Corinthian Yacht Club

Puget Sound Sailing Regatta

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orinthian Yacht Club's Puget Sound Spring Regatta packed a race-

filled regatta into a single day. Saturday morning arrived with a light drizzle and light winds but wind filled in from the south and held long enough to complete five or six good races. Sunday arrived with dry conditions that turned into sunshine, but the wind failed to appear with any consistency. On the south course, Kevin Cunningham did his best to complete a race, but a dying wind made finishing nearly impossible for many boats in each fleet. Anyone who has ever worked

on the race committee knows how challenging it can be to run races in light air with frequent wind shifts. North course PRO Charley Rathkopf, said that on Saturday he noted wind shifts of up to 70 degrees, and shifts of 25 degrees during racing. Kevin Cunningham said, “The wind on the south course varied from the locks to West Point and back.” CYC's race committees work like well oiled machines thanks to experienced race officers, key staff and volunteers, like Cathy Picha, Joyce and Stan Butchart, Jim Miller,

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Above: A good, fun start to a great weekend of sailing. Photo by Jan Anderson.

Ann Kronin and many others who often face last minute equipment failures or being short of volunteers or even paid staff.

On Saturday, a strong ebb made

most fleets late for starts, although the aggressive Melges fleet still rushed the line. Later in the day when the tide turned, rushing the line turned into a large number of premature starts.

Below: Close, exciting racing between Tachyon and Strider with White Cloud in the background. Photos by Jan Anderson.

While most over-early boats cleared the line and restarted, several boats in the Melges fleet failed to restart, giving them an OCS that added large numbers to scores that might otherwise have earned them trophies. Zuzu, with Keith Hammer and Matt

McGregor on board, touched the pin at the start but did a quick 360 and finished second in race five. The crew's worst race for the regatta was a third, and they won with a comfortable point spread between them and second place boat, owned by Stig Osterberger, who pushed past Glenn Klute's Trophy Wife by not only finishing, but winning the only race on Sunday. During the second race, after a close call between Blue

Martini and Kowloon, Blue Martini did

penalty turns that put her behind at the start and in 6th for that race. Yet Blue Martini won every other race and the

regatta. Here and Now

won every race in fleet P07. Frequently these two boats are matched in the same fleet, but there were enough boats with similar ratings to split them into different fleets. Alex Simanis

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