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2016 FBYC Laser Summer Regatta

No wind in the morning so we postponed onshore for 2 hours and then went out to catch the sea breeze. The Braun family ran 5 races for us and we had 8 standard rigs and 4 radials out racing. Generally I had good speed all around the course, but wasn’t as clean in transitions as I could have been. Charlie Brewer sailed a superb day and wasn’t able to be caught taking 5 bullets. I settled for 2nd scrambling to stay ahead of Rob W and Csilla Gal. Big thanks to Matt Braun and Doug Bendura for heading up the RC.

RESULTS

By Jon Posted on January 2, 2017 Posted in Life, No Quarter Sailing, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Backspace, Deltaville, FBYC, FBYC ILCA Summer Regatta, ILCA

2016 FBYC Summer Seabreeze 2 Regatta

We made the 2nd of the Summer Seabreeze regatta a rookie regatta in the Front Runner. Matt Braun and I both crewed for first time Front Runner skippers. The wind came up around 1:30 and we had a light 8 knot sea breeze to race in. 2 races and my skipper Parker Davis took two bullets. Nice work, Parker.

RESULTS

By Jon Posted on December 31, 2016 Posted in Life, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Bluegrass Express, Deltaville, FBYC, Front Runner, Summer Seabreeze Regatta

2016 Screwpile Regatta

The Screwpile Regatta was another fun summer classic. Thanks to Mayo Tabb for again bringing Excitation and having us along. We sailed the boat well despite being pitted against a bunch of light sport boats that we could never make up our time on.

We sailed, we partied, we watched people play Pokémon Go around town. AND I got to celebrate 1 year with my girlfriend Jess! A great weekend all around!

PICTURES | RESULTS

By Jon Posted on December 31, 2016 Posted in Life, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Excitation, Offshore Racing, Screwpile Regatta, Solomons Island Maryland

2016 Leukemia Cup Regatta

For the 2nd year in a row I’ve sail the J/70 in the Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta. We had mostly sunny skies and winds in the 8-12 range with 7 J/70s on the course. Early in the day we really had a groove going and were able to make good boat speed putting up 2-2 in the first two races. A 4th in the 3rd race put us in 2nd overall just one point out of first going into day 2.

Sunday started out with a close race where we finished 3rd. The wind got lighter and we struggled putting up a 6th to hang onto 3rd overall. Thanks Carrie, Brad & Louis for a great weekend of sailing!

RESULTS | ANN GRAY PICTURES

By Jon Posted on December 31, 2016 Posted in J/70 Sailing, Life, No Quarter Sailing, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Deltaville, FBYC, J70, Leukemia Cup Regatta, No Quarter, No Quarter J70

2016 FBYC Summer Seabreeze 1 Regatta

To complete the July 4th weekend the Lasers joined the Summer Seabreeze Regatta at FBYC and 7 of us had some quality racing in overcast and 7-10 knot breezes. I focused on my starts and started well and had good speed upwind and downwind. Just couldn’t get ahead of Charlie Brewer and settled for 2nd in 2 races.

RESULTS

By Jon Posted on December 31, 2016 Posted in Life, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Backspace, Deltaville, FBYC, ILCA, Summer Seabreeze Regatta

2016 FBYC Cut Channel Race

We had a really nice day on Excitation for the Cut Channel Race at Fishing Bay Yacht Club. We started out with wind, but it died out in the middle of the bay as we sailed up the channel. By then Afterthought was able to slip away in the wind they had and what filled in behind us was too little, too late.

RESULTS | PICTURES | ANN GRAY PICTURES

By Jon Posted on December 31, 2016 Posted in Life, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Cut Channel Race, Deltaville, Excitation, FBYC, Offshore Racing

2016 Laser District 10 Championship

Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club was host for the 2016 Laser District 10 Championship in mid-June. Winds were light for the first 5 races on Saturday and I finished 13-11-5-11-9 to be 10th after the first day. That evening had dinner with a few of the District 10 sailors and caught a beautiful sunset at Brant Beach Yacht Club.

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On Sunday it took 2 hours of postponement for the wind to fill and then we sailed 2 more races in 10-14 knots. I finished 9-10 and stayed in 10th overall.

RESULTS | PICTURES

By Jon Posted on December 11, 2016 Posted in ILCA Sailing, Life, No Quarter Sailing, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Beach Haven NJ, ILCA, Laser District 10 Championship, Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club, No Quarter, No Quarter ILCA

2016 Laser Atlantic Coast Championship

The 2016 edition of the Laser Atlantic Coast Championship was held in beautiful Bellport, New York at Bellport Yacht Club. As usually navigating the van up 95 and through New York City is always a challenge and I somehow found myself on surface streets among the taxi cabs before re-finding the expressways.

The racing started Saturday morning right off the dock of the club with 29 boats in the standard class. Having not been in a Laser since Easter and back to sailing the original MkI sail I found myself a bit off speed in the moderate winds and chop. The highlight was the race I rounded the first mark in the top 5, but would fall from there picking the wrong side on the 2nd beat. I finished 17-20-16-23 and found myself in 18th after the first day.

Sunday the weather called for much higher winds. When the RC didn’t immediately take us out on time and postponed us due to the wind conditions – I decided I wasn’t going to be in the kind of shape or practiced enough to make a respectable showing in those conditions and got on the road home. Quite a few others did the same. Eventually the RC took the fleet out for 2 more races.

RESULTS | PICTURES

By Jon Posted on December 11, 2016 Posted in ILCA Sailing, Life, No Quarter Sailing, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with Bellport NY, Bellport Yacht Club, ILCA, ILCA ACC, No Quarter, No Quarter ILCA

2016 Southern Bay Race Week: Sunday

Sunday ended up being the day for wind. It started out light as we were heading to the course, but as we were arriving it piped right up. We quickly re-tuned the rig for the windier conditions sailing all the way across and up the river near the naval base.

Dave, pictured above, was our secret weapon. As a local Harbor pilot he quickly identified a current line up the right side of the course upwind. On the other side of the current line we had almost 2+ knots of favorable current. At one point we were 50 yards from another j70 going slower on the other side of the current line and they couldn’t figure out why they were so much slower going so far as to check they weren’t dragging something. We made good gains out there before the rest of the fleet started to figure it out.

Downwind in the breeze we played it conservative with the spinnaker keeping the boat under us and getting around the course cleanly.

A second place finish in the 2nd and final race of the regatta gave us 3rd place for the day, but left us in 5th for the regatta.

PICTURES | RESULTS | PhotoBoat Pictures

By Jon Posted on December 3, 2016 Posted in J/70 Sailing, Life, No Quarter Sailing, Sailboat Racing No Comments Tagged with 2016 Southern Bay Race Week, Hampton VA, Hampton Yacht Club, J70, No Quarter, Southern Bay Race Week

2016 Southern Bay Race Week: Saturday

Racing Saturday at Southern Bay Race Week started light and we were at the inshore course close to Hampton. We got out there and there was a whiff of a breeze and so they started us, but by the time we reached the weather mark, the wind had died and the current was running and nobody could get around it.

An hour or so later the wind filled nicely allowing for 4 more races. We dropped a spot overall, but closed the points gap with 3rd place.

PICTURES | RESULTS | PhotoBoat Pictures

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