NYYC Annual Regatta / Onion Patch Series

Gold Digger sailed in the NYYC Annual Regatta on Saturday and Sunday (6/10 & 6/11). The races are part of a series that also includes the Newport-Bermuda race and a race in Great Sound down in Bermuda. Conditions were wild on Saturday as the picture on the left sort of shows. There was a dismasting on board Harrier (a 78 footer) even before the race started. I'm not sure what caused it. In any event, they cut the mast away from the boat with a brand new main (probably worth $25,000) still attached and let the whole mess sink to the bottom. They'll probably try to recover it with a diver later on. The rest of the day saw the winds build to 20-25 knots and a lot of shredded gear, especially spinnakers. Gold Digger got a 2nd.


Here is a picture of Dan and Drew, happy to be off the water on Saturday afternoon. They might also have been smiling because the sun finally came out for the first time in about a month.

Sunday, the winds started out at WNW 18-20 knots and diminished throughtout the day. Digger got another 2nd in the first race which left us 1st in class after two races. In the middle of starting the multiple classes in the second race the winds shifted to the North. The boat end of the line became ridiculously favored and Gold Digger wound up in the barge zone trying to gain an advantage. We wound up fouling Brown-Eyed Girl and doing penalty turns on the first beat. The end result was a 7th for the race, dropping us to 4th in class overall for the weekend. We'll have a chance to make that up in the distance race and down in Bermuda. The results are published on the NYYC website.