There
have been two races recently that I have some pictures of to
share. The first was the Sarasota Bay Cup Regatta, run jointly by
the Sarasota Yacht Club and the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. It
consisted of a reverse handicap pursuit race on an 11.5 nm course with
8 legs. These pictures were taken by Lois Abrams (of Air Supply) and Greg Knighton the
sailmaker.
Cat's Meow gybing in front of the eventual Spinnaker Class winner, Rita B (Melges 24) (Knighton photo)
The next race was the Sarasota to Key West part of the annual Key West Rendezvous, which also has starts from Clearwater, Boca Grande and Naples. Picture by John Lynch
Bad Luck & Trouble:
This is the start of the Racer/Cruiser
Class showing, from left to
right Forever Young (Catalina
350), Mother Ocean
(O'Day 40) and Constellation
(Swan 48). The problem that Forever
Young and Constellation had
is that they were registered in the Cruising Class, so they had
to turn
back to the starting line and got a late start. The problem Mother Ocean had was that she broke
her backstay and dropped out of the race. In the end, the late
start didn't matter as Forever Young
won the race and Constellation
was second (and first to finish in class). What a beautiful
sailing day, not a cloud and a nice SE breeze!
The reason I showed the picture of Kathryn Garlick's 28 foot Evolution at the Sarasota Bay Cup is that I didn't get a picture of her at this start, and her performance was absolutely amazing! She was the first boat in the Sarasota fleet to get to Key West, with and elapsed time of 22h00m14s giving an average speed of 7.68 knots. The 2nd boat to finish was the Beneteau First 51 Critical Path which won the Racer/Cruiser Class with an elapsed time of 1d8h41m17s
giving an average speed of 5.17 knots. If you don't believe me you can see all of the results HERE.
VSS's Jim
Liston's Cat's
Meow shows her form going to windward on her
way to a second place finish in the Spinnaker
Class (Knighton photo)
Cat's Meow gybing in front of the eventual Spinnaker Class winner, Rita B (Melges 24) (Knighton photo)
The first
reach of the course. (Abrams photo)
Summertime hanging around just waiting for her starting time. She finished 2nd in Cruising Class. (Abrams photo)
Kathryn Garlick's Corsair 28R trimaran Evolution in the background was on
her way to a win in the Multihull Class. I'm showing this picture
here because it's cool and also because I'm going to mention her again
later. (Abrams
photo) The
complete regatta resultsSummertime hanging around just waiting for her starting time. She finished 2nd in Cruising Class. (Abrams photo)
Summertime
rounding the gybe mark (Knighton photo)
The next race was the Sarasota to Key West part of the annual Key West Rendezvous, which also has starts from Clearwater, Boca Grande and Naples. Picture by John Lynch
The reason I showed the picture of Kathryn Garlick's 28 foot Evolution at the Sarasota Bay Cup is that I didn't get a picture of her at this start, and her performance was absolutely amazing! She was the first boat in the Sarasota fleet to get to Key West, with and elapsed time of 22h00m14s giving an average speed of 7.68 knots. The 2nd boat to finish was the Beneteau First 51 Critical Path which won the Racer/Cruiser Class with an elapsed time of 1d8h41m17s
giving an average speed of 5.17 knots. If you don't believe me you can see all of the results HERE.