Last Saturday’s races were designated as the Nightcap Series Final even though there is a race scheduled for Oct. 31 st . This week the Committee Boat is being hauled out for the winter.  Next Saturday’s race, now dubbed the Halloween Race, will be run from the City Dock. Single start at 13:00, round the marks course, PHRF scoring, still NFS. Antics, dress and decoration in recognition of Halloween are traditional for this race. Later, Marks C, I, & Y will be removed for winter overhaul and cleaning.

On Saturday the wind all morning had been around 18 kts., steadily from the NW, and the bay full of whitecaps, great racing and easy course set-up was anticipated.  Uncannily, as Committee headed out the wind softened and became very variable 5 – 9 kts. with frequent short gusts to 13 – 14 kts. The  wind direction was oscillating rapidly through 90+ deg. Mark W was set and Committee headed downwind for about 1/2 mile and waited as the wind direction went through several cycles, trying to discern a mean. The oscillations showed little consistency with occasional extremes of 265 degM and 355 deg.M. As a best guess the line was set square to W for 290 deg.

Two PHRF boats checked in. The course set was SYGCGF – 6.86 nm.  At the 13:25 start the wind was 10 – 13 kts. from 330 deg. The bearing to Y was 275 deg.

When the Thunderbirds  started their first race five minutes later the wind was sagging to ~6 kts. and gusting to 16+. Direction was 315 deg. making the CB end of the line heavily favored. It remained so for the Gate rounding. Two boats had such a good start they were within a whisker of OCS.

As the mean wind direction during the first race was ~310 deg. the pin was moved to square the line to that.

For the start of the second race the wind had steadied a bit at 10 – 14 kts. but from 270 deg. favoring the pin by 45 deg. There was a postponement during the start sequence for a discussion about using I as the windward mark, which would have been good as the wind was aligned with I at that moment. Discussion ended when it was realized that the High School Racing team was using it as part of their course.

With plenty of wind available, course times were short so a third start was offered but there was little enthusiasm.

PTSA Re-opening Short-handed Nightcap Series Sept/Oct 2020 – Final Results
  September 19 September 26 Oct. 03 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 October 24    
Stand- ing Sail # Boat Name Skipper Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Fog, no wind Too much wind No Wind Race 5 Race 6   Total Boat Name Stand-ing
1 190 Raven Blackbird Assoc. 1 1 [6] 1 3 2   8 Raven 1
2 642 Owl Dale Dunning 3 [DNS/8] 2 6 1 1   13 T Owl 2
3 1254 Corvo Blackbird Assoc. [5] 5 1 2 2 3   13 T Corvo 3
4 1248 Kuma San Lynes & Heumann 6 2 3 [7] 4 6   21 Kuma San 4
5 1177 Falcon Roland Nikles 2 3 7 [8] 5 5   22 Falcon 5
6 1069 Magic Bus Dan Ginther [DNC/11] DNC/11 4 3 6 4   28 Magic Bus 6
7 1006 Possum Hans Daubenberger 4 4 8 4 [DNC/11] DNC/11   31 Possum 7
8 1144 Blew Bird Bill Broekhof 8 6 9 [10] 7 7   37 Blew Bird 8
9 242 Dorado Joe Daubenberger [DNC/11] DNC/11 5 5 DNC/11 DNC/11 43 Dorado 9
10 1106 Kolus Blackbird Assoc. 7 7 10 9 [DNC/11] DNC/11   44 Kolus 10
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PHRF – Race 2

Start Date/Time = Saturday, October 24, 2020 / 13:25:00.0, Length (nm) = 6.86

Pos Sail Boat Skipper Rating Finish
Order		 Finish
Time		 Time
Allowance		 Corrected
Time		 Time
Behind		 Adjusts Pts
1 D- 8 Cito Rankins, Sean 255 1 14:59:10.0 00:29:09.3 01:05:00.7 00:00:00.0 1.0
2 39954 Andiamo, Again ?, ? 185 2 15:00:24.0 00:21:09.1 01:14:14.9 00:09:14.2 2.0
DNC 7019 Pacifica Jones, Doug 123 DNC No Time 00:14:03.8 No Time No Time DNC 5.0T
DNC 51233 Vamoose Reid, Nick 55 DNC No Time 00:06:17.3 No Time No Time DNC 5.0T

PHRF Nightcap Series Final Results
Two races sailed

Pos Sail Boat Skipper 1 2 Total
Points		 Pos
1 D- 8 Cito Rankins, Sean 5/DNC 1 6.00 1
2 39954 Andiamo, Again ?, ? 5/DNC 2 7.00 2
3T 7019 Pacifica Jones, Doug 3/RET 5/DNC 8.00T 3T
3T 51233 Vamoose Reid, Nick 3/DSQ 5/DNC 8.00T 3T