The Naval Academy Sailing Squadron Race Committee ran 3 races today in the 2008 Kennedy Cup Series.
The first race started following a brief postponement in a patchy southwesterly and sporadic light rain. URI recovered quickly from a poor start opting to tack and duck most of the fleet. The move paid big as they led at the first weather mark by a large margin. They maintained position downwind but on the 2nd beat, they let Coast Guard and Navy get to the right where stronger veering breeze filled dropping them to 3rd at weather mark 2. Coast Guard held on to win while URI got back by Navy downwind for second. Fortunately, the flood current was along the downwind axis nursing all but Maine Maritime across the finish before the time limit expired. Maine put their misfortune behind them and came out swinging in the second race of the day leading wire to wire by a good margin. Cal Maritime found their Mojo pulling off a second and Coast Guard stayed close with a 3rd. Meanwhile Friday leader St. Mary's struggled for the second race in a row and Navy carded a 6th. Conditions for the third race remained amazingly consistent albeit light with a course axis of 175 at 4-5 knots. URI had another outstanding race leading from start to finish for the bullet with Coast Guard second and Navy nipping Maine Maritime at the finish line for 3rd. So at the close of business today, URI is in first 3 points up on Navy with Maine a further 3 points back in 3rd. Racing wraps up tomorrow (Sunday). 1. URI 5,3,2,4,1 15 2. USNA 2,4,3,6,3 18 3. Maine Maritime 1,5,10,1,4 21 4. Coast Guard 6,11,1,3,2 23 5. NY Maritime 8,1,4,5,8 26 6. St. Mary's 3,2,7,9,7 28 7. Cal Maritime 7,6,9,2,5 29 8. Mass Maritime 4,7,8,8,10 37 9. Queens University 9,8,6,7,9 39 10. Kings Point 11,9,5,10,6 41 JT Jahn S. Tihansky Director, Varsity Offshore Sailing Team U.S. Naval Academy 410-293-5608 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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