Winter #3 Race Results Posted

The Winter Series continued on Sat. Jan. 21 with race #3. This year the series has both a spinnaker and non-spinnaker division. There were 10 boats in this third race, 9 in the spinnaker division and 1 in the non-spinnaker division.

To date the winter series have been characterized by sunny skies and light winds, but this weekend winter arrived and showed some teeth. Winds from 22 - 25 knots were common, with gusts close to 30. Although we watched a brief squall after the skippers meeting, no rain fell during the race.

A course of 3/4 - Xp - Bp - Ys - 3/4 was selected for a total distance of 8.72 miles. Congratulations to Yellow Brick Road (John Draeger) for taking first place, and to Mirth (Rick Gilmore) and to MADE Easy (Jim Peterson) for taking second and third place respectively in the spinnaker division.

Only 12 seconds separated the corrected times for the first and second place boats, just over a minute separated the corrected times for the third and fourth place boats, and only 46 seconds separated the corrected times for the fifth, sixth and seventh place boats. It was quite an exciting race in all aspects.

Sweet Pea (Tim Petersen) represented the non-spinnaker division.

Race results and Series Standings to date are posted on the bulletin board at the club, and on the Sequoia web site.