2009 NACs Write Up and Results

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2009 C15 North American Championships

by David Rumbaugh

 

In 2009 the fleet returned to Huntington Lake, CA for their Championships hosted by Fleet 20 out of Sacramento, CA and Lake Washington Sailing Club over the weekend of June 19-21. The last time the event was held here was in July of 2005. That was the first year that Anne Newton and I raced the NACs together and since I had grown up by the lake we were pretty confident that we would do well. Well we didn’t, and ended up a respectable 3rd behind Barret Sprout and Craig Lee.

Fast forward 4 years later and 2 previous Championships (one in 2007 in Long Beach and one in 2008 in Half Moon Bay) and it looked like Anne and I were the team to beat. The numbers for this years Championship (between 10-15) looked to be rather small but the competition promised to be tight. Friday morning came and Anne was lost somewhere in the Central Valley and it looked like she would barely make it to the lake in time for race 1. With a no throw out series planned that would be a bad way to start to the regatta. I got the boat together and waited nervously for her to arrive so that we could start our defense of the crown.

The plan for Friday was 5 races if we could get them in so that the series would include 10 total races since there was 3 planned for Saturday and 2 on Sunday. The wind was up and Anne showed up about an hour before race time. Race one was the short course and Craig Lee got out of the gates early with a nice lead at the first mark. We made little ground on the downwind run and at the bottom mark they had a sizable lead over us in 2nd. The rest of the pack was a little ways off so it looked to be a 2 boat race at this point. We played the shifts on the way back to finish line nicely but still lost the race to Craig by seconds at the finish line. In races 2 and 3 the wind came up a little bit more and Anne and I showed the speed that had allowed us to win the past 2 NACs together. We won both races by good margins with the rest of the fleet really mixing it up behind us. Race 4 started after a long break due to a boat being down and full of water. The crash boat was busy helping them for some time so we had to sit around and hope that the crew was safe in the cold water for such a long time. This again was the short course and out of the blocks Kiersten Vance and crew (father Paul) were out in the front leading the pack around the race course for a bullet, followed by Craig Lee and then Anne and I. With the long day and since it was getting late into the afternoon the race committee decided that was it for the day.

After the first three races which is the SYC CORP series, or qualifying series in our Championships, the scores were tight as expected. Anne and I had the lead with 4 pts. The next 5 places were only 2 pts apart. Kiersten V and Kevin Wasbauer were tied with 11 pts each (Kiersten was ahead of the tie breaker). 4th and 5th were also tied with 12 pts each. Craig L. was winning the tie breaker over Vincent Paternoster. In 6th only 1 pt behind them was Alex Fishman with 13 pts.

The weekend series was run with the Commodores Classic regatta hosted by the MHRA fleet out of Northern California. They had a nice sponsor, Maui Jim, who was giving a pair of sun glasses to each fleet winner over the weekend. Even though we had a nice lead at this point in the regatta with the no throw outs we knew that we had to keep our heads in the game because one break down could cost you the title. During race 2 my main sheet decided to separate its cover from the core, and during that race I had to trim the upwind legs with only the core! Luckily I have a rock star crew who helped me replace it with a spare main sheet I had between races.

Saturday morning came and with three races on the table we were at the boat early and getting her ready. Today the wind was up early and it was a lot stronger breeze due to the lower temps in the valley that day. We were able to win all three races that day but the real news was Kevin Wasbauer right behind us in every race with straight 2nds for the day. This allowed him to vault up in the 2nd spot overall for the regatta with only two races to go. The best part of this day was in race 2 Kevin had us at the top mark by a half boat length and the rest of the fleet was a good distance behind us. On the run we were neck and neck watching the rest of the fleet battle it out behind us. At one point there was a few massive gusts rolling down the lake which I am not sure I can explain through words what was actually going on behind us but I will try. The water seemed to be a black color and the group was fairly tight together. I watched as boats in the pack started to increase their speed rapidly and roll back and forth wildly (if you have ever sailed a laser downwind in some breeze you know what I am talking about here). Crews could be seen jumping back and forth in the boats to keep them upright. Bows up out of the water and water spraying out from the boats on a full plane! It was a sight to see and the crew work was nice because no one went over. As Kevin and I looked back and waited for our turn, it never came. The wind fizzled out before it got to us. After a few more puffs like this by the time we got the bottom mark the pack of 5 boats were now all in attack mode. They had closed the gap and were only boat lengths behind Kevin and I. We were able to hold them off and really felt good about our spots with only 1 day (2 races) to go.

Sunday came and the breeze was up early again. Not as strong as Saturday but it looked like it would build up for us as the afternoon came. Vincent P came out of the gates this morning and passed Anne and I half way up the beat, then got a huge left hand shift and really extended on us at the top mark. They lead by over 10 lengths! ON the long downwind run we sailed not in the direction to the mark but to the direction to keep us in the pressure. It was paying off because we were making ground on their lead followed closely by Alex F (and his father Steve). The last 1/3 of the run they let us get underneath them (remember I was sailing to the pressure not really the mark at this point) and they went in toward the other boats and the shore. Anne and I stayed out in the middle of the lake more hoping that pressure would pay off better than a straight line course to the mark. Well it did and we opened up on Alex rounding the turning mark half a boat length behind Vincent. We were able to get up on their breeze and reached across the lake a little better. Once it was time to set the pole we were on the inside of them and passing so they decided to gybe away from us and head back to the fleet a little. At the bottom mark we pulled away some from both Alex and Vincent for the win. Kevin who was fighting with Craig for the second spot ended up in 6th, but since Craig finished in 5th he did not make up many points.

The last race the wind started to pick up again. I was tired of letting Alex win the pin end of the line and decided this race we would take it. We had a great start at the pin and rolled up the lake playing the shifts nicely and had a nice lead by the Boy Scout cove. A big left hand shift came in right after the cove and we were sailing on port tack straight up the lake. We had a nice lead and ended up winning this race followed by Kevin W, Craig L, Kiersten V, and Vincent P. What a weekend of racing it was. We had done it, our third title in a row!

 

Results:

Corinthian Fleet Race #

Sail # Competitors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points

1. 2218 David Rumbaugh 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 12

Anne Newton

 

2. 3744 Kevin Wasbauer 3 4 4 4 2 2 2 6 2 29

Steve Skinner

3. 2602 Craig Lee 1 5 6 2 3 6 3 5 3 34

Catherine Lee

4. 2938 Kiersten Vance 6 2 3 1 6 4 5 4 4 35

Paul Vance

5. 3627 Vincent Paternoster 4 3 5 5 4 5 7 2 5 40

Tom Paternoster

6. 3686 Alex Fishman 5 6 2 6 5 3 4 3 7 41

Steven Fishman

7. 11297 Adam Quest 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 7 6 61

Kiersten Quest

Cabrillo Fleet Race #

Sail # Competitors 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points

1. 3407 Matt Eister 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 13

Isacc Hollowhornbear

2. 2150 Megan Eichhorn 1 1 5 5 2 1 1 5 5 26

Ole Eichhorn

3. 3119 Eugene Fodor 3 3 3 2 5 5 5 5 5 36

Kyla Fodor

4. 1944 Charlie Quest 4 4 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 40

2009 Annual Meeting minutes

Recap of the Annual meeting held at the Nac’s at Huntington Lake on June 20, 2009

The meeting was called to order by the Vice Commodore, David Rumbaugh at approximately 8:10 pm. Also present was Vincent Paternoster as Rear Commodore and Sue Fishman the Secretary/Treasurer. Ryan Schofield was absent as Commodore.

 

Fleets present were; Fleet 20-Sacramento; Fleet 15- Half Moon Bay, Fleet 2- Marina del Rey, Fleet 16- West Lake.

 

The board talked about the change last year to the forestay. High Tech line can be used in place of the current forestay stainless line.

 

There was much discussion about positive ways to build the fleets, ranging from a newsletter to email notices and content from the mainsheet to the website. The consensus was for Vincent to follow up with John Richardson as to the development of the website. The website should include past content from the Catalina magazine, The Mainsheet. The web could be used to publish all C-15 events and have a place to host a C-15 forum. There should be fleet locations with email address of their fleet captain. A maintenance forum would be cool along with a page for boats for sale. There were many new photos taken this year at Huntington that could be used effectively on the website. The bylaws should be updated to include new changes made over the past several years. The goal for the website is to make it exciting and fun place to go for C-15 information.

 

The second item for new business was a motion to give the hosting yacht club more flexibility in developing the Sailing Instructions. The motion was passed by a 10-1 vote.

 

This change reads; The hosting yacht club must submit to the Executive Board of Directors, the NAC sailing instructions at least one month before sailing the regatta. The board can approve or not approve the Si’s provision that deviate from the C-15 NAC Racing Policy. If requested the hosting fleet must then change the Si’s to conform to the boards demands.

 

There was much discussion as to merits of having a regatta without throw outs and having all the races, including the Sid Corp races to count for the championship.

 

Most of the discussion centered on what would be best format for the enjoyment of the racers.

 

There was some discussion to travel to the Beau Arts Club in Seattle to join in their district regatta with the idea of getting them more involved with the NAC’s.

 

After much discussion, it was decided that Fleet 2 would host the 2010 C-15 NAC’s. David Rumbaugh suggested that each fleet host a different night for that evening entertainment. Vincent will talk to his Yacht Club and report back the possible dates. For 2011, Charlie Quest volunteered the HMB Yacht Club as host. Thank You Charlie!

 

 

The following were nominated for the C-15 executive board.

 

Commodore-David Rumbaugh

Vice Commodore-Vince P

Rear Commodore-Kevin Wasbauer

Secretary/Treasurer-Steve Fishman

 

A motion to adjourn was made and seconded and carried. The meeting came to an end at 9:20 PM.

2008 NACs Results

HMBYC 2008 C15 North American Championship Class: C15-A. One design (Finish position) Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/17/08

Sail Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 2218 Rumbaugh, David 1 1 2* 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 3686 Fishman, Alex 3 2 1 3 3 3 2 5* 2 19
3 3627 Paternoster,Vince 2 3 3 4 2 2 5* 4 4 24
4 3406 Wasbauer, Kevin 4 4 12*2 7 11 3 2 5 38
5 2938 Vance, Kiersten 6 6 4 6 10* 4 8 6 3 43
6 3570 Schofield, Ryan 5 5 7 9* 6 6 4 7 6 46
7 97 Stokes, Jeff 7 9 8 5 9 10* 7 3 9 57
8 1944 Charlie, Quest 11*8 6 7 4 5 9 10 8 57
9 3253 Lazzaro, Mike 9 10* 9 10 5 7 6 8 7 61
10 3538 Flick, Karen 8 7 5 11 * 8 8 11 11 11 69
11 2068 Day, Mike 10 11 *10 8 11 9 10 9 10 77

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’

HMBYC 2008 C15 North American Championships Class: C15-B.
One design (Finish position) Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/17/08
Sail Skipper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
1 3546 Arndt, Kent 1* 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 5461 McCluney, Richard 7* 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 18
3 2088 Choy, Marcus 5* 4 4 3 3 3 4 2 4 27
4 1555 Winans, Rick 3 3 5 7* 5 4 3 6 5 34
5 3067 Richardson, John 2 5 2 5 4 6* 6 5 6 35
6 549 McLean, Lachy 6* 6 6 4 6 5 5 4 3 39
7 13600 Amir, Ofer 4 7 7 6 7 7 8* 8 8 54

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’ Race Officer: Kelly Pike

2008 NACs Syd Corp Results

HMBYC
2008 C15 SYD CORP
Class: C15. One design (Finish position)
Overall Score: Last Race Date:08/15/08

 

Sail

Skipper

1

2

3

4

5

Total

1

3686

Fishman, Alex

2

1

1

3

5*

7

2

2938

Vance, Kiersten

3

6*

3

1

1

8

3

3627

Paternoster,Vince

1

2

4*

2

3

8

4

3406

Wasbauer, Kevin

4*

3

2

4

2

11

5

3570

Schofield, Ryan

8*

5

5

6

4

20

6

3061

Stokes, Jeff

6

7

6

9*

6

25

7

3538

Flick, Karen

7

4

9*

8

7

26

8

2068

Day, Mike

5

11*

7

10

9

31

9

3546

Arndt, Kent

10*

8

8

5

10

31

10

2088

Choy, Marcus

11

12*

10

7

12

40

11

1944

Charlie, Quest

17*DNS

10

11

13

8

42

12

3067

Richardson, John

12

13

13

14*

11

49

13

1555

Winans, Rick

13

14*

12

11

13

49

14

5461

McCluney, Richard

9

9

17*DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

52

15

549

McLean, Lachy

14

15*

14

12

14

54

16

xxx

Amir, Ofer

17*DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

17 DNS

68

Allowed Drops 1. Shown by ‘*’
Race Officer: Kelly Pike

Created on 08/20/08 13:10:18 Scoring program: RaceSail (1.2.37)

2007 NAC’s

 

2007 North American Championships

by David Rumbaugh

 

This years Championships came back to Southern California and the ABYC. I would first like to say thank you to Mike Shea for putting together a quality event. ABYC, for those of you that have not been there before, is an exceptional club that hosts many top level racing events though out the year. Last of all I would like to thank all the participants at this year’s event. The other people on the race course, is what truly makes a regatta special! It was a pleasure to meet some of the long time C15 racers from SoCal that I have not gotten a chance to meet and sail against before.

Steve Fishman and I showed up on Thursday with some big plans for the day. He needed to fit a new centerboard into his boat and I had plans of cleaning and polishing the bottom of my boat. We also wanted to get out on the water and get a feel for the conditions out there. As we started working on the boats, it became clear that we would not get out on the boat that day. The forecast was calling for lots of heat over the weekend which many people around the yard muttered about having no wind as well. Not what we had hoped for!

Friday morning was a complete surprise to everyone at the club. The temperature was warm but the breeze was already up. We got out to the racecourse and the winds were blowing in the mid-teens and we would see winds up to about 18 that day. With the wind came lots of chop. Not the best conditions if your boat is from 1979. Terance showed his local knowledge and was blazing fast upwind. He posted a perfect day with three bullets and took home the Syd Corp trophy. Mike Shea also showed his local knowledge and boat speed this day posting a 2,2,3 for second. Anne and I finished the day with scores of 3,3,2 and third place. Not the first day we had hoped for, but now we were hoping that the CURSE (Syd Corp Curse) would come back to haunt the SoCal boys.

Saturday morning saw higher than normal temps for the area and a little less wind. Winds were more in the lower teens, something like 8-12 maybe 14 range. Less wind meant less wind chop and Anne and I were very happy to see these conditions. The first race started and our start was at the pin end of the line and underneath a boat (Not a good one!), but we were able to tack out to the right for clean air. When we came back onto Starboard we were ahead of the fleet and feeling good. These conditions are perfect for Anne and I. It was nice to look around and see that at times she was the only person on the trap. With three good starts we ended the day with scores of 1,2 (it does not pay to over stand the windward mark), 1, 1. Since the rest of the fleet was really mixing it up behind us we had a solid cushion of around 9 points on this regatta and the title. Terance had a total of 14pts, Alex Fishman finished with 15 pts, Mike Shea had 17 pts, and Joe O’Reilly had 18.

Sunday came and Anne and I talked about being somewhat conservative so as to not make any big mistakes that would hurt our chances. We liked the conditions at first. Winds were even lighter on Sunday which would seem to favor us again. Boy would we be wrong. Mike Shea came out to battle and showed great boat speed and tactics finishing with a 1, 1, 3. Sunday’s strong finish allowed Mike to jump into second place for the regatta. Steve and Alex Fishman also showed there true form with scores of 2, 2 and then leading the last race until the second lap they decided to split with the rest of the guys. They went from first to eighth at the last weather mark, but were able to catch up a few spots to finish the last race in 5th. Terrence ended the event with scores of 5, 5, 1 and could not catch the Fishman’s for 3rd place. He finished one point behind them in 4th. Anne and I finished the regatta with scores of 3, 3, 2 which meant we had done enough to secure the crown this time around. This was our third try at the Championship and boy was it a sweet ending for us. It was a great sail back to the club knowing that we had finally won the big one. The Cup would be coming home with us to Northern California!

On a final note we decided to have next years Championships in Half Moon Bay, Ca. We hope to see everyone again at next years event. IF you didn’t make it out to this event please make it next year. Charlie will provide the wind this time around.