October 2009 eBook all pages (free PDF, 36.6 - Latitude 38
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LATITUDE/LADONNA<br />
LATITUDE/LADONNA<br />
ROLEX BIG BOAT SERIES<br />
'Chance's Barry Lewis couldn't be happier with the namesake of what turned out<br />
to be his good luck charm — a Mr. Magoo sticker on the bowsprit.<br />
— who you may remember won his division<br />
aboard his other boat, the turboed<br />
1D35 Relentless, in this year's TransPac<br />
— took third with his J/122 Resolute.<br />
IRC D<br />
Gerry Sheridan's San Franciscobased<br />
Elan 40 Tupelo Honey used the<br />
occasion of this year's RBBS to bookend<br />
its three-straight runner-up finishes<br />
since a division win in 2005.<br />
With straight bullets, Sheridan and<br />
his tactician — and fellow Irishman<br />
— James Mullarney scored an emphatic<br />
win, finishing six-points clear of Timothy<br />
B<strong>all</strong>ard's San Rafael-based Beneteau<br />
40.7 Inspired Environments to take the<br />
Keefe-Kilborn Perpetual. But Sheridan<br />
said that it looked easier on paper than<br />
it was on the water.<br />
"Inspired Environments sailed re<strong>all</strong>y<br />
well and pushed us the entire time,"<br />
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Sheridan said. "We re<strong>all</strong>y<br />
wanted it this year.<br />
We trained for it and<br />
the crew is outstanding.<br />
Every single one of them<br />
deserved to be on the<br />
crew."<br />
In addition to Sheridan<br />
and Mullarney, the<br />
Tupelo Honey crew included Fabrizio<br />
Natale, Bill Nielsen, Jamie Platto, Mike<br />
Reed, Adam Simmonds, Arne Vandenbroucke,<br />
Bart von Zastrow and Kevin<br />
Wilkinson.<br />
Third in the six-boat division went<br />
Frank Morrow's IMX <strong>38</strong> Hawkeye.<br />
The 'Good Timin' gang racked up yet another title at the RBBS in the J/105 division.<br />
J/120<br />
The J/120s can always be counted on<br />
to provide one of the closest contests at<br />
RBBS, and this year was no exception for<br />
the eight-boat fleet. Defending champion<br />
Barry Lewis and his gang on Chance got<br />
John Wimer's team on 'Desdemona' turned it up<br />
this year, finishing second to 'Chance.'<br />
pushed hard around the course by John<br />
Wimer's Desdemona. In what's become<br />
standard operating procedure for the<br />
class at the Big Boat Series, the regatta<br />
wasn't decided until the final run of the<br />
final race of the series.<br />
"Going into the sixth race on Saturday<br />
we were one point behind Desdemona,"<br />
Lewis said. "We led the entire race with<br />
Desdemona in second. Our tactician,<br />
Doug Nugent, said, 'We need to put a<br />
boat between us,' so we held back and<br />
sat on Desdemona which <strong>all</strong>owed Steve<br />
Madeira's Mr. Magoo to pass them. It blew<br />
up in our face because Magoo passed us<br />
too! Around the final weather mark we<br />
had Desdemona on our tail with Magoo<br />
five or six boatlengths in front of us. But<br />
Magoo twisted their kite, and we ended<br />
up bow to bow for the last 100 yards<br />
before we nosed them out by no more<br />
than 10 feet."<br />
When Sunday's final race was cancelled,<br />
Nugent's c<strong>all</strong> looked pretty good<br />
as the Chance crew — which also included<br />
Scott Kozinchik, Blaine Pedlow,<br />
Matt Gingo, Michael Redmond, Amy<br />
Guarneri, Aaron Elder, Mark Ruppert,<br />
Bryan Murdock and David Krausz<br />
— won on a countback.<br />
"Of course we didn't know that Sunday's<br />
race would be cancelled," Lewis
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