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1) Smokey, 20 points; 2) Magic, Tim Maloney, MMBA, 27; 3) Huck Finn, Margie Siegal, MMBA, 39. (4 boats)
Bird Boat — Oriole Jock MacLean/Hugh Harris, SFYC The Oriole crew, skipper Jock MacLean, co-owner Hugh Harris, Jock's son Lachlan MacLean, and Shane Holt, have been racing the yellow Bird for two years. Oriole was built in 1928 and launched in 1929, and has been sailed out of San Francisco YC for most of that 85 years. "My father owned her when I was in high school," said Jock, "and we sailed her to three championships in the 1970s." In 2012, he and Harris found her in a boat yard, ready to be cut up for her lead and put in a dumpster. She spent six months in a shed at KKMI and was readied for the 2013 racing season, with new Pineapple sails and a major makeover. "She was fast until, during a leeward mark rounding, our championship hopes were dashed by another boat's sailing through her hull," said MacLean about the boat's 2013 campaign. "Back we went to the yard for repairs. This year we sailed clean and have some silver to Page 80 •
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Knarr — Flyer Chris Kelly, RYC The crew aboard Flyer are Marc Bryan, Bob Gerlach, and Lief Wadleigh. "If there’s a secret to our ability to find our way to Shane Holt, Hugh Harris, Jock MacLean, Lachlan MacLean the front of the fleet from time to time," said their skipper, Chris show for it. Oriole has a new lease on life Kelly, "it’s their willingness to stick with and now rests back at SFYC where she me over the years as we figured out how belongs." to make an old boat go well. They’re the Jock listed the season highlights: best!" "Sailing with great guys and my son, getKelly has been ting the boat looking and sailing great, racing Knarrs since and winning the WBRA season, Class 1993, and before Perpetual, and the Fall Classic." Lowthat he raced J/24s. lights were: "Having a case of the slows in "Racing the Knarr the middle of the year, and putting Oriole is the most fun I’ve on the new sand bar off Crissy Field." had sailing — the Getting the rig tuned properly for fleet offers friendly condition changes as the year progressed yet intense competiwas key to Oriole's season, as was "havtion in a boat that ing a very strong man on the main sheet appeals to racers of who knows what to do and can call very all types and, thankclose laylines." fully, physical abili1) Oriole, 27 points; 2) Curlew, Bill Claussen, ties." RYC, 32; 3) Widgeon, Charles Rixford, RYC, 42. Chris Kelly The highlight of (7 boats) Kelly's season? "Racing in the 2014 International Knarr Championship in Folkboat — Polperro Bergen, Norway." Peter Jeal, BVBC 1) Flyer, 73 points; 2) Gå, Don Taylor, RYC, Peter Jeal's crew on the season-win93; 3) Gjendin, Graham Green, StFYC, 150. (20 ning Folkboat included Susan Parker, boats) his wife and jib trimmer/foredeck. "She has raced in 99.9% of all the Folkboat INTERNATIONAL ONE DESIGN (IOD) — 1) races since we joined the fleet in 1988!" Fjaer, Richard & Mark Pearce, SFYC, 50 points; said Jeal. "On the mainsail and every2) One Hundred, Paul Zupan, SSS, 55; 3) Xarifa, thing else was the boatiest of boat sluts, Paul Manning, StFYC, 58. (4 boats) Dave Kresge." The highlight of Polperro's season: hereas the WBRA concerns itself "Sailing to the with wooden one-design racing classes Olympic Ciron San Francisco Bay, the OYRA's miscle four times sion is to run PHRF races on the ocean I think… the waters outside the Bay. The OYRA lowlight must season consisted of nine races with one have been the throwout. sail back on What's left of the YRA's ODCA (One the ebb tide." Design Class Association) and HDA W h e n (Handicap Divisions Association) joined asked what forces to race in YRA's Spring Series and helped their Susan Parker & Peter Jeal Summer Series this year. overall position, Jeal replied: "I think the padded OYRA PHRO1 shorts helped a lot." He added, "Tom Elan, Express 37 Reed came just a few points back behind Jack Peurach, SSS us and Dave 'Slydog' Wilson missed a This was Jack Peurach's third season bunch of races that probably would have racing Elan in the OYRA series. "It was changed the eventual positions."
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Bear Boat — Smokey Stephen Robertson, StFYC Steve Robertson has been racing Bears on San Francisco Bay on and off since 1966, and this is not the first time he's graced these pages. Indeed, he's won the Bear championship many times before, most recently in 2012. Of this season he said, "We just had fun out racing." The longtime crew on Smokey are Robertson's Steve Robertson ex-wife Josselyn Robertson, Henry Englehardt, and Jeff Harriman.
1) Polperro, 22 points; 2) Freyja, Tom Reed, StFYC, 33; 3) Windansea, David Wilson, StFYC, 43. (9 boats) LATITUDE / CHRIS
ast month we profiled a collection of one-design and developmental class champions. This month, we turn our attention to the acronyms of the YRA (Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco), including the WBRA (Wooden Boat Racing Association), OYRA (Offshore Yacht Racing Association), and the YRA Spring and Summer Series. We'll start off with the WBRA division of the YRA, which sailed 14 races with one throwout.