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Local Star Class Newsletter Volume 5, No. 5 May, 2004 Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts MAY REGATTA SCHEDULE plus hours to get to the line. It took four tries to get this race started due to a winds pattern that went from around 2nd District 320 all the way around to 120 degrees. The sea breeze won Apr 30-May 2 Annapolis Spring / NOOD (AN) out in this battle and we got off to a W-3 which actually (Tri-District Qualifier) had to have the last two legs shortened as the wind seemed May 8-9 Spring Regatta (MRYC) to be dying. The start was in 6 knots at 110 degrees and the 5th District pin end was favored. George Szabo and Mark Strube took May 6-Aug 19 Starlight Series (Thurs. @ 6pm) (CYC) this one over Rick Merriman and Paul Cayard came third. May 29-30 Rollins Bowl (SDB) It was a tired fleet which sailed in after 9 hours of frustration mixed with only one race. The U.S. Olympic Trials Day 4: Report as viewed from the Race Committee Boat Day 4 started with an hours delay due to boisterous winds By Harry Walker exceeding 20 knots. PRO Rich hoisted the AP and the fleet The event was run like the Olympics at Athens will be run sat, knowing they would be out after a bit. with races scheduled to run between an hour and a half and Race 6 was started in 18 knots with the wind direction of an hour and a quarter. The target time for each race was 90 050 degrees and a course of W-2 and leg length of 1.7 nm. minutes. All races were windward-leewards and either two The breezes went as high as 21 and in lulls we saw 15 at or three times around. For the first four days all finishes the Committee Boat. Paul Cayard took this one with Mark were downwind. Reynolds second. They had a battle all the way down the Rich Raymond was the PRO and very exacting. last leg with jibe after jibe. Day 1: Race 7, using the same course and course length but with the breeze having gone to 055, was also won by Cayard Heavy breezes over twenty knots kept the fleet ashore till with George Szabo closing to second. well after the announced departure time. After several hours of delay they were sent out into 18 - 20 knots. Wednesday is a mandatory lay day and the rest of the 16 race series scheduled to start Thursday with winds Races 1 and 2: Both races were won by Eric Doyle. 5 boats predicted in the 15kt range. were disabled with 3 masts going down. Day 5: Day 2: Race 8: Three races were scheduled for Thursday. The second day saw much lighter conditions with 10-12 However, the forecast was wind for E/NE at 24-32 knots. knots out of the East. Unfortunately, the forecast was correct, and after one fairly Race 3: Doyle was over at the start but returned. There hairy race which saw the teams of Shiebler / Stout and were some slight shifts on the W-3 course. Cayard won Dane / Sprague lose their masts, the team of. Szabo / with Vince Brun second. Strube went on to win and they were followed by the Race 4: The fourth race, again with a 10 knot easterly Schofield brothers. breeze, got off with two boats, Shiebler and Hendrick Day 6: Wennerstrom over early and not returning. Vince Brun Friday started as another windy day. However, once the took this one with Cayard second and Andy Lovell third. winds dropped from 30 knots the fleet was allowed to Day 3: leave shore to start racing at 2:30, 2½ hours behind Race 5 was perplexing. PRO Raymond took the fleet out schedule Friday's wind: E/NE, 22 knots. onto a glassy bay. Boats who had tows and coach boats got Race 9: Cayard / Trinter were chased around the first lap out rapidly. A few who sailed out with little air took two by Reynolds / Erickson, and then Doyle / Sharp,only to be 1 STARDUST May, 2004 passed on the final downwind lag.. Szabo / Strube passed The first day of racing was cancelled due to winds to 35 Reynolds / Erickson for third. knots. On the 2nd day, three races were run. Race 1 was a Race 10: Moments after starting near the committee boat, Gold Cup course sailed in 4 to 15 knots at 250 degrees. Cayard / Trinter tacked right with three non-contender Race 2 was a windward-leeward twice around in 10-15 boats as a big header came through while everyone else knots, puffy at 270 degrees. Race 3 was an Olympic kept going left. That was all she wrote for this race. The triangle in 10-15 knots puffy at 270 degrees. It paid to go team Lovel / Liljedahl closed the gap on Cayard / Trinter left. but never caught them. New Orleanian Andy Lovell proved that familiarity with Day 7: Lake Pontchartrain pays off, finishing first in all three Saturday looked a little chancy as the breezes were at races of the Jahncke Cup on Wednesday at the Southern about 20 knots as we went out to the course. We had 6 Yacht Club. Lovell and crew member Magnus Liljedahl, races to go in the series and though only Szabo seemed to finished eight points ahead of their closest competitors to have a fair chance of catching Cayard, he would have to win the Jahncke Cup. have three great races and Paul suffer both bad luck and a "We sailed very well today, and hopefully we can carry disaster to boot. this over to tomorrow in the Spring Championships," All three of the races were sailed in winds of 17-19 knots Lovell said. "Knowing this lake definitely provides us an and the courses were the now normal W-2 of 1.65 nm. advantage, and it helped us a lot when the winds changed Lovell / Liljedahl captured Race 11 and Reynolds / throughout the day. Everything seemed to be working out Erickson won Race 12. for us today." Race 13: Eric Doyle, who has been pushing the fleet with Mark Reynolds finished second in the first two races with fast and smart sailing, missed this one today by being over crew member Will Stout before having to withdraw from early and not returning. This effectively shot him down as the third race due to a mast problem. "I familiarized a serious threat to Paul, and now only Szabo / Strube myself more with the lake today," said Reynolds, who won looked strong. Unfortunately for George, he and Mark the Spring Championships the last two times it was held in Strube had 2 bad races on Saturday and though it was still New Orleans in 1991 and 1997. "I didn't realize I had won possible, overtaking the leaders was a very long shot. the last two times, but I've sailed here about a half a dozen Day 8: times in my career and three times in college. "We ran into a minor problem today. We decided to not participate in Race 14, 15 & 16: In the worse case scenario Cayard / the third race, so we wouldn't turn it into a major Trinter needed a 14th in any one of the races on Day 8 to problem." take the series. They got a 5th in the first race of the day and sailed for home. In race 14 Shiebler / Stout got the first John MacCausland, along with crew member Brad Nichol, of two bullets for the day, also taking Race 15. The finished second with 12 points. MacCausland won the Schofield brothers won the final race. Jahncke Cup in 1997 and is coming off a first-place finish Paul and Phil won without having to sail the last two races. in the last race in the Bacardi Cup. They were able, awesome, and BIG winners. Their preparation was unmatched and their dedication to detail Western Hemisphere amazing. Physically they are in top shape and kept that Spring Silver Star Championship way with a regime of exercise and nutrition unmatched by Race 1 & 2: Thursday, April 15: Andy Lovell and crew others through the series. America knows we have a member Magnus Liljedahl won two first-place races on couple of great champions on that boat who will represent Thursday, and were in first place of the Spring each of us Staristas in the US and our country at the Championships of the Western Hemisphere at the Southern highest level. Yacht Club. They lead by three points with four races left See page 4 for results. in the next three days. "I think a lot of our success as of late can be credited to our three months of intense training before the Olympic Trials (last month)," Lovell said. "The Andy Lovell and Magnus Liljedahl training gave us the confidence and mental ability to Win the Jahncke Cup and overcome anything that happens on the water. "We Spring Silver Star Championship executed perfect at one point today, and Magnus looked at (Based on the write-up on the Star Class Web Site) me and said, 'We really aced that one.' It was like hitting a Jahncke Cup hole-in-one." The Jahncke Cup is used as a tune-up series for the Lovell and Liljedahl defeated Mark Reynolds and Will Western Hemisphere Spring Silver Star Championship. Stout in the first race and beat off John McCausland and 2 STARDUST May, 2004 Brad Nichol in the second.
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