(San Francisco, CA)- The San Francisco J/105 Fleet is alive and growing
with 25 teams on the starting line for each mid-winter race and 25 boats
competing this past weekend in the St. Francis Yacht Club’s Spring One
Design, its opening fleet racing regatta of the 2018 season.It was an uncharacteristically light wind regatta due to little gradient, as the Central Valley has not yet heated up. Despite the resultant light winds and strong, building tides, the race committee managed to pull off three races on Saturday and one on Sunday.
The
fleet welcomed returning owners Tim Russell and Ian Charles, both
highly experienced skippers who had sold their J/105s a few years ago
while attending to growing families. In the past few months each of
them bought a well-prepared used J/105, shipped them to San Francisco,
and jumped right into the front row for each race. Nevertheless, Bruce
Stone and Nicole Breault on ARBITRAGE #116 turned in a consistent score
line of 4-2-3-3 to win convincingly with a total of 12 points. They
were followed by Tim on NE*NE #3 (Lowell North’s and Dennis Conner’s old
“superboat”) with 20 points and Ian on MAVERICK #385 with 22 points,
with Shannon Ryan and Rolf Kaiser on DONKEY JACK #26 in fourth with 26
points. Completing the top five was Adam Spiegel’s JAM SESSION with 27
pts. Sailing photo credits- Chris RayFor more J/105 Spring One Design Regatta sailing information Add to Flipboard Magazine.
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