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Hyannis Pre-Pre Worlds September 18-20

22 boats participated in a practice regatta designed to help sailors and committee get tuned up, pumped up, and excited about next year's Worlds. Conditions were challenging for the committee throughout the three day event with 3 cancelled races due to fog and high wind. No races were held on Sunday as a cold front passed through New England dropping the temperatures from near 80 for the first two days to the 50's for Sunday. Conditions were on the breezy side for all races that were completed. Races were held in the "normal" race circle about 2 miles off Hyannisport in Nantucket Sound, the same circle utilized for the Hyannis Annual regatta. The committee will be moving the race track further off shore for the Worlds for a couple of reasons: deeper water to prevent post-capsize dismastings, and reduction of a slight bias towards the shoreward side of the course on the upwind legs (depending on tide). "We'll have you guys half way to Nantucket; don't you worry about that!" one committee member was quoted as saying after racing one evening. The highlight of the sailing was definitely the fast and tight two sail reaching (the second of which were usually makeable with a chute) in 4-6 feet of choppy sea. For those of us who have been around these boats for a while it was some of the best, fastest sailing ever. Most races were kept as Modified Olympics with Worlds angles on the reaches. Some of the top sailors were faked out in the first race, missing the finish line because they assumed all races would be Worlds courses. Although the races were shorter in time and distance, getting a number of races in insured the committee would receive adequate practice setting reaches and conducting gate starts, which for the most part were right on the money. Once again the HYC members should be commended for an incredible effort in some challenging conditions, including the cancellation of a race on Friday as a thick, 20 foot visibility fog settled-in on the course. Valuable Lesson: Don't throw away the sailing area chart after you read the instructions! You'll need that compass rose! Those of you who don't will get to greet Joan Kennedy's security detail on Squaw Island about three miles west of the harbor (true story).

Oh, the racing...local Tyler Moore and old man Scott Ikle won the event handily; after them the racing was very tight with a strong showing from the Chesapeake contingent including Fleet 19's Johnathan Phillips and Les Crane and Southern Bay's Kenney Elliot and Allen Kilgore. Canadians Hugh Morrin and Michael Hoffman were runners-up to the local hero. Older men Tom Kivney and Todd Johnson (combined age 120 or something...) sailed fast in the breeze and captured fourth.

Results
Crew Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 TOTAL
Moore/Ikle 1 1 2 1 5
Morrin/Hoffman 5 5 7 5 22
Phillips/Crane 4 2 10 9 25
Kivney/Johnson 2 12 6 6 26
Elliot/Kilgore 7 6 5 10 28
Fowler/Dyson 3 23 1 4 31
Bixby/Meller 23 3 3 3 32
Kuehl/Thompson 13 8 4 7 32
Hamilton/Torrie 9 7 14 8 38
Collins/Smith 23 9 9 2 43
Follansbees 12 10 13 11 46
Neff/Fry 8 11 8 23 50
Grey/Kivney 10 4 23 23 60
Harris/Falsone 6 23 11 23 63
Yindor/McCarthy 23 15 15 13 66
Rosenfeld/Moore DNS DNS 12 12 70
Smith/Thompson 11 14 23 DNS 71
Tranmer/Schell 15 13 23 23 74
Hopkins/Baylis 14 16 23 23 76
Ashby/Adams 23 23 23 14 83
Chatham/Tosbett 23 23 23 23 92
Wyles/Freedman 23 23 23 23 92

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