Volume 5, No. 6 June, 2004 Newsletter for the 1st, 2nd and 12th Districts JUNE REGATTA SCHEDULE David Bolles: 203 882 9428 / [email protected] 1st District MONTREAL BI-ANNUAL REGATTA June 5-6 JFK Regatta (BH) June 19-20, 2004 June 19-20 Arms-White (Mid) (Tri-District Qualifier) nd The Quebec Star Fleet and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht 2 District Club invite you to the 2004 Montreal Bi-Annual Regatta. June 12-13 Lippincott Memorial (AN) The regatta will be hosted from the Royal St. Lawrence June 26 SSA Keelboat th Yacht Club with sailing to take place on Lake St. Louis. 5 District Three races will be scheduled, two on Saturday and one on June 5-6 Cal Race Week (CYC) Sunday. Registration fee: CDN $65 / US $50 per person June 12-13 King of Spain (CYC) th which will include the social events. There will a Cocktail 12 District party at the home of Ian Bruce, (adjacent to the Club), June 5-6 Tomahawk Regatta (LH) starting at 6:00 pm on Saturday June 19th. This will be June 19-20 Montreal Regatta followed by a buffet at the RStLYC starting at 7:30 pm. On Sunday morning there will be a proper hot breakfast buffet served at the RStLYC starting at 8:30 am. UPCOMING REGATTAS The spectacular 6-week duration Montreal International ARMS-WHITE REGATTA Fireworks festival will be on at that time and the Spanish Arms Trophy To Winning Skipper display is on Saturday night in the Old Port of Montreal, White Trophy To Winning Crew perhaps the most exciting part of the City. Dinner will be June 19-20 finished in time for those who wish to head down to Old Montreal to see the fireworks or just to soak up the City. The Arms-White series is named after two sailors from the Billeting will be provided for ALL those that request it, C.L.I.S. fleet, John Taylor Arms and Elwood S. White. In provided the request is received by Monday June 14th. 1937 John Arms donated the Arms Trophy and in 1942 the There are several motels within 5 minutes of the Yacht family of Elwood White donated the White Trophy for the Club. winning crew of the Arms series. The series, originally Contact: Ian Bruce called the Noroton Race Week, was sailed out of the 20 Allan Point C.L.I.S. until 1969, and then was relocated to Mid-Conn in Dorval, Quebec, H9S 2Z2 1970. Tel: 514 631 5963 Home / 514 363 5050 Work The Arms-White Regatta has enjoyed a good turnout over E-Mail: [email protected] the years and recently has been running between 20 to 35 boats. Always a nice feature is the Saturday evening dinner th at the Club. 47 ANNUAL TOMAHAWK REGATTA June 5-6, 2004 This year we will be trying a four race / one throw-out format (if all four races are completed). As a reminder, the ENTRY FEE: $50.00 per boat. Includes bag lunch for warning signal for the first race is at 11 AM on Saturday, skipper and crew on Saturday. June 19. SCHEDULE: 3 races Saturday. 1st race 10:30, races 2 and 3 immediately to follow. 2 races Sunday. 1st race 10:00, race 2 Aside from the Arms and White trophies for the series immediately to follow. winners, there are keepers for the first four places. SOCIAL: Saturday – optional cookout available at LHYC For more information on how to get to the club, housing, featuring outstanding complementary hors-d’oeuvres. or the event itself see the Mid-Connecticut Star Fleet’s web site at www.mycstar.org , or contact: LODGING: Contact Brian Murphy to arrange housing. 1 STARDUST June, 2004 INFORMATION: Brian Murphy (973) 599 – 9387 or Race one started in about 15 knots of wind and about a [email protected]. half knot of current flowing in the same direction. The committee boat end was slightly favored, and it was not 2004 ANNAPOLIS NOOD surprising to see most of our competitors starting here. April 30 – May 2, 2004 John and I set up just to leeward of the boat end pack in by Aaron Serinis hopes of having just enough speed and point to get into a For the first time ever the Star class was added to a very good lead position early on. This strategy proved to be a large list of classes competing in the 2004 Annapolis good one as wind shifts were miniscule at best. Local NOOD regatta. With over three hundred boats sailing out sailor Kevin McNeil sailing with Kevin Murphy showed of Annapolis harbor on April 30th thru May 2nd we were good speed and smarts winning the first race of the regatta. certainly gearing up for a busy three days on the Chesapeake! On the Star course we were joined by the For race two Kevin finished only to find he had been OCS. eighty boat J-22 class, and the twenty boat J-24 class. In a series with no discard, this was going to hurt. These numbers made the Star fleet of fifteen boats seem Our biggest challenger for the series however, would turn relatively small, but the competition was big. out to be US Sailing Center manager Jock Kohlhas from Severn Sailing PROs John Potter and Mark Hasslinger did Miami FL, sailing with long time Star sailor Rick Burgess. an outstanding job keeping the 80 J22's and 24 J24's and Kohlhas / Burgess were sailing with a very similar set up 16 Stars separated on the racecourse. Only three short as John and I, and in their sail selection they also chose the times did the Stars have to sail through the J22 crowd. North Max Roach Mainsail and R-2 Jib. I quickly knew There were three days of Southerly winds ranging from 8 these guys were here to win. Also putting up a good fight to 20 knots with not too many shifts. was Brian Cramer from Ontario Canada sailing with Annapolis local Bob Schofield. Both of these teams put in The conditions could not have been any better; the breeze a lot of time sailing in the winter events in Florida, and it was 15-20 knots at a direction of 180˚ for three days in a sure showed, tack after tack these guys never gave an inch! row! Given these very consistent conditions boat speed At the end of the seven race series Aaron Serinis and John was at a premium. My crew John Avis and I set up our Avis had won the regatta with 14 points. Jock Kohlhas was boat to the standard North tuning numbers, and knowing it second with 21, and Brian Cramer in third with 26. A great was going to be somewhat windy and very wavy, we weekend was had by all competitors, and we hope the loaded on our Max Roach mainsail and the R-2 jib. Our set Annapolis NOOD Regatta will continue to be on the Star up would stay this way for the next three days. Calendar for future years to come. 2004 ANNAPOLIS NOOD April 30 – May 2, 2004 Pl. No. Skipper Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Points 1 7763 Aaron Serinis AN 2 1 4 1 1 4 1 14 2 8043 Jock Kohlhas BisB 5 2 1 3 7 1 2 21 3 8143 Brian Cramer LOC 6 5 2 4 4 2 3 26 4 8063 Bert Collins AN 4 3 6 5 3 3 4 28 5 7265 Josh Phypers CA 3 4 3 6 5 8 6 35 6 8113 G. Weissenberger NCB 8 6 7 7 6 9 5 48 7 8087 Kevin McNeil AN 1 ocs 5 2 2 5 dnc 49 8 7072 Dixon Duffett AN 7 8 dnc 8 9 7 7 63 9 7090 Bob Bradford MES dnc 7 8 10 10 10 8 70 10 7425 Barbara Vosbury AN 9 dnc dnc 9 8 6 dnc 83 11 7785 Chuck Wiley MES dnc dnc dnc 11 12 11 dnc 102 12 6729 Walter Risse AN 10 dnc dnc 13 13 dnc dnc 104 13 7497 Bud Elsaesser AN dnc dnc dnc 12 11 dnc dnc 108 14 7567 Davis Buckley AN dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc 119 14 7650 Rivero dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc 119 14 7970 Sam Hopkins MES ocs dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc dnc 119 2004 World’s Championship Race 1: Sunday, April 25th: The English team of Ian Won by Frederick Lööf and Andres Ekström Percy and Steve Mitchell won the opening race in the Star Based on the Reports on the Class World’s Championship sailed at Gaeta, Italy, which Star Class Web Site was dominated by wind and rain. The start of the first race 2 STARDUST June, 2004 of six of the World’s was delayed two hours because of the Race 3, second attempt: Wednesday, April 28: Race adverse weather. Then the wind settled around 14 knots abandoned due to lack of wind. and the 102 entries left the docks. Race 3: Thursday, April 29: The third race was initially The first to round the windward mark was the Ireland team won by Percy / Mitchell. A regular scirocco wind of 16 of Mansfield / Collins, followed by the European knots provided a perfect setting for the 3rd race of the Star champions Lööf / Eckström. World’s. The heroes of the 3rd race, sailed on course 4, The biggest missing competitor at the 2nd buoy was the were the English team of Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell, winner of the American Olympic Trials, Paul Cayard, who, by crossing the finish line 2nd, became the winners breaking his mast in the first downwind run and he was due to the OCS of the boat first across the line, Neeleman / forced to retire.