Wednesday Night Racing: Semi/Finals 2009

[ChrisK]

Any word on the two who won tonights first semi-final round on J22s?

Competitors for Wednesday, September 30:
V15 - Corrie Clement
Sunfish - Tom Johnson
Portsmouth - Zar Wade-Gledhill
PHRF NonSpin - Stephen Lack

Competitors for Wednesday, October 7:
J24 - Steve Press
J22 - Brandt Koepke
J80 - Uzi Ozeri
PHRF Spin - Burns Brown

Finals are Wed Oct 14th 3pm-ish
EOY Party Oct 28th...

[budster]

Hi All!

Corrie Clement and Tom Johnson move on to the Finals (October 14th). See the results of last night's racing at http://www.clearlakeracing.com//index.php?pageID=414

Next Wednesday's competitors are:
Steve Press
Uzi Ozeri
Burns Brown and
Brandt Koepke

They are scheduled to be at the Seabrook Shipyard crane area at 3:00 pm to board their first J22 in the round robin event. The rotation can be downloaded from http://www.clearlakeracing.com//index.php?pageID=397.


Best regards,

Buddy Brown

[Hobie17]

Chris:

Got some GREAT shot.  Will post link to photbucket when edited. 

Doug Snell

[MaryM]

Buddy - are you going to make Brandt drive blindfolded?    Good luck to all!

[budster]

 

He probably should be required to steer with his teeth, while sitting on both hands!

Seriously though, all the sailors that make it to the Finals are good enough to win. The races are short, and they seriously reward getting a good start and hitting the first windshift. Downwind, I have seen some remarkable position changes achieved by those that stay in higher velocity breeze.

Since the course is just one upwind and downwind, I believe Brandt will be challenged by the excellent sailors from the other classes. But then, Brandt is a pretty good sailor too!

It should be fun... Hope it draws a bit of a crowd anyway...You can download the boat rotation from the link on my previous post. That will help you to know who rounds the weather mark first. I will announce the results on VHF Channel 68 after each race, with maybe some commentary during...

Best regards,

Bud

[Hobie17]

OK Gang. Here are my shots from Semi Final 1. If some one can get me on a boat I will get some btter for Semi 2.

http://s436.photobucket.com/albums/qq88/Hobie17/?start=0

Doug

[Trink]

And here are my photos from Semifinals #1:
http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/wnr09semi1

To view the pictures as a slide show:
http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/wnr09semi1&view=slideshow

Race 1 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/117982546
Race 2 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/117982559
Race 3 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/117982575
Race 4 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/117982596

All these pictures have been considerably downsized for the web. If anyone would like the full size images email me at garytphoto@gmail.com.

My compliments to the semifinalists and crews, there was some great racing!

[chris]

Anyone have the results from last night?

[ChrisK]

I believe the order was
Dave
Brandt
Steve
Burns

Fun to watch!

[budster]

Hi All!

Great weather and breeze combined for a great night of racing for the J-Boat Class Champions:

Steve Press - J24
Brant Koepke - J22
Dave Hinrichsen - J80
Burns Brown - J27


View the Semi-Final 2 results here:

http://www.clearlakeracing.com//index.php?pageID=415


Download the Finals Scorecard and Team Rotation here:

http://www.clearlakeracing.com//index.php?pageID=415


Just an FYI:

Upon scoring the boats to evaluate the fairness of using one design boats in a round robin rotation, last week's racing resulted in 2 boats with a score of 9 and the other two with a score of 11.

Last night resulted in the boats having the following spread of scores: 8, 9, 11, and 12.

Minimum score would be 4 points for a superior boat and maximum score of 16 for a slow boat.


Many thanks to John Butler, Cherie Le Compte, Rick Hasler, and Gary Trinklein for their help and support during the 2009 Championship racing.

Hope to see you next Wednesday!

Best regards,

Buddy Brown

[budster]

...and Dwight Bengston helped last night too!!

He has run the bay line all year!

Best regards,

BB

[budster]

Oops... Wrong url pasted for the Finals scorecard in the previous post...

Download the Finals Scorecard and Team Rotation here:

http://www.clearlakeracing.com//index.php?pageID=397

[Trink]

My photos from Semifinals #2:
http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/wnr09semi2

There are "previous" and "next" links to advance throught the pictures. You can also control the size of the image by clicking one of the links underneath the image.

To view the pictures as a slide show:
http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/wnr09semi2&view=slideshow

Race 1 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/118094182
Race 2 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/118094200
Race 3 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/118096010
Race 4 starts at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/118094233

All these pictures have been considerably downsized for the web. If anyone would like the full size images email me at garytphoto@gmail.com.

Check out the competition for second place in race #2, a 6 photo sequence starting at http://www.pbase.com/gtrinklein/image/118094218

[ChrisK]

Excellent shots Gary. Almost as good as being there.

[Burns]

"Excellent shots Gary. Almost as good as being there."  LOL.  Thanks Chris.   

And yeah they are great shots, thank you Gary.