By: Charlie Berry

Stowe Yacht Club and The Commodores Inn held this annual event on the pond behind the Inn, in Stowe, Vermont. The regatta is part of the New England Cup Championship Series and is the 2017 Region 1 Championship. There were 27 competitors, including four from Canada.

The weather was a real challenge this year – way more than usual. With apologies to Bob Dylan, “Everyone Must Get Stowed”. And, indeed, everyone did: sailor and RC alike. Light and variable winds were combined with temperatures 20 degrees below average on Saturday. Sunday brought some sun and warmer temperatures, but the wind remained very light and variable. Sailors and RC did the best they could with the conditions and we managed 8 races (16 heats) on Saturday and 6 races (12 heats) on Sunday.

With 27 boats, we used the EORS two-fleet system, moving four boats up and down. We used the Class Ranking System but added one seeding race to “fine-tune” the fleets. The seeding race did not count in the scoring. With the EORS system, we had up to 16 boats in a heat. Combined with the variable conditions, this made for challenging starts and mark roundings.

Dave Brawner and Dave Ramos had a very tight series for the top spot throughout the weekend. In fact, it came down to the final race, where Ramos beat Brawner by 3 places, sealing his victory. Dave Branning locked up 3^rd place by having 3 bullets in the final four races. I overheard a competitor say, “Dave swept the first three places”. And so he did. Alex Ramos and Chuck Luscomb rounded out the top 5 finishers.

The EORS does create situations whereby sailors can stay “in the bubble” if they finish in the top four of B fleet, moving up to A, finishing in the bottom four, moving back to B and so on. The regatta’s Bubble Boy honors went to Paul Switzer of Canada, who raced the first eight heats back to back on Sunday before finally remaining in the A fleet. He got his money’s worth in term of races sailed!

 

Summary of the Green Mountain Regatta:

            Class:  EC12

            Date:   June 3 & 4, 2017

            Location: Commodores Inn, Stowe, VT

            Host Club: Stowe Yacht Club (#159)

            Entries: 27

            Winds: Light & Very Variable

            Races completed: 14 (28 Heats)

            Scoring System: EORS Promotion/Relegation; 2 Heats

            Thanks to Race Committee: Charlie Berry, Rosemarie

            Fitzhugh, Bob & Suzan Letwenski, Louise Townsend, Robert De Gols

 

Green Mountain Regatta Results:

Place	L Name	F Name	Points
1	Ramos	Dave	38
2	Brawner	Dave	40
3	Branning	Dave	63
4	Ramos	Alex	66.2
5	Luscomb	Chuck	82
6	Ouimette	Don	97
7	Goddard	Jim	99.7
8	Wolfe	Ed	105.2
9	West	Rick	109
10	Dion	Al	120

 

Remaining Finishers: Chuck Millican, John Martin, Brian Kerrigan, George Townsend, Bob Shluger, Harry Mote, Paul Switzer, Tim Stone, Bruce Nourjian, Ken Shaw, Roger Baldwin, Jeff Gros, Jonathan Pelley, Bob Boutilier, Phil Tonks, Gary Bugden, Al Schober.

 

 

 

1^st place, Davis Ramos, 2^nd Place, David brawner,3^rd Place, David Branning, 4^th Place Alex Ramos and 5^th Place Chuck Luscomb.