TAYC Annual Regatta, August 12 & 13, 2002

Penguin (13 boats) (top)
Series Standing - 5 races scored

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Regatta results last updated: Sunday, August 14, 2022 5:57:16 PM CDT
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Pos	Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Pos
1	9660	Rex	Jonathan Bartlett / Annie Bartlett	Annapolis Yacht Club/	1	1	3	5	2	12	1
2	9694	Otter B	Charles Krafft / Cairn Krafft	SSA/	6	6	4	2	1	19	2
3	9677	Family Ties	William Lawson / Colette Preis	SSA/	7	4	5	1	3	20	3
4	9664	Puckup	Robert Lippincott / Segundo Fregonese	TAYC/	5	2	6	4	4	21	4
5	9730	Evelyn	jeffrey Cox / Ellie Cox	TAYC/	3	5	1	6	8	23	5
6	9657	C-Biscuit	Chris Conway / Campbell Conway	Annapolis Yacht CLub/	8	9	2	3	5	27	6
7	9575	Intern	Austin Powers / Athena Arnold	AYC/	2	8	8	8	6	32	7
8	9669	Lady Bug	Raymond Bay	West River Sailing Club	4	3	7	14/DNC	14/DNC	42T	8
9	9662	Against The Grain	Spencer McAllister	Tred Avon Yacht Club	9	7	10	7	9	42T	9
10	9632	Spax	Sandy McAllister	Tred Avon Yacht Club	10	10	9	14/DNC	7	50	10
11	8241	Humble Pie	Michael BAugh / Heneage Baugh	Cambridge Yacht Club/	12	11	12	10	10	55	11
12	5282	QE 2	john majane / LeAnn Densmore	SSA/	11	12	11	9	14/DNC	57	12
13	9747	Buttercup	Elizabeth Principe / Sophia Principe	Cambridge Yacht Club/	14/DNF	13	13	11	11	62	13

The weather cooperated, mostly, for the 2022 Oxford Annual Regatta. 13 Penguins sailed in the very competitive fleet with Jonathan and Annie Bartlett winning the first two races and never far from the front of the fleet in the remaining three races to win the Francis Bartlett Trophy (no relation). The temperature, peaking in the low to mid 80’s was a welcome break from the mid-90’s in the preceding days. Saturday, the wind was out of the east, but kept migrating towards the north. The race committee didn’t keep up with the unstable breeze, which is tricky when you have multiple fleets racing, so the first Penguin race was more like a fetch to the first mark. The wind kept shifting, so for subsequent races, the start line would go from a committee boat end favor, to a strong pin end favor, often within the same starting sequence. The committee did rotate the course for subsequent races.

Sunday, the breeze was supposed to be 3 to 5 out of the south going to the southwest. On the sail out to the race course, a moderately strong (8-10) southerly breeze made for a spirited beat out to the Choptank, where the race course was located. Penguins normally sail in the Tred Avon, so this was new territory for many of us. The wind kept shifting towards the west, so the weather mark was looking more and more like a fetch on starboard tack. The first three fleets, Comets, Snipes, and Lasers started their one lap race, with a sizable gap between starts. By the time the Penguins started, or tried to, the wind had gone appreciably west, so a new weather mark was set. Unfortunately, a drifting starting line made the boat end incredibly favored, leading to a Penguin pile-up, and 3 (or 4) general recalls. When we finally did start, the nice breeze we had earlier in the morning had all but disappeared. At the end of the race, the committee was game to start a 6^th, the other fleets having started their second race of the day shortly after the Penguins got going, the wind wasn’t cooperating, so racing was cancelled and the fleet was towed in.

We welcomed Austin Powers and his crew, Athena Arnold, sailing in the Class-owned Penguin, 9575, who started strong with a 2^nd in the first race, but had trouble in the lighter stuff, which every race had a bit of, and finished 7^th. Michael Baugh, sailing with his son Heneage, toughed it out – we were way out on the Choptank and it was a wet and lumpy day Saturday, plus Heneage slipped out of the boat at the leeward mark of the first race, which dampened his spirits a bit – won the William and Alice Lane trophy for the top Classic Penguin. It was good to see Bobby Lippincott back in his Penguin, with Segundo Fregonese as crew. They had a 2^nd in race 2 and were always near the front of the fleet. John Majane, at 90 likely the oldest competitor at the regatta, sailed with LeAnn Myhre. A broken floorboard made sliding across the back of the boat a bit more treacherous, however they completed all 4 races on Saturday and had only planned to sail one day. Spencer McAllister bested his dad, Sandy, in 3 races out of 5, although Sandy took early leave of the course during race #4 to accommodate a nature call for his young crew. Elizabeth Principe, sailing with her daughter Sophia for one race on Saturday, which ended with a capsize, but Elizabeth single-handed for some of the later races, and both of them were back in the boat for Sunday’s races. Chris Conway, sailing with his daughter Campbell, were back in the boat, after a long hiatus (Campbell has a busy lacrosse and sailing schedule), had a 2 – 3 finish in races 3 and 4 (catching a favorable wind line, and dodging the Snipe fleet as they were preparing to start, to get to the finish line. Jeff Cox, sailing with his daughter Ellie, won race 3, and were third in the first race, but ended up 5^th overall. RJ Bay had three strong finishes, with a 3^rd in the 2^nd race, but got frustrated with the slow pace of the day, and chose not to compete in subsequent races. Bill Lawson, sailing with his wife, Colette Preis, bested Charlie and Cairn Krafft in race 4, getting ahead on the final beat to the finish of the one lap course, but the Krafft’s won the final (and only Sunday) race, to finish a point ahead for 2^nd overall.