Monday, September 26, 2016

SONAR FLEET 1 NEWSLETTER

FLEET RACING:

Sunday September 25:

Our last day of racing for the season :(

It was a perfect day.  Sunny, ~66ยบ, breeze out of the North (ish) with puffs in the mid teens and lulls around 4.

As expected with a northerly, very shifty conditions also challenged the six boats who went out to race. PRO Hugh Balloch, and his RC did a fantastic job in these conditions getting three races in... A W2, a D1 and a W1 1/2.

For the day, winning all three races was team 506 with Scott MacLeod, TK, Chris Daley and Buck (Do-Rag) Daley.

Second through fourth was decided by one point!

Second place with 9 points went to team 733 with Kevin Sheehan, Palmer Sparkman, James Howe and Scott Brooks.

We had a tie-breaker for third, both with 10 points, between Team Horden (781) with Bahar Gidwani, Yalcin Tarhan, Tony Ramos and Chris Vargas and team 619 with team 619 winning the tie-breaker on the strength of a second place finish in the first race. Team 619 was Lee Morrison, Susan Morrison, Mark Sullivan and Don Vasta.

SEASON RESULTS:

At the beginning of the year, due to the scheduled demolition of our club house this fall creating a shortened season, we decided to have just one series and award trophies to the top five boats.

Here are the overall results with each team's core players...

5TH PLACE goes to Team 454 with Ed Sweeney, Art Collins, Alec Wiggin and Leo Schlinkert with a score of .8000

4TH PLACE goes to Team 605 with Bob Monro, Fran Monro, Ian Monro, Janet Grapengeter and Michael Rudnick and a score of .8634

3RD PLACE goes to Team 619 with Lee Morrison, Susan Morrison, Don Vasta and Mark Sullivan with a score of .8726

2ND PLACE goes to Team Jager (690) with John Bainton and Gregg Delany. Often joined by PD Duncan, Will Christian, Ollie Schulz and Court Crane. Their final score was .8824

And after 17 race days, with 40 overall races, in which they sailed in 37, including 21 wins and 5 second place finishes, it's no surprise the WINNING TEAM FOR 2016 is 506 with Scott MacLeod, TK and Chris Daley, often joined by Commodore Peggy Hersam. Their final score is an amazing .9851

Congratulations!


CUT! Season winners, take 2...


CUT! Season winners, take 3...


CUT! Season winners, take 4...

The 2016 winning team with Chris Daley, Commodore Peggy Hersam, Scott MacLeod, TK
And Buck Daley
As always, full results can be found here: http://www.fleet1.org/

REGATTAS:

2016 Sonar North American Championships:

The NA's this coming weekend. This year's regatta is being hosted by the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club. Racing is scheduled for September 30 - October 2.

The are currently 18 boats registered with verbal commitments from several more. 

Online registration is still open and available at http://www.sonar.org/

FLEET 1 CALENDAR:

Last day of racing: Sunday September 25 was our last day of racing. If you are keeping your boat in the Noroton parking lot, and plan to have Ed Morgan shrink wrap it for you, please take your mast down as soon as possible to allow him to take care of it before haul out.

ONE LAST THING:

After eight years as the Sonar Fleet 1 captain, I've decided to pass the baton. Next year's captain will be John Bainton, someone I know will do a great job with a ton of energy and enthusiasm.

Something I wasn't expecting but is HUGELY appreciated is this gift of a cutting board given to me by the fleet...



Thank you all so much. 

Bruce