[J24 ListSrv] Match Racing Recap

[George Hansen]

Match Racing Recap-

It was a beautiful Monday Night out on the bay, light air, but warm and
sunny which was nice after freezing on a no-wind Sunday. We had two flights
of J22's running, former local gal Katy Pilley Lovell made a nice guest
appearance on Nimmers new J22 as she is on her way to the prestigious Santa
Maria Cup in Annapolis, MD.  <http://www.santamariacup.org/>
http://www.santamariacup.org/. We wish her good luck.

Even with the light air we ran about 10 practice starts in shifty bay
conditions, I kept the line tight which made for lot's of light air boat
handling, of course our local rock star Lars Hansen with the crew of Nick
Anderson and Johnny P had big huge roll tacks and gybes, always fun to
watch.

Our own Fred Sommers and Ernie Brodie came out in our little whaler to
practice their umpiring skills, it's great to see the program growing!
Thanks Fred and Ernie!

As you may know, Match Racing is fully recognized by the Wayzata YC board
and is still a initiative to grow at our club. I invite all of you to get
your teams organized and come out to play- now that we have a few coach
boats and resources we can run multiple fleets at once. So all you Sonar,
Capri, J24 and other OD boats please feel free to come out and learn match
racing. It is by far the best way to learn superior boat handling and of
course get a big rules boost!!

Next week, we are running the match racing on Wednesday 31st evening start
time 6:30 in the bay again. I will have the Bailiff and Whaler out, I can
take spectators if you would like to watch-- but once again please feel free
to put your team together and join us.

June 3-4 we are once again hosting the Richardson Cup Qualifier- we will
have some of the top US Sailing judges and umpires on the water making
calls-- the event will be held on J22's this year because the actual
Richardson Cup will sailed on J22's at the beautiful buffalo YC on Lake
Erie.  <http://www.buffaloyachtclub.org/> http://www.buffaloyachtclub.org/

We still have room for teams, but space is filling fast, please call or
email me if you're interested.

Hope to see you on the water Wednesday night May 31 at 6:15

Sean Hendrickson

612-325-1954

 <mailto:sean at electric-apple.com> mailto:sean at electric-apple.com 

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