Fall Schedule (Region I and Region II)

Sep 9 Fall Series at SSA
Sep 16 Fall Series at SSA

Sep 16-17 Region One Championship @ Saunderstown, RI

Seo 23-24 Carl Miller Regatta @ West River, MD

Oct 07-08 High Performance One Design @ Rye, NY
Oct 07-08 SSA Plane Insane @ Annapolis, MD

Oct 21-22 Region Two Championship @ Rock Hall, MD

Nov 11-12 Hampton Fall Fling @ Hampton, VA

SSA/Fleet 40 To Host 505 North American Championship!

I received a text message from J Bergquist who is at the 505 class AGM at St. Francis YC in San Francisco.

"We got the regatta"

Apparently our bid for the 2007 505 North American Championship, to be held October 15-19, has been accepted!

We're going to have a GREAT event!

So if you have been thinking about getting into 505s, how would be a GREAT time to get in, so you have a year's experience in the class before the NAs.

Ali

SSA Summer Series Ends With a Terrific Day of Racing

Who would have thought we could have a nice day with some breeze, not too hot, in August?

Saturday August 12th was the last of three days of Summer Series for the 505s. With some boats coming back from the worlds, and two regulars (so two boats) on the way to San Francisco for the North Americans, turnout was down a bit.

Brendan Connell/crew joined fleet captain Sterg Papadakis and crew Mike Renda, while Alexander Meller crewed for high school star Harry Scott in Alexander's Rondar.

We had three races off of Bembe Beach, with the Daysailors.

Thomas Pt. Light reports 8-12 knots, but in our area we might have seen 10 for brief moments and were sailing in about 8 most of the time, enough to be trapping and not bending knees too much in the lulls, upwind.

Harry/Alexander won the first two races going away -- who IS THIS KID -- with Sterg/Mike second and Brendan/crew behind them. But Sterg/Mike worked in left shift off the start line in race 3 to take the lead and extended for the rest of the beat and first run. Harry/Alexander closed on the second run and looked like they might be able to cross a couple of times on the beat to the finish, but in the end Sterg/Mike won the race by a couple of boatlengths.

This gave the overall Summer Series in to Sterg/Mike, with Ali/various second and Keith Davids/various third.

Results at http://www.severnsailing.org/results/2006/812505.shtml


The next 505 event at SSA is the start of the Fall Series, on September 9th. BE THERE!

~Ali