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| Photo: Mark Sullivan |
Also racing were a fleet of Vipers in their New England Championship.
Saturday started out nicely with a 7 - 10 kt breeze out of the NNW-N. As is typical with this breeze, playing the sides and shifts were critical... not an easy task.
Our PRO Paul Norton and his race committee were able to get two races in with these conditions.
The boats that managed the northerly best were Team 506 with Scott MacLeod, TK, Matt Cohen and KC Hart who took first place in race one followed by a third in race two. Team Horden (sail #781) with Bahar Gidwani, Yalcin Tarhan, Eva Burpee and Jeremiah Blatz finished with a 2 and a 5. While Team 726 with Paul Steinborn Jr, Ed Steinborn, Michael and Sara Aingorn, had a 5 and a 2.
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| Team 506 Photo: Mark Sullivan |
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| Team Horden Photo: Mark Sullivan |
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| Team 726 Photo: Mark Sullivan |
Honorable mention goes to Team 672 with David Eisenberg, Glenn Morrison, Gary Coventry and Lloyd Hardin, who took first (after two boats retired) in race two and Team 500 with Bill Jayson, Basil Lyden, Will and Gillian Graves, who finished third in race one.
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| Team 672 Photo: Mark Sullivan |
Thankfully the breeze filled in from the south giving us time for one more race and a chance to try out all those things we did to fix what was wrong in the first two races.
Best at that was team 605 with Bob Monro, Michael Rudnick, Eric Ploumis and Tim Walsh, who took first, followed by team 390 with Alex Meleney, Mike Watts, Nils Dahl and Carl Segen in second and Team 454 with Ed Sweeney, Jim Crane, Art Collins and Alec Wiggin in third.
Then back to shore for Heineken beer (shameless sponsor promotion) and a great cook out provided by Kitty Brown and her staff.
Sunday was predicted to have a very light breeze. Of course, the weather forecasters choose that day to be accurate. Ugh.
150 sailors hung out on shore (kitty's worst nightmare) until about 12:30p when we were teased with a little breeze so Paul decided to send out the fleet.
Unfortunately, nothing developed so racing was called and the fleet was towed in without getting any additional races in.
In the end, our top finishers for the regatta were:
Team 506 with 13 points
Team 605 with 16
Team Horden with 17
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| Team 506: Matt Cohen, TK, Scott MacLeod, KC Hart |
Full results can be found on the Noroton website here: http://norotonyc.org/
THIS COMING WEEKEND:
We have a busy weekend planned for the Sonars.
Saturday will be the first crew training on-the-water followup. This will take place from 2:30-4:30p. We are confirming participants now and will get to you if we need volunteers to take people out.
Sunday we resume normal fleet racing with a 12:30p harbor start.
Racing will be followed by our first fleet cookout hosted by Chip and Jan Raymond.
FLEET 1 CALENDAR:
Fleet barbecue: June 21 after racing
July 4th Series: Fri July 3 (Commodore's Race), Sun July 5
Fleet barbecue: July 19 after racing
Marblehead NOOD: Eastern YC, July 24-26
Vice Commodore's Race: August 2
Canadian Nationals: Lunenburg YC, Lunenburg Nova Scotia Aug. 12-15
Fleet Barbecue: August 16 after racing
Labor Day Series: Sun-Mon, Sep 6-7
Kirby Cup: Noroton YC, Sat-Sun, Sep 12-13 (no fleet racing)
Sonar World Championship: September 16-20, Falmouth YC, Falmouth MA
Last day of racing: Sunday October 4
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