Here are Photo's from Saturday at the Equalizer.
http://albums.phanfare.com/doyleboston/ ... D=50289839
Great regatta. We had heavy air on Saturday. Light on Sunday. For results check http://www.ppyc.org/racing/regattas.htm#Equalizer
Looking forward to CCR at the end of the week!
Equalizer
Moderators: sderby, Tim Bosma, Tom Elsen
Nice article about the Equalizer on SA today
Here's the text of the article posted today. I don't know who posted it, but it's good publicity for the 7.9 class, and PPYC.
Lake Percy Priest. If you don't know where it is, I don't blame you. I live close and have been in the area many times but having never laid eyes on it I never thought I would find myself driving down to Nashville, TN for a regatta.
The 2008 Equalizer was a nice surprise, I was thinking it was going to be a warm up for the upcoming S2 7.9 NA's but I could not have been more wrong. The strictly One Design event drew in four classes, J22, S2 7.9, Catalina 22, and North Star 500. The J turnout was low, even though this was the SE regionals, but the Catalina 22's were very nice, by far the cleanest and raciest looking bunch of catalina 22's I have ever seen, or imagined could be. The North Star 500s were an interesting group, very dedicated to thier class of classic plastic era, S&S designed 1/4 tonners. The S2 7.9 class used the event as a tune up, bonus weekend of racing, beer drinking, and feeling out the competition type of weekend.
The Equalizer was well run with a good atmosphere. The racing was great on Saturday with up to four races depending on the class. Saturday's wind et everyone on thier toes with big puffs and huge shifts, 8-16 kts with 40 degree shifts. We were all tired and some of us soaked after wipe outs, one of which pinned an S2 down to the clutches on the doghouse. Sunday was perfect conditions... for waterskiing. We hung out and drank all of our beer and some that wasn't. We finally got in one race that was a crapshoot for wind, staying out of the parking lots on the course were the rule of the day. Then back to the rush that is trailer-sailing, the pull out after the event.
All in all the 2008 Equalizer was well run and executed admirably. I am ready to go back on wednesday for more boats, burgers, and beer. Leaving everything in place and ready to go for next week and hoping we do better this week, I find myself excited to go sailing on wednesday, in Nashville of all places.
-ClimbnSail
10/22/08
Lake Percy Priest. If you don't know where it is, I don't blame you. I live close and have been in the area many times but having never laid eyes on it I never thought I would find myself driving down to Nashville, TN for a regatta.
The 2008 Equalizer was a nice surprise, I was thinking it was going to be a warm up for the upcoming S2 7.9 NA's but I could not have been more wrong. The strictly One Design event drew in four classes, J22, S2 7.9, Catalina 22, and North Star 500. The J turnout was low, even though this was the SE regionals, but the Catalina 22's were very nice, by far the cleanest and raciest looking bunch of catalina 22's I have ever seen, or imagined could be. The North Star 500s were an interesting group, very dedicated to thier class of classic plastic era, S&S designed 1/4 tonners. The S2 7.9 class used the event as a tune up, bonus weekend of racing, beer drinking, and feeling out the competition type of weekend.
The Equalizer was well run with a good atmosphere. The racing was great on Saturday with up to four races depending on the class. Saturday's wind et everyone on thier toes with big puffs and huge shifts, 8-16 kts with 40 degree shifts. We were all tired and some of us soaked after wipe outs, one of which pinned an S2 down to the clutches on the doghouse. Sunday was perfect conditions... for waterskiing. We hung out and drank all of our beer and some that wasn't. We finally got in one race that was a crapshoot for wind, staying out of the parking lots on the course were the rule of the day. Then back to the rush that is trailer-sailing, the pull out after the event.
All in all the 2008 Equalizer was well run and executed admirably. I am ready to go back on wednesday for more boats, burgers, and beer. Leaving everything in place and ready to go for next week and hoping we do better this week, I find myself excited to go sailing on wednesday, in Nashville of all places.
-ClimbnSail
10/22/08
Tim Sgrazzutti
S2 7.9 Hull #1 - UNO
S2 7.9 Hull #1 - UNO