quite make the mark on port because of the current, tacked to starboard just before their bow hit the mark and forced the Santana 20 Hitched and the Beneteau 40.7 Bravo Zulu to point up high on the mark and over-stand even more to get around the solid West Point Buoy. The current became a fun challenge at the first mark, but soon everyone was around and deciding if they could hold their chutes or not on the tight reach across the Sound to Bainbridge. A few of the boats had to drop
their spinnakers for the last 300 yards to the mark as the wind lightened and moved forward, but many were able to hold on tight and get around without too much trouble. The no-flying-sails boats, Grayling and Whistling Swan, led the fleet around the mark and back out towards mid-channel into what became a reach to get back into the slippery water they had battled before. Once into the favorable current, boats squared their spinnakers and pointed their bows downstream towards the always elusive Spring Beach Buoy. Bravo Zulu found the little mark
on station and rounded first followed closely by Svein Ellingsen’s J-35, Bergen Viking and Graeme Esarey’s Farr 1220, Kotuku. With the wind looking light along the shore, the leaders decided to play the current channels that still headed south from the morning flood towards Meadow Point. As they approached Meadow Point and entered the adverse current experienced at the start they found a Laser race off the point that had them dodging inside along the beach or outside into the current to avoid the little buggers. With the pin favored, Bravo Zulu
crossed the line on port again, awakening the resting sea lions on the buoy and getting the ever popular line honors. A few minutes behind them came Bergen Viking and Kotuku, that had been battling it out to weather since the mark at Spring Beach. With Kotuku on their transom Bergen Viking crossed the line second and now began the steady sound of horns as the fleet of 28 boats filed into the finish. With the last boat finishing in just over four hours, this grey, wet and dreary day turned into another perfect STYC Iceberg race and it was finally cold enough to enjoy a good hot buttered rum after the finish.
by Mike Beste 48° NORTH, MARCH 2011 PAGE 55
Pl Boat
3 Frog Prints 4 Serafina 5 Ablissian 6 April IV 7 Smola
8 Blue Lullaby 9 Boadicea
FS Fleet 2 1 Tuesday 2 Hitched 3 Runner 4 Rev
5 Lady Too
Type
NFS Fleet 1 1 Whistling Swan Islander 36 2 Grayling
Q-Class Dufr D34
Skipper
William Pirrie Duke H Phan Tim Onders
Cape George 36 Syd Stapleton Cascade 36 Catalina 350 Ericson 29
Peter Fitch Tim Brogan Doug Wilson
NEWP28-2 John H Endresen Ericson 32-3
Simon ffitch Colu26-2
Santana 20 K. Swackhamer Ranger 26 T-Bird
San Jaun 28 Damon Darley
William Stange Scott Peterson
Andy Scheen
FS Fleet 3 1 Tenacious
2 Katrinka Finkle 3 Frecklebelly
6 Cariad 7 Sputnik
FS Fleet 4 1 Bravo Zulu 2 Kiwi Express 3 Kotuku
4 Bergen Viking 5 Muffin
6 Kowloon 7 Quixote 8 Idefix
9 Here & Now
Pearson Flyer Ross Peterson Backyard 28 Moore 24
4 Perfectly Strange POCK22-1 5 Zap
ZAP26
Nick Bannon
Anthony Devita Paul Kalina Don Sarin
VALT42 Alexander Weinert Moore 24 Jacob Kownedy
Bene 40.7-1 G. Denny Vaughn Farr 1020 Reinhard Freywald Farr 1220 J-35-1
SANZ33-1 OLSN911 Elan 40
Olson 30 J-29M
Graeme Esarey Svein Ellingsen Garry M Greth Y Ken Chin Philip Mraz
Adrian Johnson Pat Denney
results courtesy of Sloop Tavern YC
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