the MSC Wayfarer/CL Regatta
Mississauga Sailing
Club * September 17-18, 2011
reports by Uncle Al and Steph
Romaniuk
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MSC win for
Chich team,
Sue and Steph (W397)
...![]() The weekend of Sept.
17-18, 2011 favoured us with cool, sunny
weather and lovely moderate breezes as Parry Sound's Sue Pilling (above)
and Steph Romaniuk captured first place in the
annual Mississauga SC Wayfarer/CL Regatta. Complete results posted. Steph and Sue left no doubt
about their champion status as they counted five first and one second
in our seven-race series. Second place in our 10-boat fleet went to Jim
and Linda Heffernan of Chapel Hill, North Carolina who counted
2-2-4-2-4-2 for 16 overall points. The race for 3rd place ended in a
tie between two Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club teams: Kit Wallace
teamed up with Peter Kozak to score 2-3-3-5-5-5 while defending
champion, Al Schonborn discovered he is too old to take on the dual
challenge of a "strange" boat plus a learner crew. Nonetheless, Al and
crew, Richard Watterson of Hummelstown, PA had an interesting and
mostly enjoyable series as they shared helming duties aboard Bubbles,
Richard's brand new Hartley MK IV #10862. In the end, Richard and Al
got their 23 points from counting 3-5-1-1-2-DNC. Al's assessment of the
new Wayfarer:
![]() Series 8th went to the Mississauga SC team of Rob Wierdsma and Dave Platt. It took a while but Dave and Rob finally got their act together and finished the series with a very fine 4th. TSCC's Mike Codd and 9-year-old Lilly placed a misleading 9th overall: Due to seasickness caused by the considerable Lake Ontario chop on both days, Lilly had to sit out some races, but the three races they did manage to complete saw Lilly and Mike score fine 3-4-5. Perfect hosts award to Rod Anderson and Rod McIver of the host club who ended up a single point behind the Codds in 10th place overall. From:
Steph Romaniuk
To:
David & Carol Hansman
Sent:
Monday, September 19, 2011 3:40 PM
Subject:
CL16/Wayfarers at MSC
It was a great weekend. Sunny mostly with varied breezes.
Pretty steady 10 knots Sat. and drifter to 10 knots on Sunday. We did 4
and 3 races, Sat, Sun, respectively and did an olympic course for 2
races Sunday. We were a bit sloppy on gybing from reach to reach. We
had great competition between the 10 boats, with lots of variety in
placements. Al and Richard Watterson tied for 3rd with Kit Wallace and
crew despite a DNS and DNF. This left the battle for top spot
between us and the Heffernans.
We had a couple downwind comebacks in race 1 and 7 to beat the Hartley and the Heffernans, respectively. The latter were moving splendidly and had Sue concerned by the end of the regatta. The last win should've been theirs, but sans spinnaker, it didn't work out. I think they rig their spinnaker on the starboard side, so the were avoiding a windward launch and had a sizeable lead. We felt bad for taking away their bullet. Little little (Lilly) battled with seasickness and missed 3 races Sat. She and Mike were out again Sunday and she was having a good time picking up balloons out of the lake, handing out George pins. She even slept through race 6 in the bottom of Red Top. Soo cute! Unfortunately, she tossed her cookies when she woke up. Lucky for us, but too bad for most, the wind picked up to about 15 knots an hour after we got off the water Sunday. Debating about the pumpkin now as the training for working
the Provincial Elections is on the Saturday :) Think I may have to turn
down the extra money for the DeBoer party, great sailing and a turkey
dinner...
All the best,
Steph
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