BYC 2014 One Design Series Day #18 at BeniciaAugust 15
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Friday’s (8/15) race report from the P.R.O.:

With a strong south component to the wind and ripping flood, the course west of the marina entrance proved a challenge to set squarely. The initial weather mark position was deemed too close to the First Street Rocks by the Course Marshal who, remembering his recent encounter with the rocks during the long-course race, moved it further south into deeper water. This had the benefit of further reducing the attractiveness of seeking current relief on the north side of the course, but the racing was delayed by several minutes as the RC hustled to re-square the line. In the end, the first race, course #1, was a challenging and slow start favoring port tack boats near the pin end. The short current relief on the North side played nicely against the shorter distance to the South and the catspaws of wind coursing through the middle of the course presented a myriad of options for getting to the weather mark. The downwind leg was a magic carpet ride on the flood. The last leg to the finish was where the action was. Marcel, who was leading handily around the course so far, strayed a bit too far out of the wind and into the flood and parked three boat lengths from the line doing roll tack after roll tack trying to catch that last elusive zephyr to propel him to victory only to watch Joel sneak in from the far right and claim the bullet.

The second race, course #3, proved to be parade as the wind veered dramatically to the South.

Marcel recommended reconfiguring the start to the leeward mark and the old start line pin became the new weather mark setting up a fairly short course more trued to the new Southwesterly breeze and easing flood. The third race, course #3, saw some extremely close racing with only inches separating groups of finishers.

Race four, course #4, was the longest race of the night, with the breeze filling a bit more and some very tactical racing.

With the sun sitting low in the sky, the racers curbed the enthusiasm of the RC to attempt one more race and everyone headed for the barn except for Joel who enjoyed a sunset sail in very nice conditions.

Low wind and high current equal extreme punishment of mistakes; many racers were spit out the back of the fleet due to not quite being able to cross a starboard tacker. Maneuvers were costly and catching the puffs and staying in sync with the shifts made for big gains on the course. It was much like sailing on an inclined lake.

(Editor's Comment: Note that Phil raced Nick's boat as a guest skipper and finished 9,5,4,3. His results are not included here.)
Result
PosBoatNameTotalRace 1Race 2Race 3Race 4
11174Joel McMinn81(1)1(2)3(5)3 (8)
21260Marcel Sloane92(2)4(6)2(8)1 (9)
31717Dean Fulton93(3)3(6)1(7)2 (9)
4984Scott Olson187(7)2(9)4(13)5 (18)
51714Josh Russell234(4)8(12)7(19)4 (23)
6968Chris Tringali258(8)6(14)5(19)6 (25)
7899Rich Grigas266(6)5(11)8(19)7 (26)
8941Gus Carrell265(5)7(12)6(18)8(26)
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