The Larchmont Yacht Club Viper fleet will begin its first season with a two day regatta on Memorial Day weekend, 5/28 & 29 and we are welcoming all East Coast Vipers to attend. This regatta has no entry fee. There are multiple hoists available and there will be a Saturday evening BBQ for Viper crews, compliments of the LYC Viper fleet. First warning isn't until 2:30 pm on Saturday so you can drive down Saturday morning. If we're given enough notice, we may be able to put some teams up, and there may be some crewing opportunities too with some of the new Larchmont owners who may be sailing their boats for the first time.
We have already heard that there will be a strong contingent from Marblehead and the list of CT boats has is growing. Current scratch sheet below. The link below gives detail and includes an entry form that is required. We are expecting around 15 boats, based on what we know now. Please let me know if you can attend, so I can keep the list updated. It is a multi-class event, Vipers have the first start and the RC generally does not wait for other classes to finish when rolling off another start, so there should be a bunch of races.
If you're planning to attend, contact LYC fleet captain Peter Bauer for details at
[email protected] http://www.larchmontyc.org/racing/MemD2010public.shtml
Scratch sheet:
159 - Peter Bauer
160 - Jason Carroll
161 - David Owen/Peter Beardsley
163 - Jim King/Cam McKnight
54 - Justin Scott
50 - Dan Tucker
56 - Olaf Bleck
124 - Paul Zimmerman
81 - Charles Goodrich
93 - Richard West
121 - Joe Healey
Updated scratch sheet
159 - Peter Bauer
160 - Jason Carroll
161 - David Owen/Peter Beardsley
163 - Jim King/Cam McKnight
54 - Justin Scott
50 - Dan Tucker
56 - Olaf Bleck
124 - Paul Zimmerman
81 - Charles Goodrich
93 - Richard West
121 - Joe Healey
122 - Barry Parkin/John Logue
The Newport /FIS boats are still to sign up.
Please attach an entry/reg form to this thread
The SIs and entry form are posted at http://www.larchmontyc.org/racing/MemD2010public.shtml
Now up to 13 boats. Updated scratch sheet below.
Newport: are you coming? We're coming to Bacardi...
18 - Dave Nickerson/Moise Solomon
50 - Dan Tucker
54 - Justin Scott
56 - Olaf Bleck
81 - Charles Goodrich
93 - Richard West
121 - Joe Healey
122 - Barry Parkin/John Logue
124 - Paul Zimmerman
159 - Peter Bauer
160 - Jason Carroll
161 - David Owen/Peter Beardsley
163 - Jim King/Cam McKnight
Looking for one crewman.
email me at
[email protected] if interested
Now up to 14 boats - not bad for a local regatta -- a sign of things to come in Long Island Sound.
18 - Dave Nickerson/Moise Solomon
50 - Dan Tucker
54 - Justin Scott
56 - Olaf Bleck
81 - Charles Goodrich
93 - Richard West
121 - Joe Healey
122 - Barry Parkin/John Logue
124 - Paul Zimmerman
150 - Mark McNamara
159 - Peter Bauer
160 - Jason Carroll
161 - David Owen/Peter Beardsley
163 - Jim King/Cam McKnight
D&S's did it for Mark.
+ Mark McNamara on "No Clew" = FOURTEEN BOATS.
Not bad for a last minute local regatta. Of course "NO ENTRY FEE" incl barbeque might have something to do with it. Offer free food, free beer and free dark and stormies to Viperers and they flock like vultures.
Did someone mention the Dark and Stormies to Soley? I'm suprised he's not all over this.
One more apparently, Pieter Taslaer
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Correct. Updated scratch sheet:
18 - Dave Nickerson/Moise Solomon
50 - Dan Tucker
54 - Justin Scott
56 - Olaf Bleck
81 - Charles Goodrich
93 - Richard West
121 - Joe Healey
122 - Barry Parkin/John Logue
124 - Paul Zimmerman
150 - Mark McNamara
157 - Pieter Taselaar
159 - Peter Bauer
160 - Jason Carroll
161 - David Owen/Peter Beardsley
163 - Jim King/Cam McKnight
What time do the races start each day? I checked out the link and I just got confused, it doesn't take much!
Taking a look at the link, it's pretty easy to see how that could happen. Here's the story:
This is part of the local YRA racing -- the Memorial Day Regatta is the first event of the season for that group. The Larchmont Vipers will be racing with them quasi regularly, and were given a start at this event. It's a multi-class regatta, several other classes may attend (Etchells, Shields, IODs, S- Boats, 5o5s, Windmills), and if turnout is low for them (4 or fewer boats per class), starts may be combined. None of this will affect the Vipers, since we are the first start based on speed, and there is a separate start/finish line -- and the RC has zero qualms about starting one class while another is finishing, nor will they wait for all classes to finish before starting another race.
First warning is 1425. Very civilized -- the late start time is because "that's what time we start races at Larchmont" for one designs. The breeze is a lot better in the afternoon (generally), and the RC will likely go until 5 or 5:30pm each day (unlikely though for a race to start after 4:15 pm). Courses tend to be windward-leeward, 2 laps (4 legs), and I'd guess that we'll do 2-3 races per day, maybe more if conditions allow -- they will crank them out as fast as they can.
Also, there is a rumor that we may have a 16th boat soon, which would be excellent news -- waiting for confirmation.
Thanks for spelling it out for me! Would it be the same start time on Sunday too?
Same time on Sunday as well. People can go out earlier and practice if they want -- no restrictions there. Tac Boston will be in town for the regatta racing on 161 with us, and may do some rigging/tuning talks in the mornings with other veteran Viperers for us Viper newbies at Larchmont, which I'm sure others would be welcome to tag along too.
Yep, you are at 16 boats
#57 Kelly Bechard
16 boats now. Don't forget that even though this is a regatta with a free entry fee, you still have to enter -- please print out the entry form and email or mail to the RC. Thanks.
Forecast for Larchmont Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday
?NE at 10 mph
?Gusts: 18 mph
Sunday
N at 11 mph Gusts: 20 mph
Whoop whoop.
Shame we are not racing on Monday.........
?ESE at 15 mph
?Gusts: 32 mph
This weekend is looking awesome!
SI Link again:
http://www.larchmontyc.org/racing/MemD2010public.shtml
Also, the entry form:
http://www.larchmontyc.org/racing/documents/MemorialDayEntry11final.pdf
and lastly, be sure to RSVP # of people for the BBQ to Peter Bauer asap. (
[email protected])
Meandering between 15 and 16 boats, weather will be warm, mostly sunny, and we'll have wind -- maybe not as much as Justin mentioned, but it could end up being a lot better than that (11-16 kts both days fairly consistent from a non-shifty direction that wouldn't give locals a particular advantage -- not that such things really matter that much in WLIS anyway once you get away from shore). Bring sunscreen and shorts.
Thanks to the LYC fleet for putting on a great event! Special thanks to the Vicious Panda's for putting up with me.
It was great to meet you all.
Cheers
Tac
'twas a great weekend! Larchmont is a beautiful, expansive club with lots of friendly members and staff. Thanks!
Saturday's weather was gorgeous and perfectly queued for the NY/New England season. The breeze was up early, though from apparently an unusual easterly. The RC started a race with ~15 boats on the line, but abandoned it when the sea breeze came up and shifted south. It took a little while to reset, but then we got in two good longish races before it was BBQ time.
The BBQ was hosted by the Larchmont folks, with very tasty, catered, perfectly cooked burgers and dogs, and props to Somers Kempe of Bermuda who imported three+ bottles of Goslings 140. Needless to say, the average BAC spiked quickly... The early risers slowly peeled off, leaving the die hards with the rest of the keg. Not long after we adjourned to BarCelona in Greenwich, which I guess is the place where the local girls go cruising for millionaires. Unfortunately, none of us single guys qualified (well, that was just me I think...!), but nevertheless, fun times and much drunken dancing ensued.
Sunday started out looking a little light, but again the weather was perfect and the sea breeze filled in. 2:30 gun each day. The the RC had promised a shorter course, but unfortunately they set it with an unusual mark while also putting a longer weather mark out with the properly prescribed identification. I guess some people got the radio advisory, but the leaders all overstood by a long way before figuring out that the fleet had split into long/short course. 4 boats including myself, Justin, Rattler, and another finished the long course in protest, and though the race was ultimately thrown out (yes, long course was ruled by the jury to have been proper), I'll still take it as my first Viper OD bullet. I had the pleasure of sailing with soon-to-be-Viper-owner Chuck Allen of North Sails, who not only was a ton of fun and pretty patient (in his own sort of way) with our mistakes, but I learned a LOT from him.
I haven't seen the full standings--I think Pieter Taselaar, David Owen, Justin Scott were 1-2-3.
The longest drive award went to Kelly Bechard and and crew who drove down from Sarnia with some cases of Labatt's in the boat, perfect for the de-rigging party. Thanks guys, glad you could make it. Maureen Tucker also accompanied Dan on the Rat' with some carefully crafted hardware. She said she got thrown around pretty good so some engineering is still needed, but thumbs up all around.
Also, special personal thanks to Tim Porter, a LYC member who was gracious enough to take my folks out on his pleasure boat for some spectating.
A few pic's attached.
I had a great time checking in with everyone. The Larchmont fleet looks set to take off with a bunch of great enthusiastic people which is awesome.
Thanks for the hospitality Justin (and the drive!) and thanks to Simon for the airport pickup too.
I am hoping I can repay the favor sometime in the future back here on the rock, but in the meantime if anyone is coming to Bermuda for vacation or "business" don't hesitate to look me up.
Somers
p.s. - next time I will leave the 140 proof at home so Justin doesn't suffer any more memory loss. :)
Results
(note: race 3 was thrown out)
Vipers
Sail Skipper Club Total R1 R2 R4
1 69 Tasselaar,Pieter Larchmont YC 3 1 1 1
2 161 OwenDavid,BeardsleyPete Larchmont YC 9 2 4 3
3 54 Scott,Justin Royal Thames 14 4 2 8
4 121 Healey,Joe Noroton YC 17 8 5 4
5 81 Goodrich,Charles Stamford YC 20 7 7 6
6 122 Parkin,Barry Riverside YC 22 3 17 DNF 2
7 159 Bauer,Peter Larchmont YC 24 5 12 7
8 56 Bleck, Olaf Marblehead (22) (14) 3 5
9 18 Solomon,Nickerson Mystic River 26 6 6 14
10 150 McNamara,Mark Noroton YC 27 9 8 10
11 50 Tucker,Dan Marblehead 29 10 10 9
12 57 Bechard,Kelly Sarnia 35 11 11 13
13 163 KingMcKight Larchmont YC 37 13 13 11
14 124 Zimmerman,Paul Marblehead 43 17 DNF 9 17
15 93 West,Richard Stamford YC 43 17 DNF 14 12
16 95 Holden,Hale IHYC 46 12 17 17
(#) = corrected, unofficial
Not sure if I agree with the "all the leaders went to the wrong mark" comment, but we'll let that one go for now as it didn't affect the top two places. But I think at least half of the first 5-6 boats at the windward mark went around the correct mark at the correct time, and a couple of others sailed a couple of boatlengths past before figuring it out. Was more confusing than ideal and I don't love having *my* first Viper bullet thrown out, but whatever. Will ask the RC to dig up the Race 3 standings at some point for those who are curious to post as everyone's "throwout" race. There will be a lot more photos coming in the next couple of days.
Quote from: Peter Beardsley on May 30, 2011, 06:54:34 PM
Not sure if I agree with the "all the leaders went to the wrong mark" comment, but we'll let that one go for now as it didn't affect the top two places.
That was the ruling of the jury, so I was told at least. The red tetrahedron was what the SI's called for, for the Viper class, and thus was deemed the proper race course. However, the consensus of those at protest hearing was evidently to just toss the whole race. The whole thing is certainly unfortunate.
Tasselaar went even further left than we did though by the time we all noticed (he went back). Dunno how it played out.
Congrats on your short course bullet. Happy to share!
Thanks to the Larchmont group for a great regatta. It was cool to see all the new owners on the water enjoying their new toys. My crew and I were happy to make the trip out for good racing and company.
Many thanks to the Larchmont fleet for their organization at the hoist on Sunday afternoon. They won the race to the hoist but graciously docked their boats out of the way and left the hoist open for the boats who had the furthest to travel.
I heard lots of talk and we answered a bunch of questions about NA's in Sarnia in September. Hoping to see everyone in Sarnia in the fall.
For the masochists, attached are the unofficial results that include Race 3, which was of course thrown out post protest. Really this is just for the couple of people who wanted to see the race 3 results.
There are some photos posted at http://www.larchmontyc.org/racing/MemD2010public.shtml from Sunday's lighter air -- there are some Saturday shots floating around from the bigger breeze but they are not online unfortunately.