2006 D5 Championship/King of Spain : Races by Class

Winners Ekstrom and Loof

Winners Ekstrom and Loof

2006 D5 Championship/King of Spain

Photo and report by Rick Burgess:

26 boats arrived on Friday to compete in the 5th district championships. Every fleet in the 5th district was represented thanks to the hard work of district secretary Mike Marzahl.

On Saturday we left the dock under bright sunshine and a gentle 8 to 10 kt westerly breeze to sail 3 of the scheduled 5 races. The Race committee as expected was on station and set to go on time. When the day ended it was Rick Merriman and Rick Peters in first and new Santa Cruz fleet member and former World Champion Freddy Loof and Anders Ekstrom one point behind, and Jim Buckingham and Eric Monroe in 3rd.

Upon returning to the dock we were greeted with cold beer, pizza and salad. From what I saw it was smiles all around as it was nothing short of a great day at Cal Yacht Club.

Sunday arrived and we were again treated to great RC work and a really nice breeze of 10 to 12 kts. In the end of the day it was Freddy's day as he and Anders did what they needed to do to win both The King of Spain and the 5th district championships.

Again Cal Yacht Club greeted the fleet with cold beer and a buffet of make your own tacos.

Star

Place	Boat	Skipper	Crew	Sail #:	Fleet	1	2	3	4	5	Total
1	SED	Fredrik Loof	Anders Ekstrom	8246	SCF	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.0	3.0	10
2	Max	Rick Merriman	Rick Peters	8195	SDB	3.0	1.0	1.0	5.0	4.0	14
3	8207	Jim Buckingham	Eric Monroe	8207	NH	4.0	3.0	5.0	2.0	2.0	16
4	Rachel	Andy Macdonald	Brian Fatih	8162	NH	1.0	5.0	7.0	8.0	1.0	22
5	USA 7942	Ben Mitchell	Hal Haenel	USA 7942		5.0	7.0	4.0	4.0	5.0	25
6	USA 8176	Eric Lidecis	Mike Marzahl	USA 8176	NH	10.0	6.0	3.0	3.0	7.0	29
7	8088	Steve Gould	Greg Sieck	8088	WSFB	7.0	9.0	6.0	6.0	8.0	36
8	8059	Peter Vessella	Darin Jensen	8059	WSFB	6.0	4.0	9.0	13.0	11.0	43
9	8181	Argyle Campbell	Steve Brown	8181	NH	9.0	8.0	8.0	12.0	13.0	50
10	8023	Lee Kellerhouse	Brian Mahoney	8023	SDB	8.0	14.0	12.0	7.0	12.0	53
11	8189	Bill Fields	Rick Burgess	8189	NH	14.0	15.0	10.0	10.0	10.0	59
12	Spread Eagle	Nedko Vassilev	Paul Erickson	823	WSFB	16.0	13.0	14.0	11.0	9.0	63
13	Pequeno	Alejandro Bugacov	Jorge Benidid	222	SMB	12.0	10.0	15.0	14.0	15.0	66
14	Volans	Brooks Sperry	Tim Ray	8065	WSFB	13.0	12.0	11.0	17.0	14.0	67
15	USA 7635	Dick Schmidt	Chris Eid	USA 7635	SMB	11.0	16.0	13.0	19.0	16.0	75
16	7836	Richard Pearce		7836	WSFB	20.0	19.0	20.0	15.0	17.0	91
17	Caitlin	Brian O' Mahoney	David Pleman	8041	LB	22.0	11.0	16.0	16.0	27.0 [DNS]	92
18	Babe	Doug Steele	Chris Eid	USA 7838	SMB	15.0	21.0	22.0	18.0	18.0	94
19	8072	Doug Smith		8072	SMC	27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNC]	9.0	6.0	96
20	Sonicboom	Michael Kennedy		6971	SMB	21.0	17.0	17.0	20.0	21.0	96.0001
21	7631	Charles Heimler	Graham Heimler	7631	WSFB	17.0	18.0	21.0	21.0	20.0	97
22	Primo	Tom Hulme		USA 8077	SMB	19.0	20.0	18.0	22.0	19.0	98
23	6883	Mark Vangessel		6883		18.0	22.0	19.0	27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNC]	113
24	6500	Stephen Johnson		6500	Isol	24.0	24.0	23.0	24.0	22.0	117
25	Skip	Scot Merricks		4103	WSFB	23.0	23.0	24.0	23.0	27.0 [DNS]	120
26	16883	Steve Arkle		16883		27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNC]	27.0 [DNF]	27.0 [DNS]	135