In the words of The Who’s Pete Townshend, it was “Another Tricky Day” on the St. Mary’s River. . .
SAT Breeze started from the North and shifted almost as far as Northwest before coming back to the North. On several occasions one division would have a huge shift only to have the other division have just as enormous a shift in the opposite direction. A difficult day for sailors and RC alike! Several auto tacks (gybes too) resulted in capsizes. One significant head injury due to an unexpected gybe required a trip to the hospital (she is ok). Several races had to be abandoned as they were deemed not to have been a fair test of sailing. Ten races were completed in both divisions with a 420/FJ boat swap coming after race 9. SUN Breeze went from North to Northeast (“Bridge Breeze”) and was both unstable and unreliable. After consultation with ICSA rep. Mike O’Connor, the PRO, Stan “The Man” Hyatt, the regatta chair decided to give up the wait at 1:30pm and end the regatta at 14 races. Of course, this meant that at 2:20 a beautiful sea breeze filled in at a steady ten knots. Congratulations to Yale on a consistent performance in anything but consistent conditions who edged BC by 4. Barbara Herbig chaired on protest with Keisha Pearson which resulted in one DSQ. A request for redress from the University of Hawaii in race 7b was granted due to an error in scoring. Prizes were given courtesy of Sailfly and were well received. Products shown at www.Sailfly.com Complete event scores available at: http://scores.collegesailing.info/s11/st-mary-women-intersec/full-scores ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to [email protected]
