(San Diego, CA)- What fun! You can watch a “live” pursuit race play out
in real-time on the Internet courtesy of San Diego YC and the sailing
teams that are participating in the famous SDYC Hot Rum Series— watch
how they all did on Saturday November 8th here- http://raceqs.com/regattas/hot-rum-series.There were dozens of J/sailors participating in the fleet of 134 boats, with 32 J/Teams (25% of the fleet!), all hoping to be the first boat to cross the finish line in this epic pursuit race format. You never know how these things turn-out, but more than half the fun is participating and watching many of your sailing colleagues pass by (one way or another!).
How did it all shake out for the first race of the series? Overall, Chuck Nichols’ J/120 CC RIDER took a 1st in class and 5th overall sailing an amazing race (check out their track on RaceQs.com to see how they did it). And, Karl Pomeroy’s J/70 ZERO TO 60 took 1st in class and 21st overall. The winner boat-for-boat was an old Ericson 35 and 2nd was an STP 65! As always, fun and games in San Diego “pursuit-style” racing in the Hot Rum Series.
On a class basis, the two J/125s in Class 1 were 6th and 7th, respectively, Jim Madden’s STARK RAVING MAD IV and Viggo Torbensen’s TIMESHAVER. In Class 2, behind Nichols’ CC RIDER, classmate Mike Hatch on J-ALMIGHTY took 5th and Rudolph Hasl’s J/120 HASL FREE took 7th and the Brockmann/ Laun combo on the J/120 CAPER were 9th and Peter Zarcades on the J/120 MELTEMI was 10th. A great showing overall for the J/120 fleet.
Class 3 was, as usual, a hound dog’s collection of stuff from across the IOR, IMS, PHRF spectrum of a century or so. While taking 4 of the top 10, 35 ft class J’s were in the middle, with Dennis Case’s J/105 WINGS in 5th, with Ed Sanford’s J/105 CREATIVE in 6th, Herb Zoehrer’s J/35 Z-Force in 7th and Dag Fish’s J/105 VIGGEN in 8th.
Behind Pomeroy’s ZERO TO 60 in first for Class 4, Dave Vieregg’s J/70 SOGGY DOLLAR took a well-deserved 2nd in class, followed by Dave Cheresh’s J/70 FLARE at 7th in class.
Check back again soon to see how the fleet does “live” on RaceQs.com in their next Hot Rum Series #2 race on November 22nd! Watch the action in real-time here. For more SDYC Hot Rum Series sailing information
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