Las Vegas Regatta – Final

Mission Bay, January 25-26, 2014. Randy Lake and Kate Sheahan win in California. Results and report by Eric Heim (photo courtesy SCIRA US) 21 Teams braved 70 degree temperatures in January to contest the annual Las Vegas Regatta hosted by Mission Bay Yacht Club. Many viewed this event as a great tune up for the Western Hemispheres Qualifier to be held in 2 weeks out of San Diego Yacht Club, but Mother Nature did not cooperate in the wind department. ...

by Eric Heim 01/27/2014

Mission Bay, January 25-26, 2014. Randy Lake and Kate Sheahan win in California.

Results and report by Eric Heim

(photo courtesy SCIRA US)

21 Teams braved 70 degree temperatures in January to contest the annual Las Vegas Regatta hosted by Mission Bay Yacht Club. Many viewed this event as a great tune up for the Western Hemispheres Qualifier to be held in 2 weeks out of San Diego Yacht Club, but Mother Nature did not cooperate in the wind department.

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Saturday was a light air affair with crews in the boat all day. At only one point did I ask my crew Jerelyn to move to weather and sit on top of the daggerboard… The RC managed to get off 3 races though and the usual suspects picked their way through the shifts and holes to emerge at the pointy end.

On Sunday, it was a bit more solid pressure wise across the course, but big shifts and lots of velocity changes meant another day of tough going if you found yourself in bad air and out of phase. By the middle of day 2, it was apparent that the team of Randy Lake and Kate Sheahan were the only ones that could stay in the top 5 with any consistency.

While the Vegas Regatta is a great way for Fleet 495 to dust off the cobwebs each year, it has also served as a way to give back to the Mission Bay Yacht Club in the form of a Junior Fundraiser Casino Night. This year, we managed to raise $5000 to go toward new equipment for the Juniors! Since our fleet tends to cull the Junior Ranks for quality crew and to train the next generation of Snipe Sailors, we view this fundraising as a bit self serving, but it keeps us in good graces with other members and hopefully we have some good will capitol to burn when we host the GFU on Aug 8-9…

Place	#	Skipper	Crew	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Total
1	28854	Randy Lake	Kate Sheahan	1	2	2	1	– 4	3	9
2	28687	Scott Sinks	Johannes McElvain	7	3	1	2	2	– 10	15
3	30109	David Tillson	Ian Brill	2	4	– 6	6	3	2	17
4	29941	Doug Hart	Ryan Hopps	– 9	1	8	4	1	4	18
5	28857	John Fretwell	Taisei Hatter	3	5	9	– 14	5	1	23
6	30800	Rick Arneson	Diana Waterbury	4	8	4	– 12	7	8	31
7	29439	Gene Ratliffe	Ryan Ratliffe	8	10	3	8	– 12	6	35
8	29248	Aine Fretwell	Austin	– 23 dnc	6	5	9	9	7	36
9	29013	Chris Wright	Lauren Wright	13	9	7	3	– 15	5	37
10	30618	Don Bedford	Ava Dorvillier	12	– 13	13	7	10	9	51
11	30337	Eric & Aimee Heim	Jerelyn Biehl	6	– 17	12	11	13	13	55
12	29166	Sonya Smith	Kelly Loomis	11	12	16	5	– 17	17	61
13	2885	Ty Reed	Mandy Sackett	16	11	11	15	8	– 19	61
14	28464	Akane Nakagaki	Nobu Nakagaki	– 18	15	10	18	14	12	69
15	30550	Matt “Boss” Capetta	Meri Harrington	14	– 18	15	16	11	14	70
16	9013	Alli Blecher		– 23 dnc	23 dnc	23 dnc	10	6	11	73
17	28858	Nick Kashack	Krystal Treiberg	10	7	14	– 23 dnc	23 dnc	23 dnc	77
18	26114	Seth Siegler	Maggie Siegler	15	16	– 20	13	18	15	77
19	30113	Bob Bowden	Gus Wirth	– 19	14	19	17	16	16	82
20	30569	Vince Casalaina	Sherry Eldridge	17	19	17	– 20	19	18	90
21	28225	Eric Krebs	Colin Krebs	5	– 23 dnc	23 dnc	23 dnc	23 dnc	23 dnc	97
22	30611	Ray Treppa	Marlene Ross	20	– 23 dnc	18	19	20	20	97