Volume 4, No. 5 May, 2003 Star Class Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts MAY REGATTA SCHEDULE 2003 PRE-TRIALS March 21-23, 2003 5th District By Rick Burgess May 1- Aug 28 Starlight Series (CYC) May 24-25 Rollins Bowl (SDYC) Having missed the Bacardi Cup I was really looking May 31- June 1 5th District’s (SFYC) forward to sailing in the Pre-Trails with my old friend Jim May 31- June 1 Cal Race Week (CYC) Freeman. We knew going into this regatta that we were not 2003 US SAILING OLYMPIC PRE-TRIALS US Sailing Center & Coral Reef Yacht Club Miami, Florida March 21-23, 2003 Pl Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Pts 1 8141 Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekstrom Bk 10 9 9 1 1 1 6 27 2 8088 Paul Cayard Phil Trinter WSFB 5 4 2 11 3 7 22 32 3 7988 Peter Bromby Andrew Palfrey BER 12 1 7 3 9 12 2 34 4 7828 Colin Beashel David Giles Sy 1 3 4 8 ocs 8 10 34 5 7933 Terry Hutchinson Andrew Scott AN 8 7 15 7 5 4 4 35 6 7995 George Szabo III Darin Jensen SDB 11 21 10 2 4 2 9 38 7 8082 Rick Merriman Bill Bennett SDB 2 16 17 5 13 5 8 49 8 8077 Howie Shiebler Rick Peters WSFB 6 14 13 6 19 11 1 51 9 8129 Mark Reynolds Magnus Liljedahl SDB 15 2 5 26 8 15 7 52 10 8061 Andy Lovell Eric Oetgen NOG 13 15 3 12 6 10 13 57 11 8045 Augie Diaz Mark Strube BisB 7 8 18 10 15 3 15 58 12 8067 Ian Walker Nick Williams Sy 14 6 8 14 18 19 3 63 13 Eric Doyle Rodrigo Meireles SDB 19 11 1 21 2 dnf 12 66 14 7763 Kevin Hall Mark Newbrook AN 9 12 dns 4 16 13 14 68 15 8000 Tony Rey Doug Brophy NB 18 19 11 20 10 9 5 72 16 7663 Bill Hardesty Will Stout SDB 17 18 12 9 14 6 17 75 17 7592 Paul Sustronk Paul Wolfs LOC 4 5 21 22 ocs 14 21 87 18 8132 Vince Brun Brian Terhaar SDB 16 13 20 13 12 18 19 91 19 7876 Andy Horton Darrell Hiatt VT 3 10 14 25 20 22 dns 94 20 8113 John MacCausland Shane Zwingleberg CR 21 20 16 18 22 16 11 102 21 7614 Karl Anderson Ezra Culver BH 20 22 6 28 7 26 26 107 22 8043 Jock Kohlhas Chris Rogers BisB 22 17 19 29 11 24 25 118 23 7986 Bill Allen Brad Lichter WH rdg 23 dns 17 17 21 20 122 24 7784 Andy MacDonald Philip Ramming NH dnf dnf dns 16 25 20 16 141 25 7626 Jim Beatty Simon Van Wonderen LOC 23 26 23 24 27 dnf 18 141 26 7802 James Freeman Richard Burgess SL dnf dnf dns 15 23 23 24 149 27 7950 Jimmie Lowe Dimitriy Yakovenko N 24 24 22 30 dns 25 27 152 28 Argyle Campbell Scott Pack dnf dnf dns 27 24 17 23 155 29 7451 Ross MacDonald Rob Cullen EB dnf dnf dns 19 21 dnf dnf 168 30 8131 Bob Schofield Chris Brown AN dnf 25 24 31 26 dnf dns 170 31 8011 Kent Heitzinger Rick Rundle 26 dnf dns 23 dnf dns dnf 177 1 STARDUST May, 2003 going to be one of the favorites, but who cared. Warm visiting sailors are invited to join in the Super Happy Hour weather, great competitors and Miami in March; what at the Club with steel band entertainment and casual dinner more could you ask?!! on the deck. The Happy Hour will begin at 5 PM followed The regatta started off with all crews having to weigh by music and dinner on the deck. in. As far as I know there were no problems and all who For more information on how to get to the club, came to race were able to do so. housing, or the event itself see the Mid-Conn fleet web site One of the things that impressed me was even though www.mycstar.org or contact: this was one of the ranking regattas to make the U S Club Vice Commodore: Alan Pritchard, 203 853 6310 / Sailing Team was the amount of sharing between the [email protected] different competitors in setting up their boats. We were scheduled to sail 7 races over three days. I David Bolles: 203 882 9428 / [email protected] would love to give you a race by race account of what was happening, but due to a mishap in the first race we were forced to sit out the first three races. The second race was 2003 MASTER’S REGATTA protested and the jury was thrown out, but on Saturday an Milford Yacht Club appeal was filed and the race was reinstated on Sunday August 23-24,2003 morning. As you can imagine some were happy and some On August 23-24 a Master's Regatta for the Alan R. were not. To me it meant only one race on Sunday, and Burtis Master’s Trophy will be hosted by the Milford when you are old that’s good. Yacht Club and Mid-Connecticut Star Fleet as part of the As you will see from the result sheet the group sailing 100th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of Milford was really the cream of the class. Y.C. The Club is making special preparations for this What I can tell you is we sailed three races on Friday, event and will take this opportunity to honor all those Star three on Saturday and one on Sunday. The weather was Sailors who have contributed so much to the Club over the just wonderful. The wind was from the south / southeast 10 last 50 years since the Club became the home of the Mid- to 16, temperature in the high 80’s / low 90’s, bright and Connecticut Star Fleet. sunny. Some of the social events planned so far are: As usual the people at the Coral Reef Yacht Club made Friday night: a welcoming party at the Club us feel right at home and the work of Rich Raymond, the Saturday evening: a pool-side party and dinner PRO, and his group of volunteers was greatly appreciated. Sunday afternoon: a special awards ceremony with food and drink The races planned for this event are two on Saturday ARMS-WHITE REGATTA and one on Sunday. Arms Trophy To Winning Skipper There will be prizes for the various Master's categories: White Trophy To Winning Crew Master's (50-59), Grand Master's (60-69), Exalted Grand June 14-15, 2003 Master's (70-79) and Venerable Exalted Grand Master's The Arms-White series is named after two sailors from (80-infinity). the C.L.I.S., John Taylor Arms and Elwood S. White. In While it may seem early make an informal invitation to 1937 John Arms donated the Arms Trophy and in 1942 the the event, we felt that by doing so we can get you to put family of Elwood White donated the White Trophy for the our event on your calendar now so that other commitments winning crew of the Arms series. The series, originally will not crowd us off your calendar. called the Noroton Race Week, was sailed out of the We also hope that we can get Star Sailors from across C.L.I.S. until 1969, and then was relocated to Mid-Conn in the North American continent to come to participate. We 1970. See the Mid-Conn fleet web site www.mycstar.org already have commitments from the 2nd, 12th and 20th for a history of the event which appeared in a Districts. For those of you who would come if a boat could commemorative history about the C.L.I.S. Fleet in 1947. be found please contact us. We have several skippers The Arms-White Regatta has enjoyed a good turnout under 50 in the region who have indicated that they would over the years and recently has been running between 20 to be interested in crewing on their boats with you, so send us 35 boats. Always a nice feature is the Saturday evening a note if this would interest you and we will put you in dinner at the Club. As a reminder, the harbor start is at 11 contact with the pool of available boats. AM on Saturday, June 14. For information such as accommodations, location, Aside from the Arms and White trophies for the series directions to the Club, tides, etc. go to the menu bar of the winners, there are keepers for the first three series places, web page www.mycstar.org. We will have housing with Master’s and Grand Master’s divisions, and daily firsts, local Club members available on a limited basis, so if that seconds and thirds. interests you please contact us promptly. An added feature is that this year on Friday evening For more information please contact: 2 STARDUST May, 2003 Alan Pritchard, Milford Y.C. Vice Commodore, event chairman: Tel: 203 853 6310 [email protected] David Bolles, Mid-Connecticut Fleet Secretary Tel: 203 882 9428 [email protected] JOSEPH E. JESSOP Cofounder of the San Diego Bay Fleet Based on Ed Sprague’s forth-coming book The San Diego Star Fleet Joseph E.