Sonar Fleet 1 News: Sonar Fleet 1 Newsletter, August 11, 2010

Sonar Fleet 1

Noroton, YC

Fleet Racing Sunday August 8:

EXTRA, EXTRA Late Edition Final

HELL FREEZES OVER!!!

Our first race of the day was the Rear Commodore's Race. Bobbing around during a postponement for lack of wind, there was a point we were not sure the race was going to happen. After a 45 minute delay, the breeze started to fill in....slightly. Our PRO and Rear Commodore, Randy Tankoos decided to give it a try when we began to see 5 knots out of the east so he sent us off on a W1.

Now for the really amazing part...

With a near perfect start, nearly flawless tactics and boat handling :-), the team of (left to right below) Joe Duwan, Yours Truly, and Geoff Durno won! They...we...I'm so confused...finished just ahead of the Monros with Julia at helm and a younger and much better looking Team 500 with Will Graves, Gillian Jayson and Cathy Hoyt.

As the first race was ending, we saw a big shift to the south with the wind picking up to 11-13! How great is that? Randy was able to get two more races in, a D1 and a W1. In the end, our overall winners were the Monro's with Julia and Ian (pictured below) and a little help from their crew of Bob and Fran. They won the day with finishes of 2, 3, 2. Second went to McArthur with a 1, 5, 3 while third went to Graves with 4, 2, 4.

Team Racing:

Last weekend a team from Noroton participated in the Grand Masters Invitational team race hosted by New York Yacht Club in Newport, RI and sailed in Sonars. Other teams included Southern YC, American YC, St. Francis YC and St. Pete's.

Our team consisted of:

Bill Jayson, Warren Costikyan and Basil Lyden
Ed Sweeney, Art Collins and Lee Morrison
Peter Wilson, Peter Galloway, Jim Linville and Carolyn Wilson

At the end of a weekend of racing which included completing three round-robins plus a championship round-robin, Noroton came out on top by winning 15 of 18 races over all!