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July 2001 |
by Harry Blake Tiburon, CA, June 16, 2001—Today, sailors of the Tiburon Yacht Club defeated the Corinthian Yacht Club by a razor-thin margin to retain the perpetual trophy for this annual event which was originally conceived to foster enduring good neighbor relations and sailing fellowship between the members of the two clubs and is contested each summer. This inter-club regatta was inaugurated in June, 2000, was hosted by CYC, and was narrowly won by TYC. The host club of this regatta is to alternate each year, so TYC members organized and ran the event but used the CYC clubhouse because TYC is still not finished building their new clubhouse.
To see the complete gallery of 46 photos from the event, simply follow these steps: 1) Click Here (this will open in a new browser window) 2) For the best picture-viewing experience, click "View as slideshow" on the right side of the page. If you like the pictures, you'll be able order prints from Shutterfly. “Options jibed out into ebb along City Front - for air, I guess. I would say we had 10 boat lengths at Blackaller and I think more at Mason when I screwed up and doused with a really messy takedown. I gave Tim Parsons the wheel to clean the foredeck and we were hauling butt such that I got soaked on the leeward side while undoing knots and lost my glasses on a surprise heel ($300 race). We put the spin back up when they passed us way to leeward, hit 13 or 14 and the drag race you saw commenced with me trying to close gauge, stay out of ebb and avoid wind skip over Angel.”
An observer noted that shortly after Joy Ride was passed she hoisted her big A-kite, making a tight race of it to Elephant Rock. Options stayed slightly ahead until the middle of Raccoon Strait, when Joy Ride, who seemed to have a bit more speed, began to roll her. Options responded with a sharp luff that further slowed her, and Joy Ride then did in fact roll her. At 2-3 boat lengths from Elephant Joy Ride doused and Options, who was just behind, carried almost to the mark, trying to get buoy room on the inside. She never got an inside overlap and paid for holding her kite so long, as the flood pushed her 2 boat lengths toward Ayala Cove before she was able to get back on the wind. That was all she wrote as Joy Ride beat up the short distance to the finish and prevailed by 24 seconds. Ron Kell’s Express 27, Abigail Morgan, finished 8 minutes later, which was not enough to catch the second-place Options on corrected. A TYC boat, Moonshadow, finished 2 minutes later and came within 50 seconds of catching Abigail.
The top six boats in the spinnaker division were: Joy Ride; Out of Options; Abigail Morgan; Moonshadow; Steve Schneider’s Islander 36, Absolute; and Frenzy (TYC). Other CYC competitors in this division were: Marcia Peck’s Another Wild Blonde, Richard Korman’s Jimmy Riddle, Charlie Brochard’s Baleineau, Laurie Bolard’s Truant, Ed and Diana Fischer’s Sirius, and Mike Campbell’s Geronimo. Seventeen boats competed in a widely diverse non-spinnaker division, with boats ranging from a Frers 41 rating 75 to a Cal 20 rating 270. What was refreshing about this division was the array of strictly cruising boats competing, boats like Hans Roeben and Sally Huse’s Baba 35, Helgoland, Jeanne Lacy’s Shearwater, David Johnson’s Gypsy, and Richard and Sandra Solomon’s Liberty. The committee also sent this fleet upwind to Yellow Bluff, but from there they went downwind on a counter-clockwise triangle to Harding Rock and Knox, back upwind to Little Harding, downwind to Elephant rock and then to the finish. CYC dominated the upper tier of finish positions, taking the first five places: John Nooteboom’s Tension II (Cal 20), David Holscher’s Sockeye (J/24), Jan Borjeson’s Basic Instinct (Elliott 1050), Bill and Chris Canada’s Athena (Catalina 36), and Fred and Sonja Conta’s On the Edge (C&C 33). It was also good to see these CYC members out there: Mike Eagan on Saber Tooth, Gordon Noble on Pua Lani, and Philip Dunn on Gotcha.
Regardless of the team results, the top three boats in each division were awarded sterling silver picture frames. Team results are determined by averaging the scores of each club’s entries, and these averages were TYC 8.53; CYC 8.15. This result was close enough that any swap of about two places would have given the regatta to CYC. So, for the second year in a row TYC will display in their trophy case the beautiful Lucite sailboat that Dan Carrico picked out last year and that Hans Roeben built the wooden base for. After the race TYC member, Bob Mott, put on his newly acquired DJ hat and played selections from the hit CD, Rock Around the Cay, on sound equipment provided by Bill Canada. At 4:30 the Pelican Grill was fired up and 96 people enjoyed tri-tips, BBQ chicken, coleslaw, potato salad and apple pie à la mode. This regatta will take place at TYC next year on June 15.
by Hans Roeben The Second Annual CYC-TYC Friendship Race was a fun event. But, it was also a sad day for CYC. Several members made many phone calls to get CYC racers to the starting line; results were not enough to win. Where were those who are so often seen on the racecourse, and seemed to be missing for this race? Some Corinthian cruising boats were talked into taking up the slack. Unfortunately they ran out of wind close to the finish line and got a DNF. We lost again and the trophy stays with TYC. Contrary to others, one member of CYC, Sean Torsney, had plenty of Corinthian spirit. He chartered a J-105 and won 2nd place in the spinnaker division. So, please mark your calendar for the 3rd Saturday in June, 2002; bring plenty of Corinthian spirit to win this race and bring the trophy home to Corinthian YC where it belongs. |
Tiburon YC Successfully Defends the CYC/TYC Perpetual Friendship Trophy
Where Was The Competitive Spirit?