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Volume 3, No. 9 September, 2002 Star Class Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts SEPTEMBER REGATTA SCHEDULE all the shifting of the wind, the fleet also changed positions as much. John MacCausland and Sean Delaney came 1st District through with the win and Aaron Serinis took it on the chin Sept. 7-8 Bedford Pitcher, CLIS the hardest and finished 20th. A very long day. Sept. 14-15 Nathan Hale, HB Sept. 21-22 Nutmegs, Mid Sunday dawned much like Saturday, very little wind with high humidity and temperatures. We towed out to the bay 2nd District but there was no wind and not much prospect of any. The Sept. 14-15 SSA Fall Series committee towed us back in to the river where there was a Sept. 28-29 Fall Windup, TAYC much better chance of wind inside. As the day went on the Oct. 19-20 Michelob Cup, WRSC wind slowly increased to 7 to 9 knots. With this wind the committee was able to get three races in. th 5 District John MacCausland and Sean Delaney sailed very solid to Au. 30-Sp. 1 Labor Day Pitcher Regatta, SDYC finish out with a 2–1–1 to win the District Championship. Sept. 7-8 Black Star - Under #7000, CYC Sept. 14-15 Fall Gold Cup, NHYC RESULTS (Top 5: see last month’s Stardust for the full results sheet.) 12th District 1 John MacCausland/Sean Delaney (9)-1-2-1-1 5 Pts. Sept. 7-8 FLASIR, LH 2 John Vanderhoff /Rowan Perkins (13)-5-3-7-2 17 Pts. Sept. 14-15 Lake George Open, LG 3 Barbara Vosbury/Trap Lippincott 6-4-(7)-5-3 18 Pts. Sept. 21-22 Chili Regatta 4 John LeCourt / Chris Hardin 2-2-5-12-(16) 21 Pts. 5 Aaron Serinis / Chris Brown 1-(ocs)-4-2-15 22 Pts. 2002 2ND DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP June 22-23, 2002 2002 MILLER SERIES Miles River, MD July 6-7, 2002 By John MacCausland Gibson Island, MD With 23 boats attending this year’s Districts, we had our By John MacCausland largest turnout in many years. This year’s series was We raced out in the Chesapeake Bay north of the Bay mainly a light air affair. Saturday we went out in the bay Bridge. As the day went on the breeze built to 5 - 9 mph in to race. Race one got off without a hitch. We sailed for the last race. After starting about one minute late, Trapper over 1 hour and did not reach the first weather mark. The Lippincott and Barbara Vosbury came back to win the race committee abandoned the race. Race one, the second in convincing fashion. version, was another light air contest. The left side paid Race 2 & 3 were sailed in just a little more wind than race big on the first beat. Aaron Serinis and Chris Brown lead one. In general the fleet stayed very close around the race at every mark to win the race with John LeCourt and Chris course in both races. John Vanderhoff and Rowan Perkins Hardin second. won the second race with John MacCausland and Sean Race 2 started with the left paying again. Aaron and Chris Delaney winning the third race. were out in the lead with many close in pursuit. As the After three races on Saturday there were 3 boats within 2 race went on what little wind there was finally died to points. Sunday dawned rainy with a good breeze from the nothing at the last mark. With the wind shutting off the east. The committee chose to sail in the river. Race one on next breeze came 180 degrees different then it was, still Sunday again had the fleet very close together for the very light. By the finish there was almost no wind. With 1 STARDUST September, 2002 majority of the race. As the race went on the breeze slowly 12th DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP went down. MacCausland and Delaney held on for a hard July 12-14, 2002 fought win. Seneca Yacht Club Race 2 on Sunday started with about 5 to 8 mph of wind. Geneva, New York As time went on the breeze got lighter and lighter until it By Rick Burgess shut down. The committee abandoned the race at the last The 12th District Championship for 2002 was hosted mark with MacCausland and Delaney in the lead. by Seneca Yacht Club on Lake Seneca, in the beautiful MacCausland and Delaney came out on top with Trapper Finger Lakes region of New York. Lake Seneca is a Lippincott and Barbara Vosbury second and Tom Price wonderful place to sail and the folks at Seneca Yacht Club and Will Wagner third. are to be commended for a job, well done. th 2002 MILLER RESULTS The 12 district includes both Canadian and Pl Sail# Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 Ttl American contestants, of which a number of 1 8068 Erin John Maccausland Sean Delaney CR 5 2 1 1 9 Canadians were vying for a berth on their Olympic 2 7425 Ice Blue Trapper Lippincott Barbara Vosbury AN 1 3 2 7 13 sailing team. The Canadians who were racing included 3 7313 Bop Tom Price Will Wagner AN 4 6 5 3 18 Bill Abbott who represented Canada in the Olympics 4 8038 John Vanderhoff Rowan Perkins NCB 2 1 4 raf 19 5 7939 Alexia Elliott Oldak Angelo Buscemi AN 3 ocs 3 2 20 twice in the Soling class. Ted Haines and Larry Scott 6 7454 F2 G. Weissenberger NCB 6 5 7 5 23 represented Canada in the Olympics in the Tempest 7 7763 Arron Serinis Chris Brown AN 8 7 6 4 25 class. Hans Fogh won two Olympic medals, silver in 8 8063 Bert Collins Wright AN 7 4 8 6 25 the Flying Dutchman and bronze in the Soling. So 9 7370 Rob Emmet Bubba Voeltner AN 9 8 9 dns 38 racing in this year’s 12th District was very competitive 10 6729 Bonita Walter Risse Meadows AN 11 9 10 8 38 11 7182 Mary Jane Sam Hopkins MES 10 10 dnf 9 41 and exciting. Because Lake Seneca experiences southerly thermals each morning in the summer, the racing 12th DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP began every day at 9:00 AM. This worked out fine as Pl. Boat# Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Ttl 1 7775 Bill Abbott Scott Town Iso 1 9 4 7 1 13 we got in two races on both Friday and Saturday. Then 2 7133 Ted Haines Larry Scott LOC 2 3 5 11 4 14 on Sunday, we sailed the last race and everyone had 3 7802 Hans Fogh Dave Caesar LOC 5 1 12 15 3 21 plenty of time to pack up and enjoy the trophy 4 8013 Rick Dhein Ryan Arthur LG 3 10 11 1 7 21 presentation before getting an early start on the road 5 7592 Paul Sustronk Mike Wolf LOC 12 2 14 6 2 22 home. 6 7369 Steve Haarstick Aaron Givelber Sen 4 8 9 8 15 29 7 7726 Kevin Murphy John Finch LH 8 15 1 36 6 30 If I had known I would be writing this report, I 8 7067 William Hendershot Alain Vranderick Iso 7 5 15 14 8 34 would have taken copious notes after each race. As a 9 7626 Jim Freeeman Matt Freeman Sen 14 6 2 13 16 35 10 7793 Brian Crammer Peter Carson LOC 9 7 18 5 17 38 result, I don’t remember the play-by-play. I can tell 11 7756 Brian Murphy Alfredo Rodriguez LH 15 14 7 36 11 47 you that the sailing was tricky, but as usual, the best 12 7207 Rob Eberling Will Phipps Sen 11 19 25 20 5 55 sailors found a way to get out in front and stay there. I 13 7824 Rick Burgess Gary Schneid GrL 10 28 22 16 9 57 remember in the third race, at the weather mark, Kevin 14 8003 Darren Monster John Lazier LOC 36 36 10 2 12 60 Murphy and John Finch had a commanding lead over 15 6831 Duane DelFosse Greg Meyer Snm 36 12 17 10 21 60 16 7308 Brian McKay Jennifer Conway LOC 17 20 6 18 20 61 the entire fleet. Kevin went hard right and after much 17 7729 Tom Flinn Pat Flinn LH 20 18 16 12 22 66 prompting from his very able crew, he finally tacked. 18 7120 Jeff Schuchardt James Favaro GrL 22 13 21 36 14 70 When they got to the mark they were eight feet short 19 7998 Dave Cutler Rick Burgess Jr. GrL 21 23 20 17 13 71 of making it to which Kevin said to John “I told you 20 7940 Kirk Reynolds Dan White Sen 13 11 13 36 36 73 we should have gone further”. I also remember that in 21 6569 Brud Nicholson Ed Seyerlein Sen 23 22 28 9 23 77 22 7271 Bob Westcott Jim Christian Sen 36 36 8 19 18 81 the fourth race Rick Dhein rounded the leeward mark 23 7835 Dick Atkinson Bob Carlson Sun 16 17 30 36 24 87 in little or no wind. Then for some inexplicable reason, 24 7463 Werner Holtze Stacey Valkenburgh Sen 18 24 29 36 19 90 only he picked up a nice little breeze and just sailed 25 6880 Myron White Jack McAllister Iso 36 21 3 36 36 96 away from the entire fleet.