Sunday, October 23, 2005
BWYC Wins Schreck!
The team of Gilly Chamberlain, John Santa Cruz and Randy Santa Cruz won the Schreck Regatta in Pensacola on Saturday Oct. 22. The BWYC team edged a high-powered Southern Yacht Club team to take the three race Capdeveille event. Nine GYA clubs sent teams to compete.
Gilly skippered the first race with Randy and Reid Santa Cruz crewing. The team got off to a rough start and had to tack behind most of the fleet. Gilly managed to pull up to second by the end of the first beat behind SYC's Christian Gambel, with Ponchartrain Yacht Club close behind. Things stayed pretty static through the downwind leg and we stayed in second at the bottom mark. Less than perfect crew work by the senior member of the team at the bottom mark rounding and a missed shift on the second beat put us back to third where we finished. SYC won the race and PYC was second.
Eleven year old John Santa Cruz, sailing in his first race outside of BWYC Sailing Camp, put the team back into the regatta by handily winning the second race wire to wire. John, with Gilly and Randy crewing, took the heavily favored pin end start and immediately forced SYC's Scotty Sonnier over to the right and into a hole, from which he never recovered. He then fought off several challenges from PYC during the first beat to round the weather mark first by four or five boat lengths. He opened his lead by a couple of lengths on the downwind leg and broke the race wide open by catching a couple of shifts on the second beat, while PYC faded. The BWYC team sailed comfortably down the last leg and won the race by several minutes while Navy finished second and SYC climbed back into third with PYC finishing fourth.
BWYC and SYC were tied with four points each going into the last race. Randy, with Gilly and Sahra El-Hamaki crewing, skippered for BWYC while Daniel Meade steered for SYC. Randy had a middle of the line start and quickly took the lead in the race. SYC had a good start at the pin and was a couple boat lengths behind us at the first crossing a minute or two after the start. SYC challenged several time during the first leg but could not take a lead. The BWYC and SYC boats quickly pulled well ahead of the rest of the fleet, making it a match race between the two boats. Randy rounded the weather mark about five lengths ahead and held that during the downwind leg and through the second beat. About midway through the second downwind leg SYC closed to about two lengths but we caught a good shift and puff near the end of the leg and opened back to seven lengths at the bottom mark. Randy sailed a loose cover on the third beat, caught a couple of shifts and comfortably won the race by about twelve boat lengths over SYC.
Final results (unofficial) were:
1st BWYC 3-1-1 5Pts
2nd SYC 1-3-2 6Pts
3rd PYC 2-4-3 9Pts
Gilly skippered the first race with Randy and Reid Santa Cruz crewing. The team got off to a rough start and had to tack behind most of the fleet. Gilly managed to pull up to second by the end of the first beat behind SYC's Christian Gambel, with Ponchartrain Yacht Club close behind. Things stayed pretty static through the downwind leg and we stayed in second at the bottom mark. Less than perfect crew work by the senior member of the team at the bottom mark rounding and a missed shift on the second beat put us back to third where we finished. SYC won the race and PYC was second.
Eleven year old John Santa Cruz, sailing in his first race outside of BWYC Sailing Camp, put the team back into the regatta by handily winning the second race wire to wire. John, with Gilly and Randy crewing, took the heavily favored pin end start and immediately forced SYC's Scotty Sonnier over to the right and into a hole, from which he never recovered. He then fought off several challenges from PYC during the first beat to round the weather mark first by four or five boat lengths. He opened his lead by a couple of lengths on the downwind leg and broke the race wide open by catching a couple of shifts on the second beat, while PYC faded. The BWYC team sailed comfortably down the last leg and won the race by several minutes while Navy finished second and SYC climbed back into third with PYC finishing fourth.
BWYC and SYC were tied with four points each going into the last race. Randy, with Gilly and Sahra El-Hamaki crewing, skippered for BWYC while Daniel Meade steered for SYC. Randy had a middle of the line start and quickly took the lead in the race. SYC had a good start at the pin and was a couple boat lengths behind us at the first crossing a minute or two after the start. SYC challenged several time during the first leg but could not take a lead. The BWYC and SYC boats quickly pulled well ahead of the rest of the fleet, making it a match race between the two boats. Randy rounded the weather mark about five lengths ahead and held that during the downwind leg and through the second beat. About midway through the second downwind leg SYC closed to about two lengths but we caught a good shift and puff near the end of the leg and opened back to seven lengths at the bottom mark. Randy sailed a loose cover on the third beat, caught a couple of shifts and comfortably won the race by about twelve boat lengths over SYC.
Final results (unofficial) were:
1st BWYC 3-1-1 5Pts
2nd SYC 1-3-2 6Pts
3rd PYC 2-4-3 9Pts
// posted by BWYC member @ 7:25 PM 
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I was commenting to Randy about how powerful a team Southern sent, but, hey, we sent half of our Lipton team too. I guess, if we look at it that way, we're winning the Lipton's so far.
You have no idea how much I wish that I could have been there. Way to go guys, next time I talk to scotty he will be getting an earfull.....hahaha!
Jackson
Jackson
I think John Santa Cruz needs to retire and make Randy wear the "lucky" orange lifejacket from now on. Randy reverted back to his sailing instructor days: "up, up, no the other up...whoa, whoa, come down.. ok lets tack... the other way john...keep going keep going...down,...down..good don't move...."
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