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ISCYRA Regatta Report | Thu Aug 19th, 2010 through Sun Aug 22nd, 2010 |
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California YC Facebook page with racing
updates. Final results for seven races sailed on Aug. 19 - 22 at California Yacht Club, Marina del Rey, California.
Report races 1-4: Former Star World Champions and multiple Olympic medalists Mark Reynolds and Hal Haenel drew a flag from the judges for "rocking" in Race Four. Reportedly this was Reynolds first kinetics violation ever. Although they did a 360 degree penalty turn they still were able to finish second in that race for their fourth consecutive single digit finish. Unfortunately - the penalty for rocking the boat is a 720 degree turn - not a 360, which led to their disqualification, and moved Carl & Jamie Buchan into third place. While Reynolds and Haenel are out of contention for the moment, after six races are completed they will be able to discard that DSQ, so no one will be ignoring their shiny new silver (definitely not white) very fast PStar.
Races 5-6: Once again George Szabo and crew Frithjof Kleen were incredible in the light stuff. On the first beat of the day in five - maybe six knots of breeze - they rounded well in front of the pack. They protected that advantage for an easy win. Meanwhile, the regatta leader Lars Grael did everything wrong and wound up deep - 24th. It was Grael's only double digit finish of the regatta. For the second race of the day it was breeze-on with the bumpiest race course that many of the competitors have ever seen. Local knowledge would encourage a skipper to go right, but that was absolutely wrong. The breeze died, the bumps remained and the left paid. Grael was launched and won easily with Szabo five boats further back. Now that six races have been completed, a discard kicks in which shakes things up a bit. Szabo is back in the lead with a slim three point advantage over Grael. John MacCausland, Mark Reynolds and Carl Buchan are 14 or 15 points further back - tightly bunched, and dueling for the remaining spot on the podium.
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