STARDUST Volume 5, No. 10 October, 2004 Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts OCTOBER REGATTA SCHEDULE Club hosted a very nice dinner which many of the spouses 1st District attended. Oct. 9-10 Larchmont Columbus Day Regatta Sunday did not look good for the wind. We all towed out 2nd District to the bay and caught up on our rest along with working on Oct. 9-10 Star Fall Regatta (MRYC) our tans. Three and a half hours later the Committee pulled the plug on the day of racing. 5th District Oct 2-3 Fall One Design (CYC) With seventeen boats participating we had great weather Oct 16-17 Pacific Coast Championships (WSFB) minus the wind, good food Friday night at Bert Collin’s Oct 23-24 Calvin Paige (WSFB) house and Saturday night at the Eastport Yacht Club. Our Oct 30-31 Ash Bown / Oktoberfest (SDB) District’s was a nice way to spend the weekend. More about the 2nd District Blue Star... by Barbara Vosbury MAC CAUSLAND AND FATIH WIN Easterly winds 5 kts or less. This weather report will send THE 2nd DISTRICT BLUE STAR EVENT you back under the covers if you live here on the September 11 – 12, 2004 Chesapeake! Actually we did have 5 kts most of the day Annapolis, MD and it turned out to be a great day for sailing. A little by John MacCausland choppy as it was also a beautiful day for powerboating! With the 2004 World’s already completed early in the year John MacCausland and Brian Fatih had to work hard to we were able to have our districts in September. Just earn John’s 14th Blue Star. Shifty winds and formidable maybe this would give us a chance to have a little wind. competitors made for a very challenging day on the water. After a summer of very light wind, this would be very welcomed. Seventeen boats arrived at the Severn Sailing Tom Price and Will Wagner earned the top Master while Association to find another weekend with very light wind. Kris Wilson and Bud Elsaesser were the top Novices. Dave Thomas and Eric Wagner won the under 7200 Racing started Saturday morning with a light north easterly award. which held for most of the day. Racing was difficult with very light wind and very rough water for the first two races Many thanks and lots of respect to Sandy Grosvenor and of the day. For the third and final race the wind picked up her race committee for their persistence and patience. just a little and most of the crews were able to get over the Thank you also to Jack Lynch for standing by as Jury. side. By the day’s end we had three different race winners Eastport Yacht Club hosted a wonderful dinner Saturday and some very close racing. Saturday night Eastport Yacht night to top off the whole event. 2nd District Blue Star Results Pl. No. Boat Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 Total 1 8184 Erin John Maccausland Brian Fatih CR 4 1 5 10 2 7313 Bop Tom Price Will Wagner CB 6 4 1 11 3 8113 -- Gunti Weissenberger Chris Brown NCB 5 2 7 14 4 7567 -- Aaron Serinis VonSchwarz AN 1 8 6 15 5 8038 -- John Vanderhoff Amlong NCB 2 9 4 15 6 8063 Grinch Bert Collins Guy Avellon AN 10 3 3 16 7 7425 Ice Blue B. Beigel-Vosbury Trapper Lippincott AN 3 6 9 18 8 7460 -- Kling Lovelette -- 15 7 2 24 9 7939 Alexia Elliott Oldak Richter AN 7 5 14 26 10 7497 -- Kris Wilson Bud Elsaesser AN 8 13 10 31 11 7786 Cover Girl Karen Alt Chris Hardin MES 12 12 8 32 12 7454 Neva Leigh Steeble -- 13 10 11 34 13 7054 Rebel Yell Dave Thomas Eric Wagner MES 11 11 12 34 14 7090 Lil White Lie Bob Bradford Roger Pickall MES 9 ocs 13 40 15 7465 -- Dixon Duffett Corry Baker AN 14 16 15 45 16 7970 Mary Jane Sam Hopkins Bart Kaplan MES 16 14 dnc 48 17 6729 Bonita Walter Risse Brock AN 17 15 16 48 1 STARDUST October, 2004 PETER CUSICK AND SERGEY LEONIDOV On Saturday evening the participants were treated to a WIN THE BEDFORD PITCHER marvelous dinner provided by the members of the CLIS fleet, led by Nelson Stephenson who cooked the barbequed Fourteen boats from four fleets participated in the 2004 roast, salmon, chicken and vegetables and Thorny Cook Bedford Pitcher. Racing started off with a bang on who provided the cheese and crackers. Saturday with a fairly good breeze and plenty of chop. While the fleet stayed fairly close together, oddly enough There was little hope of getting off any races on Sunday, the first three finishers ended race 1 in what would become but the race committee set off to do some wind hunting the eventual series finish. and was able to find enough to get off two more races, albeit in light to moderate conditions. In the final race the Race 2 started in slightly less wind, but after the fleet tide was running enough to cause a couple of boats to hug rounded the windward mark the wind began to lighten the windward mark. However, the team of Peter Cusick until it was just a whisper by the leeward mark. At that and Sergey Leonidov sailed a consistent series to win the time Ben Cesare, with Adam Tamme as crew, was in the event for a second time. lead. There followed a long excruciating windward leg in which some boats were able to hold their positions while Special thanks for the members of CLIS and the Cedar others fell into holes which left them stranded. The race Point race committee for making the event a memorable committee mercifully shortened the race to end at the occasion. second windward mark, with Will Swigart and Desmond Walsh taking top honors. Pl. No. Boat Name Skipper Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts. 1 7951 Mona Lisa Peter Cusick Sergey Leonidov Mid 1 3 2 1 7 2 8007 Serendipity Bill Watson Roger Sharp CLIS 2 7 1 4 14 3 7952 Kimmar Ben Cesare Adam Tamme Mid 3 2 3 7 15 4 7715 Ciao Bella Will Swigart Desmond Walsh CLIS 7 1 8 2 18 5 7565 Telluride Jack Button Chris Batchelor Mid 11 5 4 3 23 6 7890 Mongrel Guy Gurney Harrison Gill CLIS 5 8 6 5 24 7 8112 Junkyard Dog Joe Bainton Tod Raynor NB 4 10 9 6 29 8 8080 -- Nelson Stephenson David Chard CLIS 8 12 5 8 33 9 7959 Bel Ami Thorny Cook Mike Young CLIS 10 6 10 12 38 10 7657 -- David Hoffman J. Rittenhouse CLIS 9 9 12 9 39 11 7993 -- John Bainton Will Christiansen NB 6 14 7 13 40 12 6970 -- Jason Naylor Chris Kriz Mid 13 11 11 10 45 13 7371 -- Steve Andrews Ailene Rogers HB 14 4 14 14 46 14 8035 Impromptu David Bolles Alejandra Bolles Mid 12 13 13 11 49 2004 LAKE GEORGE OPEN are second to none. We look forward to next year’s event by Rick Burgess and hope to see you all there next year. The 2004 Lake George Open was held this past weekend. Top 8 boats Thirteen boats from 5 different fleets competed. Pl. No. Skipper Crew Fleet On Saturday the wind did not come up until mid after noon 1 7630 Brad Anderson Larry Scott LOC and the race committee did an outstanding job of setting 2 8143 Brian Cramer Len Delicaet LOC the course. Though it was on the light side we sailed a very 3 7824 Rick Burgess Kip Gardner GrL 4 7830 Andy Ivey Reid Krakower Sun nice course # 4 and finished in about 2 hours. Brad 5 6303 Bill Nutzel Liz Nutzel LH Anderson and Larry Scott gave us a sailing lesson and 6 7734 Hank Rowan -- LG st finished 1 . Andy Ivey sailed around the fleet on the first 7 8083 John Chiarella Bob Carlson Sun downwind finished 2nd, and Brian Cramer finished 3rd. 8 7940 Tom White -- SL On Sunday morning we arrived to find an outstanding breeze from the south of 14 to 16 kts. The R/C got us going right on time and we sailed two really great races. NO RACING AT THE NUTMEG’S Brad and Larry continued their winning ways by getting Unfortunately, the remains of Ivan the Terrible proved to two more firsts. The racing for 2, 3 & 4th places came be too much in terms of rain and wind. Despite the coming down to Brian Cramer 2nd and Rick Burgess getting 3rd. together of a number of boats to participate in the Nutmeg As has been the case in the past the Lake George fleet and Regatta nothing could be done to get off at least a couple club do an outstanding job, and the waters of Lake George of races to put together a series. 2 STARDUST October, 2004 Further Thoughts about were the duly qualified Star entry and took the gold in that How Long Should Star Courses Be class, so that the U.S. Star contingent had two for the price of by John Chiarella one. We need to do as much as we can to preserve the fleets and During the 1950's and 1960's the committee of the I think it very important to allow them to conduct their International Yacht Racing Union that recommended (and fleet races as they see fit.