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its return delivery as an abbreviated TransPac training run. In addition to K2, six boats — Cipango, Recidivist, X-Dream, Inspired Environments, Shaman and Far Far — put themselves through their practice paces. Everett, who's headed for fatherhood around the same time the others will take off for Hawaii, maintained his own tradition on the ride home. Like the crew on his Express 37 last year, the Stew32 crew — Don Teakell, Chris Fogel, Jonny Goldsberry, Jay Scott, Kurt Lahr and Chad Freitas — skipped the boat bash north and breezed home on 101 via limo, a mega-style-points move that let them chill, er, thaw out.
Small is beautiful — or is it? Michael Andrews' Santana 22 hangs with the rest of the fleet at the start of the Coastal Cup. By the end of the race, the crew conceded that there is such thing as 'too small.' Inset, 'Far Far' kicked off her 2007 summer racing tour with a Coastal Cup victory. Bravo Juliet, Hobie 33, Mark Peters; 9) Low Speed Chase, Sydney 38, James Bradford; 10) Reinrag2, J/125, Thomas Garnier. (19 boats) OVERALL — 1) Far Far; 2) Samba Pa Ti; 3) Kokopelli2; 4) Still Crazy; 5) Bonito. (22 boats) Full results — www.encinal.org
Spinnaker Cup Despite fog and temperatures so bone chilling that some wondered if they'd ever thaw out, the 10th annual Spinnaker Cup on May 26 was a smashing success. Breeze was in the mid-teens, and there was even a hint of blue sky for the start off Knox, although that quickly changed as the fleet of 60 boats — a record turnout — cleared the Gate and headed south to Monterey. The coast was socked in, and the wind was light. Adding insult to injury, it had shifted to the south. The 88-mile race was in danger of becoming the inaugural Headsail Cup. Just about everyone stuck it out. Most found a northwesterly breeze near the
race's halfway point, Año Nuevo. With that, the sun came out and, at last, the Spinnaker Cup lived up to its reputation. Kokopelli2 was the first boat to hear the sound of the car horn indicating her finish off Fisherman's Wharf at 9:15 p.m. The Santa Cruz 52, under charter to Chip Megeath for the TransPac, completed the course in just over 12½ hours. But Caleb Everett's Melges 32 Stewball, a boat so new that its PHRF certificate was issued just days before the race, creamed the rest of the fleet, finishing an hour ahead of K2 on corrected time. "We just had the right conditions," claimed Everett. "It was windy enough to plane and do our thing, but not so windy that the big guys could roll right over us." Two of those bigger guys, K2 and John Cladianos's Schock 40 Secret Squirrel, with Peter Stoneberg at the helm, filled the other podium positions. As has become something of a tradition, several boats used the race and
PHRO I-A — 1) Kokopelli2, Santa Cruz 52, Chip Megeath; 2) Secret Squirrel, Schock 40, John Cladianos/Peter Stoneberg; 3) Serena, Thompson 1150, David Kuettel; 4) Cipango, Andrews 56, Bob & Rob Barton; 5) Roller Coaster, Santa Cruz 50, Carol Gordon. (9 boats) PHRO I — 1) Stewball, Melges 32, Caleb Everett; 2) Scorpio, Wylie 42, John Siegel; 3) Heartbeat, Wylie 46, Lou Pambianco; 4) Low Speed Chase, Sydney 38, James Bradford; 5) Copernicus, Sydney 38, Michael Kennedy; 6) Sapphire, Synergy 1000, David Rasmussen; 7) Recidivist, Schumacher 39, Ken Olcott; 8) Double Trouble, Sydney 38, Andy Costello; 9) AFM, Hobie 33, Sean McBurney; 10) Absolute 02, Sydney 38, Michael Stimson; 11) Summer Moon, Synergy 1000, Joshua Grass; 12) X-Dream, X-119, Steen Moller. (23 boats) PHRO II — 1) Shaman, Cal 40, Steve Waterloo; 2) Far Far, Cal 40, Don Grind; 3) Carnaval, Santana 35, William Keller; 4) Cirque, Beneteau 42s7, Louis Kruk. (8 boats) MORA — 1) Always Friday, Antrim 27, John Liebenberg; 2) Bloom County, Mancebo 31, Tony Basso; 3) Tule Fog, Express 27, S. Carroll. (8 boats) SINGLEHANDED — 1) Eyrie, Hawkfarm, Tom Condy. (2 boats) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Tenacity, Santa Cruz 27, Paul Nielsen; 2) Azure, Cal 40, Rodney Pimentel; 3) Elise, Express 27, Nathan Bossett. (6 boats) OVERALL — 1) Stewball; 2) Kokopelli2; 3) Secret Squirrel. (60 boats) Full results — www.sfyc.org
Delta Ditch Run Don Jesberg confirmed his status as King of the Ditch when he sailed his Melges 24 Ego to a record-setting sixth overall victory in the Delta Ditch Run, co-hosted by Richmond YC and Stockton Sailing Club on June 2. The Ego-ists — which included July, 2007 •
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