Light
Winds Test U-20 Fleet at Carter Lake Regatta
Marty May’s Redline takes top honors
June 4, 2012
With warm weather and good wind
throughout the start of the spring season, something was bound to give and it
did this past weekend. The warm weather remained, but the winds did not, as boats
struggled to get racing in for the Carter Lake Regatta especially on the first
day of a two-day regatta.
The Carter Lake regatta is an annual event hosted by Carter
Lake Sailing Club, where it hosts one-design and PHRF fleet racing for various
classes of keelboats. This year the U-20 fleet had five entries, Juiced, Mongoose,
Redbeard, Redline, and Velocitize.
The timing and importance of the event
always draws top competition and most of U-20 Fleet 4 were entered again this
year to see what they have heading into the summer regatta season. Unfortunately,
the wind never topped five knots on Saturday and only two races were completed
per division. Race Committee sent boats to the docks for what turned out to be a
two-hour postponement because of a severe thunder and lightning storm that
moved in over the lake.
On Sunday, and with better winds, the
race committee got the most out of the conditions to complete four races per
division. Final results had Marty May’s Redline finishing 1st, Jim Ulatowski’s Juiced claiming 2nd (just one point
behind), and Brad Lawson’s Redbeard taking 3rd
place. Tom Downing, Velocitize and B.W. Bilberry on
Mongoose were 4th and 5th respectfully.
Competition
throughout the weekend was tight and with the light and variable winds no boat
was ever really out of any one race.
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CLSC Final
Results for Fleet = U20 Sailed:6, Discards:0, To count:6, Ratings:PHRFTOT,
Entries:5, Scoring system:RRS Low Point |
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Rank |
Fleet |
Boat |
Helm |
SailNo |
Crew |
Rating |
Total |
Nett |
|||||||
|
1st |
U20 |
Red Line |
Marty May |
78 |
|
159 |
3.0 |
1.0 |
3.0 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
2.0 |
|
11.0 |
11.0 |
|
2nd |
U20 |
Juiced |
Jim Ulatowski |
19 |
|
159 |
4.0 |
2.0 |
1.0 |
3.0 |
2.0 |
1.0 |
|
13.0 |
13.0 |
|
3rd |
U20 |
Redbeard |
Brad Lawson |
63 |
|
159 |
2.0 |
3.0 |
4.0 |
2.0 |
4.0 |
3.0 |
|
18.0 |
18.0 |
|
4th |
U20 |
Velocitize |
Tom Downing |
77 |
|
159 |
1.0 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
DNC |
|
25.0 |
25.0 |
|
5th |
U20 |
Mongoose |
BW Bilberry |
96 |
|
159 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
2.0 |
5.0 |
3.0 |
DNC |
|
26.0 |
26.0 |