25th Anniversary of Race Week 1965-2013
June 23-28
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The Storm Trysail Club th Block Island Race Week XXV
2013 Block Island Race Week News FRIDAY • JUNE 28, 2013
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Bringin’ It Home With the end of a regatta to remember in sight, two sailors will be leaving with a brand new Rolex: One for a triumph in the Round the Island Race and another because they bought the winning ticket in the Storm Trysail Club Raffle. With eight continental or regional championships on the line among 19 classes, who will bring home the silver from Block Island Race Week XXV? Yesterday’s easterly brought thick fog, cancelling competition in three of the four fleets, but the soup had thinned sufficiently by 1400 for a race in the Cruising Spinnaker, Cruising Non-Spinnaker, PHRF 4 and 5, and Double-handed classes on the Green circle. “Yesterday was extremely frustrating,“ said On-theWater Co-Chair Dave Brennan. “RC boats were outside the harbor monitoring the racecourses all morning. The fog lifted for a brief period, but it returned and settled in. Because the Green Fleet was close to the island, they had less fog and
were able to go ahead. We intend to run two races today!” Jim Anderson and Eric Kreuter, sailing Jim’s Farr 395 Skye (Riverside, CT) in the Double-handed class, were undefeated until yesterday, when they were outfoxed by Adrian Little and Jonathan Ricci aboard the former’s J/100 Flashpoint (Westport, CT), although Skye’s 1-1-1-2 is unassailable in the first-ever two-up class at Race Week. “I think we were more aggressive than Jim and Eric were, and we didn’t make any mistakes,” said Adrian. “We put our spinnaker up on the second leg, which they didn’t do, and that helped us take a lot of ground off them. Double-handing is challenging, and it’s good for my skills…we’re always doing something. It was great of our Race Committee to stick it out and give us a race. They did a stunning job in difficult conditions!” One of this week’s hardest fought battles is taking place in PHRF 5, with Jay Greenfield’s Evelyn 26 Stealth (Noank, CT) one point ahead of Chris Fesenmeyer’s San Juan 30 Air Express (Norwalk, CT), who took yesterday’s bullet. “The fog Storm Trysail Club 2013 Block Island Race Week News • Friday 1