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New York Yacht Club Race Week presented by Rolex - Day 5

by Barby MacGowan 21 Jul 2012 07:30 BST 14-22 July 2012

Nothing wrong with a rainy day

It was an unseasonably wet, dreary day in Newport, but at least somewhere, someone was having fun. That somewhere was Rhode Island Sound where nearly 100 teams are competing in the New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex on the second day of the split-format event's final four days of buoy racing. And that someone was Dawn Riley (Oyster Bay, N.Y.), who along with eight Oakcliff Sailing Center trainees, helped guide Art Santry's (Oyster Bay) Ker 50 Temptation-Oakcliff to the top of the scoreboard in IRC Class 3 after two victories in two races today.

"We're sailors; we get wet all the time," said Riley, a veteran of America's Cup and Whitbread Round the World Races who serves as executive director of Oakcliff in Oyster Bay. She explained that the Center's mission of raising the level of sailors and sailing in the U.S. was on artful display today, as the trainees worked side-by-side with Riley, on mid-bow, and six other seasoned sailors, including Santry, who skippers and sponsors the boat.

According to Santry, the team played the shifts extremely well on three of the four upwind legs. "Our crew work was flawless, and the gybes and tacks were perfect," he said, noting that yesterday Temptation-Oakcliff had been in third overall after finishing third in the opening race of the series. "I'm exceedingly impressed with the Oakcliff program; these kids are great. They have been working together with us all season, and they are tough, enthusiastic and dedicated to the program. If the crew work maintains, we're going to be tough to beat."

One race circle hosted four IRC classes, while another hosted one-design racing for J/109, J/111, Beneteau 36.7 and Swan 42 classes. Due to a light-wind forecast, the Swan 42s elected to resume buoy racing today rather than compete in their originally scheduled distance race, but in the end, they—like the other classes—were met with a hearty 12-15 knots by mid-morning, when the heaviest rain showers had moved on. Large swells also figured in as the winds tapered off to 8-10 during the course of the afternoon.

Another who had no problem making the most of the conditions was Craig Albrecht (Sea Cliff, N.Y.), skipper of the Farr 395 Avalanche in IRC Class 4. His team defended its first-place position from yesterday by finishing 3-4 today to stay two points ahead of Greg Manning's (Warwick, R.I.) X-41 Sarah.

"Staying in the pressure was key, and changing gears up and down was important," said Albrecht, whose team won the American Yacht Club Spring Series Regatta earlier this year. "The racing has been very close, and it has been exciting, especially at the mark roundings where many of the boats have overlapped."

John Hele's (Toronto, CAN/Newport) Daring won both races today in the Swan 42 class, propelling him to first overall from third yesterday and giving him a better shot at taking the national crown that is being determined here. Following a general recall, an individual recall after the start of the first race brought Z-flag penalties against the teams of Arethusa, Barleycorn, Impetuous and Conspiracy. Having not gone back to exonerate themselves from jumping the start gun cost the teams three positions on their scoring for that race. Defending national champion Ken Colburn (Dover, Mass.), helming Apparition, finished 4-4 today to drop to second from first yesterday.

The J/109s, which are sailing their North Americans, also had individual recalls in their first race that saw yesterday's leader Storm, skippered by Rick Lyall (Wilton, Conn.), return to the start line to successfully clear. The team fought back to eighth and finished first in the second race, but the performance was only good enough for a third in overall scoring. It left the proverbial door open for Ted Herlihy's (S. Dartmouth, Mass.) Gut Feeling to take the top spot after that team finished 4-2 today. With nine points, Gut Feeling's overall score is shared with Skoot, skippered by Jim Vos (New Canaan, Conn.), which sits in second overall, so both teams are a slim one point ahead of Storm.

The J/111 Class's first day of competition went well for Henry Brauer's (Marblehead, Mass.) Fleetwing, which took bullets in each of two races. "The first race was great, because it was good breeze; the second race was a bit more challenging because of the lighter wind and the lumpy seas," said Brauer, who is new to the J/111 Class this year after having sold the J/105 Scimitar that he co-owned with Stewart Neff (serving as his tactician here) and with which he won the 2011 J/105 North American Championship. "We got good starts, Stewart put us in the right place, and the team did a great job trimming the sails and keeping us going the whole time. The important thing to racing well is having a good team, so there are a lot of the same people onboard that I've sailed with in the past. Having that nucleus is very important."

In the Beneteau 36.7 Class, William Purdy's (New York, N.Y) Whirlwind displaced John Hammel's (Arlington, Mass.) Elan at the top of the scoreboard after winning both races today. Elan finished 2-3 to take second overall, just one point behind Elan, and David Powers's (Boston, Mass.) Agora is only one more point behind in third, on the merit of a 3-2 today.

Yesterday, in the second of two races for IRC Class 1, Bob and Farley Towse's (Stamford, Conn.) Reichel Pugh 66 Blue Yankee could not finish within the time limit and posted five points to the two posted by George David's (Hartford, Conn.) Reichel Pugh 90 Rambler. Today the two teams split the victories in two races, so Rambler still holds a three-point lead in the two-boat series thus far.

In IRC 2, Jim Swartz's (Park City, Utah) IRC 52 Vesper still leads after finishing 1-5 today, while Austin and Gwen Fragomen's (Newport, R.I.) IRC 52 Interlodge has moved into second place overall.

Three more new classes will join the action tomorrow: Melges 32, J/105 and PHRF, the latter of which is sailing "navigator courses" instead of around the buoys.

Results after Day 5: (top five)

J/111 (One Design - 6 Boats)
1. Fleetwing, J/111, Henry Brauer, Marblehead, Mass., 1, 1, 2pts
2. Wicked 2.0, J/111, Douglas Curtiss, South Dartmouth, Mass., 3,2, 5pts
3. Jazz, J/111, Rodney Johnstone, Stonington, Conn., 2, 3, 5pts
4. Andiamo, J/111, Paul Strauch, Manhasset, N.Y., 4, 4, 8pts
5. Partnership, J/111, David and Mary Ellen Tortorello, Bridgeport, Conn., 5, 5, 10pts

Beneteau 36.7 (One Design - 8 Boats)
1. Whirlwind, Beneteau 36.7, William Purdy, New York, N.Y., 3,1,1, 5pts
2. Elan, Beneteau 36.7, John Hammel, Arlington, Mass., 1,2,3, 6pts
3. Agora, Beneteau 36.7, David Powers, Boston, Mass., 2,3,2, 7pts
4. Resolute, Beneteau 36.7, Junius Brown, Ridgefield, Conn., 4,7,4, 15pts
5. Surface Tension, Beneteau 36.7, Lou Melillo, Middletown, N.J., 5,5,5, 15pts

Swan 42 (One Design - 15 Boats)
1. Daring, Swan 42, John Hele, Newport, R.I., 3,1,1, 5pts
2. Apparition, Swan 42, Ken Colburn, Dover, Mass., 1,4,4, 9pts
3. Stark Raving Mad VI, Swan 42, James Madden, Newport Beach, Calif., 6, 3, 8, 17pts
4. Vitesse, Swan 42, Jon Halbert, Dallas, Texas, 2,7,9, 18pts
5. Arethusa, Swan 42, Philip Lotz, Newport, R.I., 5, 13/ZFP, 2, 20pts

J/109 (One Design - 17 Boats)
1. Gut Feeling, J 109, Ted Herlihy, South Dartmouth, Mass., 3, 4, 2, 9pts
2. Skoot, J 109, Jim Vos, New Canaan, Conn., 4,2,3, 9pts
3. Storm, J 109, Rick Lyall, Wilton, Conn., 1,8,1, 10pts
4. Rush, J 109, Bill Sweetser, Annapolis, Md., 5, 1, 4, 10pts
5. Caminos, J 109, Donald Filippelli, Amagansett, N.Y., 6, 3, 6, 15pts

IRC 1 (IRC - 2 Boats)
1. Rambler, RP 90, George David, Hartford, Conn., 1,1,1,2, 5pts
2. Blue Yankee, Reichel Pugh 66, Bob and Farley Towse, Stamford, Conn., 2, 3/TLE, 2,1, 8pts

IRC 2 (IRC - 5 Boats)
1. Vesper, IRC 52, Jim Swartz, Park City, Utah, 1,1,1,5, 2pts
2. Interlodge, IRC 52, Austin and Gwen Fragomen, Newport, R.I., 2,5,2,2, 11pts
3. Privateer, Cookson 50, Ron O'Hanley, Newport, R.I., 5,3,4,1, 13pts
4. Flying Jenny 7, IRC 52, David & Sandra Askew, Annapolis, Md., 4,2,5,3, 14pts
5. SLED, IRC 52, Takashi Okura, Tokyo, Japan, 3,4,3,4, 14pts

IRC 3 (IRC - 8 Boats)
1. Temptation-Oakcliff, Ker 50, Art Santry, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 3,1,1, 5pts
2. Decision, HPR Carkeek 40, Stephen Murray, New Orleans, La., 2,3,4, 9pts
3. White Gold, J 44, James D. Bishop, Jamestown, R.I., 5.5,2,2, 9.5pts
4. Cool Breeze, Mills 43 Custom 43, John Cooper, Cane Hill, Mo., 1,4,5, 10pts
5. High Noon, CTM 41, Steve and Heidi Benjamin, Norwalk, Conn., 5.5,6,3, 14.5pts

IRC 4 (IRC - 14 Boats)
1. Avalanche, Farr 395, Craig Albrecht, Sea Cliff, N.Y., 1,3,4, 8pts
2. Sarah, X-41, Greg Manning, Warwick, R.I., 7,1,2, 10pts
3. White Witch, King 40, Larry Landry, Newport, R.I., 3,10,1, 14pts
4. DownTime, Summit 40, Ed and Molly Freitag, Annapolis, Md, USA - 6,7, 3, 16pts
5. Settler, Peterson 42, Tom Rich, Middletown, R.I., 8, 2, 7, 17pts

For complete results and blog for the 2012 New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex, visit www.nyyc.org.

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