Well the races have been raced under the excellent guidence of Rick White. Many Thanks
And the winners have been determined. Read :
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And for the results :
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The skippers and crews were :
Dave White Ben Gunn
Chuck Harnden Mavis Harnden
Kirt Simmons Geert Ruesink
Jennifer Lindsay Gordon Isco
And Dave White and Ben Gunn have proven to be the best sailors and earned the title US Formula 16 champions 2002; Congratulations.
Speech, Speech , Speech !
I expect at least one of them to amuse us on this F16 forum with a report describing the situation from the perspective of their boat.
It must however be said that especially mr and ms Harden gave the winners a good run for their money.
At the end of the first day (4 races) boat White/Gunn had all but a decisive lead over the others. Their championship was totally won on the second day of racing. They started with 3 2nd places when team Harnden put in their streak of 4 bullets, which was started at the end of day 1. But later in the 2 nd day the other teams, Simmons/Ruesink and Lindsay/Isco, found an answer to the winning streak of team Harnden. Ofcourse the Team White/Gunn found the most decisive answer and were able to bend lady Fortunes favoritisme towards themselfs.
And Ohh, the fact that Team White/Gunn is expected to speech does mean that the other teams are excussed to not give us their version of the story on the Forum !
Regards,
Wouter
The race started with mixed up winds with plenty of holes for the unsuspecting sailor. Ben and I found enough bad places to sail into to give us a feeling that our boat wasn't up to speed. On the 3rd race of the day we finally got our act together and pulled off a win, then a second on the final race of the day. On the second day, the winds picked up and the boat felt much faster. Chuck Harnden and his wife had boat speed on us up wind, but down wind we were reeling him in. We both had trouble with the tack of our jib letting go,(the small line that attaches the tack to the plate of the forstay). Chuck on the 4th race of the 2nd day lost the halyard to the jib because his tack line let go and retired from racing for the rest of the day. The harder the wind blew the faster the boat seem to go by comparison. The new Calvert spinnaker seem to consistently be faster than the other boats in the class in all the winds we encountered. We also seem to have an edge in the raising and lowering of the spinnaker by hand, as most of the other competitors seem to have problems raising and lowering theirs with snuffer systems.
Dave White