the 2009 Wayfarer Midwinters West
Lake Mission Viejo YC, CA * Saturday 21 February 2009
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From: Jack McCollum (W2965)
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:36 AM
Subject: SCYA Midwinters Lake Mission Viejo

Hi Al,

Here is a short report and a few pics from the Southern California Yacht Association Midwinters participation at LMVYC.

Jack McCollum W2965


Wayfarer Class

Rank

SailNo

Crew

Club

R1

R2

R3

Total

1

2502B

Rod Simenz/Audrey Simenz

LMVYC

1

1

1

3

2

2965

Jack McCollum/Cecilia

LMVYC

2

2

DNS

8

3

2502R

Randy Tiffany/Frank Fournier

LMVYC

3

3

DNS

10

 

Hi Uncle Al,
 
For this year’s SCYA Midwinters races on Sat 21 February at the Lake Mission Viejo YC outside of San Diego, CA, we had our own class with three out of our four Wayfarers participating.  Wind and rain is our typical weather for this regatta, but this time we had partly cloudy conditions with almost no air.
 
How light was it? With three minutes until the start of the first race, I saw that I was ten meters from the RC boat so I pointed W2965 in that direction. By the time our class flag came down I had only covered nine meters!  Needless to say light air skill ruled the day and Rod and Audrey Simenz showed us a thing or two!  As luck would have it the only time the wind came up was during the break between race one and two so Cecilia and I stayed out and sailed up to the dam and back just for fun.
 
By the third race my boat had filled with almost three inches of water for some reason so I retired. Cranking it up on to my Pamco trailer at the launch ramp was quite a task so I’ll need to investigate that problem and I’m open to suggestions.
 
BTW, you’ll notice in the pictures that Randy Tiffany’s boat also has 2502 as a sail number because he’s using sails from Rod’s boat but I believe his Wayfarer is also in the 2500s.
 
Jack McCollum W2965
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They way they finished the series: Rod Simenz (5th from right), Jack McCollum (W2965) and Randy Tiffany (left)
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Randy Tiffany and Frank Fournier (l) in hot pursuit of Jack McCollum and Celilia
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Randy and Frank
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Jack and Cecilia
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Rod and Audrey (2nd from left)
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Randy and Frank (W2502) get set to round the leeward mark.
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In the day's only breeze, between races 1 and 2 ...
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... Jack and Cecilia enjoyed a little run up to the dam.