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DF95 Team Challenge – Round 2

The Second DF95 Team Challenge of 2025 was held at Mason Park in Irvine on Sunday, August 17th, 2025. Seven 2-Boat Teams competed in the Team Management System (TMS) run event. Just as in Round 1, Teams were organized via seeding in an attempt to even the competition. A shortened ‘reverse-hourglass’ course was sailed in shifty, light to moderate winds (with more than a few holes) under sunny skies. The 7-Team Matrix begins with a Round-Robin Stage where the top 3 teams advance directly to the Finals. The remaining 4 teams race a single-elimination ‘Wild Card’ bracket with the winning team joining the top 3 in the Finals which consists of a 4-Team Round-Robin. This racing format keeps every team ‘in-the-hunt’ for the championship until at least the 22nd Race (out of 30 total Races) and guarantees every Team gets to race at least 7 times.

There were a couple minor changes to the rules in the running of Round 2: Proper course between boats on different legs was emphasized and enforced, and ‘Instant Umpiring’ was adopted. Under RRS Appendix D Team Racing, an Umpire’s involvement after waiting for a voluntary single penalty turn requires a 2-Turn penalty. In Round 2, the Umpire called single-turn penalties immediately but reserved the ability to specify more turns if appropriate. This helped competitors know exactly where they stood following an incident and took the guess work out of protests and fouls. Results follow:

Congratulations to Team Red (Jim Sears & Angelo Greco) who sailed a near perfect regatta; losing only a single Race to 2nd Place Team Green (Larry Grant & Richard Diamond)

Thanks to the Orange County Model Sailing Club and Amya President, DF95 National Class Secretary, and all-around ‘good guy’ Len Bose for setting up the event and making it all possible.

Special thanks also to Jim Sears who rigged a YUUUGE ‘boom camera’ to take live aerial video of the event (drones are not allowed at Mason Park). We’re looking forward to more of his color commentary when he (hopefully) posts his videos on Youtube.

Points Day Results – DF95’s & IOM’s (July 19, 2025)

And just in time for Christmas!

Thank you to Mike Fruciano for travelling so far to join us for the IOM’s and extra thanks for taking on RD duties Re/ the DF 95’s.

Thanks also to Kerim for being RD for the IOM’s.

Good fleet numbers in both classes and some very tight racing.

Great to see newcomers Jack and Roberto out on the water. I’m sure we’ll see more of them both in the future.

Unfortunately Jon Rogers suffered some Tech. issues with his recently acquired IOM and wasn’t able to make the start line.

Watch this space. I’m sure Jon will compete very well once he’s sorted out.

See you all at the pond. 🙂

Pete Jefferson DF95 Masters Regatta Results

Today was a good day to go sailing in San Diego. The Pete Jefferson award was happening for DF 95’s.

Eleven skippers showed up for the challenge – aka The 12 Race Masters Series ribbon run. Conditions were 4-6 knots from the west.

Really great group. Sportsmanship was high that really made this day a blast and the dogs from Bobs grill (pond dogs) were the lunch break treat.

Dennis Rogers won the day with Chris Staiger in second and Larry Grant in third.

Jess Atkinson was our RD and the host. He ran a smooth and fun event as usual.

Tri-Dragon Team Challenge – Final Standings

Perfect sailing conditions greeted the twelve competitors for the inaugural Tri-Dragon Team Challenge; the first of its kind in Travelers Trophy history. Six teams fought hand-to-hand in tightly sailed matches all afternoon. Many heats were decided by lead changes just before the finish. The Championship was determined by the Final Race of the day between Team Red and Team Green. Congratulations to the winners and all the participants! (Special thanks to Len Bose who gave up his racing spot to a fellow competitor to help Umpire the Event!)

Excellent Video and Commentary courtesy of Dr. Jim Sears!

TT Standings 6-29-25Download

Points Day Results – IOM’s & DF95’s (June 21, 2025)

First to kick off yesterday’s racing was the IOM’s.

Gerry Wold signed up as RD for both classes and he certainly had a challenge ahead of him. The breeze was coming from the direction every Argonaut holds with much disdain, across the pond!

Fortunately there was a bit of West in it ( At times?) and Gerry was able to set courses that stretched the length of the pond. This was going to be ‘one of those days’, the wind swirled, there were plenty of holes and mother nature just kept everyone guessing the whole day.

After winning the day, I have to say that it wasn’t due to me being the fastest, perhaps just the luckiest. :O

Add another seven boats and we saw the DF’s hit the water. Same challenges but now with the increased number of boats, everyone’s chances of getting ‘lucky’ were a whole lot less.

“Go left young man” seemed to be the strategy but that was sometimes easier said than done.

Even with quite a biased line at the North shore end, the fleet fought for the pin end and if you got away cleanly you were in good stead. (Not so easy to achieve).
BUT, even then the top mark was like a roulette wheel, enter the zone and cross your fingers. :O

Apologies for setting it there but more so for not moving it after the IOM’s.
Sailing two boats sometimes causes some time management issues. :(.

All in all the racing was extremely ’sporting’, penalties were taken appropriately and there was a high level of consideration amongst the competitors for the challenging conditions.

Congrats to the podium placegetters and congratulations to all all competitors for turning up and making it a great day at the pond.

If you havent already entered the TT teams event next weekend, get your entry in it’s going to be great fun and ’something different’.

Or even just drop down and bolster the numbers in the peanut gallery. 🙂

Thank you Kerim, Gerry and Jon for collecting the marks and putting the boat Etc. away.

Regards

Chris