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Carolyn Nute Memorial Trophy 2008
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Oktubafest – Snipe Fleet 495’s Fall Invitational Regatta and the Carolyn Nute Memorial Trophy
By Lynn Fitzpatrick
A day of sailing always beats a day at the office, but I have to admit, a day or two days of sailing in light air can be more nerve wracking than following the stock market lately. The Carolyn Nute Memorial Regatta, warm weather and the promise of a tuba quartet was enough to coax twenty-three Snipes to race on Saturday and Sunday on San Diego’s Mission Bay.
Old and new Perssons and Jibetechs with various combinations of Quantum, North and Olimpic sails raced by diehard Snipe sailors took to a glassy Mission Bay late on Saturday morning. Crews were scrunched down to leeward, facing aft and craning their necks to look up at the tell tail on the jib leech and skippers were close to centerline for Saturday’s three races.
While the wind picked up as the afternoon wore on and some crews got to hike, everyone returned to Mission Bay Yacht Club and the Oktubafest with tense necks and backs. Why? Racing was so tight that no team could let their guard down. Some of the fleet would look wound up and in pressure on the right and a puff would materialize so that the boats that looked high and dry on the left could make it across the center of the course. Some crews would end up on a layline three quarters of the way up the beat and others would overstand by a mile.
Craig and Lisa Leweck came out of two years of hibernation and led for most of the first race only to be chased down on the final leg by Don Bedford and Loni Andersen. Doug Hart and Evan Hoffman did circles and hauled a bunch of kelp off their rudder in the second race and still were able to reduce Dave Tillson and Lynn Fitzpatrick’s horizon job to an overlap at the finish. Chuck Sinks and Shone Bowman, the lightweights in the fleet, out on a full hike were nipped out at the finish line of the third race by Randy Lake and Julie Calvert.
The fog bank lifted on Sunday morning, the breeze came on and the shrouds were tightened down for three heavy air races. George Szabo, who finished second in the US Star Trials for the Olympics, and Sam Treadwell were set up right and posted a 2, 1, 1 for the day to slide into second behind Lake and Calvert and squeak by Hart and Hoffman.
Snipe Fleet 495 – the Mission Bay and San Diego Snipe Fleet is hosting the 2009 Snipe World Championships in September. George Szabo, Brain Bissel, and Don Bedford are the three Snipe Fleet 495 skippers qualified for the Worlds. The last time the San Diego hosted the Worlds was in 1997 and the fleet has been super strong ever since.
- Randy Lake and Julie Calvert – (7),3,1,3,3,2- 12
- George Szabo and Sam Treadwell – 4,5,(6),2,1,1 – 13
- Doug Hart and Even Hoffman – 3,2,4,1,(8), 4 – 14
- Dave Tillson and Lynn Fitzpatrick – (8), 1,3,5,5,3 -17
- Craig Leweck and Lisa Leweck – 2,(9),5,4,6,5 -22
Full results: http://www.mbyc.org/...id=425&Itemid=51
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