Coyote Point Yacht Club Wraps Up Winter Series
The final race of the Winter Sail Series arrived quietly. Just three boats (Svea, Sweet Grapes, and Sirius) slipped out for the last chapter. The rest had their reasons. The Bay did not ask for them.
The course was long on paper (C, Z, 6, A, C, Z, and home), but the day edited it early, trimming mark 8 and asking for patience instead. Svea took up rabbit duties and led the fleet into a soft beginning, the wind light enough to make every decision feel personal.
At C, Svea rounded first. Sirius and Sweet Grapes approached from opposite directions, converging in that slow, careful way that only two knots of breeze can produce. Nothing hurried. Nothing given.
Then the race began to breathe.
Sweet Grapes found a lane to Z and took the lead, but Svea slipped south, anticipating the ebb, and turned that quiet choice into position, rounding first. Out in the deeper water toward 6, the fleet found more wind. The numbers climbed — four knots, then seven — and the boats began to move with intent.
Sweet Grapes came through again, overtaking Svea and settling into a lead she would not surrender on the water. The fleet tightened, stretched, and tightened again as the wind filled just enough to carry all three boats home.
Across the line, Sweet Grapes finished first, followed by Sirius. Svea came in soon after, steady as she had been all day.
On corrected time, the story shifted one last time. Svea took the win, Sweet Grapes second, Sirius third.
For the series overall, including one throwout race, the standings are:
- Surprise! & Svea
- Paradigm
- Sweet Grapes
- Sirius
- Chablis IV
- Ventus
- Will O’ The Wind
- Bucephalus
- Pelican