COURTESY DON JESBERG
THE RACING
JILL CASEY
class — which also used the TT as their on-deck circle for their Western Worlds' qualifier race — also sailed July 15-16 on Lake Tahoe. When it came to doing well in this year's Trans-Tahoe, size counted — at least in spinnakers. Dick Ferris’ J/125 August Ice with its huge masthead kite was the first keelboat to finish, completing the 26-mile course in 4 hours, 29 minutes. Gary Redelberger’s brand spanking new Farr 36 (just completed by Jim Betts in his Verdi, Nevada, yard), took second only 17 seconds behind. — Jim Mullen David Keran, 6; 3) Chris Gedrose, 9. (13 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Melinda Erkelens, 4 points; 2) Tim Russell, 5; 3) Ron Tostenson, 11. (7 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Brad Butler, 6 points; 2) Rowan Fennell, 7; 3) Mike O'Callaghan, 12. (17 boats) VIPER 640 — 1) Nick Mockridge, 3 points; 2) Loren Callahan, 7; 3) Ray Sanchez-Pescador, 8. (4 boats) ULTIMATE 20 — 1) John Andrew, 3 points; 2) John Buchanan, 7; 3) Matt Borough, 8. (6 boats) OPEN KEEL — 1) Santana 22, Ronald Baxter, 4 points; 2) Santana 22, Dan Scarbery, 5; 3) Santana 22, Charles Kurtmen, 9. (4 boats) VICTORY 21 — 1) Scott Holmes, 3; 2) Don Bonander, 6; 3) Tom Anderson, 10. (4 boats)
Trans-Tahoe Forty-eight boats from all over Northern California showed up for the 43rd running of the Trans-Tahoe Race on July 8. The crown jewel of Tahoe YC's summer sailing season was sailed in fast-changing weather conditions that even included rain squalls and lightning at one point — definitely weather to keep crews on their toes, and constant tweaking was the order of the day. Once again, the standout boat of the TT — in more ways than one — was Les Bartlett's 'hot rod' Venture 21, which features a Soling rig and masthead kite. For the fourth year, Les took overall honors in the keelboat class with this combo. Bay Area boats fared well with Kirsten Lane’s Brick House winning the hotly contested 8-boat Melges 24 division Page 174 •
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• August, 2006
Above, 'Bones' takes a bow at the Melges 24 PCCs on Lake Tahoe. Above right, 'Ego's Don and Peter Jesberg.
— which also served as a warm-up for their PCCs sailed on the lake the following weekend. And Mike Whitfield’s J/24 TMC Racing took second in that Box Scores Just the facts, ma'am. . . SOUTH TOWER RACE (SSC, 6/23, 140 miles) DIV. I — 1) Loose Cannon, Express 27, Andy Goodman; 2) Max, Antrim 27, Bryan Wade; 3) Skiff Sailing, 11:Metre, Skiff Sailing Foundation. (5 boats) DIV. II — 1) Cloud Nine, Catalina 30, Jim Plummer; 2) Transposition, Catalina 27, Sam Dameron; 3) Purrfection, Nonsuch 30, Dana Bradley. (3 boats) OVERALL — 1) Cloud Nine; 2) Transposition; 3) Purrfection; 4) Loose Cannon; 5) Max. (8 boats) Complete results: www.stocktonsc.org MARINA DEL REY TO SAN DIEGO (Southwestern YC, 7/01, 104.3 miles) PHRF A — 1) Sparta, 1D-48, Carl Radusch; 2) White Knight, Farr 40, Zoltan Katinsky; 3) Lucky Dog, J/125, Bob and Colin Shanner. (4 boats) PHRF B — 1) Problem Child, B-32, Dan Rossen; 2) Patriot, J/N 40, Jerry Montgomery; 3) Wildcat, Cheetah 30, John Staff. (8 boats) PHRF C — 1) Avet, J/80, Curt Johnson; 2) Wind Dancer, Catalina 42, P.K. Edwards; 3) Obsession, Catalina 30, Bill Apps. (5 boats) ORCA — 1) Phat Cat, Firebird 26, Chris
DIVISION A (PHRF <90)— 1) Merlin, Melges 32, John Corda/Richard Courcier; 2) Racer X, Farr 36, Gary Redelberger; 3) Ice Nine, J/109, Jim Casey. (8 boats) DIVISION B (80-129) — 1) Expressway, Express 27, Mike Robinson; 2) Stray Cat, Olson 30, Brian Barger; 3) True Luff, Tartan 10, John Utter. (6 boats) DIVISION C (>130) — 1) Groovy, Venture Slagerman; 2) Monsoon, F-27, Chuck Spears; 3) Holoholo, F-24, Gene Grounds. (3 boats) CRUISING (NON-SPIN) — 1) Faire Warning, MacGregor 26D, Mike Inmon; 2) Attitude Adjustment 2, Hunter 40.5, Rick Dinon; 3) Taku, Opus 34, Christian Brorsen. (7 boats) CRUISING (SPIN) — 1) Rubicon III, Contessa 33, Rod Percival; 2) Shockwave, Newport 41, Mike and Frank Grijal; 3) Grande Maree, Catalina 36, Tony Siros. (8 boats) 2006 EASOM FOUNDERS TROPHY (SFYC, 6/24-25, Etchells) 1) Pegasus 1278, Jeff Madrigali, 12 points; 2) Pegasus, Philippe Kahn, 15; 3) Leverage, Russ Silvestri, 16; 4) WB, Tim Wells, 24; 5) Down Under, Andrew Whittome, 32; 6) White Jacket, Randy Smith, 37; 7) Dr. Funkenstein, Wayne Clough, 38, 8) JR, Bill Melbostad, 41; 9) Ginna Fe, Michael Laport, 44; 10) Mr. Natural, Ben Wells, 49. (16 boats) WBRA (6/25, 5 miles) FOLKBOAT — 1) Little Svendle, Bill DuMoulin; 2) Windansea, Don Wilson; 3) Polperro, Peter Jeal. (8 boats) KNARR — 1) Lykken, Robert Fisher; 2) Flyer, Chris Kelly; 3) Svenkist, Sean Svendsen. (18