6 Jul, '02, 18:30
St. Pete Scorer
July 6, 2002 - Report by John Fox:
Winds were from the NW with shifts up to 50 degrees. Wind strength 8-14kts.
The day was mainly a battle between Gary MacDonald/Howard Davis and Steve Braverman/Ron Rezac for the series with the other boats hanging in there for the ride.
Plenty of place swapping throughout the fleet due to the shifts.
Scores for DNC are corrected to the number of boats that actually sailed in the series.
The only boats that changed places were Foxy and Siljander/McKee and Foxy dropped one place to tie with Siljander/McKee instead of Lavery/Carney

June 29, 2002 - Report by John Fox:
Finally some really beautiful weather! Race 4 & 5 were sailed in Broad Sound along with the PHRF fleet.
Stars were the largest of 6 classes with 9 boats on the line. Winds were about 5 kts from the East at the first start and built to about 9kts and shifted to SSE as the day went on.
Gary MacDonald and Howard Davis ruled the day with a 2 & 1. Ken Luczinski and Jason Maher proved that old boats are still fast by tying with Franny Charles and Corey Baker for the second for the day.

June 15, 2002 - Report by Steve Braverman:
Race 3 Results:
7629 ken woods & greg reuter
7444 fran charles & corey baker
7732 gary macdonald & howard davis
8052 steve braverman & ron rezac
7101 ted lavery & john carney

The race started in about 15-20 knots and ended in 25+.
The course was windward to winthrop shore, leeward to thompson island, and back to windward. braverman/rezac lead to the weather mark. good rides on the run.
Charles/Baker & Woods/Reuter caught Braverman/Rezac by the leeward mark.
3/4 the way up the 2nd beat Woods/Reuter passed and covered Charles/Baker to win the race.

The fleet headed in instead of having a second race.

Big flag day party at the club...beers, burgers and dogs.
Learned from wednesday's misery at sunapee, and wore the drysuit - warm & toasty today.
s.


June 2, 2002 - No racing, Report by Steve Braverman:
Gary and Howard left the dock, and almost deathrolled, but got the boat under control, and quickly gybed....got around the pier, and tried to go upwind, but from the dock we couldn't see Gary and Howard, only their keel. They headed back in within minutes.

Franny and Corey went out, and did the same 'almost deathroll' thing.... they went past the nuns and reached out to long island in about a minute. long trip home -- came in with big grins on their faces about an hour later.


June 1, 2002, Report by John Fox:
Race 1 and Race 2:
First race was in wind about 15kts with gusts to about 18-20.

It blew very hard for the second race, maybe winds 20-25 with gusts clocked as high as 45 on Shepard's boat. Kenny, Siljander and I headed back before it started and only 4 boats finished it . The only breakage was Steve's Rig after the race. They went to let the main down and the bolt rope pealed out of the track and the sail completely filled like a spinnaker. The mast folded at the spreaders.