| Six RPSA catamarans participated in the Stamford Denmark
friendship Race on Sunday September 10, 2006, organized and run by Stamford
Yacht Club. They sailed Course #1 of 10.9 miles, with winds that got
increasing tricky as the race went on. Finish places, based on Portsmouth
corrected times, were as follows:
Posn Skipper Elapsed Time DPN
Corrected Time
(1st) Byrne 2:12:50
64.3 3:26:35
(2nd) Keyworth
2:15:30 64.3
3:30:44
(3rd) Simmons 2:11:43
61.5 3:34:10
(4th) Romans 2:15:05
62.6 3:35:47
(5th) McGarry
2:25:57 67.0
3:37:50
(6th) Smith
2:21:31 64.3
3:40:05
Note that the scoring for Bud and Liz McGarry has been changed from that shown in the
Stamford YC results, which had their Portsmouth yardstick number wrong. In
the table above they have been given the Hobie 21 (no spinnaker) number.
So although Kevin Simmons and Marty Roth sailing PL3 were the first boat
home, Greg and John Byrne beat them on corrected times. This race
seems jinxed for the Byrnes - last year the crash, and this year John ended up
in hospital with a dislocated shoulder!
Alan Keyworth and crew John Pullan came third, followed by Chip and Kelly
Romans, with Mike Smith and Pax Gifford bringing up the rear. After over
two hours of sailing, the whole catamaran class finished within a 15-minute
window. Thanks to Tom Talbott for single-handing Impatient Lady as
support boat.
Our multi-hull fleet passed every one of the 34 monohulls that started on
Course #1, some as much as 30 minutes before our start. Go cats go!
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