Not a Complete Fiasco
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.
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.
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.
Preliminary results and some crew tracks are posted on Jibeset. We’ll have much more in the March issue of Latitude 38.