Fleet Champs Results

sarah deeds sarah.deeds at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 19:26:38 EDT 2014

nice write up

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Steve Kleha <skleha at gmail.com> wrote:

> My fellow v15 brethren, behold!  A new fleet champion has been crowned!
> Sally Madsen and Adam Rothschild were our victors over the weekend (with
> pit support by Tom).  Separated by 1 point, Sessions, Sessions Jr. and Jack
> took second.  Avery and Maddy took a well earned third.  See the full
> results here <http://vanguard15.org/schedule/817#Result>.
>
> Saturday was a real honker of a day.  Breeze built to around 20.  (Lyzz
> shared data that recorded puffs of just below 30, but I'm skeptical.)  We
> had cranked off 11 races when a few competitors told me their legs were
> about to fall off, and it looked like Pete Trachy was suffering from
> hypothermia.  I took pity and called it a day.
>
> Dinner on Saturday night was pleasant and civilized.  Dinner topics ranged
> from the heyday of the Bradford Island Classic to a lengthy discussion of
> Michelob Ultra.  The after party at the campsite got a little crazy.  (e.g.
> I decided to put all the wood that Sessions brought on the fire, creating a
> flaming inferno of death.)**  A true highlight was Drew, Sam's crew, which
> freestyled to guitars played by Adam, Kevin and some random dude from
> another campsite.  (Was he French?)  Drew, new to the world of sailing,
> took a single word, e.g. "downwind", and created an ad-lib song around it.
> He had the campsite in stitches.
>
> Sunday presented the usual Inverness mystery breeze that challenges and
> indeed conquers race committees of smaller stature.  There were significant
> oscillations that confounded some.  There was an extraordinarily long
> anchor line off the race committee boat that snagged others.  The Purdy's
> kicked a$$ for the day (how do they do that each year?), but the day
> belonged to Sally/Adam and Matt/Jack who competed until the very last race.
>
> Boat loading was made easier by pitchers of margarita supplied by none
> other than the a$$ kickers themselves (Melissa/Tom Purdy).  Real awards,
> kinda like the ones you used to get as a kid, were given to the victors.
>
> Special thanks to Inverness Yacht Club and Shawn Kelly who endured my
> numerous emails.  Sarah Deeds who towed the three boat trailer to
> Inverness.  Sessions who brought the firewood which was, as you would
> expect, some of the highest quality firewood I have ever burned.  Musical
> stylings were provided by Kevin Richards and Adam Rothschild.  Drew, who,
> while not a sailor, should still be a part of the V15 family anyway.
> Nicholas Sessions who yelled to competitors "Free Beer!" at regular
> intervals and participated in the Race Committee's mandatory "share and
> bond" conversations.  Kevin and Ben for conducting the three minute justice
> for the regatta's one and only protest.  Kevin and Ben for throwing both
> parties out.  And last but not least, my illustrious wife, the Lieutenant
> Principal Race Officer, Amanda Kleha for working diligently alongside me
> during this whole program and being eye candy for the weekend.
>
> Until next year,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> **No one died.
>
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