This past weekend was a good one for Tampa Bay Scot sailors. We had a nice fleet at the DIYC Keelboat/One Design race on Saturday. Club racing in Sarasota on Sunday gave us another reason to splash the boats. Kim and I did both and had a good time of it. Here is Captain Andy's report from Tampa;
Thirteen teams braved the chilly weather Saturday at DIYC's Keelboat/One Design regatta. Flying Scots comprised the largest fleet of the event, way to go people!
Three great races where held by our own Judy Hanlon (FS5477) and team, longish Windward/Leewards in a shifty North Easterly that started at about 12 to 15 and faded as the day progressed. No lead was safe as many speedy teams hit the corners and gained (and lost) places.
In the end it was Sarasota's Mr Consistency; Jim Egan prevailed nipping DIYC's Jeff Linton by a point.
Full results at www.diyc.org
Our next event is DIYC's Sunday race, Sunday, February 8th. Followed by the Florida District race at Lake Eustis, February, 21, 22.
Andy
Captain Chuck reports on the sailing Sunday;
Another thanks to Andy Martha and friends, and to Dan Muss, all of whom signed on to run yesterday's Sunday races for all manner of SSS sailing craft.
Jim, Richard, Ron, Barry, John and Susan put sailing's elite under the lash in their Davis Island home waters Saturday.
Governors Dave and Kim thought that was cool so they put on some new racing slicks, came on down, and drag raced all over the healthy SSS crowd on Sunday. Beautiful conditions and a great time. Keep in mind this Fri evening at SSS, and chat up Scot sailing between now and super bowl Sunday, Feb 1. All the best, Chuck
As Chuck mentioned the conditions were indeed beautiful; all the sun you could want, a perfect seabreeze, high near 70 = awesome shorts and shirt sleeves sailing. Throw in some beers back at the club and it was all good.
Upon further reflection I add the following from the other (wtf) Sarasota fleet captain, jim;
o.k., here are the results so far for the spring series. please comment as needed.
5141: 2, 2, 3, 4, 4 ,4 , 19
600 : 1, 1, 1, 10, 5, 6 24
5296: 5,4, 4, 2, 2,12(ocs) 29
5318: 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 3 30
3917: 7, 10 , 2, 3, 6, 5 33
2068: 11d,7, 7, 5, 3, 2 35
812: 11d,12d, 5, 1, 1, 1 41
5222: 9, 9, 9, 7, 8, 7, 49
3347: 4,11,10 8, 9, 8, 50
3636: 8, 8, 8, 9, 11, 9 53
5360: 6, 3, 11, 11, 11, 11, (d) 53
2762: 10,6, 11, 11, 11, 11 (d) 60
4978: 11,12,11,11,10, 12 67
some general comments: with throw-outs the racing tightens up considerably. (please refer to paragraph 1,3, 5 from some previous e-mails in which i seriously manipulate the awarding of trophies.) the contest for best dressed needs to heat up, as i have already started preliminary sketches that includes three crew-members. i really don't want to award the guy in first place more than one trophy. hmmm, well, i could change the throwout structure, but then the guys in seventh become a threat to the guy who is manipulating the scores to begin with. the guy in second is seriously in the running for least improved for the season. the guy in seventh isn't really just a guy and is in the running for most improved but that doesn't look fair either. i think he/she will need to show up enough to battle for 1st. anyone with 49 pts or more, needs to have one stellar day to get the stellar day award, or start fighting hard for the most improved award, and finally, i had better start working on the awards, or i'm gonna have to pony up and buy some, which is out of the question!!!!!!!
please, continue to comment on scoring- do you guys also want to count our local regatta scores in the season standings?, etc.
next year we can plan all this in advance.
jim
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