Short and challenging races
By: Ted Burt
After last week’s All Star break, the Quissett Yacht Club racers went back to work to begin the August Series. The race committee of Ted Burt, Sarah Meigs, Wendy Martyna, Mike Garfield Sr. and Noah Garfiled headed out of Quissett harbor to run three races. The S-Class had one race, a tour of our side of the bay. The fleet separated itself into a top three, Radiant, Teaticket and Olive, with Shalom struggling to keep contact with the rest. A beat up to Gunning Point was followed by a reach out into the bay and back to Penzance Point. The final legs were a return to the Gunning Point Buoy and a short run to the finish line off Quissett Harbor. Teaticket, ably sailed by Commodore Alan Haigh, appropriately led the way to the finish, followed by Olive and Radiant, separated by mere seconds.
The H-12 class raced two challenging short races, a windward-leeward twice around and then a gold cup triangle followed by windward and leeward legs. In the first race, Tom and Kristan First in Olivia rounded the windward mark in first (appropriately) by 15 seconds and was looking good until he chose the wrong direction to round the leeward mark. Once he saw the error of his ways, he returned to unwind his incorrect rounding (while the rest of the fleet was doing it properly) and then rounded again to begin the next leg. Mike and Emma Garfield in Phoenix took advantage to secure the win with Mort Saunders and Anna Olsen in Found It and Weatherly and Rick Dorris in Pani Bab hot on Mike Garfield’s Tail. In the second race, Weatherly and Rick Dorris in Pani Baba showed why an old wooden Herreshoff carefully maintained with a great skipper and an able crew can whup any Doughdish. Olivia and Phoenix followed close behind, setting up some great competition in the series beginning next week. Stay tuned!
S-Class:
Boat Crew Time
- Teaticket Alan Haigh, Doug Jones, Lawrence Pierson 1:43:58
- Olive Josh Bernstein, Eric Pierson, Nick Hunnewell, George Walters 1:45:55
- Radiant Kathy & Doug Cooper, Jeff Whittle 1:46:03
- Shalom Eric & Theodora Karplus 1:48:39
Herreshoff 12 1/2s:
Race 1: Boat Crew Time
- Phoenix Mike & Emma Garfield 24:48
- Found It Mort Saunders, Anna Olsen 25:13
- Pani Baba Weatherly & Rick Dorris 25:16
- Allie Rose Chuck First, Nick Steinert 25:35
- Olivia Tom & Kristan First 26:17
- Due DilligenceAlec Clowes, Jolynn Khamky 26:43
- Handoah Hannah & Ben Garfield 27:18
- Sea Breeze Steve Chalmers, Sheila Gordon, Ethan Burt 27:22
Race 2:
- Pani Baba Weatherly & Rick Dorris 27:20
- Olivia Tom & Kristan First 27:45
- Phoenix Emma & Mike Garfield 27:50
- Found It Mort Saunders & Anna Olsen 28:02
- Allie Rose Chuck First, Nick Steinert 28:13
- Due Dilligence Alec Clowes, Jolynn Khamky 28:54
- Sea Breeze Steve Chalmers, Sheila Gordon, Ethan Burt 30:50