Soling 1M Sunday July 3-22

Canada Day Special Event

This day was a little different with Jim and Boots running four seeding races with no drop races to set the field for some exciting short course match racing. We also experimented with a longer course making the starting line at one end of the pond and the weather mark at the other. This made the first beat longer and reduced the need for offsets.

Results of Seeding Races

SkipperSail #Race 1Race 2Race 3Race 4Overall
Michael Kennedy110DNCDNF113rd
Brian Lugar95911231st
Brian Wilmshurst17522322nd
Francoise Dardanne47546DNC6th
Bob White3333DNF444th
Jamie Ferguson 92243555th

Results of the Match Racing

SkipperSail #Overall
Michael Kennedy1101st
Brian Lugar9592nd
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Jun, 2019

2019 Bill Traill Memorial Regatta

Download the full results:
https://hamyc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BT.pdf

The annual Bill Traill Regatta was held on June 9, 2019, bringing together the club to share memories of Bill and a fun day of sailing. It was a beautiful day, with light winds to start and building through the day. A ‘Terra Beata Blueberry juice’ toast to Bill was held and the day’s sailing was paused for a snack of fruit and vegetable trays prepared by Barb Lovitt and Ben Rusi.

Don McDermaid told of his funniest memory of Bill sailing his boat in Sullivan’s Pond and doing so poorly.  He passed off his boat and asked someone else to sail it and see what was wrong with it. The boat won the next two races and Bill surmised that there wasn’t anything wrong with it.

Extra thanks to Ben Rusi who also took time to repair the three launching wharves and made a new table for the utility pole. Ben is a great promoter of sailing at the Cranberry Pond site and along with Victor Lovitt makes it possible for us to sail there in comfort.