FRED FAGO
LATITUDE / TIMMY
THE RACING
YRA 2nd Half Opener, clockwise from top: Here they come, parading down the Estuary toward the Encinal YC finish line on Saturday; the raft-up at EYC's docks; 'Six Brothers' chases 'Sea Star' in Sunday's race on the Estuary. victus, Jeanneau SunFast 3600, Laurence Popp. (7 boats) PHRF 3 — 1) Mintaka 4, Farr 38, Gerry Brown; 2) Vitesse Too, Hobie 33, Grant Hayes; 3) Red Cloud, Farr 36, Don Ahrens. (7 boats) PHRF 4 — 1) Friction Loss, J/30, Jenny Thompson; 2) Sea Star, Cal 39, Bob Walden; 3) Arcadia, Mod. Santana 27, Gordie Nash. (9 boats) PHRF 5 — 1) Shut Up and Drive, J/24, Val Lulevich; 2) Neja, Dasher 32, Jim Borger; 3) Synchronicity, Olson 25, Steve Smith. (7 boats) SPORTBOAT — 1) Kuai, Melges 32, Daniel Thielman; 2) JetStream, JS9000, Dan Alvarez; 3) Six Brothers, Columbia C32, Chris Kramer. (9 boats) EXPRESS 37 — 1) Golden Moon, Kame Richards; 2) Expeditious, Bartz Schneider; 3) Snowy Owl, Jens Jensen. (7 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Wile E. Coyote, Dan Pruzan; 2) Get Happy!!, Brendan Busch; 3) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton. (11 boats) OVERALL — 1) Kuai; 2) JetStream; 3) Zamazaan; 4) WildCard; 5) Jeannette; 6) Twisted; 7) Tyr, J/125, Tom Siebel; 8) Encore; 9) Six Brothers; 10) Gentoo, Soto 30, Paul Dorsey (49 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Relentless, Corsair Dash, Ben Eastwood. (2 boats) Page 108 •
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• September, 2017
YRA 2ND HALF OPENER II, EYC, 7/30 PHRF 2 — 1) Snowy Owl; 2) Vuja Star, J/105, Chris Kim. (2 boats) PHRF 3 — 1) Red Cloud; 2) Dare Dare, Jeanneau SunFast 3200, Nicolas Thiebaud. (2 boats) PHRF 4 — 1) Arcadia; 2) Ahi, Santana 35, Andy Newell; 3) Sea Star. (3 boats) PHRF 5 — 1) Neja. (1 boat) SPORTBOAT — 1) Kuai; 2) Six Brothers; 3) Benny, J/70, Aya Yamanouchi. (5 boats) Full results at www.jibeset.net
One More Time Regatta In a week that saw flash floods inland and monsoonal climates, Del Rey YC ran the 42nd annual One More Time Regatta on August 5 on Santa Monica Bay. Winds were 8-12 knots and a bit westerly, and the seas lay down for a change for the 10 entries. The race is open to all wooden-hulled boats and has seen its share of celebrity boats and skippers: Dennis Conner won the race in 2013 with Splendor, and Santana, Humphrey Bogart's 55-ft S&S schooner, won her class in 2005. This year was no different, as 90-year-old Dick McNish won the overall first-to-
finish honors driving Errol Flynn's 46-ft 1931 Fellows and Stewart yawl, Cheerio II. McNish sailed around the 13.6-mile inverted-start course in 2 hours, 22 minutes. The trophy presentation featured a memorial tribute to two-time Master Mariners Regatta winner Dennis Peitso, who passed away in March. Dennis was the skipper of the Chappelle 44 schooner Bluenose and won the One More Time Regatta in 2003 and 2004. He drove Bob Gilbert's 98-ft Fife cutter Bloodhound to victory in 2014. A group of SoCal yachties decided to organize a wooden-hull race in 1976. The first one had no wind, the fog rolled in, the rain poured, and only one boat finished, so organizer Kathy Hellman said, "Let's do it one more time." The second 'inaugural' had 25- to 40-knot winds, shredded sails and huge seas; the race committee couldn't see out of the troughs, and one racing boat took out all the windows on the committee boat's starboard side. — andy kopetsky ONE MORE TIME REGATTA, DRYC, 8/5 SLOOPS AND CUTTERS A — 1) Spartan, Rhodes 40, Tom Zetlmaier; 2) Rendezvous, Kettenburg 50, John Busser; 3) Antares, Ketten-