A WEALTH OF ONE DESIGNS

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE / CHRIS EXCEPT AS NOTED ship (IKC), host- ed by SFYC in September, was Octopus team ventured to Miami for the majority of the season events. by far their most for the J/24 Worlds this past We enjoy his strength and expertise. diffi cult regatta. October. We also cobbled together Carol Holder was new to Downtown It required a dif- two crews to go down to Valle de this season. Carol is super-fun to sail ferent mindset. Bravo in late April/early May for with, and a big contributor to our suc- "The team was the J/24 North Americans. Last cess. Melissa, my partner in Downtown committed all but not least, we set up our own Uproar, continues as most talented and year to the task very casual Ditch event and took valuable foredeck. Marina Modlin and of winning the a couple of J/24s to Rio Vista for Paul Zimmer, each continuing on from IKC. We had a the long Fourth of July holiday last year, joined us for several events this set of objectives weekend. We had a resoundingly year. Ilya Fishman, Ivan Hayes, Michele and key results Russ Silvestri awesome time." Soumpton and even Loren's cousin from that drove our effort all year. We missed "This was a pretty challenging Switzerland, Eli, all joined us in a race out on a few boatspeed things in the season for us," said Darren Cum- this year. We're happy to share the boat breeze, but we've learned what they are ming. "We had a fairly slow start, and good times with them all." now." not placing very well in the fi rst For their winter season, the J/24 Randy Hecht owns the boat; Silvestri couple of events. I also skipped fl eet is joining Jeff Zarwell's Winter One drives. (Hecht was traveling when we the Great Vallejo Race this year to Design. "But there are regular informal prepared this report.) The crew this watch the foiling catamarans. All Sunday fun matches run out of Rich- year were Ethan Doyle, trim; and Nick this made it feel like we were play- mond — our own 'Frosty' series — if Leal, bow; with Spencer Cole and Halsey ing catch-up the rest of the year. people want to bring out their own boats Richartz fi lling in. We found our legs in the end and to join or are looking to crew," advises Incidentally, Russ is the latest in- posted a lot of regatta wins in the Litwicki. "Interested folks can reach out ductee into the Redwood High School (in second half of the season. to us via www.facebook.com/j24sf." Larskpur, class of '79) Hall of Fame. "StFYC's Spring One Design 1) Downtown Uproar, 44 points; 2) Shut Up In 2020, Silvestri says they plan to "go was pretty tough. We had to sail and Drive, Valentin Lulevich, OPBYC, 49; 3) Evil to Bergen, with Randy driving!" Bergen, that one shorthanded, unfortu- Octopus, Jasper Van Vliet, RYC, 63. (6 boats) Norway, will host the next IKC in August. nately. Conditions got the better of See www.knarr.us. us, and it just wasn't possible for Knarr — Niuhi 1) Niuhi, 57 points; 2) Jon Perkins, Aquavit, us to sail competitively. We fi nished the Randy Hecht/Russ Silvestri, StFYC SFYC, 77; 3) Gjendin, Graham Green, StFYC, weekend with smiles, but we were down The Bay Area Knarr fl eet has a heavy 120. (20 boats) in the standings. schedule: 29 races with 5 throwouts, "The fi nal regatta of the season, the ending with the Leukemia Cup on Octo- Ultimate 20 — U Decide Great Pumpkin, was pretty exciting. ber 20. Phil Kanegsberg, RYC Everything was just clicking aboard Russ Silvestri's favorite event of the This year, the Ultimate 20 fl eet sailed season was the Resin Regatta at SFYC in the RYC Midwinters and Big Daddy, the Darren Cumming and Melissa Litwicki April. He re- Behrens and HO Lind at Tiburon YC, the calls " Pacifi c Coast Championship at Monterey home in 35 Peninsula YC, the North Americans at knots, laugh- Sandpoint Sailing Center in Idaho, and ing all the the Great Pumpkin back at RYC. way at the ab- The season ended with a tie. "The surdity. Resin tie was broken based on the number of Regatta was races where the two boats competed, and really, really Phil had more wins over Dave Woodside," windy! Knarrs reports fl eet captain Mike Josslyn. are strong U Decide's favorite regatta was the boats. We had PCCs, for great attendance with a good a good series. group of people and diverse sailing con- We got good ditions. "Donna Womble (Peabody) and starts, had MPYC put on a great event and helped OK upwind with housing in an expensive area," re- speed and ports Denise Hammond. fast down- "The Nationals provided some inter- wind, which esting sailing weather. Rain is almost I credit to La- never pleasant to sail in (or to wait to Downtown. We had good starts and were ser and sailing, where you go by the sail in). The Great Pumpkin offered the on the correct side of the course. Our lee to reaching to ride the wave. following insight: If your crew tells you maneuvers were so fast and fl uid, it just "Other highlights are the family din- 'No, it is once around,' don’t follow the felt great. We scored three bullets for the ners after the Wednesday night races at lead boat. (Drivers: Always listen to the day and clinched the season win. StFYC — a ton of fun." tactician. Even if they are wrong, you will "Loren Moore joined us (on trim) again The International Knarr Champion- not hear the end of it if you don’t.) Phil

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only just barely committee for Big Dinghy, Lipton Cup squeaked by on a and Totally Dinghy." tie-breaker. Basi- 1) U Decide, 44.4 points; 2) UAgain, Dave cally, some lucky Woodside, RYC, 4.4; 3) Breakaway, John Wolfe, breaks let us be RYC, 29.6. (8 boats) in front of Dave." U Decide's Cal 20 — Baby Blue plans for 2020 Craig McDow/Chris Cassell, CYC include the RYC "Attendance at our fl eet regattas was Midwinters and light this year, to put it mildly," said the Big Daddy; Go for Cal 20 fl eet captain, Richard vonEhren- the Gold ("Torston krook. "However, two boats attended typically drives for every race, one sometimes while actu- this one and crew ally falling apart. This did not dissuade is typically De- their skipper, nor their stalwart crew. nise and a friend When others bailed out, sometimes for of Torston’s that justifi able reasons, sometimes not, one typically has nev- boat came out to play, regardless of the er sailed or raced prospects for victory. before. The boys "That boat was Dr. Craig McDow’s enjoy the swim- Baby Blue, ably crewed by Chris Cassell, ming and rac- her co-owner. In the Big Daddy, when ing against some others headed for home, they stayed and great Catalina competed. In the Resin Regatta, they 22s"); PCCs ("the stayed and competed, even when they date is not set for had a delaminating main bulkhead. Fully this, so there may repaired, they came out for the CBRA be a confl ict with series when others stayed home. And, Left to right: Phil and Torston Kanegsberg, Ruby, Go for the Gold"); High Sierra; and Great in the Great Pumpkin, they showed up, Shawn MacCabe and Denise Hammond at the Pumpkin. along with the other three of us Cal 20s. East Keystone Canyon trailhead in northwest "Torston is hoping to be a sailing in- They did us proud. Reno. "Don't all of your sailors send pictures from the desert?" quipped Hammond. threw away a fi rst with that maneuver." Joining the crew in various races were Mike Josselyn, Julian Slee, Shawn Mac- Cabe and Michael Mayberry. Phil and Denise loaned out their son Torston to Dave Woodside on UAgain and Michael Eisenberg on Toon Town. "He likes to beat us," said Denise. "It has been an interesting year for us. Julian Slee, our regular third and favorite Aussie ex-pat, injured himself and could not race for much of the year. The weather for the Midwinters forced the cancellation of January and Febru- ary’s races (which we appreciated since driving over from Reno involves the I-80 pass and ugly driving conditions in that weather)." Denise signifi cantly injured her hand in May and therefore didn’t race as a functioning crew again until the Great Pumpkin. "Shawn MacCabe and Phil drove 13 hours from Reno to Sand Point, ID, with only one trailer fl at tire on the way. It BABY BLUE BABY only took Phil and Shawn 20 minutes to change the tire (advantages to having Chris Cassell and Craig McDow "Therefore, I propose to the fl eet mem- great tools — thanks Shawn), and then structor at Lake Tahoe this summer. (He bers that Baby Blue be given the Honor- a 45-minute detour to get new tires in was a Junior Instructor last summer.) ary Fleet Champion award for this year. La Grande, OR. In addition, we try to make Sail a Small This is not intended as a 'goodminton' or "The competition was close, and we Boat Day at RYC, and help with race 'everyone’s a winner' award, but instead

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