Estuary’s Boss of the Beer Cans
The Encinal, Island and Oakland YCs came together to create a championship series encompassing their respective summer weeknight beer can series. This first year, 96 boats raced in the series.
Each of the YCs runs their own series: EYC’s Twilight Series, IYC’s Island Nights and OYC’s Sweet 16, each governed by their separate sailing instructions. The individual clubs manage the results and awards. With EYC and IYC alternating Friday evenings and OYC racing on Wednesdays, when combined the clubs offer an amazing opportunity for summer racing on the Estuary.
Estuary racing is unique. The physical layout provides aerobic racing given the distance side to side, buildings along the shore, and the placement of the course marks. Swirling winds, shifts and holes abound. By racing with all three clubs, you experience different courses, various race management methods, different competitors with varying fleet assignments, and loads of camaraderie after the races. Boats entering the Estuary series are automatically entered into the Boss of the Estuary Series for no additional fee.
Each boat’s average corrected speed is computed for each race by taking the nominal course distance and dividing by the boat’s corrected time. Boats in the Jibeset results for the race are ordered by average corrected speed, treating boats with a letter score (DNC, DNS, OCS, etc.) as if their average corrected speed were zero. Each boat beats all other boats in the race with a lower average corrected speed. The number of boats beaten is turned into a percentage, rounded to two decimal places. The percentage of boats beaten is summed across all races, where all classes were scored, to compute the standings for this series.
The individual YC race results are updated in the Google documents program after each race — two clicks and they’re updated! That way all the racers can see the results and perhaps make some decisions on entering another series, making sure to get on the water for as many races as possible. The more races sailed, the better the odds to move up on the list and perhaps be the Boss of the Beer Cans on the Estuary. The award was announced after the last EYC race on September 6.
The winner was Ken Bodiley, racing his Columbia 5.5 #14 Maverick. Running a close second were George Lythcott and Steve Bayles on the J/24 Dream Catcher. Third was Dawn Chesney, skippering the Merit 25 Bewitched.
Check the full list at https://tinyurl.com/3h9auzdw.
See more racing reports in October’s Racing Sheet.
