South Shore Marine Bluenose Championships

Tradewinds Realty Maritime Bluenose Championships - Final Results.... 6 August 2017

Chester, N.S. Aug 2017: The Tradewinds Bluenose Maritime Championships were a great success. Twenty boats competed in seven races under mostly blue skies with strong breeze. First, the thanks - without the support of these people there would be no regatta and no winners to announce.

To Tradewinds Realty for their continued support, to Tim and Barbie for hosting a truly lovely Saturday post-race party, to Chris Tully who as Race Officer set good courses and organized a fleet of mark and pin boats with skill and efficiency. I add my own congratulations to those of others who have applauded his efforts, and those of his team. And to those who generously lent support boats, John Miller, Casey LeBlanc and Ray Cambria. Thank you.

The fleet enjoyed seven races, each from 45-60 minutes in length, with strong winds and, at times, significant chop. The unofficial seamanship award goes to Henry Demone- his main halyard parted as he went out to the racecourse for the first race. Not one to be deterred by such a trivial mishap he went back to the dock, pulled the mast, ran a new main halyard, re-stepped the mast and made it back in time for the start of the second race, where he was 5th (his worst score, the missed race being his "drop"), and finished in second place overall. The antitheses of this expertise was demonstrated by Barbarian, which managed to partially hoist its jib without first attaching the halyard, requiring the assistance of Nicholas Lewin (check out his well-defined calf muscles, very manly indeed) to do a ballerina hop onto the gooseneck and snag the offending line.

We were privileged to have some young skippers too. Logan Mraz (age 10) and Jeb Bechtel (14) were lacking only in weight, not skill, and will be forces to be reckoned with in the future as they are getting heavier and wiser with time while the rest of the fleet is, regrettably, mostly just getting heavier.

OK, the results:
• 1st Wooden Boat: Denis Dyer was the first "unmodified" wooden boat,
• Novice: Carlisle Norwood was the first "Novice" skipper, beating out Georgia LaFrance who is world class but, having never skippered in the Championships before, still qualifies as a "Novice". Unfortunately for Georgia she had a handicap. Her dad.
• 3rd overall: In third place was Bucket Fraser in Shaken Knot Stirred, a perfect birthday present for his father (Happy Birthday Malcolm).
• 2nd overall: In second place was the aforementioned Henry Demone in Wahoo (next year we will partially sever his forestay and see how he handles that!), and
• 1st overall: bringing up the front was Erik Koppernaes in Rebel who, literally, showed us the way. Congratulations Erik!

To the 17 of us that did not make the top three, NEXT YEAR.

Which reminds me, someone needs to be regatta "Chair" next year.

Cheers, Keith Fox, President, Nova Scotia Bluenose Association.

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Geat New web site for the Chester Bluenose Fleet by Lisa LaFrance.
http://www.chesterbluenosefleet.com/

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Needless to say Henry Demone took the silver... Denis Dyer as most improved and Best Wooden Boat!!!!

Last day.

Saturdays Racing results
Sailed: 4, Discards: 0, To count: 4, Entries: 18, Scoring system: Appendix A
Rank Boat SailNo HelmName R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Nett
1st Wahoo 257 H. Demone 2.0 1.0 3.0 3.0 9.0 9.0
2nd Barbarian 227 K. Fox 6.0 2.0 1.0 4.0 13.0 13.0
3rd Island Girl 47 T. Blain 4.0 10.0 2.0 9.0 25.0 25.0
4th Privateer 347 C. Mraz 5.0 5.0 8.0 7.0 25.0 25.0
5th Rebel 85 T. Murphy 1.0 11.0 17.0 1.0 30.0 30.0
6th Shaken Knot Stirred 266 J. Fraser 3.0 14.0 4.0 10.0 31.0 31.0
7th Dart 279 J. Grantmyer 12.0 8.0 7.0 6.0 33.0 33.0
8th Wanderer 69 D. Dyer 7.0 7.0 5.0 16.0 35.0 35.0
9th Casino Royale 284 D. Bechel 14.0 3.0 14.0 5.0 36.0 36.0
10th Scout 247 M. Bowen 13.0 9.0 15.0 2.0 39.0 39.0
11th Mahaska 116 R. Romney 10.0 17.0 6.0 8.0 41.0 41.0
12th Yemanja 331 S. Crocker 9.0 6.0 12.0 14.0 41.0 41.0
13th Stinger 382 D. McAlpine 8.0 12.0 9.0 12.0 41.0 41.0
14th 182 S. MacLean 18.0 4.0 16.0 13.0 51.0 51.0
15th The Rest 138 M. Hill 15.0 13.0 13.0 11.0 52.0 52.0
16th All That Jas 154 S. Stairs 11.0 16.0 11.0 15.0 53.0 53.0
17th Hackmatack 162 N. Lewin 16.0 15.0 10.0 17.0 58.0 58.0
18th Zepher 235 H. Roberson 17.0 18.0 18.0 19.0 DNC 72.0 72.0

Saturday: Last minute changes to Tradewinds banner, AGM meeting and on the water photos of Day 1.