Day- 2 Blue Chip Regatta
Last night a front moved through the area and the rain was heavy at times. The winds were lighter today in the 5-10mph range starting out the day from the WNW and backing to the WSW. Sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-seventies - a beautiful day in Pewaukee.
The first race had winds from the WNW at 5-8mph and the course was a 3 1/2. It was Peter Friend that got off hot and led around the first three marks before fading to a sixth at second downwind in winds that were again pretty shifty. It must have got him a little mad because he came back strong and steadly moved up to finish in first place. After 10th at the first mark, Lon Schoor had a good downwind leg and stayed in the top four positions for the rest of the race in a very close battle with Peter, Kevin Jewett, Augie Barkow, Tom Burton, and Will Graves. Lon ended up 2nd at the finish. Augie was third only about 15 seconds behind the winner. Kevin was 4th, Will 5th, and Jim Guelk, who was really up and down going from 3rd, to 1st, to 6th.
Pewuakee is one of the few places that can really take advantage of a break for lunch between races. I think it is a treat since more and more of our regattas are sailed with back-to-back races. The pier can easily hold the 20+ boats racing and the course is only a few minutes away at most.
The second race was 0-7mph with big shifts and big holes - the course was a 3 1/2. The fleet spread out big time as Bob Biwer got off to a good lead at the windward mark and held onto it for the entire race, but probably not without getting a few more gray hairs - it was that kind of day. PJ Friend, Lon Schoor and Tom Burton were the last three boats around the first windward mark but were 5th, 4th and 8th respectively at the next leeward mark. It was Dick Wight chasing down Bob for the entire race and he got close but not close enough - finishing the race in second. Will Graves was exchanging positions with Dick in the chase to catch Bob, but at the finish he was in 3rd. Tom Burton got his second wind on the third upwind leg and moved into 4th place and stayed there for the finish. Lon took a gamble on the last leg and ended up in a hole and that allowed Paul Biwer to finish in 5th and Lon was 6th. Peter Holmberg, the mystery guest, was in 2rd at the first mark after having one of the worst starts - his luck didn't hold and he fell to 14th by the finish.
After two races the top ten are:
1 M-9 Tom Burton 1 4 7 4 = 16 pts total
2 MA-10 Dick Wight 8 1 8 2 = 19
3 V-123 Kevin Jewett 9 3 4 8 = 24
4 V-37 Augie Barkow 12 2 3 10 = 27
5 V-74 Will Graves 15 5 5 3 = 28
6 H-7 Lon schoor 5 17 2 6 = 30
7 X-751 Jim Gluek 4 10 6 11 = 31
8 ? Peter Holmberg 2 8(RDG) 9 14 = 33
9 V11 Peter Friend 11 16 1 7 = 35
10 V-39 Mike Darrow 6 8 11 13 = 38
