2006 District 6 Championship : Races by Class

Weather mark rounding: Photo courtesy of KYC

Weather mark rounding: Photo courtesy of KYC

2006 District 6 Championship

The District 6 Championship was held at Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, the venue for the 2007 North American Championship. The Blue Star was won by Carl Buchan, the Green Star by Alex Fox, the Masters by Bob Britten and the Grand & Exalted Grand Masters by Bill Buchan. The following is a report from a Victoria competitor: Saturday was cloudy, with no wind when we got down to the club at around 9am - conditions did not look promising! Thankfully, the wind did fill in from the west at about 10:30am in time for the 11am start. Three races were sailed on Saturday, all in a very nice 8-12 knot westerly. Generally, the left (south) side of the beats were favored, but there were some shifts from the right, especially on the runs. The tide was ebbing for most of the racing. That evening there was a great banquet at Kits. Sunday was sunny, with a very nice 10-15 knot westerly. Again, an ebb tide with the left side of the beat being quite favored. An interesting (@#*) tactical consideration was a large freighter that was about 2/3rds up the beat. In some races it had little impact but in others, particularly the two on Sunday, it was a very significant factor. Carl Buchan won the regatta quite easily sailing with his son Jaimie. Carl really is a superb sailor. He is consistently fast, rarely makes mistakes and when he does, he is quick to cut his losses and dig back into the fleet. A real highlight of the regatta was seeing 3 generations of the Buchan family all out on the same race course and, as usual, at the front of the fleet! Overall a great regatta with excellent conditions for Star racing!

Star

Place	Boat	Skipper	Crew	Sail #:	Fleet	1	2	3	4	5	Total
1	Frolic 7405	Carl Buchan	Buchan	7405	PS	2	2	1	1	OCS	6
2	Piranha	Bob Britten	Chant	7612	VI	6	4	3	2	2	11
3	Frolic 8203	William Buchan	Bentzen	7260	PS	4	1	12	3	4	12
4	Potempkin	Alex Fox	Best	7899	VI	3	7	5	4	6	18
5	Barky Dog	Jed Miller	Wielbicki	7469	PS	1	11	4	11	3	19
6	Miller Time	Foss Miller	Newhall	7844	PS	13	6	2	12	1	21
7	White Rabbit	Fred Dill	Wurm	7738	EB	5	10	9	14	5	29
8	Hondo	Brian Huse	Killam	6890	VI	8	3	13	6	DNF	30
9	Fishy Digits	Hunter Lowden	Wilson	6385	EB	10	14	6	7	7	30
10	CAN 7305	Tim Stamper	Troop	7305	VI	7	5	7	15	OCS	34
11	Still Life	Malcolm Smith	Smith	7737	VI	11	9	8	9	8	34
12	Klee Wyck	Craig Wilshire	Comtois	7014	EB	9	12	17	5	14	40
13	7256	Kelly Hand	Naumann	7256	EB	17	15	14	8	9	46
14	7264	Henry Larkin	Hansen	7264	EB	12	17	10	16	10	48
15	Anxiety Closet	Stephen Pellerin	Conway	7215	EB	16	13	11	13	12	49
16	6824	Scott Lindberg	Martin	6824	PS	14	16	15	10	11	50
17	Shorebreak	Dennis Burgess	Kershaw	7451	EB	15	8	16	17	13	52
18	Urgensea	Gordon Clay	Storey	6420	EB	18	18	18	18	15	69