[L16-usa] Maine Luders - Wild N' Wet

[Sturgis Haskins]

TO:  Mount Desert Island Luders Fleet

FROM:  Dick Homer, Race Committee Chair

RE:  Luders September Series Results of 9/19/04

Weather:  wind north at 5-25 kts.  squally rain showers and sunshine.
Entries:  Voodoo, Red Hot.  Ondine and Paladin retired before starting.
Course:  PQH, 4.48 nm starting at H.  Starting time, following 
postponement for the first shower, was 1244.

Voodoo rounded windward mark P at 1310.  Red Hot rounded 40 sec. later.
Voodoo passed the committee boat on the downwind leg at 1324 with 88 
sec. lead.
Voodoo rounded leeward mark Q at 1334 with a lead of 96 sec. over Red 
Hot.
Voodoo failed to tack to starboard when her starboard lower spreader 
came adrift.  She retired on port tack to Sutton Island where they 
picked up John Guth's mooring, dropped sails, made repairs and then 
sailed home. (SH note:  Mrs. Guth's grandmother won the first recorded
race between one-designs in America c1887 at North Haven (island),
Maine. That class is still active today.)

Red Hot finished at 1351, the only boat to do so.

On the committee boat, we observed that Red Hot's mainsail was 
relatively strapped in on the downwind leg but we were unable to 
determine if there was a mainsheet problem.  

SH: The Boats:

1st, MDI #31 (national #296) Red Hot, David Schoeder
DNF, MDI #30 (national number unknown), Voodoo, David Folger

DNS, MDI #35 (national #307), Paladin, Tom Rolfes
DNS, MDI #32 (national #305), Lori Towers

SH Comment:  Only  one Luders to finish in a race.  Nice for the record
books (& the retelling !). This should count as a series race. It might
be noted, too, that two Frenchmans Bay Luders owners were crewing on
this day; Lawrence Demilner (#256) and Tina Holt (NEH #26), both aboard
Luders that failed to start (Ondine & Paladin).

Upcoming:

Sunday, September 26.  Last Luders race of the September series.

Monday, September 27.  Queen Mary II - Luders pot-luck at Ginny & Tom
Rolfes house, "Some View", Somesville.

Saturday, October 9 & Sunday, October 10.  Annual International
One-Design Columbus Day Weekend series.  Luders welcomed to participate.
Committee boat run by Homer brothers. Pot-luck will be held for
participants.  (SH:  As I recall there some fun rule about leading boats
not being able to use a spinnaker while they were ahead.  Also, old
sails are supposed to be used.)  Last year four IOD's participated;
Rockefeller, Ford, Fremont-Smith and Milliken. The supper was held at
Freddy Towers.