Volume 5, No. 3 March, 2004 Star Class Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts MARCH REGATTA SCHEDULE 2004 Biscayne Star Trophy 5th District Pl. Sail# Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 Total Mar. 26-28 ABYC Olympic Classes, Alamitos 1 8141 Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekstrom Bk 2 1 3 Bay Yacht Club 2 81 Afonso Domingos Bernardo Sanyos CP 6 4 10 Mar. 28-29 Delta Star, Stockton Sailing Club 3 8037 Peter Wright Dan Wright WH 5 9 14 th 4 8129 Mark Reynolds Steve Erickson SDB 3 15 18 20 District 5 7995 George Szabo III Mark Strube SDB 11 7 18 Mar. 6-12 Bacardi Cup 6 8136 Argle Campbell Dmitry Yakovenko NH 13 6 19 Mar. 18-28 Olympic Trials 7 8159 Paul Cayard Rod Davis WSFB 10 10 20 8 7488 Roberto Benamati Filippo Domenical Gar 20 3 23 9 8094 Jay Makila Eki Heinonen Fin 4 19 23 2004 BISCAYNE STAR TROPHY 10 8107 Xavier Rohart Pascal Rambeau NI 18 5 23 January 24-25, 2004 11 7988 Peter Bromby Lee White BER 7 24 31 Sixty-three Star boats gathered at Coral Reef YC for 12 8157 Colin Beashel David Giles LMac 15 16 31 the Biscayne Bay Trophy Regatta. Sailed in 5-7 knots 13 8067 Ian Walker Nick Williams LMac 9 23 32 of breeze, only two of the three races were scored, 14 8169 Rohan Lord Andrew Taylor NZL 1 35 36 and 18 boats picked up a Black Flag disqualification. 15 8101 Niculas Holm Claus Olesen DF 19 18 37 16 7952 Ben Cesare Serge Leonidov Mid 27 14 41 17 8077 Howie Shiebler Will Stout WSFB 28 20 48 Miami Olympic Classes Regatta 18 8110 Mark Mansfield Killian Collin IRL 12 37.5 49.5 As seen from the Race Committee Boat 19 8045 Augie Diaz Hal Haenel BisB 8 42 50 January 26-29, 2004 20 8181 Larry Whipple Darin Jensen PS 21 31 52 By Harry Walker 21 8132 Vince Brun Mike Dorgan SDB 42 11 53 Seldom if ever (except a special Worlds) has a 22 7959 Alexander Hagen Jochen Wolfram Glu 32 21 53 more impressive Star fleet been assembled than the 23 8056 Leo Pelekanakis Geo. Kontogouris GRE 47 8 55 one at the 2004 Miami Olympic Classes regatta. 24 7832 John Dane III Rick Peters 25 30 55 Eleven current or former Worlds Champions; 22 25 8175 Joe Londrigan Jon Vandermollen LS 14 43 57 nations represented (most complete with their 26 8168 Ross Macdonald Mike Wolfs EB 26 32 58 coaches), sailed in this event. Hosted by the US 27 8140 Marc Pickel Ingo Borkowski Brm 33 26 59 Sailing Center and the Coral Reef Yacht Club boats 28 8040 Francesco Bruni Antar Vigna Pal 30 29 59 were dry-sailed from both facilities. The opening 29 7425 Barbara Vosbury Trapper Lippincott AN 22 37.5 59.5 ceremonies were held at Coral Reef and 30 7753 Marc Blees Joost Houweling LO 37 25 62 featured remarks by Fred Hagedorn, Head of US 31 8 Iain Murray Andrew Palfrey LMac 35 27 62 Sailings Olympic Committee. A large pasta supper 32 7758 Marko Dahlberg Ville Kurki Fin 29 33 62 followed at the club for all the contestants. 33 7592 Karl Anderson Ezra Culver LOC 45 22 67 34 8059 Peter Vessella Brian Fatih WSFB 39 28 67 35 7793 Brian Cramer Eric Monroe LOC 31 39 70 Day 1 36 8085 Flavio Marazzi Enrico de Maria TB bfd 2 71 Race 1: Tuesdays first race started on time with 37 7640 Arthur Anosov Adam Gillings TaB 23 56 79 PRO Dr. Bill Smoke and a veteran race committee 38 8131 Douglas Schofield Robert Schofield AN 44 36 80 in charge. The course was windward leeward twice 39 7996 Tony Rey Doug Brophy NB bfd 12 81 around and the wind from the SW at 14-16 knots. 40 7993 J Joseph Bainton Chris Rogers NB 40 41 81 Iain Percy of Great Britain with Steve Mitchell 1 STARDUST March, 2004 crewing won with Mark Reynolds and Steve Erickson second and Michael Koch and Marcus 2004 Biscayne Star Trophy (continued) Koy from Germany third. Pl. Sail# Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 Total Race 2 (first attempt): The second race was started immediately after the first and in the same 41 8028 Mark Neeleman Peter van Niekerk Med bfd 13 82 conditions. It started under Black Flag and three 42 8061 Andy Lovell Magnus Liljedahl NOG 38 44 82 boats (Iain Percy, Eric Doyle, and Doug Scofield) 43 7434 Bill Parks Clark Anderson WH 34 49 83 were called over early. Three-quarters of the way 44 8043 Jock Kohlhas Jim Clark BisB 36 48 84 up the first leg a fifty-degree shift and 30 kt. breeze 45 8025 Iain Percy Steve Mitchell SO 16 bfd 85 hit the fleet and the PRO signaled to abandon. The 46 8150 Michael Koch Markus Koy bfd 17 86 fleet sailed in in a deluge of cold rain. 47 8162 Andy Macdonald Austin Sperry NH 17 bfd 86 48 8184 John MacCausland Brad Nichol CR 41 46 87 49 8163 Eric Doyle Brian Sharp SDB 24 bfd 93 Day 2 50 7986 Bill Allen Brad Lichter WH 51 45 96 Day two saw a triple-header in order that the series 51 7936 Steve Rubinkam Len Delicaet WLM 52 47 99 might become current. The three who were black- 52 8084 Bob Teitge Rick Burgess DR 48 51 99 flagged the day before slept in since they could not 53 7934 Karl Von Schwarz Rich Wharton AN 49 53 102 race in this restart of the second race. 54 7471 John Bainton Bruce Hatfield NB 50 52 102 Race 2 (resailed): The wind had picked up to 17- 55 8082 Rick Merriman Bill Bennett SDB bfd 34 103 22 kts. and shifted to the NW. Again the course 56 7964 Ch. Kohlermann IV Chs. Kohlerman III NCB 46 58 104 was Windward Leeward twice around. We had a 57 8017 Todd Gay Jon Klerk LS bfd 40 109 Black Flag start. Only 48 of the 59 entries finished 58 7581 Roberto Bermudez Pablo Arrarte 43 bfd 112 due to black flagged boats, noncompeting (2), and 59 8080 Nelson Stephenson Scott Norris CLIS bfd 50 119 a couple of DNFs. At the first mark US skipper 60 7999 Tiani Hausen Diego Hausen BisB bfd 54 123 Andy Lovell fell out of his boat but was quickly 61 7585 Sharon Crockett Bonnie Unsworth BisB bfd 55 124 picked up by a nearby motor boat and rejoined his 62 8093 Michael Jones Bill Sykes LMac bfd 57 126 crew Magnus Liljedahl. The race was won 63 8158 Max Treacy Anthony Shanks IRL bfd dnf 138 convincingly by Marc Neeleman of the 63 7370 Rob Emmet Mike Voeltner AN bfd dns 138 Netherlands with Xavier Rohart of France second 63 8176 Steven Kelly Bill Holowesko N dns dns 138 and former World’s Champion Freddy Lööf of 63 8087 Kevin McNeil Kevin Murphy AN dns dns 138 Sweden third. 63 7521 Rob Van Wagnen Eric Beckwith BisB dns dns 138 63 8123 Hans Spitzauer Andreas Hanakamp Att bfd bfd 138 Race 3: The second race of the day, which was the third of the series, went off in a little less breeze but the Race 5: The fifth race of the series got away with the entire same course and with the wind oscillating but tending to fleet on the line. The wind was fairly steady and Flavio go more northerly. It was won by Michael Koch and Marrazzi of Switzerland led at three marks only to get Marcus Koy from Germany with Peter Bromby of second to Colin Beashel and Dave Giles of Australia. Paul Bermuda second and young George Szabo and Mark Cayard and Phil Trinter were third. World’s Champions at Strube third. 1 and 3 with an Olympian in the middle. Great competition. Race 4: The last race of this rather gloomy, windy, and cool (by Miami standards) day got off under the black flag Race 6: What turned out to be the final race of the series once more and the PRO shortened it to three legs with the was the same; windward leeward twice around in a breeze finish to windward. The wind had dropped to the 10-14 that had dropped to 8-9 and again was 110 degrees with range and had gone further north. Two boats were black veers to the south. It turned out to have big holes and some flagged and away they went. The race was won by sizeable shifts up at the weather mark which scrambled the Australia’s Ian Murray and Andrew Palfry. Francesco fleet with some of the biggest names being pushed toward Bruni of Italy was second and Mark Reynolds came in the last half of the fleet. The race was won by Marc Pickel third. It was a cold and wet fleet that sailed back to the with Bermudez de Castro second and Martin Dahlberg / club BUT they were back on schedule. Ville Kurke coming in third just ahead of former World’s champion Vince Brun. PRO Smoke and his associate Dr. Bill Anderson, whose Day 3 lovely yacht served as committee boat, decided that the Thursday looked more like a winter day on Biscayne Bay. wind, which had dropped to 5-6, would go nowhere but Wind at 11-13 at 110 degrees. The PRO wanted to try to down, called the race and sent the fleet home.