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William
H. Myers Heritage Regatta -Penguins *Comets Canceled* |
Penguin (12 boats) (top)
Series Standing - 6 races scored
Information
is provisional and subject to modification
Regatta results last updated: Saturday, August 26, 2017 2:55:10 PM
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The William H. Meyers Heritage regatta doubled as the Atlantic Coast Championship. 11 boats competed. We welcomed TAYC Commodore RJ Cooper and his wife Robin sailing with their children Hartley and Dawson in two of the Oxford Boat Yard Penguins provided by Carl Langkammerer. Hank Krafft was sidelined with car trouble and was unable to attend. Patrick Firth sailing with Parker Corson borrowed Pyewacket from the Cox family. Richard Geis made a debut appearance in his newly refurbished Customflex Penguin, although he reported he has more refurbishing to do. Still, it was great to have these four boats bolstering the fleet size.
The racing was a bit tricky, with a variable, in strength and direction, northeast breeze. PRO Bob Greenlee kept up with the windshifts and velocity changes by moving the marks and shortening the course as appropriate. Bill Lawson, sailing with his wife Colette Preis started off strong winning the first and third races. Jeff Cox countered with a win in race 2, but came on especially strong at the end, winning the last two races. Bill Lane, sailing with Margy Sevigny took advantage of a great start in Race 4 and won that race handily and lost a close race at the end to Jeff Cox in race 5. Scott and Stewart Allan were always in the mix, but finished just out of the silverware in 5th. David Cox with Will Donald crewing took sixth on a day when everyone had trouble with consistency, as the windshifts, puffs and holes were impossible to predict and quickly turned one from champ to chump as the big oscillations worked across the course. Amy Krafft sailed with Karen Gianninoto, who was sailing in her first sailboat race, retired after the fourth race as Amy forgot to bring enough drinking water. Among the top three, it came down to the last race, with Jeff Cox surging ahead by staying far left on the run on the windward leeward one lap course. Scott Allan was comfortably in second, but suffered a shroud cleat failure that cost him two boats. Lawson beat Charlie Krafft on the final beat, tacking away immediately at the leeward mark and making it to the pin favored end of the finish line to finish tied for first overall, but losing the tie breaker. Charlie Krafft and Donna McKenzie were a point back. Between races 5 and 6, we had a delay as the Log Canoes sailed through our course. The delay was lengthened slightly as two of the ten canoes capsized in the vicinity of where our windward mark had been. Not that it was overly windy, but it was just squirrely enough, and it doesn’t take much to upset a canoe. With five skippers who attended the Internationals not in attendance, we had 16 different skippers participating in the last two Penguin events.
Link to photos by Cairn Krafft