Date
Race
Venue Series Start
Time
Thur. June 19
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Fri. June 20
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. June 21
Solstice Race
Hingham PHRF
4 p.m.
Thur. June 26
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Thur. July 10
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Fri. July 11
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. July 12 Scorpion Bowl Hingham
PHRF
5 p.m.
Sun. July 13
Hosea White Race SHYC
11 a.m.
Thur. July 17
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. July 19
Lipton Cup
Squantum
MB & F5
10:30 .m.
Sun. July 20
Lipton Cup
Squantum
MB & F5
10:30 a.m.
Thur. July 24
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. July 26
QBRW
Hingham
1 p.m.
50th Anniversary Race QBay to SHYC
3:30 p.m.
Sun. July 27
QBRW
Squantum
1 p.m.
Thur. July 31
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. Aug. 2
M-A-W/Spirit Series Cottage Park MB & F5 11 a.m.
Sun. Aug. 3
M-A-W/Spirit Series Cottage Park MB & F5 11 a.m.
Thur. Aug.7
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Fri. Aug. 8
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sun. Aug. 10
Boston Light Race
SHYC
11 a.m.
Thur. Aug. 14
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sat. Aug. 16
Hitchcock Trophy Hull
PHRF
Noon
Thur. Aug. 21
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Fri. Aug. 22
Sat.. Aug. 23
PHRF NE
Marblehead
10 a.m.
Sun. Aug. 24
PHRF NE
Marblehead
10 a.m.
Thur. Aug. 28
Twilight Race
SHYC Twilight Series 6:15
p.m.
Sun. Aug. 31 MacCormack Race
Boston Harbor YC
Mon. Sept. 1 Fred Hanson
Race South Boston YC
Sat. Sept. 6
Great Chase Race Hull YC
Noon
Sat. Sept. 13
Atlantic Districts SHYC F5
11 a.m.
Sun. Sept. 14
Atlantic Districts SHYC MB
11 a.m.
Sat. Sept. 20
Chowder Cup
Hospital Shoal PHRF 11 a.m.
Sat. Sept. 27
Boston Harbor Is. Race George’s I.
10 a.m.
MB = Mass Bay Championship; F5 = Fleet 5 Championship
September Racing News
Draco was victorious at the Fred Hanson Memorial Race hosted by South Boston
YC. Amr'a was second and Thunderation third.
Draco and Amr'a swapped places at the Butch MacCormack Memorial
hosted by Boston Harbor YC. Atomic Salsa was third.
Mysterious Ways placed second at the Great Chase Race in the One-Design
Class.
Chikanery captured the Atlantic Districts by winning four of five races.
Flying Gull had to drop out during the fourth race with a mechanical failure allowing Mysterious Ways to
slip into second place overall.
Mysterious Ways was the first Thunderbird to navigate the heavy fog at the
12-mile Boston Harbor Islands Race. Draco was second among T-Birds.
Overall, Flying Gull won both the Fleet 5 Championship & the Mass Bay Sailing
Assn. Championship. Mysterious Ways was second in both series while Atomic Salsa was third in the Fleet 5 competition and
Thunderation third in the MBSA series.
Mysterious Ways was also second in MBSA's PHRF Class E and second in the Hingham
Bay PHRF Governor's Cup Series.
Bob Larsen's BlewBird finished in the middle of the pack in the St. Michaels Dinghy Club Wednesday Night PHRF Series on Chesapeake Bay. BlewBird won the local Jib and Main series held
on Fridays & Saturdays.
July/August Racing Update
Chikanery clinched the Twilight Series with a victory in the final race.
Four races have been cancelled because of poor conditions. However, several of the recent races have featured photo finishes.
Flying Gull took top honors at the Lipton Cup in July. A week earlier Flying
Gull earned an impressive, second place at Hull YC's Scorpion Bowl PHRF Race in a nine-boat class.
Mysterious Ways won Quincy Bay Race Week and the 50th Anniversary Race in
late July.
Thunderation prevailed in the Thunderbird Spirit Series at the Make-A-Wish
Regatta in early August.
Mysterious Ways and Draco placed 2nd and 4th, respectively, in
a 10-boat class at the Bowditch PHRF Race in Salem.
Thunderation easily won Savin Hill YC's Boston Light PHRF Race in August.
Mysterious Ways and Flying Gull finished one-two at the Hingham
PHRF Hitchcock Race.
Chikanery (4th) and Mysterious Ways (5th) competed at the New England
PHRF Championships in Marblehead.
June Racing Summary
Chikanery is off to a fast start in the Twilight Series with three bullets in the first
three races. Mysterious Ways took two seconds and a third, Thunderation a third and a fourth and Atomic
Salsa a second, third & fourth.
In the season's first race, Atomic Salsa was closing the gap on the three boats ahead when
she became the first Broken Prop contender of the year by finding the mud off of Marina Bay.
Some Fleet 5 T-Birds ventured into unchartered waters on June 21 at the Hingham Bay PHRF Solstice
Race.
The Birds were placed in Class C with a J-30 and a CS 30. Atomic Salsa became the second
Broken Prop nominee of the season after getting caught in No-Man's Land between a sea breeze & land breeze. Geoff Youngman
& crew could only look on helplessly as Chikanery and Mysterious Ways started the race just 40 yards
away. After the tardy start, Salsa did not complete the race.
In the meantime, Chikanery became the third nominee for the Prop when, in hot pursuit of
Mysterious Ways, #154 came to a dead stop. The crew quickly determined the cause of the interference - a lobster
pot in the middle of the race course - shed the pesky pot and got back in the race. With persistence, Chikanery cut
into the big lead of Mysterious Ways and finished the race less than a minute behind - third overall. The J-30 took
line honors and also won on corrected time with Mysterious Ways second. The CS-30 placed fourth.
In Maryland (Fleet 5 South), Blew Bird has started off
where it left off in 2007 - upsetting the faster boats in PHRF on the Chesapeake. Results from a recent race are posted below:
St. Michaels Dinghy Club
Wednesday Night 2008
Class: PHRF A.
Race 6
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Distance 4.0
|
Pos |
|
|
Boat |
Skipper |
|
Type |
|
Elapsed |
Corrected |
|
|
1 |
|
|
Mooncusser |
PF Flyers |
|
Andrews 26 |
|
00:50:52 |
00:41:28 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
Blew Bird |
Larsen,Bob |
|
Thunderbird |
|
00:56:45 |
00:43:33 |
|
|
3 |
|
|
MyRx |
Team Rx |
|
J-24 |
|
00:55:42 |
00:44:42 |
|
|
4 |
|
|
Echo |
Kabler,Bond |
|
J-24 |
|
00:57:04 |
00:45:40 |
|
|
5 |
|
|
289 |
Manheimer,Dave |
|
Colgate 26 |
|
00:56:58 |
00:45:46 |
|
|
6 |
|
|
Redbeard |
Nilsen,Hans |
|
Ericson 38 |
|
00:53:31 |
00:45:55 |
|
|
7 |
|
|
Rumour |
Seemans,Harry |
|
J-30 |
|
00:56:12 |
00:46:36 |
|
|
8 |
|
|
Ostinato |
Staley,Jeff |
|
J-105 |
|
00:56:14 |
00:49:50 |
|
|
9 |
|
|
Cabaret |
Boettner,Si |
|
Elite 34 |
|
00:59:51 |
00:51:03 |
|
