Twelve teams from Vancouver to Southern California competed in the ABYC Memorial Day Regatta on Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th of May in Long Beach California.  This was a multi-class event which is good exposure since we were the biggest class. Matt and Bryan found out the drawbacks of multi-class events  when rounding the leeward mark in 2nd place in race 1, some Idiot in a Nacra cat ran them down from behind and put a huge hole in the back quarter of the boat. They had to be towed in before the boat sank. (and Cat sailors wonder why they have a bad name)  For everyone else the conditions were marginal trapezing on Saturday and full trapezing on Sunday. Mike and Howard sailed well with good speed to win almost every race. The only person to ruin their perfect record was Andy Beckman and J.D. Hess.  Andy was planning on sailing with Bruce Tilley but Bruce got sick on Friday and told Andy that he could not make it.   Andy tracked down a boat and crew  at the last minute and made it out to the races and sailed smart and fast  to win race 6. The racing was very tight with overlaps at every mark and lots of positions changing on every leg. Other highlights included the return of Don Smith making a guest appearance with Bruce Edwards, and Pete Melvin crewing for Howard in race 3 while Mike was taking a test spin on Pete's new A-Cat and did not make it back in time for the start. The next event in the ranking system is St. Francis on June 27,28. See you all there.
 
 

1	7771	HOWARD HAMLIN/MIKE MARTIN	ABYC	1	1	1	1	1	(3)	1	6
2	8681	ROBIN BROWN/RICH MONDELL	KITSI	2	3	3	(13)	2	2	2	14
3	84	NICK ADAMSON/BEN BENJAMIN	BYC	6	6	2	2	4	(7)	4	23
4	8084	STEVE FLAM/ROB WATTERMAN	ABYC	4	5	5	4	4	5	(6)	27
5	7873	ELLEN ABLOW/ALAN NORMAN	RYC	5	2	6	3	6	6	(7)	28
6	8680	BRUCE EDWARDS/DON SMITH	ST.FY	3	4	4	(13)	7	8	3	29
7	6992	ANDY BECKMAN/JD HESS	NHYC	(9)	9	8	7	5	1	9	39
8	8266	KEVIN TAUGHER/TOM PAULLING	ABYC	7	7	9	(13)	9	4	5	41
9	8576	BOB NOYES/BILL BEARDSLEE		8	8	(11)	5	8	10	8	47
10	6983	ERIC WILLIS/WENDY HERZBERG		(11)	10	7	8	11	9	10	55
11	6932	ASHLEY TOBIN/JIM WATTERS	RYC	10	(11)	10	6	10	11	11	58
12	7096	BRYAN LARGAY/MATT SANDERS	HIGH	(13)	13	13	13	13	13	13	78