(Annapolis, MD)- The 2013 edition of CBYRA’s Annapolis Race Week opened
Saturday to Chamber of Commerce conditions. Clear blue skies and a
steadily increasing breeze made for great racing action across the three
courses off Annapolis harbor where 79 J-Boats were doing battle in six
separate classes. The annual three-day event, saw smaller turnouts in
some of the classes, but by far the largest one design on the water were
the J/70s. The class posted twenty-eight boats for the weekend, most
of whom were tuning up for the North American Championship to be held
here later this month.
On
Sunday, conditions deteriorated somewhat as an approaching frontal
system imposed steadily decreasing wind speeds that saw the final races
of that day staged in less than 10 knots. While this was bad enough,
the fleets were also plagued by a roaring 2 knot current that the
skippers had to manage through for all three days. Thankfully, the
weather turned again on Labor Day, again freshening to 10-15 for the
final day of racing.On the J/70 & J/80 course, it was Peter McChesney who edged out Joel Ronning’s CATAPULT team to win the twenty-eight boat J/70 fleet by just 3-points in the closely fought battle for the top three spots on the podium. Sailing well was young James Allsopp's MOXIE, grabbing third overall ahed of Marty Kullman's TOUCH 2 PLAY in fourth and Brian Keane's SAVASANA in fifth. Extremely close competition produced seven winners in eight races, no one had all top five finishes and, in fact, nine of the top ten boats all posted at least one or more double-digits counters in their scoreline! Amazingly, a better than 5th average won the regatta in the J/70s!
More than 200 photos of all the boats on the water are up in the photo gallery at SPINSHEET.com (http://www.SpinSheet.com). Thanks for this contribution from Dan Phelps at SPINSHEET.com. For more CBYRA Race Week sailing information
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