It has been a heck of a summer for Amy and Jeff. This past weekend they successfully defended their Wife/Husband Championship from 2006 at Lake Murray outside Columbia SC.
Details are scarce but we know that racing Saturday was cancelled due to no wind. Sunday was light but apparently enough to get two races in and complete the regatta.
Since I wrote this original post I have a few more details. For the first race Jeff liked the left side so he started at the pin on time and thinks he's in good shape. After a short time the wind goes way right, maybe 50 or 60 degrees and they are in big trouble. They ended up rounding the weather mark in LAST place. Thankfully, the RC had re-set the course or the race would have turned into a reaching parade. Noticing that most boats ahead were doing jybe sets, because of the righty, Jeff did a bearaway set which was only possible because the course was re-set. They passed a number of boats on the run while enjoying clear air the whole time, it seemed the left had more pressure. Approaching the leeward gate, he wanted to round the right gate and with most boats using the left gate there was not much traffic. After a good rounding he could see more pressure ahead on the left, it took a while to get in it but it wasn't long before he had passed another bunch of boats. Now they are rounding the top mark in the top ten and again did a bearaway set to get to the better pressure on the left and to get more favorable current. By the end of the run they had passed everyone else and won the race. The moral of the story is: keep your head out of the boat and thank the RC for keeping a square course.
The second race was less remarkable: get a decent start, stay in the top three, end up second, win the Regatta. Nothing to it!!
Results can be viewed by clicking this link to the Cedar Point YC website: http://www.cedarpointyc.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=P0FtJtTYO5Y%3d&tabid=123&mid=463
The event photographer was Photoboat.com they have some nice photos posted on their site, here is the link http://www.photoboat.com/ They also attended the Shields Nationals and have some great photos, worth checking out for sure.
Congradulations to Amy and Jeff!
The 2008 Wife/Husband is rumored to be in Oklahoma City next summer.
5 comments:
sorry i couldn't get to this sooner, hope it works out.
scot sailors rock...y'all have the best thing going in the whole state.
Thanks for the comment, we are lucky to have a good group and more importantly, "no bad apples".
check out the shots on photobaot.com...those guys get right in the action
I added the Photoboat link to the post, they got some great shots.
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