District 5  Regatta Report

Sat Oct 15th, 2005 through Sun Oct 16th, 2005

Photo by: Linda Tilton/SFYC photos

Photo by: Linda Tilton/SFYC photos

2005 Pacific Coast Championship

 

From The Log.com:
Star sailors from around the world - including 11 competitors from Southern California - converged on San Francisco Bay October 15 and 16 to compete in the Star Pacific Coast Championships (PCC), hosted by San Francisco Yacht Club.

Competition was fierce with a list of competitors that read like a who’s-who in racing: two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Reynolds; two-time world champion Xavier Rohart (France) and his crew of bronze medalist and current world champion Rambeau Pascal; George Szabo and crew Eric Monroe, two-time and present North American champion; Andy Horton and crew Brad Nichol, 2005 Olympic Class Regatta champ; and the up-and-coming Erik Lidecis of Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club and Mike Marzahl of Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club, who recently took fourth overall in the North Americans.

The PCCs are the first of three qualifying events needed to earn a slot on the Star US Sailing team for 2006.

The other two qualifying events are the Bob Levin Memorial and the Olympic Class Regattas (OCR), both to be held in Miami in January. These events will push the five best Star teams to the top to be selected for the 2006 US Star Sailing team. Only two of these teams will be invited to race in the first pre-Olympic test regatta in Qingdao, China in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.

On October 15, southwest winds held steady at 14- to 16-knots with the “normal” bay chop during the first race. But in the second race, things got very tricky.

“The fleet was heading to the windward mark and the wind dropped from 14 to 0 knots in a split second,” Nichol, of Lake Champlain Yacht Club, said. “We went through a 70-degree wind shift and Rohart caught it just right and moved up from 12th to fifth.”

According to the competitors, the racing was tight the entire weekend, with crowding at the marks and jostling at the starts, according to one.

Two races were held on Saturday and three on Sunday. They consisted of short windward/leeward courses with Xavier Rohart and Rambeau Pascal of France besting the fleet of 23 and taking first by only one point over Horton and Nichol, who earned second.

Nudged into third place were Mark Reynolds and Hal Haenel of San Diego Yacht Club. This team hadn’t sailed together since winning the gold in the 1988 Olympics.

Fourth position went to Peter Conde and Andrew Hunn of Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Australia and fifth was taken by Steven Kelly and Bill Holowesko of Nassau, Bahamas.

“All the good guys were there and the racing was tight all weekend,” Nichol said.


Star
Place Boat Skipper Crew Sail #: Fleet 1 2 3 4 5 Total
1 8107   Xavier Rohart   Rambeau Pascal   8107   NI   5.0 5.0 3.0 5.0 2.0 15
2 8156   Andy Horton   Brad Nichol   8156     1.0 6.0 8.0 1.0 8.0 16
3 8129   Mark Reynolds   Hal Haenel   8129   SDB   9.0 1.0 7.0 3.0 5.0 16.0001
4 8234   Peter Conde   Andrew Hunn   8234   LMac   2.0 9.0 5.0 2.0 9.0 18
5 8236   Steven Kelly   Bill Holowesko   8236   N   3.0 2.0 19.0 12.0 6.0 23
6 7995   George Szabo   Eric Monroe   7995   SDB   11.0 7.0 [RDG, 7.0] 9.0 6.0 3.0 25
7 8222   Rick Merriman   Rich Peters   8222   SDB   14.0 11.0 1.0 17.0 1.0 27
8 7836   Iain Murray   Andrew Palfrey   7836   LMac   10.0 7.0 4.0 11.0 7.0 28
9 8082   Jeff Madrigali   Anders Eckstrom   8082   WSFB   4.0 8.0 14.0 8.0 10.0 30
10 8162   Andy Macdonald   Brian Fatih   8162   NH   12.0 3.0 6.0 16.0 16.0 37
11 8176   Erik Lidecis   Mike Marzahl   8176   NH   16.0 24.0 [DNF] 11.0 7.0 4.0 38
12 8072   Doug Smith   Mike Moore   8072   SBC   8.0 4.0 16.0 14.0 13.0 39
13 7042   Steve Brown   Christian Eid   7042   NH   6.0 16.0 12.0 10.0 11.0 39.0001
14 8088   Stephen Gould   Greg Sieck   8088   WSFB   19.0 12.0 [RDG, 12.0] 2.0 9.0 18.0 41
15 8238   Philippe Kahn   Joe Londrigan   8238   Isol   7.0 15.0 10.0 20.0 17.0 49
16 8235   Larry Whipple   Deren Jensen   8235   PS   17.0 20.0 17.0 4.0 12.0 50
17 8006   Andy Estcourt     8006     18.0 13.0 13.0 15.0 15.0 56
18 8189   Bill Fields     8189   NH   20.0 17.0 15.0 13.0 14.0 59
19 7437   Nedko Vassilev   Paul Erickson   7437   LMac   13.0 12.0 18.0 18.0 19.0 61
20 8023   Lee Kellerhouse   Ralph Peck   8023   SDB   15.0 14.0 20.0 19.0 24.0 [RAF] 68
21 7631   Charles Heimler   Nabil Sheehan   7631   WSFB   22.0 10.0 21.0 24.0 [RAF] 24.0 [DNC] 77
22 4103   Scot Merrick     4103   WSFB   23.0 19.0 23.0 21.0 20.0 83
23 6968   Rob Gewecke   Martin Helliwell   6968     21.0 18.0 22.0 24.0 [RAF] 24.0 [DNC] 85

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