Sonar Fleet 1
Noroton YC
Racing News:
The Kirby Cup team race, hosted by Noroton YC was held last weekend. Sailed in Sonars, teams represented were Noroton YC Fleet 1, Marblehead, MA Fleet 14, Texas Corinthian YC Fleet 13, New York YC Fleet 15, Vineyard Haven YC Fleet 28 and Seawanhaka YC Fleet 24.
The following is a nice write up of the event by Karl Ziegler:
The 2009 Kirby Cup was held last weekend at Noroton Yacht Club under sunny sky's and fickle winds that would prove as tricky as the final score was. A remarkable level of talent showed up to contest for the title of the Sonar Class Association's team racing champion. Teams representing Noroton, Seawanhaka Corinthian, and New York Yacht Club joined those traveling from Marblehead, Texas Corinthian and Vineyard Haven Yacht Clubs for the right to receive the trophy from none other than Bruce Kirby himself who hails from Rowayton and was on hand to be part of the action.
Racing was extremely competitive from the start with the local team from Noroton Yacht Club, represented by skippers Tom "TK" Kinney, Lee Morrison and Steve Shepstone demonstrating good speed and smart team racing to take the lead going into the second day. Hot on their heels only a half point back were Vineyard Haven YC, and the team from Marblehead. Showing no signs of jet lag were the sailors from Texas Corinthian who were only another half point behind. With the top four teams separated by only a single point, the regatta seemed poised for a dramatic finish. But Sunday proved to be too beautiful for the wind to show up, and the regatta ended with the scores as they were on Saturday.
Wes Whitmeyer and his race committee team received tremendous accolades at the awards ceremony for running thirty great races on the event's only day. Chief judge, Peter Wilson presented team captain and event organizer Lee Morrison the trophy, along with the help and inspired remarks from Mr. Kirby. For winning the event, Noroton Yacht Club gets the honor of hosting the event again next year. They're left to pray for more wind and the same quality of sailor to return next year to guarantee another success.
Rick Doerr wins the Sonar Class in the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta 2009!
Held from September 14th to the 19th at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, the venue for the 2012 Olympics, the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta is open to all Olympic Classes.
Rick Doerr with crew Maureen McKinnon-Tucker and Hugh Freund pulled out a victory in an extremely competitive fleet of nine boats from eight countries!
On the podiu
m With Rick and his crew are: 2nd: John Robertson, Hannah Strodel and Steve Thomas (GBR)
3rd: Jourden Bruno and Eric Flageul (FRA)
© onEdition 2009
Congratulations Rick (AKA Alphonsus to his international friends!)
Sonar World Championships:
We have hit 50 entries for the 2009 Sonar Worlds! With the expectation of a couple of last minute entries, we will surpass the most recent and largest worlds yet - 51 entries at Marblehead in 2007.
Only a week before the events begin. We are holding our final count down to the Worlds meeting this Thursday, 7:30PM at Noroton.
We still need volunteers, particularly next Wednesday. Please consider stopping by on Thursday at 7:30p and raising your hand to help out next week.
Fleet Racing:
Our last fleet race of the season is coming up this Sunday, September 27. It is also the last opportunity to race before the Worlds!
The current forecast is for a nice SSW breeze at 10 mph with a 40% chance of a little liquid sunshine. I hope to see everyone out there on the line!
Peter’s Corner: Rule’s questions and answers from Senior Judge Peter Wilson.
Answers to last week’s questions:
Click on image to enlargeIn situation #1, there is room for blue to duck yellow, and she chooses not to. No foul. If there had not been enough room, then Green breaks rule 19.2(b).
In situation # 2, blue is obligated to tack once she calls for ‘room to tack’, whether or not grey tacks and is no longer an obstruction. Blue breaks rule 20.1(c).
Check it out:
I guess creating this newsletter and posting it on http://fleet1news.blogspot.com/ wasn’t enough for me. I still felt unfulfilled so I created a new online destination for everyone. It is a new social network for all things Sonar. You can find it by clicking on the following link:
http://sonarclass.ning.com/
It is a work in progress but the cool thing is everyone can participate! If you have any questions, whether it be rules or measurement or whatever, just create a forum discussion. Anything you want to blog about? Just do it! Add or check out events. Download photos or video. Create groups (I created a Fleet 1 group for any discussions specific to our our fleet). It’s kinda like a mini Facebook or MySpace only interesting!
I hope everyone will sign in and try it out. The more we use it, the more we’ll want to use it.
This week’s events:
Sunday 9/27 - Last fleet race before the Worlds
Upcoming events:
Tuesday 9/29 - Sunday 10/4 - Sonar World Championships
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