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Not a Complete Fiasco

The biggest one-design class, 31 Moore 24s started and 8 finished, led by Michael Quinn and Larry Nelson on Cal.

© Kara Hugglestone

Saturday’s Three Bridge was not a complete Fiasco after all. About a sixth — 57 according to the preliminary results — of 349 starters were able to round Treasure Island, Red Rock and Blackaller Buoy and finish where they began at Golden Gate Yacht Club before the 7:00 p.m. deadline.

Bill Erkelens and Chris Steinfeld on one of three D-Class cats in the race.

© Erik Simonson

First to finish the 21-mile pursuit race was Bill Erkelens’ D-Class cat Adrenaline at 2:46, a remarkable time considering the wind, or lack thereof. The first monohull to finish was Nick and Connor Gibbens’ Express 27 Shenanigans shortly after 3:00, and another Express 27, Will Paxton and Zach Anderson’s Motorcycle Irene, finished third. The first singlehander to finish, at 4:27, was Synthia Petroka on the Hawkfarm Eyrie. None of the three singlehanded multihulls was able to finish.

More cat action: Jerome Ternynck and Erwan Griziaux on the Extreme 40 SmartRecruiters and Philippe Kahn and Mark Christensen on the Nacra 20c Pegasus-MotionX tackle the ebb on their counterclockwise rounding of Treasure Island.

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If you sailed in the Three Bridge Fiasco, be sure to attend the awards meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 11, at Oakland YC in Alameda. The Singlehanded Sailing Society has shirts for everyone, and it’s a tradition for the winners of each division to tell how they did it.

Jim Hopp and Chris Cartwright on the J/88 White Shadow attempt to reach Red Rock, where the current was stronger than the wind.

© 2015 Bob Johnston

Preliminary results and some crew tracks are posted on Jibeset. We’ll have much more in the March issue of Latitude 38.

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