Saturday September 9th SSA Fall Series #1

Report

Four and a half 505 teams showed up at SSA for the first of two fall series days, this past Saturday. J Bergquist raced single handed (showing impressive speed upwind in race 1), so five teams raced.

Sterg Papadakis/Mike Renda won the day with a 1,2. Tom Sitzmann teamed up with Dustin Romey in Bob Patterson's boat and finished 2,3. Mike Coe drove Ali Meller's Rondar with Ali in the front, and went 3,1. Chris Legg/Howie Baetjer were late for the start of the first race, which put them in the back (they were setting up the rig and were too far upwind when the signals started).

While we probably never saw 8 knots, conditions were better than we expected (which was 0-5 knots). J was trapezing in the second race, and Ali got out on the wire (high) in the puffs.

Scratchlist

The first day of 505 Fall Series is September 9th. The second day is September 16th. Who plans to race? Who is interested in crewing or driving? Looks like we have boats, driving positions and crewing positions open. Please let me know if you plan to race either day, cannot make either day, need a crew or driver, or are interested in racing 505s.

Thanks,

Ali

September 9th:
Alexander Meller/Mike Coe 8776
J Bergquist/&crew or driver needed 6987
Chris Legg/Howie Baetjer 7150
Sterg Papadakis/Mike Renda 7199
Tom Sitzmann/Dustin Romey 7068

Cannot sail the 9th:
Bob Patterson,
Keith Davids
Paul Murphy
Mike Renda
Nicholas Place
Amie Boothe
Evan Aras

Macy? Brendan? Barney? Doug/Chris Watson? Rick Cassell? John Hauser?

Available boats: 7200, maybe 7080

Interested people: Harry Scott