Posting this a bit late.
Apologies for the tardiness.
Better late than never. 🙂
Appears that Kerim has maintained his speed in the ODOM and Agent 99 seems to be in good hands with Dave Woodward, having given Ty Beach a run for his money.
Thanks to one and all for turning up for the Bob DeBow ODOM Masters regatta today.
Jess Atkinson did a masterful job of launching this new series of Regattas honoring the Legends of Argonauts. Today was the first of the series – honoring Bob DeBow.
In this really fun and crazy wind ODOM Regatta, some handled conditions somewhat better than others.
Continuing his fine form for the year, Kerim Baran took home the gold! 7 wins for the day, certainly the boat to beat.
Some pictures (thank you to Freddie Rocha!) and results are below:
ODOMs are on the pond again on April 12th (and the Soling 50’s) for points racing.
Hope to see everyone there. 
Regards,
Chris Davidson
What a day!
14 ODOM’s out on the pond today. They’re breeding!
This week Steve Delva did a great job as RD for both classes. Thanks Steve and thanks Bill Bridge for laying the marks and Gil Jansky for retrieving them.
The tuning clinic last week obviously paid off with the fleet being very close throughout all heats, at times a little too close. :O
With a good breeze blowing, some skippers didn’t quite have their time on distance calculations dialled in, me included! :O
Nevertheless, penalty turns were taken as applicable and there was some healthy discussions afterwards, which highlighted how any one situation can have at least two perspectives.
Well sailed guys…
Next was the Solings. Breeze was still which saw these heavier displacement boats revel in the conditions.
Some tight racing throughout the heats with lots of close encounters.
Apologies Gerry for my ‘Specsavers’ moment. :O
All in all it was a fantastic day on the pond with a number of onlookers from the public and almost standing room only in the peanut gallery.
Wonderful to see some of the sailors from the ODOM’s stay to watch the show.
– Chris Davidson (VC Sail)
And thank you, Larry Grant, for recording and sharing some of the races on our Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/3982029032066019/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/1853228208780988/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/950306087212148/
https://www.facebook.com/1333203860/videos/661070956290631/
Beautiful Day; whacky winds… Thanks to RD Ty Beach who ran the Odoms:
Winds had really tailed off by the time it was the Solings’ turn. RD Pat Nevitt chose mostly medium courses as the winds dropped near Zero by the final race:
CONGRATULATIONS to our new slate of Argonaut Officers for 2025!!! Commodore: Pat Nevitt VC Sail: Chris Davidson VC Scale: Kurt Sellen VC Power: Bill Bridge Purser: Gil Jansky Secretary: Kerim Baran
Welcome, Gentlemen!
Following the Voting, Jason Brooks RD’d the Soling Class for November Points in sunny, beautiful conditions… with paltry, southerly breezes. Severe shifts and massive holes were the order of the day as Jason selected a combination of medium and short courses:
After the break, Ty Beach took over to RD the Odom Fleet. The winds had increased somewhat and moved more westerly, but there were still some big shifts and holes to contend with. There were many lead changes and close finishes to delight the Peanut Gallery!
