Newport, Rhode Island IRC class 1, which includes the TP52’s was assigned to the “stadium” course inside the Bay and in front of Fort Adams today. The wind were light, under 10 knots throughout the racing period. Racing got cut a bit short at 14:00 as a large thunderstorm built just to the north of […]
Newport, RI The Race Committee sent us on the Coastal Race today. The wind was blowing 15-20 knots form the south today. The course had us starting just north of the Jamestown Bridge, sailing upwind, south to a sea buoy about 3 miles south of Castle Hill and then all the way back north, into […]
Vesper (inside) and Spookie rounding the windward mark. Newport, R.I. I am here in Newport racing onboard Phoenix, a TP 52 designed by Botin. We raced the boat a month ago here and broke our mast. It has been a very tight schedule to get the mast repaired and the boat back out on the […]
Marina Del Rey All 15 teams were back out on the Santa Monica Bay today for the final three races of the District 5 Championship. The conditions for race 4 (first of today) were 9 knots from the southwest, sunshine and smooth seas. Danny and i had a good srart down at the left end […]
Marina Del Rey 15 teams showed up to contest the 5th District Championship which is being held concurrently with the King of Spain regatta, an annual So Cal classic. Three races were schedule for today and we had 7-10 knots of wind from the southwest with a gentle swell. The fog line moved over and […]
Coconut Grove Today was the final race of the 2016 Star World Championship. The wind was slow to build but finally came in at 7-8 knots from 060. It was blowing over Key Biscayne onto the course and this made for very shifty conditions and significant deltas of wind pressure. After several attempted starts, we […]
Coconut Grove Race 5 was held yesterday in a light 7-8 knot breeze from the south east. The sun was out, the sea was flat and warm. It was classic Star sailing on Biscayne Bay. After three general recalls of the start, the Black Flag came out and 3 teams were caught out by this. Brian and I […]
Battling the kelp today. Marco Oquendo photo Coconut Grove Race 4 was held today for the 73 competitors in the Star World Championship on Biscayne Bay. The winds were light again blowing in from the southeast at 7-8 knots. I felt like it was going to be good on the left today so we started […]
Skin cancer awareness has hit the Star Class and we are all wearing these neck and face covers. Photo was from Race 2. Photo by Marco Oquendo. Coconut Grove Day 3 of the Star World Championship started off without wind. The fleet waited for over an hour before we could attempt to get a race started. […]
Coconut Grove Race 2 of the 2016 Star World Championship was held today on Biscayne Bay. At start time, 11:30, the wind was in at 16 knots from 085 and stayed pretty much the same all race. Having said that, there were 15 degree oscillations and 4 knot changes in windspeed. It was still a […]
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