Races April 30 and May 1, 2011

Laser races April 30 and May 1, 2011 Saturday+Sunday= tolal

Rob Krentel 1-2-4 +1-1-1-3-1-1-2 = 17
Patrick Daniel 3-6-8+2-2-2-1-2-3-1 = 30
Marc Solal 7-3-5+3-3-3-4-3-4-4 = 39
Randy Rea 2-1-1+35 =39
Jerry Beck 4-5-2+35 = 46
Baily Carter 5-4-6+35 = 50
Leah Harper 6-7-ns+35 = 59
Sam Chapin 33+ns-ns-ns-2-4-2-3 = 59
Bianca Mesa ns-ns-3+35 = 60
Chris Nagy ns-ns-7+35 = 64

Club Racing

April 17 and 18, 2011 races go into history with Rob missing Alejandro on Saturday when there were white caps all over the place. Sam just sailed out and around the committee boat and back to shore. Rob sailed away from everyone so badly that he resorted to many gybes and extra distance down wind. Those of us watching from shore couldn’t figure out what the course was. Anyway that was his excuse for letting Luke Yates catch him on corrected time in the third race. Maybe the big news is the return of the Youth, Luke Yates sailing his Radial, Cameron Smith with his Radial and Claire Epaillard sailing a 4.7. Cameron pulled his boom block off and had to drop out, but Claire and Luke stuck it out for all five races. Claire did get in trouble with a capsize and sheets wrapped around the boat which was solved when Luke and she switched around. Luke got it straightened up and they switched boats back. Our RC called for help on the radio, but Luke and Claire had it all solved by the time the safety boat arrived.
Tom Rhodes hung in there for all the races on both days and got some more experience with capsizes on Saturday. Patrick Daniel came on both days, but just tested the wind on Saturday. We will get him out with radial on the next really windy day. He won one of the races on Sunday so he has moved up the ladder.
As noted before, when I ran the times for Saturday nothing changed except in the third race, when Luke bumped Rob out of first and Claire bumped Tom out of third. So the youth make themselves noticed. What a great day for them.
The summary of 5 races on Saturday + 4 races on Sunday with the big numbers for the days missed.
Rob Krentel 1-1-2-1-1+2-3-2-1 = 8
Luke Yates 2-2-1-2-4+20 =31
Tom Rhodes 3-4-4-4-2+4-4-3-4 =32
Sam Chapin 30+1-2-1-2 =36
Claire Epaillard 4-5-3-3-3+20 =38
Patrick Daniel 30+3-1-4-3 =41
Cameron Smith 5-3-ns +20 =46
Thanks as always to Joan Bryant our faithful PRO and to Aerial Magno who helped with flags, timer and anchor. Aerial has sailed with us in the Lasers the last two Wednesdays and will join us in racing.
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APRIL 9 AND 10 LASER RACES.

SORRY THAT I HAVE MNISSED ALL THE GOOD RACE REPORTING.. BUT I WILL TRY TO DO BETTER.

The April 9 and 10, 2011 Laser races had Maribel and Genesis Illera and Sonia Mesa on the Saturday RC and Maribel and Genesis on Sunday. Light wind on Saturday, but we managed 4 races including a late start. A tough RC started things before Alajandro got out to the course. Don’t mess with Maribel.
Bianca Mesa was back from her trip around Florida including the Mt. Dora regatta win and was able to do a second place finish on Saturday with us. The Mesa’s usually take Sunday off to get ready for school—we hope she is back with us next Saturday for our club races coming up that quickly.
Marc Solal was back with us on Sunday and although Tom Rhodes bested him on Sunday. Marc was up with the leaders several times at the windward mark.
Tom Rhodes and Mark have been trading places for a long time and Sunday Tom came out ahead.
Rob Krentel was always in the hunt. On Sunday he and Alejandro were tied with 8 points each, but Alejandro had three wins to two for Rob. So Alejandro is ahead on both days.
Peter and Jim both planned to sail with us, but were not able to make it.
The Summary
Alejandro Illera ns-1-1-1+2-1-3-1-1 =17
Rob Krentel nf-20-3-3+1-2-1-2-2 =20
Sam Chapin 1-5-5-4+3-3-2-3-3 =29
Tom Rhodes 3-4-4-5+4-4-4-5-4 =37
Bianca Mesa 2-3-2-2+ns =39
Marc Solal ns+5-5-5-4-5 =48

Club racing again next weekend.
And Wednesday evening….
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December 18 and 19, 2010

Luke Yates wins the Saturday races and Rob Krentel wins the weekend. Lasers sail both days in the rain with 4 races on Saturday in a morning shortened to wait for the wind to fill in and seven races on Sunday with only three of our regulars sailing. The other guys didn’t do any better. Wayfarers went out on Sunday, but came back in without starting a race. Combination of cold and windy, I think. The Scots only had three out Sunday. The MCs had a little group out for two races and Bob Newland, the J24 sailor from Puerto Rico, won both with our visitor from Texas in second.

Rob Krentel 2-1-3-3+2-1-2-1-2-1-1 = 19
Sam Chapin 1-6.5-1-2+1-2-1-2-1-2-2= 21.5
Marc Solal 4-3-4-4+3-3-3-3-3-3-3= 36
Luke Yates 3-2-2-1+ dc = 64
Glenda Libby Rebel ds-6.5-5-ds+dc= 83.5
Craig Yates 420 ds-4-ds-ds+dc = 84
Bailey Verkaik 4.7 ds-5-ds-ds+dc = 85

So on Saturday we fleshed out the Laser fleet with Glenda in Rebel and Craig’s morning class. The “big boat sailors” watched the rain and drank beer.

Coming soon will be several pages about how to sail the Laser in higher winds.
Next racing is New Years Day at 10 AM and Club Racing the week after.
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Our first December races were a great mix with 60 degree temp and light winds on Saturday and brisk on Sunday. Winter has started. December 4-5, 2010

Craig Yates won the Saturday races with a 2-4-1 for a seven. Note that win in the last race. Sam had a 1-5-2 for 8 and Rob Krentel got caught in too many holes and ended up with 4-3-3 for ten, but Rob made up for it on Sunday with seven bullets in the seven races in the brisk winds.

We expect Alejandro back this week, so Rob will have a little more interesting time.

The finishes with Saturday first:

Rob Krentel 4-3-3+ 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 = 17
Tom Rhodes 6-6-6+ 4-3-3-2-2-2-2 = 36
Marc Solal 7-7-nf+3-2-2-3-nf-3-3= 45
Sam Chapin 1-5-2+2-ns------- =58
Craig Yates 2-4-1+ 56 (ns Sun.) =63
Seth Bahr 3-1-5+ 56 =65
Cameron Smith 5-2-4+56 =67

Tom Rhodes moved into second place by hanging in there on Sunday. Marc Solal beat him in the first three races and then Tom beat him in the last four.

Marc and Tom have been entertaining each other over the past several months and both are getting closer to the top of the fleet. They were working with Rob on Sunday to be sailing better in the higher winds and getting the starts better. They all had a good time on Sunday. Laughing and smiling when they got in.

Seth Bahr was back to sail with us and won the second race on Saturday and came in third for the Saturday races. (We are having a separate Saturday Series now.)

Cameron Smith had a second in the second race and was in the middle of the fleet the rest of the time, but ended up 5th out of the seven. Just one point behind Rob –not bad company.

Then Saturday afternoon Rob, Tom and Sam sailed with the high school students with starting and race practice. We had eleven Lasers out. Good afternoon.

We will have a cold week and then a little warmer on the weekend.

We really had good winds on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday we managed to get in a triangle course – Marc Solal was tired of just all the up wind and downwind stuff. After the third race on Sunday, I asked Rob if he was going to send us on the triangle and his reply was that we didn’t have enough wind yet. Sam thought plenty of wind and he checked out with the Race Committee and headed in. Young America sailed three more races and had a good time and got the triangle.

The Yates family took advantage of the wind and Alejandro’s absence to rake up the most wins on Saturday with one for Craig and two for Luke while Rob only was able to win the last two.

Finishes corrected time – Luke Yates was sailing a radial both days.

Rob Krentel 3-2-2-1-1 + 1-2-1-1-1-1 = 16
Luke Yates 5-1-1-6-4 + 2-3-2-3-4-3 = 34
Marc Solal 4-6-3-5-3 + 5-4-3-4-2-2= 39
Sam Chapin 2-3-6-2-2 + 3-1-4-ns ns ns= 47
Tom Rhodes 6-5-5-4-5 + 4-5-5-2-3-4 = 48
Craig Yates 1-4-4-3-6 + ns = 64
Claire Epaillard 7-7-7-7-ns+ns = 84

Well Rob set our courses and lead most of the races. The two seconds on Saturday were converted from first place finishes because Luke in the Radial was close behind.

Luke Yates sailed the races on both days and handled the radial well. It was the right sized sail for him on that day. He almost got a win on Sunday, but not quite. On Saturday his total score was one point ahead of Craig.

Marc Solal had his weekend. He was working the starts better and close at the windward mark. On Sunday he had two seconds and is third for the weekend. This is Marc’s best finishes of the year. He and Tom Rhodes have been trading places.

Tom Rhodes was our winner for the weekend last week and I was hoping to get it in the newspaper article – but it didn’t get printed. Somehow Marc sailed over him this weekend, but Tom had a second in the fourth race on Sunday.

Craig Yates is our “Saturday sailor” otherwise he will be finishing ahead of most.

Claire Epaillard was sailing a 4.7 and getting a lot of experience getting around the course, but we need to get some other 4.7 ‘s out with her. It is hard to know if you are doing everything right when you are out there all by yourself..

Craig Yates’ class has a group just ready to join in with us. Craig has asked us to join with them on Saturday afternoon of December 4th (the next club racing). They had 7 Lasers sailing this past Saturday afternoon.

Winter came on Friday night and we struggling to figure out what to wear when the temp is 55 and wind up to 10 or 12..

Alejandro Illera has taken a few day off for car racing and family activities, but we still had a good group (seven) on Saturday. Scots had seven out also. The Wayfarers were playing safety boat duty. MCs were about ten. Bianca Mesa sailed her radial and Rob Krentel had family stuff on Sunday. So we lost four of our seven sailors on Sunday. We may think again about separate series for Saturday and Sunday. I scored it that way a few years ago and the same people won both ways, so we haven’t done it since.

Scores:

Tom Rhodes 4-6-6-5-2-4 + 1-2-1-1 = 32
Sam Chapin 3-2-1-1-5-ns +2-1-nf-ns = 39
Rob Krentel 1-1-1-2-3-1 + 32 =41
Craig Yates 5-3-3-4-3-3 + 32 =53
Bianca Mesa 6-4-4-2-4-2 + 32 =54
Marc Solal 7-7-ns +3-3-2-2 = 56
Patrick Daniel 2-5-5-6-6-ns+32 =64

Now we have Tom Rhodes coming out on top. Great and a Thank You to Alejandro and Rob for missing and letting the rest of us in. Tom has been our Iron Man with the most days sailing this Summer and on Saturday he and Rob sailed with the “big boats” long second race after they got finished with our six races.

Sam thought he might have won the weekend, but you can’t chicken out on races and still have a victory. Yes, some of the big gusts in the third race Saturday sent him in. Chickened out both days.

Rob Krentel collected the most first places and complained he had trouble hearing the starters horn. The LESC race committee has extra power horns, and we have one now. We will see how it works.

Craig Yates collected the most third places and sailed over to start the long race with the “big boats”, but couldn’t sail the whole race as he had the high school sailing classes in the afternoon. Luke’s arm continues to improve and we hope to have him back with us soon.

Bianca Mesa sailed well with her radial. She had the most second places. When I checked her corrected times she came closer to all those ahead of her, but didn’t pass anyone. She was our first woman and first youth. Sorry I forgot to get that in the news release.

Marc Solal had a good time on Sunday. He and Tom were laughing about all the swimming and sailing on Sunday. Sunday was his sort of day and he was leading in the first race, until he turned over in one of the wicked header gusts that we were having.

Patrick Daniel sailed well on Saturday with a second place but he got almost wiped out on that really fast run in the 5 th race that convinced Sam and Patrick that we needed more windy day practice, but maybe on a warmer day.

Next Laser racing in 2 weeks.
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