These are the results for: Ferrarone Team Race @ Yale April 4-5
It was an epic day of sailing at the first day of the Ferrarone Team Race
Intersectional hosted by Yale at the McNay Family Sailing center. The breeze
started out strong, but continued to build as the day went on. The wind came
from the West, coming down from the hill sext to the sailing center. The first
beats were in the most steady wind, but also the biggest breeze while final leg
was close to shore and characterized by both strong velocity and wind shifts.
The teams had a tough time keeping stable combinations because of the multiple
puffs and shifts at the same time on the same leg. As the day went on, large,
rolling waves swept in from Long Island Sound, complicating matters because
they were not lined up with the wind. In the morning, the sailors had their
lightest conditions of the day, with the normal breeze not exceeding 15 knots
with puffs to 20. That was just the start of the carnage, though, with
numerous boats flipping before the
sequence, during the sequence, at the start, on the legs, at the mark roundings
and even right at and after the finish line. Soon, though, the spectators
began to have even a better viewing time, with the wind continuing to build,
with the highest recorded puff clocking at 35 knots. It was not uncommon for
boats to be flogging both the main and jib and fully hiked while still in
danger of flipping before the puffs gave way to light conditions with the
sailors heeled to windward and occasionally capsizing to windward. It was
particularly gruesome to watch the sailors flip near the start line, where they
were swept downwind just feet from the edges of the rocks. By the end of the
day, there more than 30 capsizes had occurred, with few boats not having mud on
their masts from the shallow bottom of Granite Cove. In all, 45 races were
sailed in Yale's 420s with new mains and old jibs, with three protests filed.
Two protests were disallowed while while resulted in a disqualif!
ication for Boston College against Bowdoin. Coaches were on the water in the
coach boat along with a judge boat.
Tomorrow, there will be a Gold round robin with the top six teams and a
Silver round robin for the bottom four teams. The forecast calls for breezy
conditions from the Northwest tomorrow, so expect more carnage in the puffy,
shifty, windy conditions.
Thanks to Yale alumni for judging and hearing the protests and to the Yale
undergraduates for running races. RP information will be included with the
final results—there were many substitutions.
TOTAL
BU 9-0
BC 5-4
RW 6-3
URI 6-3
USF 6-3
Bowdoin 4-5
Dart 3-6
Wisc 3-6
Yale 2-7
Upenn 1-8
BC Bowdoin BU Dart RW UPenn URI USF Wisc.
Yale TOTAL Place
BC x L L W L W L W W
W 5-4 5
Bowdoin W x L W L W L L L
W 4-5 6
BU W W x W W W W W W
W 9-0 1
Dart L L L x L W W L L
W 3-6 7
RW W W L W x W W L L
W 6-3 2
Upenn L L L L L x L L W
L 1-8 10
URI W W L L L W x W W
W 6-3 2
USF L W L W W W L x W
W 6-3 2
Wisc. L W L W W L L L x
L 3-6 8
Yale L L L L L W L L W
x 2-7 9
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