TELL TALES (Sep. 30, 2009)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Evan Dietrich, a Green Fleet skipper, will become 11 next Wednesday.

SCHEDULE:  

Oct. 3 – Fall Series race 7 (high school Great Oaks in St. Petersburg)

Oct. 10 – Crow’s Nest Regatta (all day) and boat load

Oct. 17-18 – River Romp Regatta (Junior Olympics event), Edison Sailing Center, Fort Myers

Oct. 24 – Fall Series race 8 and high school regatta (SP 2) at Lake Eustis

Oct. 31 – Fall Series race 9 (Halloween race)

Nov. 7 – Fall Series race 10 (last series race for the autumn)

SCHEDULE COMMENTS: A notice of race (NOR) for the Crow’s Nest Regatta will appear in the next week’s “Tell Tales”. However, for planning purposes, it is an all-day regatta (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) for VYBA sailors only. There is no registration and no fee, but sailors should bring their own lunch. Either Crow’s Nest Restaurant owner Steve Harner or his dockmaster, Jack Mehl, will present trophies at approximately 5 p.m. Also there will be a boat load for the River Romp Regatta. Only 10 Optimists and two Laser skippers have signed up for the River Romp Regatta and our sign-up deadline is this Saturday. Since this regatta is a Junior Olympics event, junior membership ($25) in US Sailing is required. If you plan to go, please sign up so we can arrange trailer transportation. In addition we need volunteers to pull the various trailers.

SERIES STANDINGS:

Green Fleet (after five races): 1, Louisa Nordstrom, 17; 2, Bogan Whitehead, 19; 3, Truitt Whitehead, 19; 4, Alexis Jenkins, 26; 5, Justin Frow, 28;  6, John Light, 35; 7, Garver Whitehead, 35; 8, Nicolas Hernandez, 37; 9, Evan Dietich, 37; 10, Brianna Trecartin, 48; 11, Nicholas Etz, 54;  12, Jacob Hinshaw, 54; 13, Courtney Purcell, 55; 14, Sara Frajerman. 61. 

Red, White and Blue Fleet (after five races): 1, Stephan VerHulst, 8; 2, Lucas Galarza, 14; 3, Samantha Wood, 20;  4, Garrett Lawlor, 20; 5, Scott Trecartin, 23; 6, Shaun Gallagher, 32; 7, Alex Soodak, 32; 8, Stefan Johnson, 34.  Last Saturday’s race did not count. See explanation below.

Portsmouth Division (after three races): 1, Paul Kreider, 4; 2, Chloe Dietrich, 10; 3, Andrew Sosa, 11; 4, Cara Patete, 16; 5, Tyler Thorpe, 17; 6, Sami Tornese, 18; 7, Carla Johnson, 19; 8, Evan Langer, 20; 9, Blake Erquiaga, 26. Only Blake was present because of the high school regatta.

SERIES COMMENTS

A situation occurred last Saturday that I sincerely hope will not happen again. In spite of little or no wind, we were able to have a Green Fleet series race. Then we tried to combine both Optimist fleets for a series race (first for RWB, second for Green). We discovered that some sailors cut a corner and did not go around the windward mark as directed. Therefore, we are throwing out that second race, which means only the Green Fleet had a series race.

MISCELLANEOUS:

1. We apologize for misspelling Shaun Gallahger’s first name in the series standings Sep. 16.

2. Any sailor who needs community service hours should contact Jabbo about some tasks.

3. Sailors interested in doing some detailing work (for pay) on the Island Trader 46 “Valkyrie”, should call Peter Weil at (303) 332-1990. The boat is tied up at the Venice Yacht Club.

4. Michelle Thomas was part of the UF sailing team that won a regatta at USF on Sep. 20.