More Midwinters

January 19, 2011

While we spent quite a lot of time at the very popular Corinthian Midwinters, it wasn't the only game in town last weekend. On Saturday, the third South Beach Yacht Club Island Fever race was sailed under picture-perfect sunny skies. The only problem was a rather swift 2.5-knot ebb for the racers to contend with. An 8-10 knot northerly sent the "fast" fleet out around Treasure Island and back on a 7.7 mile course, the fastest boat being Dale Williams' Wasabi at PHRF -42 and the slowest a trio rating 126.

Wasabi, Dale Williams' Kernan 44, leads the fast spinnaker division. ©2011 Erik Simonson/www.h2oshots.com

Smooth, Mark Feinholz's Santana 525 . ©2011 Erik Simonson/www.h2oshots.com

The Flying Tiger 10 Centomiglia. Crew hiking out, the bottom showing - good indicators that they got a nice breeze. ©2011 Erik Simonson/www.h2oshots.com

Tim McDonald's Tarten Ten Lazy Lightning takes off for the island. ©2011 Erik Simonson/www.h2oshots.com

Results and more from the SBYC series can be seen at www.southbeachyachtclub.org. More of Erik's photos can be seen on his gallery of Saturday's racing, which includes the afore-mentioned Corinthians as well as this race.

The following day, Oakland Yacht Club ran their second Sunday Brunch race on the Estuary. "The Brunch Series has good attendance," claimed our source, "31 boats on course, with 36 registered. The races started on time. The fog burned off as the day went on, and it actually got sort of warm on the Estuary. That's relative." The Race Committee reported nine knots from the west.

Luna Sea back for more action, with Bob Engelhart's Catalina 34 Music in the background. ©2011 slackwatersf

"Bewitched won the Merit 25 Class with Double Agent and Bandido out of their normal finishing positions." Results and more information can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/oycracing/Home

A ubiquitous sight on the Estuary: a Finn out practicing. They are based at Encinal YC. ©2011 slackwatersf