Sonar Fleet 1 News

FLEET RACING:

We completed our July 4 series and unlike last year and this past Memorial Day, we did it on the days originally scheduled!

Sunday we had 16 boats on the line, enjoying 7 knots of breeze out of the SW. Our PRO Michael Rudnick sent us on two D2 races giving everyone lots of opportunity to mix it up.

After the first day of racing, the top boats were:

Galloway/Linville/Steinborn  3
Harrison  6
Girling    8
Morrison 8

Wednesday, July 4 was almost an exact copy of Sunday. 16 boats, wind out of the SW. The only difference was when we got to the race course we were looking at 12 knots and when we left the race course we only had 5. The breeze was also doing a slow shift to the south which made it a little difficult for our PRO, Commodore Randy Tankoos and his RC.

But still, we got another two races in. The first race was the Commodore's Race where Randy sent us on a D2. After about an hour of sailing, the first boat across the finish line was Lee Morrison with Susan Morrison, Willem Sandberg and Don Vasta.

Lee Morrison and Don "Can You See Me Now" Vasta 

The second race was a W1. With light air and a fairly strong current, some boats finishing at the pin had a difficult time crossing the line. It made for some enjoyable viewing though!

For the four races in the Series, Fast Forward with Peter Galloway, Jim Linville, Paul Steinborn and Paul Barringer raced to first place with a total of 10 points.

"Paul, halyard...not you, the other Paul!"

Second place went to Lee Morrison with 16 points and third went to Team 500 who finished with 19.

All scores are available here: http://www.fleet1.org/

FLEET BARBECUE:

Our next fleet barbecue is scheduled for Sunday July 15.

FLEET RACING CALENDAR:

Sun. July 15, Fleet barbecue after racing

Sat-Sun Aug. 4-5, New England Championships, Falmouth YC, Falmouth MA

Fri-Sun Aug. 24-26, North American Championships, Rochester YC

Sat-Sun Sep. 29-30, Long Island Sound Championships, Noroton

IMPORTANT LINKS:

Fleet 1 results: http://www.fleet1.org/

SCA Newsletter: http://sonarclass.blogspot.com/

SCA Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/sonarclass

SCA Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/sonarclass