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Latitude 38 March 2015 VOLUME 453 March 2015 WE GO WHERE THE WIND BLOWS THREE BRIDGE FIASCO A s Debbie Harry sang in 1980, a few years before the fi rst Three Bridge Fiasco, "The tide is high, but I'm holdin' on; I'm gonna be your number one…" (more than 30 minutes after the A record number of starters, 349, last start time), because they tried would try to be number one to the fi nish to start from the west but could line in this year's singlehanded/double- not get back to the line until the handed 21.47-mile Bay tour held on the wind picked up." last day of January. The biggest division in the At 9:00 a.m., the pursuit race starts race, the doublehanded Moore 24 began, in reverse class, had 31 order by PHRF rat- starters and ing, in what little only eight remained of a light "We hosed her off and finishers. fl ood. The (very high) put her in the water that They were tide had turned just led by Mi- before the race, and Friday. On Saturday, chael Quinn most starters would we raised our sails and and Larry battle an ebb top- Nelson, who ping out at 4 knots started two minutes chartered for most of the day. Cal, owned The Singlehand- later. That was the sum by Dave Al- ed Sailing Society total of our rehab work bright. Poor puts on the race, the ol' Cal had fi rst in their season and campaign." been lan- each year. The rac- guishing on ers start in either her trailer at direction off the Golden Gate Yacht Club Richmond YC. deck and round three marks in any "Cal had not been in the water order, fi nishing back at GGYC, crossing for at least two years," said Quinn. the line in either direction. The three "We literally hosed her off and put marks are Blackaller Buoy off Crissy her in the water that Friday. On Field near the San Francisco side of the Saturday, we got towed to the start by then ran straight down the middle of Golden Gate Bridge; Red Rock just south Gary Troxel's Beneteau 423 Tiki Blue, the Berkeley fl ats. We were about 200 of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; and raised our sails, and started two minutes yards ahead of the next Moore when Yerba Buena/Treasure Island at the Bay later. That was the sum total of our 're- Larry made the call to round Red Rock Bridge. Strategy is key, and the ebb be- hab' work and 'campaign'. We were very to starboard (the long way). This was came a factor early on. lucky that Dave put so much attention the defi ning moment of the race, as we "Several boats that went to Blackaller and care into Cal when he was actively didn't see another Moore round it until fi rst got sucked under the South Tower sailing her. She is laid out immaculately! we were entering Raccoon Strait. After and dropped out quite early," said the It was obvious that she was going to be a that, things got pretty simple for the SSS race chair, Allen Cooper. "Most of very easy boat to sail shorthanded, and helmsman!" the starting sequence had wind, but that really matters in this kind of race." Ian Matthew, sailing the C&C 29-1 two of the slower boats started quite late Nelson and Quinn stuck with their Siento el Viento with crew Jeff Drust, original plan of Treasure Island, Red An exodus of boats from the San Francisco started at 9:32:30. "It looked like there Marina and StFYC joins the crowd forming in Rock, Blackaller. "We approached, would be a little fl ood left at our start," the starting area off GGYC. rounded, and exited TI very wide, and said Matthew, "and the weather forecast showed a light wind out of the north with the wind at Red Rock shutting down around midday. That gave us the initial strategy to go for Red Rock fi rst and then let the wind decide whether we should take Blackaller or Yerba Buena next." At their start, they saw nothing to change their minds. "We went east mak- ing for the Berkeley Flats. We enjoyed the fl ood and a nice lift as we headed toward the Olympic Circle. As we approached Red Rock, the wind did what SailFlow said it would do and steadily dropped as we approached. We were now getting Moore 24 and Express 27 company." Some of the other boats were very THE TIDE IS HIGH Red Rock, from the Berkeley Pier to the Yerba Buena rounding, and, after rounding Blackaller, to the fi nish." At 4:27:36, she was the fi rst singlehander to fi nish, one of only four, and the only boat in her class, Singlehanded PHRF >162. None of the three Singlehanded Multihulls was able to fi nish. We'll hit the rewind button and go back a couple of hours earlier in the afternoon in order to fi nd our 'number one', the overall winner. Bill Erkelens Sr.'s D-Class cat Adrenaline was the fi rst boat to fi nish, at 2:46:37. "We started on time [at 11:02:25] and never stopped moving," said Erkelens. "We went Red Rock, TI, Crissy, fi nish. Our strategy was to go to Crissy fi rst and then Red Rock, but that changed. Like Kame Richards says, you have to go where you can keep moving. In this photo, taken at 9:44 on January 31, the Moore 24s have just started the 2015 Three Bridge The remainder of the big cats Fiasco, and it's now the Ultimate 20s' turn. Some others are running late, or still have to wait started late due to the lack of for their appointed start time. — All photos this spread latitude / chris wind." Adrenaline's track showed mostly straight lines, with very few tacks and jibes. "My crew Chris Steinfeld and I sailed the close to the west shore of Red Rock. "A Siento fi nished at 4:21:01, almost most direct course, only 23 miles — the J/22 ended up aground," said Matthew. seven hours after they started. "The D- shortest distance I have ever done in the "We anchored for about 10 minutes until Class cat got a horn, but you can imagine Three Bridge. We are glad we were able we got a southwest puff." my surprise and pleasure when we got to stay with some air to keep moving." The puff was enough to get Siento the gun." Ian and Jeff had just won the Nick Gibbens of the Express 27 She- around the rock. Abeam of Treasure Is- Doublehanded PHRF >162 division. nanigans has raced on the Bay since he land, Matthew and Drust set their chute Synthia Petroka, singlehanding the was 10, and he explored all the various in a westerly, then doused as they got 28-ft Hawkfarm Eyrie, also went to Red close to the 'I' pier of the old Bay Bridge. Rock fi rst, and also went east of Angel Is- The Three Bridge Fiasco is the only race we They enjoyed a steady breeze all the way land rather than through Raccoon Strait, know of that still uses the old 10-minute starting around Yerba Buena. riding the last bit of fl ood. The ebb kicked sequence — but just once, for the fi rst start. "Halfway to Blossom Rock, we tacked in for her around 11:30. "As I was slowly over to the main channel to get more inching toward Red Rock, I noticed I was ebb. We got a strong tide and a nice no longer approaching it and the boats lift. The westerly was still going well for nearer to the Rock were anchoring," she us, as well as a good ebb, so we stood said, "so I ooched over a bit and hid in out in the tide and then headed for the its cone until the building westerly was white barrel close to Blackaller rather enough to overtake the building ebb and than Blackaller itself. Looking into the I could barely squeak around. Then I sun, it was hard to see Blackaller and rode the ebb mid-channel toward TI, you certainly couldn’t see the color! taking a wide turn around Yerba Buena Fortunately, a D-Class catamaran, HMB and back mid-channel toward Blossom Boys & Girls Club, was with us and we Rock and Alcatraz, then mid-Bay toward could now see the correct mark. It's a the Golden Gate Bridge, to stay in the good thing you can take all the marks dying ebb. By the time I got to Blackaller in either direction, so we rounded Black- the fl ood had started on shore." aller to starboard and did a bear-away She'd had great wind most of the day, set only to have the wind die! That was except for the light patch between South- really nerve-wracking, but fortunately ampton and the approach to Red Rock, the westerly came back and we rode the and rounding Blackaller. "I was able to spinnaker to the fi nish." carry the spinny from Southampton to THREE BRIDGE FIASCO This page, clockwise from top left: the F-31 'Kokomo' and J/88 'White Shadow' on opposite jibes way to the other side and didn’t drop at Red Rock; the Melges 30 'Wet Corvette' in fresh breeze, headed for TI; little Wylies got a tow our spinnaker until we were under the to the startline from a big sister; the Cal 20 'Green Dragon' south of Red Rock; the non-spinnaker old bridge on the east side.
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