Daily Reports

 

Thursday, August 11

Conditions:  Temperatures in the 70’s with light southwesterly breezes that began to fill in mid-morning.  View tomorrow's weather.

Triplehanded

The competition for the top spot remains tight between the team from Bay Waveland Yacht Club, Jackson Benvenutti Gary Taylor and David Bolyard and the team from Annapolis Yacht Club of Ted Hale, Evan Aras, and Joe Morris with the Bay Waveland team having the better day with two firsts and two seconds to capture first place.  However, with only five points separating the top two teams, victory is far from assured. 

 

After a disappointing first day, the Balboa Yacht Club team of Christian Emsiek, Perry Emsiek, and Wade Buxton, showed some solid results all during the day's racing and rose to third place with a first in the final race of the day.  The battle for third place is going to be tight tomorrow as only four points separate the third place boat from the sixth place boat, yesterday's third place holder, Wet Pants Sailing Association.  Port Madison and Mallets Bay round out the four teams all in competition for third place.

 

Tomorrow's final two races will be decisive for all concerned.

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Singlehanded  and Doublehanded

Today had very similar weather to Wednesday. The fleets had to wait for the marine layer to burn off before a stable sailing breeze came in.

PRO Vickie Sodaro got the first start off a little after 12:30 in a 5-9 knot southwester. The scheduled four races were completed.

The top three in the Singlehanded series for the Smythe Trophy remain the same with Thomas Barrows sailing for Pleon YC maintaining his lead over Cameron Cullman from American YC and Michael Easton from Portland YC in third. Barrows and Cullman are pulling away from the rest of the fleet with 14 and 16 points respectively and Easton coming in at 29 points.

In the Doublehanded Championship for the Bemis Trophy the Columbia YC (Chicago) team of Jonathan Bernbaum and Scott Szawlowski had an excellent day and launched themselves into first place for the series.

The second and third place contestants from yesterday remain in their places with Jeff Knowles and Caila Johnson from Sail Newport in second place and Cole Hatton and Blair Belling from the host, Newport Harbor YC in third. All three are very close and tomorrow's results will determine the winner.

The final two races are scheduled for tomorrow.

 

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August 10, 2005

Conditions:  Temperatures in the 70’s with light breezes. The first day of junior championship racing in Newport Beach, California got off to a great start in light to medium winds that built steadily as the day progressed. View tomorrow's weather.

Triplehanded

The Governor’s Cup 21 boats designed for Newport Beach summer wind conditions of 8 to 10 knots of breeze by designer Alan Andrews performed beautifully with close and interesting racing.

 

The windward leeward courses featured both upwind and downwind finishes, with the downwind spinnaker finishes particularly exciting and colorful. Ten one-design boats with ten talented junior crews approaching the finish line in close order finishes was a great sight for the spectator fleet.

 

Area J’s Balboa Yacht Club crew of Christian Emsiek, Wade Buxton, and Perry Emsiek started the day with a bang with a first place finish then were crushed with two consecutive OCS races followed by a respectable 4th place finish.

 

The Annapolis Yacht Club crew of Ted Hale, Evan Aras, and Joe Morris sailed a beautifully consistent four races with four consecutive second place finishes. Annapolis’s great sailing leads the regatta with a total of 8 points at the end of day one.

 

Coming on strong right behind Annapolis with 10 points is Jackson Benvenutti, Gary Taylor, and Davis Bolyard of Area D’s Bay Waveland Yacht Club, Mississippi, with a total of 10 points with races of 7, 1,1,1. What a great way to finish the first day with three consecutive bullets following the first race 7th place finish caused in large part by a tangle with the starting pin anchor rode.

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Singlehanded  and Doublehanded

In the Doublehanded series for the Bemis Trophy have the team of John Kempton and Molly Lucas from Island Heights YC tied with 16 points with Jeff Knowles and Caila Johnson from Sail Newport. Cole Hatton and Blair Belling from host Newport Harbor YC are in third place with 19 points.

 

The Singlehanded series for the Smythe Trophy has Thomas Barrows, winner of the Bob Johnstone trophy at this year's U.S. Youth Sailing Championships and  sailing for Pleon YC in first with 13 points followed by Cameron Cullman from American YC with 15 points and Michael Easton from Portland YC is in third with 19 points.

 

Four more races are scheduled for tomorrow with a final two races scheduled on Friday.

 

For photos go to the Championship site: Singlehanded or Doublehanded

 

Tuesday, August 9

It was a lovely summer’s day in southern California as the 2005 U.S. Junior Sailing Championship participants began to gather at Newport Harbor Yacht Club.  For the competitors of each of these Championships, getting to the National level is the result of hard work and dedication to sailing; they had to qualify for the events by winning local and regional qualifying events.

Each club has done a tremendous job preparing for this prestigious championship, the boats have arrived and rigging checked.  The Vanguard representative is on hand to assist anyone who needs it.  The fleets were broken down each with their own coach, led by US SAILING’s Youth Development Coach, Mike Kalin for a combination of on-the-water and classroom instruction.  Racing begins tomorrow so the sailors will have an early night tonight to prepare for the 2005 Junior Championships. A clinic led by Mike Pinckney taught the sailors about the Governor's Cup 21's, a boat few had ever seen, much less sailed. 

The sailors spent the day in Racing begins tomorrow so the sailors will have an early night tonight to prepare for the 2005 Junior Championships.