By Christine Weaver | June 12, 2017 | Stockton, CA | 0
This year’s Delta Ditch Run from Richmond to Stockton was a fast flurry of fun sailing punctuated with pitfalls. Capturing overall monohull honors was Tom Kassberg’s Melges 20 Flygfisk.
Another 20-footer but with a more venerable pedigree, the Cal 20 Slainté carried Paul Sutchek and Greg Huffman to Stockton at an average 7 knots to correct out in first place in the Doublehanded Division.
This was one of those crazy Ditch Run years when carnage littered the race course. Among the incidents were uncountable round-ups, round-downs, groundings, a dismasting, a lost rudder, and, on view for all passersby to see, the Bilafer family’s Henderson 30 high and dry in the tules in the homestretch of the San Joaquin River.
Results are posted at www.stocktonsc.org. We’ll have much more in Racing Sheet in the July issue of Latitude 38.
After a slow morning of racing in Bermuda, several hundred clicks to refresh our browsers, and more than a little disgruntlement at the coverage of this year’s America’s Cup, it’s official: Team New Zealand just beat Artemis Racing 5 races to 2, and has realized a long awaited rematch with Oracle Team USA.
Some four dozen Alamedans took to their bikes on Sunday for a tour of separate proposed developments along the island’s North Waterfront designed to add housing, commercial space and public waterways access.
What a difference a few degrees of latitude can make. About a thousand miles to the north of Bermuda competitors in the OSTAR single- and doublehanded transatlantic race from Plymouth, UK, to Newport, RI, were clocked by heavy 60-knot winds and 45-foot seas 900 miles miles east of Newfoundland.