our wrap-up.
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Chris Gasparich wasn’t particularly joyous about his second half of the season win. “We were the only Class A boat in the Half Moon Bay Race!" he said. Ffe was disappointed neither Wings or Swiftsure made an appearance for the seaon finale. Against the division II IOR boats, Monique took a fourth correct in the Half Moon Bay Race. This is Chris’s third year with Monique, and his first win. He finds the Farr-design, with lots of wetted surface, a great boat in any kind of breeze, but sometimes on the light, lumpy ocean races they suffer. Before Monique, Chris campaigned the PJ43 Sunchaser for four years in the ocean series.
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Crew of Stuff, with skipper Bill Twist, upper right.
IOR I —' Danforth Series Leading Lady, Peterson 40, Bruce Munro/Stan Reisch, Los Altos. Crew.- Chuck Artigues, Ted Wilson, Mike Dias, Rob Sharnau, Bob Bergtholdt, Warren Seward, Russ Boudreau, Ken Munro and Jessa TeWalt. Bruce Munro considered the big boat division one of the most competitive he s sailed in during his eight years of racing the spring Danforth series. Providing good competition were Wings, Sioc, Irra¬ tional, Monique, Scaramouche and High Noon. Bruce knows one of the key elements to success on the ocean is keeping your concentra¬ tion up. Personally he was always thinking and talking about the race, keeping attention focused on sail trim; boat speed, where the wind was, etc. On the ocean, there’s a tendency to lower your in¬ tensity and its the skipper’s job to keep everyone interested.”
IOR I — Gulf of Farallones Series Monique, Farr 2-Ton, Chris Gasparich, Alameda. Crew.- Paul Wood, George Nagel, John Warnlove, Tom Jones, Steve Graham, Hank Lindeman, and Brad Clerk.
IOR II — Danforth Series Stuff, Chaser 33, Bill Twist, San Francisco. Crew: Rob Moore, Peter Daly, Jack Adams. Chris Viering, Mathew Quint, J.B. Bateman, Beth Ailing. Jeff Gardner and Dave Lapier.
Bill Twist and his Stuff crew not only won their division in the Dan¬ forth, but took the overall IOR trophy for the series as well. They started slowly in the Schoonmaker-Stewart Lightship race, hitting the wrong side of the course and finishing well back. From then on, though, they led the pack. Going into the last race they were tied with Bob Klein’s Amateur Hour. Sailing the finale in thick fog, they never knew how they stood. They sailed hard all night, taking the , rhumb line course;.when the mist cleared they wound up second in • the division and third overall, enough to give them the win over both Amateur Hour and Division As Leading Lady.
Bruce Munro. right.
Bill has owned Stuff, a Peterson 3/4 Ton, for four years. He’s had great success with her, winning the Golden Gate mid-winters four times and the Danforth and Gulf of Farallones in 1980. He finds the boat very well suited for the varied ocean conditions. They go better outside the Gate than on the bay, where they’re often overpowered in strong winds. * >
IOR II — Gulf of Farallones Series
