Metro Race Week and Chester Report

CIAO WINS AT CHESTER

What a great week we had. 2 days of heavy rain interspersed with two days of sunshine, and wind most of the time made for excellent conditions for the 18 Premier Class Association members to race as a class. We welcomed boats from the United States, and other regions of the Maritimes to this regatta, and arranged "one event only" PHRF ratings for two participants. Congratulations to Ciao for an outstanding performance, and to all other participants, who ensured that racing was off a high quality. While there were one or two incidents that some might have called "bad behavior" there was only one protest during the week, and the quality of the racing was of a generally high level.

Thanks to the excellent work of Andreas Josenhans and his team of professionals and experienced racers, the competiton  (18 PCA Members) at Chester was the best in years. Recognising this, our President set the following to Andreas.

Andreas:

On behalf of the PCA executive and Class members I would like to thank you, your team, and Chester Race Week for running a superb regatta in a mix of trying conditions. We all appreciated the professionalism involved, and the manner in which the sailors were all kept "in the loop" as per your ideas and movements. A welcome relief from previous years.

cin starting on day 1 was not appreciated by all, however, it was the right thing to do, and solved the problem of the tardy sailor.

Again, thank you for a job well done.

Ed Backman
President
Premier Class Association

CHESTER RACE WEEK 2008  - PCA Fleet
Sailed:6, Discards:0, To count:6, Ratings:PHRF, Entries:18, Scoring system:Appendix A
Rank	Boat	Class	Helm	Club	TCF	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Total
1st	CIAO!	Archambault 35	Phillippe Paturel	RNSYS	100.6	3	1	1	3	1	1	10
2nd	True North	Dobroth 41	Bob Cragg	CYC	101.6	11	2	2	4	2	6	27
3rd	Bellatrix	Swan 48-2	John Hunkin	CYC	106.3	10	6	5	2	6	3	32
4th	Power Shift	Thomas 35	John Roy	CYC	99.7	1	5	4	10	3	10	33
5th	Duck!	Beneteau 36.7	Peter Maloney	RNSYS	98.7	7	4	3	8	11	8	41
6th	Exile	J 133	Brendan Kelley	ILYC	109.7	19.0 DNC	7	11	1	4	2	44
7th	Climax	1D35	Nathan Reece	DYC	105.8	2	9	10	5	5	15	46
8th	Third Wave	C&C 37R	Hal Davies	RNSYS	101.1	4	3	8	6	9	16	46
9th	Hard Eight	Tripp 41	Wayne King	SHYC	111.5	6	11	9	11	10	5	52
10th	Still Irie	Beneteau 36.7	Thom Lawrence	CYC	98.7	5	8	12	19.0 DNF	7	9	60
11th	Trouble	Mumm 30	Ed Backman	RNSYS	102.6	8	19.0 DNF	15	9	13	4	68
12th	Helm's Deep	Beneteau 36.7	Mike Sutton	RNSYS	98.7	9	14	7	13.5	14	12	69.5
13th	Brilliance	J 120	Richard Calder	RNSYS	103.2	15	13	13	7	15	7	70
14th	Slider	Jobert/Nivelt Custom	Christopher Chick	RNSYS	105.3	12	12	16	16	8	17	81
15th	Cracker Jack !!!	J 35	Peter Traves	RNSYS	99.7	14	10	17	15	17	13	86
16th	Festivus	Beneteau 49	Mark Holden	AYC	103.7	19.0 DNC	19.0 DNC	14	13.5	16	11	92.5
17th	Pursuit	Peterson 46	Bob Belliveau	CYC / RNSYS	102.6	19.0 DNC	19.0 DNC	6	12	19.0 DNC	19.0 DNC	94
18th	Koobalibra	C&C 115	David Barlow		101.1	13	19.0 DNF	19.0 DNF	19.0 DNC	12	14	96

CIAO WINS HALIFAX METRO RACE WEEK 2008

Dartmouth Yacht Clubfour day regatta in Bedford Basin. Great racing, great social activities, and a remarkable range of weather conditions  gave us all an remember. We raced round the buoys on the first day, and would have done so again on the last if the weather hadn't intervened. The middle days both had us doing two windward-leeward races twice around. Winds varied from very light to perhaps twelve knots on the first two days, with fog and rain never far away on the last three days.

Day four racing was postponed for some time as a particularly vicious thunderstorm approached then overran the course. We experienced more than half an hour of heavy rain limiting visibility to less than 50 yards, winds of 35 knots or more, and lightning strikes in our immediate vicinity. As quickly as it had begun it moved on and left us in sunshine and no wind. After waiting an hour, the Race Committee abandoned all hopes of racing and we returned to the DYC.