Icebreaker results and a correction on them.
I found this in my mailbox today (as several other did) and I will copy-paste fully.
I just wonder who the third place overfall winner is. I mean it is only fair to name all three of them as is them with the other results
But for now Conrats to Chip and Lee with their overall win on a Taipan spi (F16)
Wouter
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All,
First off, I'd like to thank all those who came out to the Icebreaker to
sail, and most importantly to help out running the event. Things were
particularly hectic for me this weekend, so the help was much
needed! Thanks to Chris Ford, Jodie Perkins, Wendy Daunheimer, Roger
Holmes, Selden Daniel, and Rob Wilson. Thanks to Jim Boyer for coming by
and showing us the way, and thanks to Chip Zenke for arranging for Jim's
visit. We had a great day, and a great way to kick off the season!
Second, I must apologize profusely for something I discovered tonight while
going over the results before sending them out to the various folks who
want to publish them. In typing in the finishing times into Sailwave on
Sunday, I typed in fractions of seconds, which unbeknownst to us at the
time, caused the times to be stored as all seconds instead of hours,
minutes, and seconds. The results displayed as simply order of finish, so
we did not see the errors. I blame it on lack of sleep and lack of
familiarity with the program, but mostly I just goofed. I have gone
through the time sheet from committee again and put things right (minus the
fractions of seconds...). Predictably, there is a change in some (but not
all) of the orders, primarily in the overall and non-spin class. Again, I
apologize for all of this, and hopefully it doesn't cause anybody too much
heartburn. For those displaced from first place finishes, I owe you a
drink or three - Meet me at Pirate's Cove...
And no, the new first placers didn't bribe me. We all know that cat
sailors are too notoriously cheap to bribe anybody! Although Chip did set
up my boat for me...
** Here's a run-down of the correct finishing order: ****
Overall:
1st place - Chip Zenke/Lee Mullins Taipan 4.9 sloop with spinnaker #264
2nd place - Jim Boyer/Chris Lord Taipan 4.9 sloop #215
Spinnaker:
1st place - Chip Zenke/Lee Mullins - Taipan 4.9 sloop with spinnaker #264
2nd place - Bobby Noll/John Mclaughlin - Inter-20 #473
3rd place - Doug Kirby/Jeff LoSapio - Javelin 2 (F18HT) #18
Non-Spinnaker:
1st place - Christopher Lord/Jim Boyer - Taipan 4.9 sloop #215
2nd place - Robert Schnabel - NACRA 5.5 Uni #266
3rd place - Brian Blackford - Javelin (A-Class) #157
Hobie-20:
1st place - David Nees/Cheri Niedleman - Hobie-20 #669
2nd place - Keith Chapman/GregKurtz - Hobie-20 #341
3rd place - Joe Kaiser/Ed Mills - Hobie-20 #399
Inter-20:
1st place - Bobby Noll /John Mclaughlin - Inter-20 #473
2nd place - Rob Lancaster/Roger Holmes - Inter-20 #2
3rd place - Aric Euler/James Rawlings - Inter-20 #467
The full results will be out on the web soon in various places, so you'll
be able to inspect for yourselves.
Thanks again for participating and helping out, and sorry once again for
goofing up on the scoring!
Stay tuned for write-ups from others on the event itself!
See you on the water,
Keith
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From the results page at :
http:/
I gether the following story :
The race is the first race in CRAC's distance racing series is described as a medium distance bouy race.
It was held on Sunday 27th of april and some 20 catamarans of different make registered.
The race was sailed by : 4- I-20’s ; 1 - F18 HT ; 3 Taipan 4.9’s ; 3 N6.0 ; 2 A-cats ; 5 H20’s ; 1 N5.5 and 1 nacra 5.8.
18 catamarans finished after 2 to 3 hours sailing; one catamaran did not finish and one was disqualified.
7 catamarans sailed with a spinnaker, 9 without and we saw 4 singlehanded sailors without spis.
This was a pretty High Performance fleet considering the fact that the average Portsmouth rating of the fleet was 64.0 with the fastest boats at 59,2 and the slowest at 70.3. Typical H16, N5.0 and P16 ratings are of course about 77.
During the race the windstrength was recorded to be between 10 and 15 knots.
The course were 5 laps around the bouys and the boat taking the line-honours (elasped time) was the I-20 of Bobby Noll and John McLaughlin. They complete the course in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
The last boat finished in 3 hours, 6 minutes and 12 seconds. The Top 10 of the fleet all finished within 12 minutes of the lead I-20 (elapsed time). Pretty close considering that they spend and average time of 2 hours and 15 minutes on the course.
From the race data it looks like the boats on elapsed time positions 3 to 7 fought with each other all the way to the finish line. These 5 boats saw pretty close racing on elapsed time between 2 I-20’s, a N6.0, an A-cat and a Formula 16 Taipan 4.9. They all finished in less than a minute with the smallest boat of the group, a Formula 16, edging out a win over the biggest boat in the group, a Nacra 6.0 with a NA with modified square top main, by only 2 seconds. This while the A-cat was giving both a “hurry up“ by finishing only 12 secs later. And that after 2 hours and 17 minutes of racing. This result would propel the smallest boat of the group past the line-honours winner on handicap.
Very close racing in anybodies book especially considering that this fight saw a 20 footer sbattling it out with a 18 and 16 footer on elapsed time. With the emphasis on “elapsed time”. We’ll look at the handicapped results later.
A little further back we see another 16 footer battling it out with two Hobie 20’s and a singlehander nacra 5.5 finishing at exactly the same time as the 3rd Hobie 20 all without spinnakers and only 13 minutes behind the first finisher. Very convincing sailing by Robert Schnabel on his nacra 5.5 uni which was the second slowest rated boat in the fleet. It finally put him on 3rd spot overall on handicap. The 16 foot Taipan 4.9 sailed by Jim Boyer and Christopher Lord eventually took 2nd place overall on handicap.
Than at place 14 and 15 on elasped time (finishing order) we see another 16 footer (singlehanded) and a 20 footer competing to get ahead of eachother. This ended with the smaller of the two building up a lead of some 4 minutes at the time of finishing. Not bad against a Nacra 6.0 with a big North American rig.
Surely this mixing of 16, 18 and 20 footer will give rise to very interesting changes of positions when assembling the rsults based on handicap ratings.
This handicapped result shows two 16 footer taken first and second postions and two 18 foot singlehanders taking 3rd and 4th places. The first 20 footers are found at place 5 to 8 and the uni-rigged 18 footer is found at position 9. The Top 10 is then complete by a 16 foot signlehander. Al
Ergo in the top time on handicap we find 3- 16 footers ; 4 - 20 footers and 3 - 18 footers. With two 20 footers being kicked out the handicapped top 10 by both a 16 and 18 footer singlehanders.
The solo sailors Robert Schnabel and Constantine Cerementis have put themselves on the map this way. Although Brian Blackford achieved the greater honour of finishing in the top 10 of both the elapsed as handicapped results
The remaining 7 boats stayed in the top 10 although they exchanged quite a few positions.
The final top 5 on handicap showed the following crews : Handicapped time difference
-1- Chip Zenke and Lee Mullins on a Formula 16 - Taipan 4.9 0:00:00
-2- Christopher Lord and Jim Boyer on a sloop Taipan 4.9 0:01:16
-3- Robert Schnabel singlehanding on a Nacra 5.5 uni. 0:02:23
-4- Brian Blackford singlehanding on a A-class 0:05:42
-5- David Nees and Cheri Niedleman on a Hobie 20 0:11:38
The top 5 finishers on elasped time are Elapsed time
-1- Bobby Noll and John McLaughlin on a I-20 2:09:30
-2- Doug Kirby and Jeff LoSapio on a Javelin 2 2:13:01
-3- Rob lancaster and Roger Holmes on a I-20 2:16:19
-4- Eric Euler and James Rawlings on a I-20 2:16:49
-5- Chip Zenke and Lee Mullins on a Formula 16 - Taipan 4.9 2:17:02
From the handicapped time results it is clear that the smaller boats have sailed very well in relation to their Portsmouth ratings. The first big boat in the top 5, a Hobie 20, is a good 11 minutes short in “furfilling his rating” and taking 1st spot in the handicapped results. However the 18 and 16 foooters in the 4 are only seperated by a good 5 minutes on handicapped time differences.
The fastest boat of the day, the I-20 taking line-honours, is a shy 14 minutes short of taking the lead in the handicapped results. This is more than what was separating the first 11 finishers at the finish line, which is the same as 60 % of the fleet.
Wouter
P.S. When requested I will mail the excel with elapsed and handicapped time results