Penguin (9 boats) (top)
Series Standing - 6 races scored

Information is provisional and subject to modification
Regatta results last updated: Sunday, August 10, 2014 12:21:04 PM CDT
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Sail	Boat	Skipper		Yacht Club	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Pos
9677	Family Ties	WILLIAM Lawson	Colette Preis	SSA	1	[5]	5	3	1	1	11	1
9478	Wooden Bucket	Charles Krafft	Donna McKenzie	SSA	2	3	[4]	2	2	3	12	2
9576	Sister Mary Stigmata	Jonathan Bartlett	Ann Bartlett	AYC	[6]	1	1	1	5	5	13	3
9668	Lumpy	Mike Hecky	Rachel Hecky	Riverton	[4]	2	2	4	4	2	14	4
8823	Fox in Socks	David Cox		TAYC	3	4	[6]	5	3	4	19	5
9632	spax	Sandy McAllister		TAYC	5	[7]	3	6	6	6	26	6
8241	Crewsin	Roger Pickall		MRYC	[9]	8	8	7	7	7	37	7
9664	BOSUM BUDDIES	Pucky Lippincott		TAYC	8	9	7	8	[10/DNS]	10/DNS	42	8
9565	Onion	Cathy Schmidt		CYC	7	6	[10/DNS]	10/DNS	10/DNS	10/DNS	43	9

The 2014 Tred Avon Yacht Club Annual regatta was sailed on August 9 and 10. A light easterly breeze shifted toward the south in race 1, turning the beat on lap two of the windward leeward course into a close reach.. Bill Lawson and wife Colette figured this out first, keeping to the right of the fleet on the first beat to get to the new windline first, and sailed to an insurmountable lead and victory. In race 2, the wind was now out of the south, with the windward mark set off of Bachelor’s Point. With a full Aquarius moon Saturday evening, the current near Bachelor’s point, and elsewhere across the course was exceptionally strong. The winning strategy was to sail in toward the Point on starboard until well upwind of the port tack layline, and then sail out into the current, looping around the mark and heading back downwind. Jonathan and Annie Bartlett figured this out, three times in fact, winning the next three races. Sandy McAllister started with a crew, but was prepared with ballast aboard the crew’s support boat, which was traded after a race to both parties mutual agreement. At least the ballast wasn’t asking if he could put his feet in the water. Tough conditions for any adult, let alone a 9-yr. old.
Sunday, the wind was easterly in the morning, but shifted to the south and then a bit west as the committee waited for enough pressure to sail in. The wind eventually ended up southwest. Mike Hecky led around the first lap, but Bill Lawson recognized that the wind might shift back toward the south and tacked away from the boats headed to the northern shore, found new breeze and sailed away with a win. Race 2, the wind shifted about 30 degrees toward the south just before the start, making a port tack start the only way to cross the line. Lawson, Hecky, and Krafft managed to get away on port at the pin and separated from the fleet. With the large wind shift, the first mark was a fetch, and even though the course was now an Olympic, the positions stayed pretty much the same among the top three. David Cox had a strong showing, posting a 3, 4, identical to his first two race scores.

After the throwout race was subtracted from the scores, the first four boats were separated by one point each, with Lawson taking the win in his newly refurbished Freedom Penguin. Of the top six overall, all had at least one top three finish. We were glad to see Roger Pickall back in his Penguin, fully recuperated from hip replacement surgery. Pucky Lippincott made it a one day event, as did Cathy Schmidt, but great to have them participating.