January 22, 2015  0900 Bella Mente’s request for redress hearing was reopened this morning. Shockwave and Numbers were present this time. Reason prevailed and redress was denied. So Bella Mente scored a 4, 3 yesterday and all three competitors are within one point going into todays racing. More later. Paul

Photo: Steve Lapkin Key West January 21, 2015, With a forecast that was too light to race, the wind gave us a pleasant surpass, and we managed to get in two races today.  The wind came in at 6-8 knots from the north-northwest around 11:00 and the race committee was quick to jump on it. […]

“Shockwave in Traffic”, credit Tim Wilkes. Key West Two races were held today in fairly steady conditions of 7-12 knots from the south.  A first race raw started and abandoned about 3/4’ers of the way through due to lack of wind. In both races, Bella Mente had just slightly the better of us.  Nothing dramatic […]

Could not find any pictures of the racing on the site yet so I took this picture which I found pretty interesting. Day one of Quantum Key West Race week was very typical, sunshine and 8-12 knots of wind from the northeast. I am onboard George Sakellaris’ 68′ Shockwave this week and we are racing […]

Photo: Marco Oquendo/imagesbymarco.com

Coconut Grove Magnus and I came out determined to get back what was ours, and we did. We finished with a 1, 2 which was enough to move us up from 11th to 6th in the mid winters and save the overall Star Winter Series Championship by just one point. After yesterday’s broken mast, and […]

Coconut Grove Three races were sailed today on Biscayne Bay for the Star fleet. The wind was great: 15-18 from the northeast. Augur Diaz had a great day winning two of the races and Lars Grael continued to do well edging us for the win in race 1. We were in the hunt in all […]

Blog Posts
Portfolio
Pages
Categories
Monthly

Archives by Month: