Sonar Fleet 1
Noroton Yacht Club
Fleet Racing (aka The Scott Harrison Show):
Sunday August 29:
A beautiful LIS Sunday. With a light breeze out of the WSW, PRO Paul Norton was able to run three races.
Scott Harrison, and his crew of (l to r below) Warren Costikyan, Scott, Johanna Giovanniello (what, no "u"!) and Adam Westerman, with finishes of 4, 1, 2, took the day beating Lee Morrison with finishes of 3, 3, 1 in a tie-breaker for first. Third went to our Guest of the Fleet Steve Girling who also won a tie-breaker over Ed Sweeney.
Labor Day Series:
Day one of our Labor Day series was nothing short of awesome! PRO Jim Bishop started our first race, a D2, in 18 kts out of the west. After that, things settled down a little. The breeze continued out of the west but dropped to 12 kts for the next two races, also D2's.
Day two was more of a struggle. After a postponement, PRO Tony Allott was able to get one D1 race off when the breeze hit 6 kts out of the south.
In the end, (cut and paste from 8/29) Scott Harrison, with finishes of 1, 6, 1, 7 beat Lee Morrison's 5, 1, 7, 2 in a tie-breaker for first place. Third went to Peter Galloway with a 6, 3, 5, 4.
Scott's crew for the first day was Adam (as always) with Chris Zaleski and Marek Zaleski. For day 2, Scott had Warren Costikyan back on-board.
Two important notes: Due to Noroton's hosting of the Kirby Cup team race on September 11 - 12, there will be no fleet racing on 9/12.
Also, due to a light response, we will not have fleet racing on 10/3. With that, there are only two days of fleet racing left for the season, 9/19 and 9/26.
Team Racing:
As mentioned, Noroton is hosting the Kirby Cup team race this weekend, 9/11-12. There are five teams registered. Two from Noroton plus Seawanhaka, New York YC, and a team from Marblehead, MA.
Preparations are well underway. The sonars, which have been generously donated by fleet 1 members have all been equalized and are ready to be launched Saturday morning, the Umpires and RC are set, Kitty has the food order – we’re in great shape.
Where we can use some help…
Where we can use some help…
Saturday morning launching – starting at 7:30AM. We have to put 13 boats in the water by the 8:30 competitors meeting.
Sunday afternoon hauling – starting around 4PM. We need to get all the boats out of the water, put on their trailers and rinsed off.
Friday - we need 30 cases (24 bottles/case) of water picked up (Costco) and delivered to Volunteer (its high tide tomorrow at noon). Lee will be picking up 10 cases today. If you can help by picking up water for us, please let Lee know (leemail@optonline.net) how many cases you can comfortably handle – to coordinate, he will reply with our remaining balance.
Many hands make light work!
Sonar North American's:
As most of you know, the North American's are taking place in Marblehead on 9/24-9/26. In addition to a great venue, dinners, parties...the usual licentiousness...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.
There are currently nine teams going from Noroton...Doerr, Galloway, Harrison, Jayson, McArthur, Meleney, Monro, Morrison and Shapiro. Wish us luck.
Up coming Sonar Calendar:
Saturday Sept 11 - Sunday Sept 12 - Kirby Cup team race
Sunday Sept 19 - Club racing.
Friday Sept 24 - Sunday Sept 26 - Sonar North Americans, Marblehead
Sunday Sept 26 - Last day of fleet racing :(Friday October 1 - Fleet dinner and awards ceremony. Details to follow.
