Fall Series #4: Wind Speed 6: Direction NW
Start Time Wednesday, September 12, 2007 17:22:00
| Pos | Order | Sail | Score | | 1 | 1 | 107 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 224 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 138 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 | 202 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 | 232 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 | 145 | 6 |
| 7 | 7 | 226 | 7 |
| 8 | 8 | 181 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | 76 | 9 |
| 10 | 10 | 217 | 10 |
| 11 | 11 | 201 | 11 |
| 12 | 12 | 74 | 12 |
| 13 | 13 | 17 | 13 |
| 14 | 14 | 59 | 14 |
| 15 | 15 | 245 | 15 |
| 16 | 16 | 166 | 16 |
| 17 | 17 | 15 | 17 |
| 18 | 18 | 127 | 18 |
| 19 | 19 | 164 | 19 |
| 20 | 20 | 14 | 20 |
| 21 | 21 | 36 | 21 |
| 22 | 22 | 163 | 22 |
| 23 | 23 | 71 | 23 |
| DNF | 24 | 165 | 25 |
| DNC | 25 | 53 | 99 ARB |
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Race Report for September 12th, Fall Series
Wind out of 305 degrees at the start at 10 -12 knots velocity. Low tide was back at 2:31PM giving the fleet a strong flow South to North… point your bow at a mark and watch it walk around the clock. These boats figured it out:
1st- #107 6th- #145
2nd- #224 7th- #226
3rd- #138 8th- #181
4th- #202 9th- #76
5th- #232 10th- #217
24 Boats out on the course for this gorgeous evening, John Ghiorse would have given it a 9 out of 10 on his scale. On 76 we saw puffs coming from the right and set up to start on the committee boat end, along with a good crown of 59, 224, 201 and more…. It was a little discouraging to our boat when we approached the bouy at Rose Island to have a boat coming back at us to honor the mark so we guess the middle right was not as fast as the right side of the course. Interesting approach to the first weather mark, #17 (the red boat) did a port approach and stuck it in with a tack to lay the mark inside of two boat lengths… nice with no fouls. From our vantage on the left side of the first downwind ride the breeze was constant and we swept down on the tide which gave us a little heat for our angle into the right gate.
The second windward leg played out the same for us but the second downwind leg gave us a couple jibs forced by the wind going a little right and the tide continuing to push left.
On #76 we feel like the “new kids on the block” since we’ve only been in the boat about 6 weeks. Most of the guys are out of Etchells and we had some trepidations when we looked at this boat, that we might not “enjoy” the Shields experience… Those feelings have long gone under the keel! On the ride back to the mooring, settling back with a cold one, it was Paul Sollitto who summed it up, “boy, that was a fun race”. So on #76, we’re really enjoying the racing… and we like our new boat. I had prepped to do this race report, even brought a small recorder to keep notes… BUT I didn’t check the batteries, so this is the short version.
#76 Paul Sollitto – Ted Green – D-Mac – Ike Bowen – Dave Sunberg
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