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Pine Point 2 2009From Commodore Craig: The Pine Point II event was a success. Several boats enjoyed the event that consisted of distance races around the islands and a fun sail in big air and torrential rain on Saturday. Saturday night a former CRANNE racer invited the sailors to his house party with a live band. The sailors were pleasantly surprised by the abundant amount of cougars present! The fleet awoke Sunday to gorgeous blue skies, warm temps and a gentle sea breeze filling in by 9am. The fleet had a beautiful fall distance race / tuning clinic down the coast on Sunday. Team Bad Dad finally christened their F18 with it's first capsize. After reaching the lighthouse the boats regrouped in the remote Biddeford Pool area for lunch on the remote sand bar. After lunch, in honor of CRANNE's Dave Fortier. the fleet foolishly sailed out a very narrow and rocky channel out to the sea past some enormous rollers crashing on the rocks. It was spectacular and everyone made it out. The cats once again regrouped and then had a sensational Spinnaker run home. When the Spinnakers were set the fleet averaged close to 16 knots for the entire downwind leg of 18 miles, "Champaign Sailing".  One Sailor was quoted as saying: "I can not remember the last time I kept it up that long!" Ya know it is a good weekend when you are saying that... After reaching Pine Point the fleet performed a few High Speed passes by the beach and upon pulling the cats up on shore a large gathering of spectators greeted the sailors with questions about the speedy cats. One more regatta on the schedule and hopefully we can organize a "Final Rinse Sail" out of Ellacoya State Park on Winnipesaukee with a barbecue and sailing by the end of the month or at some point in October. Thanks to all the CRANNE members who made 2009 a great season, it is not over yet but it would have never happened with out all the good friends, members and volunteers. Commodore Craig "Team Bad Dad" Results of the Racing Class: 1) Team Bad Dad: 1,2,2,1 2) Toni the Tiger: 2,1,1,2 3) Malcolm/Clegg: 3,3,3,3
Pine Point 1 2009From Commodore Craig: Three cats from the CRANNE fleet showed up to compete against the five other catamarans from the NENSA Fleet and the Maine Hobie Fleet. The quote of the weekend was: I asked the Chase boat captain: "Captain Dave, What do you think the wind speed is, 12 knots, 14 knots, or 16 knots?" Dave thought a moment and then answered, "The Wind Speed is Perfect!” You can not sum it up any better than that. Saturday's racing started promptly at 11:20 AM in absolutely beautiful conditions, Sunny Skies, Warm Temps and a solid 14 knot breeze. A bit of chop left over from the previous days Nor-Easter made for fun wet sailing for the cats. The chop made the committee boat and the chase boat work a bit challenging. Commodore Craig likes a long beat to weather so the downwind sleigh ride will provide plenty of opportunities for boat speed to allow for passes to be made but a mistake was made when the windward mark was set a bit too far out to sea. The chase boat, committee boat and the competitors all seemed to be unable to see the mark. It made for an interesting first few races where the cats would all beat up the middle of the course, at one point, tacking 5 times before making it to the Windward Mark! They all found it, and probably had a few curses for the chase boat but when the spinnakers were set the smiles could not be missed as the cats rocketed downwind. A four cylinder engine on the chase boat was not enough as we were unable to match the speed of the cats downwind! 5 great races were had with all the F18s leading races at one point in time. Mike Easton and Chris Burd proved top shelf again. They did show a kink in the armor when Chris and Sam performed an excellent roll over them at the windward mark with a perfect hoist to steal their wind for the pass and never looked back to steal race #3.   The Hobie 16 battle had Doug and Hanna taking on the Phil and Son and they too were all smiles fully trapped out going to weather. Former Commodore Scott Malcolm was enjoying the conditions with the his monstrous Nacra 6.0 eating up the choppy seas with ease! Saturday night the fleet enjoyed the  fabulous cuisine at the Clam Bake restaurant. When the keg arrived at former Commodore's Dave Fortier's house the teams were all too tired to tap the Keg! It was debated now that the F18 fleet is getting older, rather than a beer sponsor next year the F18 fleet will see if Ben-Gay is willing to make a Muscle Rub Cream sponsor/donation to the fleet! Metamucil? Ovaltine?Sunday brought the good old Maine Fog to the regatta site, the sailors all gathered and shared stories from the previous day. The start was delayed but then the committee and chase boats tried to make an effort to start a race but the fog rolled back in. Sunday's racing was canceled and the fleet had the trophy ceremony and then gathered at a local diner for lunch. With the crazy weather this summer a comment was stated that so far, three major regattas this summer have lost a day of racing each due to bad weather. Joe Manganello Memorial Regatta - 2009 This was the second year of this event held in Madison CT the weekend before Memorial Day weekend. A few of us had gone down last year and had a great time. The event is run by a group of young adults that have gone through Joe’s sailing program. With support from their parents, other community members and the town, they are able to keep the spirit of Joe alive. The regatta is held at the town’s beach facility and community center on the Long Island Sound which is perfect for the event. The nice beach is sandy and short with no surf to get through.This year, CRANNE sent 3 F-18’s to make up half of the F-18 Fleet and a Nacra 6.0, one of the 11 boats that made up the open fleet. Craig and Ricardo sailed Craig’s Infusion, Nick and Paul sailed their Nacra F-18, John and Jim sailed John’s Tiger and Scott Malcolm and Hugh sailed Scott’s 6.0. Registration included; 2 t-shirts, 2 dinner tickets and continental breakfast both mornings. After about an hour postponement for fog the fleet was sent out to sail Saturday morning. The wind throughout the day built up to around 20 with gusts approaching 30. This allowed the race committee to get in 6 nice races (2/1, 6/5, 6/5, 6/5, 6/5, 5/5) around a fairly long ACG course. The facility allowed the spectators to watch the racing from the beach with an easterly wind. Once back to the beach, we had about a couple of hours to get cleaned up prior to dinner. The buffet style dinner was in the community center building looking over the beach and consisted of chicken, pasta, salad and cookies. Pictures from the day were projected up on the wall and encouraged stories recalling the day’s events. After dinner the raffle was held where about 25 prizes were distributed. Sunday was bitter and cold with a strong wind from the north. No one seemed disappointed that the race committee called for a postponement. After a couple of postponements, the F-18 fleet decided to pack it in for the weekend and started taking boats apart assuming results would not change either way. The open fleet finally went out for a single race, 5 boats short. Results are:  Watch the Garvin Point Sailing Club website for pictures to be posted. I’m looking forward to attending this event again next year.
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