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Latitude 38 October 2015 VOLUME 460 October 2015 WE GO WHERE THE WIND BLOWS ROLEX BIG BOAT SERIES — ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE / CHRIS When the temperature in San EXCEPT AS NOTED Francisco climbs to 93° and beach um- brellas instead of kites blossom on the Diablo course was again featured in the and captains who were so accommodat- sand along the shore at Crissy Field, you fi rst race, and everyone made it back to ing this year." know it may be an epic beach day — but the club in plenty of time for the 6 p.m. it's probably not such a great day for Mt. Gay Rum Party. yacht racing. Sunday, September 20, the In between the postponements and The 89 starters in this year's series fi nal day of St. Francis Yacht Club's 2015 the parties came some truly excellent were sorted into 11 divisions. We'll take Rolex Big Boat Series, was one such day. racing. "Having Peter and Anderson Reg- a look at the accomplishments in each At 1 p.m., the race committee fi red gio as our PROs on the two courses, with one. three guns, pulling the plug on the regat- race director Lynn Lynch coordinating ta with fi ve out of seven races completed. between them, made for consistent and J/105 The heat wave had begun the previous professional race management," said re- Last year's 19-boat J/105 fleet day, Saturday the 19th, and a shoreside gatta chair Susan Ruhne of StFYC. "The swelled to 27 boats this year by virtue consistency between of this regatta doing double-duty as the courses was great for class's North American Championship. the racers." J/105 teams came from as far away as Ship traffi c seems Texas, New York and even Santiago, to be particularly busy Chile. (Hey, that's not in North America!) lately. "Our course On Thursday the J/105s' fi rst race marshals worked with started in the Treasure Island area, sail- the bar pilots and ing a 10.9-mile course that Ryan Sim- other shipping traf- mons' Blackhawk won in a photo fi nish fi c to do our best to with Shannon Ryan and Rolf Kaiser's minimize disruptions Donkey Jack, which had led over much for commercial traffi c of the distance. and for the racers," Blackhawk's original plan was to play said Ruhne. "We really the cone of Alcatraz, seeking shelter from thank all the pilots the current. "We changed our mind mid- CHRIS HOWELL The series served as the J/105 North Americans. 'Jose Cuervo', pictured at Point Diablo, is the new champion. postponement had been in effect The belle of the ball, the K3 Foundation's S&S 78 'Kialoa III' sailed in ORR B. She had previ- until about 2 p.m., so only one of ously raced in the St. Francis YC Big Boat Series the two races scheduled that day in 1976 and '78. had been held. Fortunately, the postpone- ments on Thursday and Friday were shorter, as a brisk westerly fi lled in. On Thursday the chilly breeze, which reached as high as 20 knots, settled in much later than usual, and the on-the-water postponement stretched to two and a quarter hours. Nonethe- less, the race committee got in two rather long races, includ- ing, for some divisions, a jaunt under the Golden Gate Bridge to Point Diablo along the Marin Headlands. When the Rolex Party started back at the club at 5 p.m., no boats had yet fi nished the sec- ond race. The beautiful canapés and the dance band would have to wait for their intended audi- ence. Friday's postponement lasted for a more reasonable (and not unusual) 45 minutes. The Point Page 74 • Latitude 38 • October, 2015 HAVING A HEAT WAVE to Peregrine's 2,1,1,2,1 — meaning that Peregrine won by just one point. Dave," said Bennett. "The racing this year was a little chal- "It's actually the fi rst lenging for us because we feel the boat time I've sailed with is a little faster in the heavy breeze than Eric, but he's sailed light and most of the racing was in light with the rest of them to medium air, so that had us on our so many times that toes," said O'Callaghan. "Chance was it felt like we'd sailed a little faster in the light breeze. The 100 times together. passing lanes were minimal, and it was "Winning means a struggle to stay in front of them all a lot to us, because the way to the last day." Saetta came in we've tried a few a distant third, having scored all threes times at the North and fours. Americans and have fallen short of win- J/111 ning a few times at Last year's winner, Rob Theis’ Aeolus, the Rolex Big Boat started right off with a bang this year. Series," said Bennett. Like last year, his closest (very, very "It's two things in close) competition was Dorian McKelvy's one: checking boxes MadMen. Both boats scored two bullets 'Aeolus' pulled off a repeat in the J/111 class. Inset, from left: Chris Watts, main; Rob Theis, that we weren't successful at checking in during the regatta and fi nished a point skipper; Ryan Kern, spinnaker trim. the past." As for winning a Rolex watch, apart. he added, "Hands down, it's the nicest "We had a strategy going in, we had a leg and decided to go to the Cityfront," trophy I’ve ever won." playbook, and we stuck to our playbook," said Simmons. "It was a very long beat: Bruce Stone's Arbitrage, which won said Theis. "The competition was very all the way from Treasure Island to the last year and fi nished second in 2013, fi erce, and they're all really good sailors. Golden Gate Bridge in a fl ood." came in fourth behind Mojo and Risk, But fortunately we had Blackhawk finished fourth in the and Blackhawk rounded out the top fi ve. a great team; we did second race. Simmons said some fine-tuning to it involved a "super high- J/120 improve our skills, and powered boats-wiping-out- The six-boat J/120 class was one of it paid off." everywhere reaching leg" two J/Boat one-design divisions that saw Seadon Wijsen with the wind at 18-20 a repeat of last year's win. As he did last again served as Aeo- knots. Blackhawk thus year, Mike O'Callaghan took went into Friday tied on the 'jesses' of David Halliwill's KURT ARRIGO / ROLEX KURT points with Shawn Ben- Peregrine. nett's Jose Cuervo. Manhattan resident Hal- Jose Cuervo went on to liwill explains: "Saetta was win the remaining three down a crew position, so I races, topping the biggest fl ew out and jumped onboard division at the regatta by so that Saetta could race and a whopping nine points. the J/120s would have a "We put a really good team one-design division. The other together of guys that have half of that is that I believe in collectively far more experi- having consistent crew. They ence than most people do show up, they get to play. I live on the Cityfront and sailing on the East Coast and haven't in San Francisco, and it been consistent, so I have to showed," said Jose's skip- hold myself to the same rule." per, Shawn Bennett. "They Crewing on Peregrine were were able to get on the boat Chris Davison, Alex Verdoia, and get it going quickly and Kristin McCulloch, Michael get us going in the right di- Thornton, Steve Fentress, WWW.NORCALSAILING.COM rection. We were fortunate John Verdoia, Tad Lacey, crew chief EJ Mike O'Callaghan again skippered the J/120 to get them." Rowland, and tactician Randy Smith. 'Peregrine' to fi rst place. Inset: Mid-bow guy Eric Baumhoff, Nick "Most of these folks have been racing Alex Verdoia models 'Peregrine's Rolex. Gibbens, Dave Gruver, Peregrine consistently all summer in the lus' tactician. Orlando Montalvan, Chris Melissa Feagin, and her one-design season and Corinthian Friday Smith, Ryan Kern, Chris Watts, Bryan brother, Tom Purdy, com- night races," said Halliwill, an ex-Bay Edwards and JB Cianciarulo rounded prised Jose's stellar crew. Area Moore 24 sailor. out the crew. "Tom, Melissa and I do a As he did last year, Barry Lewis' Having won Saturday's race, the new lot of match racing and Chance gave Peregrine a good run for the kid on the block, Peter Wagner's Skeleton some team racing together money (er, watch). Chance, a multiple Key, came in third — just one point be- as well as with Nick and RBBS winner, scored 1,2,2,1,2 compared hind MadMen. October, 2015 • Latitude 38 • Page 75 ROLEX BIG BOAT SERIES — the fi rst race. But doesn't make a lot of mistakes, and we wait, not so fast — knew going into yesterday's race that it this year's series was going to come down to whoever won comeback story is the last race. We won Saturday and still yet to be told. needed to win Sunday if we sailed, so we Mark Dowdy's were lucky enough to come out on top." Eclipse last won the Crewing with Dowdy and Melbostad Big Boat Series in were the latter's wife, Frances, plus 1999. "We kind of Jason Bright, Rhim Fleishman, John put the band back Kernot, Sonny Lopez, Jeff MacDougall, together," said tac- Andy Schwenk and Jeff Vernon.
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