Team race championships

We competed in the VISA team race championships at NYCC on Saturday 12 October 2019. Participating were Abbie and Maria in one boat and Chase and Frances in a second boat. Below is the regatta report by the organizers.

   Fifteen teams from 11 schools arrived on the Lafayette River for the season Championship Team race regatta to find unusually high tides covering the entire lower parking lot at NYCC and a good portion of the fixed docks. Some cloud cover gave way to partly cloudy skies and a high temperature of 75 degrees. Seas were flat. Light winds NNW at 3-6 mph with gusts higher and some oscillations shifting slightly north before dying at 3:00PM when racing was abandoned.

   Sailors completed 2 round robins on two digital N courses. Teams were initially seeded into three groups on the two separate courses, with Group 1 on course 1, and groups 2 and 3 on course 2. After the initial rounds were completed teams were re-seeded into 4 groups with teams moving up or down based on the initial round results. Lack of wind precluded a third round with more movement.

   Final rankings are based on Round 2. Christchurch School Team 1 took first place, followed by Norfolk Collegiate School Team 1 in second, and Norfolk Academy Team 1 in third place.

    We are very grateful to all of the volunteers that made this event possible, especially Levi Thomson and David Chase who served as PRO's on the two different courses.

Again we struggled in the light air, but Abbie and Chase found getting on-time starts to be much easier with the small size fleet (we raced 2 v. 2 since we couldn't muster a third skipper.) At the end of the day, we finished with 2 wins and 4 losses to place 12th of the 16 teams. Below are the scores of the teams on course 2 (the lower seeded teams.)

Regatta report 28 September

On the 28th of September we sailing in a regatta at Fort Monroe, hosted by the Youth Sailing of Virginia. Here is the regatta report from the organizers:

    Eighteen teams from 14 schools gathered on Fort Monroe to compete on Mill Creek. Morning overcast skies gave way to blazing sunlight combined with little breeze and temperatures in the mid 80's, making for a long hot stiff, but fun, day on the water. Morning breezes were ENE 3-7 mph with gusts to 10 mph, slowing considerably to NE 2-3 when racing was abandoned.

    Two divisions each completed 4 W-4 races followed by 2 W-2 races. Races averaged 20 minutes long. A seventh A division race was sailed and scored, but had to be thrown out because a seventh B race was unable to be completed.

    Norfolk Academy Team 1 took first place. Behind by only one point, in second place was Norfolk Collegiate School Team 1, followed by Poquoson High School Team 1 in third place.

    Many thanks to Alan Bomar for serving as PRO, and not leaving anything on the water.

Our finishes are below. We struggled in the light air, finishing tied with Granby on points but beating them by finishing ahead of them in seven of the twelve races completed.