(San Francisco, CA)- The Singlehanded Sailing Society of San Francisco
held their annual springtime ritual this past weekend- the 18nm
circumnavigation of San Francisco Bay, a.k.a.- the SSS Race. The event
started at 11:00 at the CYC and left Harding Rock to port, Blossom Bell
to starboard, Blunt Point to port, South Hampton to one side or the
other, Blunt Point to starboard, Harding Rock bell to starboard and back
to the finish.
It
is a popular event and attracts a legion of enthusiastic doublehanded
and singlehanded teams on boats that range in size from around 20 ft to
50 ft. J/crews had a fun time and a number of they were successful.
Starting on the big boat side of things, in the PHRF 4 Double class, the
J/44 ACEY DEUCY, team of Richard Leute/ Steve Taylor took 4th place. In
PHRF 7 Single, the J/30 IONE skippered by Peter Jermyn grabbed 2nd
position. In PHRF 8 Double class, the pretty little J/32 PARADIGM
sailed by Luther & Robert Izmirian secured 5th place. The big
winner of the day was in PHRF 9 Single, with the J/80 PAINKILLER
skippered by Eric Patterson winning followed closely by another SSS
veteran- the J/92 RAGTIME in 3rd skippered by Bob Johnston. Then, he
was followed by the J/120 SAETTA skippered by Ludovic Millin in 4th.
Finally, the PHRF 10 Double class had a number of J/105 class veterans
in the mix with JAVELIN in 2nd place sailed by the team of Sergie
Podshivalov & Charlie Abraham. Next was AKULA sailed by Doug &
Lyndon Bailey in 6th. 10th was RACER X sailed by Richard Pipkin &
Mary Mcgrath in 10th.
Sailing photo credits- Erik Simonson For
more SSS Society race sailing information
