Sonar Fleet 1
Noroton Yacht Club
Fleet Racing:
Last Sunday was another great day for racing. The forecast looked iffy but the wind held, a consistent 7 kts, allowing PRO Rick Doerr to get three D1 races in.
In the end, Ed Sweeney and crew (l to R below) Commodore Art Collins, Ed, Gunnar Edelstein with two guns and a 4 won fairly easily, beating Lee Morrison who finished second by winning a tie-breaker against Bob Monro.
The final results for the top three were:
Sweeney 4, 1, 1 = 6
Morrison 1, 6, 2 = 9
Monro 3, 3, 3 = 9
Next Sunday is our last fleet race of the season. Current standings for the second series can be found by going to http://www.fleet1.org/
Right now, our Guest of the Fleet, Steve Girling is leading the series with Lee Morrison in second and Ed Sweeney in third.
Sonar North American Championships:
The NA's, hosted by Eastern YC in Marblehead will take place this weekend. Racing will begin on Friday and continue through Sunday. There are currently nine teams going from Noroton: Morrison, McArthur, Harrison, Meleney, Doerr, Sinclair, Monro, Galloway and Shapiro.
This year the class has hired a professional coach who will observe and record racing and provide a debrief to competitors as a group and individually after each days racing.
This should be fun.
Team Racing:
Noroton hosted the Kirby Cup team race on 9/11-9/12. Five teams participated, two from Noroton plus Marblehead, Seawanhaka and New York YC.
In typical Long Island Sound fashion, we had everything from a race abandoned for lack of wind on Saturday to racing called for too much wind on Sunday. In the end, we completed two round robins. The Marblehead team, lead by Larry Ehrhardt (below right) displaying tremendous consistency and TR skill, won every race they sailed and took home the trophy.
Final results were as follows:
Marblehead 10 points
Noroton 1 6
NYYC 4
Seawanhaka 3.5
Noroton 2 1.5
Congratulations Marblehead!
Upcoming Calendar:
Friday Sept 24 - Sunday Sept 26 - Sonar North Americans, Marblehead
Sunday Sept 26 - Last day of fleet racing :(Friday October 1 - Club Awards Night will be held on Friday Oct 1 at 7pm. BYOB with appetizers courtesy of Kitty Brown. In addition to the Club Awards we will have a slide show from Club Cruise to Maine. Please RSVP on the NYC Website.
