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2005 Season
End
Well it has been a good season. The overall season winner was up in the air until the
final race, Grand Prix. I will leave the write up of this race for one of the other
racers. I can say I had a great time on Scooter. Of the 10 races that make up the
Multihull Cup for 2005 we averaged 7 boats on the starting line. For the 19 races that I
tracked we had and average of just fewer than 6 boats. During the season 19 different
boats make it out to the starting line at least once. So here is what everyone wants to
know.
Drum roll please. In 3rd overall was Scooter. 2nd overall went to Cuttlefish and the
trophy goes to Pat MCGarry and crew of Dragonfly. Congregations. Keith will be posting the
complete standings to the web site in the near future. In the next week I will be sending
out some stuff for the 2006 Multihull Cup. I do plan to keep Winter Vashon as the 1st
race. This race will be the 3rd of December.
DangerZone will be back out in force for 2006 and plans to take on all challengers to win
the cup back.
Jim - DangerZone
OK the view from Scooter
Friday, no way we are going out in the that I want my mommy kind wind, we stay on the dock
and watch the carnage from the warmth of the truck. Appropriate country music in the
background. West Point had 31 gusting to 33 at the start. I will let those who went out
describe it, but it was definitely a sail makers dream/nightmare kind of day.
Saturday, good rain gear is worth the money. My Kokatat gortex drysuit worked great! Jim
Thompson and Les Valsquire were on board. Nice 8-14 knot wind, not a lot of waves. ( 2 )
two laps races, windward leeward, monos everywhere, Cheekee Monkee, Makika and Dragonfly
showing us the way around the course. Close racing with Cuttlefish, no real trama other
than dodging lots of monos.
Sunday, sun and light wind building to low 20s. 4 hours of one on one racing with
Cuttlefish, trying to predict gybes and tacks on when Martyn got up off the float. Only
real trauma was shrimping the spinnaker, boy that really slows the boat down, one minute
doing 15 knots, next 1. Fortunately no damage to the sail and Jim and I worked on getting
it all sorted and re-rigged on the 2 hour beat back to West Point. I believe it was
Makika, Cheekee Monkee, Cuttlefish, Scooter, Dragonfly, Freda Mae, and Blue Lighting.
Kinetic Ki (former Freda Mae) was a DNF, though I don't know why. The amazing thing is
that 2-5 were separated by less than 2.5 minutes after 3-4 hours of racing, that is pretty
close racing.
In the end Makika corrected to first and took first overall for the regatta. Cheekee
Monkee was second and Scooter slipped into third mainly due to the unique scoring system
used by SYC. Turns out, DNC were scored 1 plus number of finishers as opposed to 1 plus
number of competitors so by not sailing on Friday we took a 5 as opposed to a 9. Dragonfly
was fourth and Cuttlefish 5th, Blue Lighting (Mark Gumley with his kids as crew) took 6th.
Hats off to Jude for a great regatta, they sailed very well and deserved the win. They
seem to have really dialed the boat in. As always it is a treat to get to race against
Cheekee Monkee and Dragonfly, both will be missed when they are sold are gone. The one on
one racing with Cuttlefish remains the highlight, on Sunday I think we exchanged the lead
3-4 times. Freda Mae looks very fast with its new lighter crew.
Mike - Scooter
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