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PHRF Racing Results 2023 Season





RRYC Rappahannock Cup (Sep 9)
Overall Placings

 

1st  Yankee Point
2nd Silver Fox
3rd Hot Air
4th Bombshell 5th Freedom 6th Irrational Exuberance 7th Mojo 8th Raven 9th Spirit 10th Da Noi


RRYC Retains Rappahannock Cup… but Newcomer Todd Patterson, YPYC, in Yankee Point Wins Regatta

 

Light South winds shifting to SSW, 3-6 kts were the order of the day and PRO Hal Starke waited for them to settle in to assure the first race could be completed within the time limit.

 

Ten boats participated, six RRYC, three YPYCC and one Regent Point YC.

 

The first race was a 2 mile windward leeward course with the wind building at the start but lightening as the boats rounded the windward mark.  Bombshell, John Congdon’s XP-44, with a PHRF rating of 33(yes that is a big fast boat!) took line honors in this and all three races. But, on corrected time Yankee Point was first, followed by Win Schwab in Silver Fox and Tom Chapman in Hot Air and Glenn Solt in Freedom.

 

For race 2, PRO Hal Starke Jr. lengthened the course to 2.5 miles and moved the windward mark further West to accommodate the shifting wind.  With the current ebbing the whole day the strategic move was to spend as much of the windward leg on port tack.  All boats started on starboard tack but Hot Air was called over early and had to restart.  This proved an advantage as Hot Air restarted on port tack taking advantage of the ebbing current. Order of finish in race 2 was Hot Air, Yankee Point, Silver Fox and Bombshell.

 

With a thunderstorm due to come later in the afternoon, PRO Hal Stark Jr wisely shortened the course to 1.5 miles and switched to a triangle course versus the windward-leeward courses in the first two races. Bombshell led around the course and made it to the leeward mark before the wind dropped below 3 kts. The remainder of the fleet was moving very slowly on the first and second reachs…barely moving in the ebbing current until a little more breeze filled in from the Southeast. Finishing first on corrected time was Bombshell followed by Silver Fox, Yankee Point and Hot Air. 

 

With boats rating from 33 to 240 PHRF it was interesting to see how boats of such a large rating range performed in light up and down winds.  As the results show, smaller well sailed boats tend to do better in these conditions as with each puff or gust they can get up to speed more quickly than the larger boats. Handicaps can only correct for so much.

 

As shown in the table below, first overall was Yankee Point (6 points) making quite a statement in its Rappahannock River debut.  Second was Silver Fox (7 points), third Hot Air (8 points), fourth, Bombshell (12 points) and fifth, Freedom (14 points).

 

RRYC retained the Rappahannock Cup 53 to 68 over YPYC.

 

Congratulations to all participants for sailing a very competitive, and in the light winds a little frustrating regatta.

 

During the post regatta awards at RRYC. PHRF Fleet Commander noted the flawless race management, perfect start sequences, constant and accurate information provided to the competitors, quick course changes, not to mention very accurate course alignment with all races tailored to the existing conditions.  Also, getting us back to the dock just before the thunderstorm started and forced the awards to be moved inside the club. This is all par for the course when HAL Starke is the PRO.  Making Hal’s job easier was his outstanding crew consisting of Mike Kennedy (AKA Mikey), Peter Porteous, Steve Kimmeth and Linda Caron on signal boat, and Greg Kirkbride and Blair Nelsen on mark boat.  

 

 

Overall Results

Boat Name

Skipper

Club

R1

R2

R3

TOTAL

Place

Yankee Point

Todd Patterson

YPRCC

1

2

3

6

1st

Silver Fox

Win Schwab

YPRCC

2

3

2

7

2nd

Hot Air

Tom Chapman

RRYC

3

1

4

8

3rd

Bombshell

John Congdon

RRYC

7

4

1

12

4th

Freedom

Glenn Solt

RRYC

4

5

5

14

5th

Irrational Exuberance

Jesse Swartz

RRYC

6

6

7

19

6th

Mojo

Jay Hornick

YPRCC

9

7

6

22

8th

Raven

Gary Hooper

RRYC

5

8

8

21

7th

Spirit

Sam Van Saun

RRYC

8

11

11

30

9th

Da Noi

Ted Petrocci

RPYC

10

11

11

32

10th

 









YPRCC Fall Series Race 1 (Aug 24)
Overall Placings

 

1st  Freedom
2nd Silver Fox
3rd MoJo
4th Bobcat 5th Gypsea 6th Ariel

YPRCC Fall Series Race 1 Scoresheet









YPRCC Pursuit Race (Jun 24)
Overall Placings

 

1st  MoJo
2nd Hot Air
3rd Freedom
4th White Hawk









YPRCC Spring Regatta (May 20)
Overall Placings

 

1st  Hot Air
2nd Silver Fox
3rd Freedom
4th Mojo
5th Irrational Exuberance

6th Nauti Bouy
7th DaNoi




YPRCC PHRF Spring Regatta Scoresheets





RRYC Spring Regatta #2 (May 6)
Overall Placings


Spinnaker Class


1st  Hot Air
2nd High Hopes
3rd Raven

Non-Spinnaker Class


1st  Silver Fox
2nd  Goldfinch
3rd  Freedom

4th Mojo
5th Irrational Exuberance

6th DaNoi




RRYC PHRF Spring Regatta #2 Scoresheets





RRYC Spring Regatta #1 (Apr 22)
Overall Placings


1st Raven
2nd High Hopes
3rd Nauti Bouy
4th Irrational Exuberance
5th Galencia
6th Freedom
7th DaNoi
8th Dram Bouy




RRYC PHRF Spring Regatta #1 Scoresheets



Slideshow
PHRF Spring Series #1 2023
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