SFYC Anniversary Cup

April 28, 2010

San Francisco YC held their Anniversary Cup race for club members on a sun-drenched Saturday last weekend. Jeff Zarwell ran the two races and photographer Sergei Zavarin ran the camera.

A wide variety of boats sailed in this race. Identifiable in this photo, left to right, are Good and Plenty, a Soverel 33; Fjordling, a Cal 20; New Wave, an Express 27; Yucca, an 8-Meter classic woodie; and Parachute Woman, a J/92, all sailing in the Spinnaker Division. ©2010 Sergei Zavarin/http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com

Fast Friends, a Santana 35, rounds YRA8 without fazing a cormorant onlooker. ©2010 Sergei Zavarin/http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com

The Santa Cruz 37Tiburon was the fastest rated boat in the fleet. That crew knows how to hike too. ©2010 Sergei Zavarin/http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com

It was a good day for fast boats, as the fastest of them all, Steve Stroub's Tiburon, won the Spinnaker Division of 23 boats. Trunk Monkey and Good and Plenty came in second and third. Glenn Isaacson's Schumacher 40 Q, another fast-rated boat, won Non-Spinnaker out of 14 boats.

Named for the 125th anniversary of SFYC, the Anniversary Cup was first raced in 1994. For complete results as well as the history of the race and its antique trophies, see www.sfyc.org. For more photos, see http://ultimate-yachtshots.smugmug.com.