Many Moods Across the Three Bridge Fiasco Course
The Three Bridge Fiasco threw its usual complicated mix of conditions, providing moments of glory and moments of dismay and frustration. The preliminary results show an eclectic mix of results, with some classes showing just a few finishers while other classes, such as the Doublehanded Spinnaker PHRF 108 and under, showing 100% of boats finishing, and Ethan Doyle and Ryan Treaison aboard the Aerodyne 38 Syzygy taking the day! Other classes, such as Singlehanded Non-Spinnaker PHRF, show just one finisher, with Byron Reeves on his Sabre 36 Spirit Katester coming out on top.
While we’re busy collecting stories from the day for our March issue, we’re sharing some photos from across the Bay.
We had a glorious day aboard our Sabre 38 Finistere, only to end in dismay with our knotmeter reading zero at 6:20 p.m. and 2.3 miles from the finish. While we were praying for wind near Raccoon Strait, others had too much, beating up the Cityfront to the finish. We’d do some things differently next time, but we wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity even to have the same day repeated. It was fun out there.
We’ll share some more photos soon and get the full story in our March issue. If you’ve got some of your own photos, send them here.
See the full Three Bridge Fiasco results here.
Take 5 More, We wanted to start the race going east and found it hard to get on the west side of the starting line in the midst of all the boats going west with the ebb. We were carried west tacking cross the on coming boats and finally crossed the start line 25 minutes past our start time. At least we were not over early! We went to Red Rock first skirting the south side of Alcatraz and headed to the shallows of the east bay. We put up the kite and got there in the fog, We rounded and got a great lift from the south to get back to TI , where the wind died and left us short of rounding YB. 30 minutes later it filled in from the SW and we got out of the way of two outbound container ships, past the city front, around Blackaller to finish. It was a huge mix of conditions and a lot of fun! We are first time finishers!
Nice work! How many went to Red Rock first?
John Arndt,
We got there around 1:00-1:30. On the way, we hung with Hang 20 (Express 27) for awhile and could see several more boats approaching in the fog rounding Point Blunt. Approaching Red Rock, we were squeezed between Renaissance (Islander 36) and Maybe Baby (with 4-5 crew members? – I think they DNCd and just went out for a good time?). At one point we were maybe 7 abreast on the approach rounding CCW. It wasn’t a big crowd there. Maybe I saw 15-20 boats? The wind filled in about 12-15 knots and our douse went better than expected.
DH 108 and under did not have “100% finishers,” rather 33 out of 45.
The way Jibeset displays the fleet results, I can see why John thought 100% of DH 108 and under finished. There’s another section in that division if you scroll down. See results at https://www.jibeset.net/show.php?RR=JACKY_T002368094&DOC=r1&TYP=html but be advised that they are still preliminary as of Jan. 31.