[J22-Fleet 1] Kudos to Kevin and Jappa

[jpeterson0404 at comcast.net]

Hey guys,  nice to see all this love and sportsmanship.  Good to have rivalries,  and great to earn the respect of your competitor. nice job 963! 

Also some of you may have been out there on sun and noticed the second windward mark rounding was a bit weird . 

It appeared as though the mark had dragged as the "offset" was a upwind. It turns out the "offset"  was actually the finish line. In the Sailing Instructions it shows the left course without an offset, however when you read them they say the race committee may place an offset at any windward mark.  I don't think they normally set one on the left course so let's keep our eye's open.  

That being said, I feel the finish line was WAY too close to the pin, and I have spoken to Bert about the incident. Everyone did a good job of sailing and made the right call, better safe than sorry. I don't think it had any role in changing our results so no big deal. 

Please let me know if any of you have issues I can address on behalf of the fleet. 

JP 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dyer" <dyer.john@ slpschools .org> 
To: j22 at lists. wyc .org 
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 10:01:46 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: [J22-Fleet 1] Kudos to Kevin and Jappa 

Team 963 would like to recognize Team 1311's sportsmanship last Sunday. 

963 turned the top mark in front of 1311 and proceeded to sail dead downwind 
after rounding the offset. 

At their first opportunity Kevin and Jappa hailed us that we were sailing 
the wrong course as it was a ZL . As a result, we were able to recover and 
still lead at the next mark. 

As Paul Elvstrom has often been quoted, "If you haven't won the respect of 
your competitors, you have won nothing." 

What a pleasure to race against Kevin and Jappa who have won not only many, 
many races, but our respect as well. 

Best, 

Mike Bowers, Sue Slack & John Dyer 



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