2018 Penguin Internationals
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Skipper Crew |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Total
Points |
Pos |
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Pos 1 |
Sail 9660 |
Jonathan Bartlett Annie Bartlett |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
[5] |
2 |
11 |
1 |
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2 |
9677 |
Bill Lawson Colette Preis |
[6] |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
14 |
2 |
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3 |
9478 |
Charles Krafft Donna McKenzie |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
[6] |
17 |
3 |
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4 |
9730 |
Jeff
Cox Julian
Cox |
1 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
[5] |
4 |
4 |
5 |
26 |
4 |
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|
5 |
9657 |
Chris Conway Campbell Conway |
[8] |
8 |
7 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
35 |
5 |
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|
6 |
9632 |
Sandy McAllister Will Donald |
[10] |
9 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
43 |
6 |
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|
7 |
8823 |
Matt Rajacich |
4 |
[10] |
8 |
10 |
7 |
7 |
6 |
9 |
51 |
7 |
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8 |
963 |
Eric Wagner various |
7 |
5 |
9 |
9 |
[10] |
10 |
9 |
8 |
57 |
8 |
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9 |
9675 |
Martin Krafft Cairn Krafft |
9 |
6 |
[10] |
8 |
9 |
8 |
10 |
7 |
57 |
9 |
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|
10 |
9320 |
Hank Krafft |
5 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
8 |
[14/DNC] |
14/DNC |
14/DNC |
60 |
10 |
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|
11 |
9676 |
Amy Krafft Janice Olshesky |
11 |
11 |
12 |
11 |
[14/DNC] |
9 |
8 |
11 |
73 |
11 |
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|
12 |
9877 |
Richard Geis |
12 |
12 |
11 |
12 |
[14/DNF] |
11 |
11 |
10 |
79 |
12 |
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13 |
7695 |
James Seymour, Jr. David Collins |
13 |
[14/DNF] |
14/DNS |
14/DNC |
14/DNC |
14/DNC |
14/DNC |
14/DNC |
97 |
13 |
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The Cambridge Yacht Club hosted the Penguin Class
International Championship on July 14th and 15th, 2018.
Thirteen boats from around the Bay participated, including junior sailor Jimmy
Seymour with David Collins as crew. They
unfortunately endured a capsize followed by a forestay
failure, so were only able to complete one race, but we were delighted to have
them participate in a boat loaned from the Oxford Boatyard fleet. PRO Paul Hull was ably assisted by Juliet
Thompson and ran 8 races in sometimes trying conditions. Saturday, the fleet headed out in what looked
to be a promising north easterly breeze, but that never really established and
we waited for the wind to swing around to the southwest, which it eventually
did by going north first, rather than south.
With the weather mark set close to the Cambridge side of the Choptank, the shifts as one approached the mark were
dramatic, and rewarded those who played the favored side, which alternated
frequently. Timing was everything. Jeff Cox, sailing with his son Julian, found
a favorable shift at the top right side of the first beat and rounded first to
take the win in the one lap windward leeward course. In race 2, Bill Lawson, sailing with his wife
Colette, charged into the lead, and took the win, as they did in race 3 as
well. By race 4, the breeze picked up a
bit, still shifty though. The race was
lengthened to an Olympic course. Hank
Krafft led at the first mark, but took a while to realize the course change and
had to play catch up to get to the reach mark.
Jonathan and Annie Bartlett took the gun showing amazing speed and a
good sense for anticipating where the next shift was going to come from. For
race 5, a two lap windward leeward was used and the Bartlett team again took a
bullet.
Sunday, the wind was southwest, which was good, although the pressure was
fairly light. The committee set up on
the far side of the river, so the fleet had to cross the channel, which created
a challenge given the strongly ebbing tide.
Chris Conway led around the first lap, but Bartlett and Lawson stayed
left upwind, getting into the up current stream first, and rounding lap 2 in 1st and 2nd. In race 7, the wind shut down and the fleet
was in danger of being swept to the Choptank
Light. Charlie Krafft, with Donna
McKenzie as crew and Chris Conway sailing with his daughter Campbell worked to
the left of the fleet, which paid off, and they managed to get around the
weather mark as the rest of the fleet battled the current, and find the shortened and repositioned
leeward mark to finish 1 -2. For the
final race, the wind had shifted from the southwest to the south. This time, the mark was on the edge of the
channel, so the right side paid off.
Bill Lawson took advantage of this to lead around the 2 lap windward
leeward course. Jonathan Bartlett took a
second to seal the regatta victory.
Sandy McAllister sailing with Will Donald finished 4th in the
final race to take 6th overall.
Matt Rajacich sailed Pywackette to
seventh. ErIc
Wagner sailed 9624, another Oxford Boatyard Boat to 8th, beating
Martin Krafft, sailing with his mother, Cairn, on the tiebreaker. Hank Krafft had enough on Saturday and didn’t
compete on Sunday, beating the bridge traffic (which fortunately wasn’t too bad
even when we left at 3:30.) Amy Krafft, sailing with part time Cambridge
resident, Janice Olshesky, sailed in her newly repainted boat to
11th overall. Dick Geis suffered a boom vang failure
Saturday – a strong breeze always provides a rigging test – but had it fixed
for Sunday’s races.
Special thanks to Steve Adams for providing the liaison with
the club, organizing the race committee, and managing the regatta logistics.
We welcomed the race committee assistance of longtime Penguin sailors Bill Day
on Saturday and Leo Surla and Peggy Rainwater on
Sunday.