Port of LA Harbor Cup
California Maritime Academy March 14-15,2009 SAN PEDRO, Calif. Saturday. Sailing was delayed for 2 1/2 hours waiting for wind---any wind---to fill in. Under a light overcast, the course was tentatively set for southwest, anticipating a sea breeze, but shortly before 2 o'clock it arrived from southeast. The fleet of eight Catalina 37s got underway with a 3 foot ocean swell. Defending champion Maine Maritime Academy duked it out with 2008 runner-up USC and a solid California Maritime Academy team, while Chapman University logged a steady string of 3-1-2-4 finishes that separated it by three points from defending champion Maine and 2008 and USC in the eight-boat fleet. Cal State University, Channel Islands, is in fourth place overall, after Cal Maritime lost a protest to Maine over a spinnaker-touching incident at their tight 1-2 finish of the last race. Sunday: The breeze filled in early and the first of four races got off on time. Maine came out strong winning the first race, USC came back from a fifth to take the bullet in the second race with Maine taking a fifth after being pushed over the line by USC. Cal Maritime posted two 2nds and Chapman struggled with an 8, 7. Although Maine looked solid, it was still anyone's game. Chapman came back to win the third race and the newcomer's CSU Channel Islands won the last race to tie USC for second, Chapman held on for 4th and Cal Maritime with two deep finishes finished fifth. Thanks to Al Garnier and the LAYC race committee and volunteers and the Port of LA for their sponsorship. Standings (8 races; skippers noted) 1. Maine Maritime Academy, Matthew Bourque, 1-6-4-1-1-5-3-2, 23 points. 2. USC, Chris Vetter, 4-5-1-2-7-1-6-3, 29. 3. Cal State U. Channel Islands, Austin Dias, 6-4-3-4-5-4-2-1, 29. 4. Chapman University, Max Moosman, 3-1-2-3-8-7-1-5, 30. 5. California Maritime Academy, Paige Johnston, 2-2-6-9/DSQ-2-2-5-7, 35. 6. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Eric Johnson, 7-3-7-5-3-3-4-4, 36. 7. U.S. Naval Academy, Andrew Poulin, 5-7-5-6-4-8-8-8, 51. 8. Northwestern Univ., Tod Reynolds, 8-8-8-7-6-6-7-6, 56. Charlie Arms-Cartee Director of Sailing Varsity Offshore Sailing Coach California Maritime Academy 200 Maritime Academy Dr. Vallejo, CA 94590 Office 707 654 1257 Fax 707 654 1056 Cell 707 246 0434 ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa
