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Filippo Busalacchi Soling 50 Masters Regatta Results (Oct 18, 2025) 

The inaugural Filippo Busalacchi Soling 50 Masters Regatta took place on a beautiful fall day, October 18, 2025, at the San Diego Model Boat Pond. The event brought together some of our club’s most experienced and passionate sailors for a day of exciting, highly competitive racing in honor of long-time Argonaut and legend, Filippo Busalacchi.

After a full day of tight competition and shifting pond conditions, Ty Beach delivered a brilliant performance, securing first place with an impressive seven bullets. He was followed by Chris Davidson in second, Gerry Wold in third, David Woodward in fourth, and Filippo Busalacchi himself, rounding out the top five.

A special thanks goes out to Ben Reeves and Tom Warren for capturing beautiful photos of the day and to Steve Ross for recording and sharing videos of the action — both of which you can enjoy below.

Also, a big shout-out to Ben and Jack for their help with scoring and running the event, and to Bob for grilling up what are, without a doubt, the best hot dogs in radio sailing! Thanks as well to Ty Beach and Jack for their assistance with the boat, and to Chris “the man from Oz” Davidson for getting the pond race-ready, setting the gate, and making sure the Bob Dog Grill was fired up and ready to go. And to Jess Atkinson for organizing and running the event.

This event marked the fourth and final Masters Regatta of the year — the closing chapter of our inaugural Masters Series, which celebrates the Legends of the San Diego Argonauts. This time, it was an especially meaningful occasion as we paid tribute to our dear friend and sailor, Filippo.

We look forward to continuing this wonderful tradition in the years to come, honoring the great sailors who have shaped our club and community.

Videos:

Points Day Results – Soling 50’s & ODOM’s (Aug 9, 2025)

Surprise! What another great day on the pond!

Thanks Steve Delva for being the RD for both classes and thanks also Steve for helping Kerim and I pack everything away.

Good breeze and a good number of boats on the line for each class.
Welcome back Ken Titilah, hopefully we’ll see more of Ken for the remainder of the year.

Formalities out of the way it was on to the water.

Not surprising, Chris Staiger started clocking up a few bullets after settling in and consistently finished in the top three, taking out the day narrowly edging out Chris Davidson, Larry and Ty.

Racing was generally quite close with quite a few position changes as skippers navigated the tricky shifts and pressure lines.
Uncharacteristically there were no flying port hand starts from Bill this week. Must be saving himself. Stay tuned.

ODOMS’s were next on the water with some extremely tight racing between all boats at various times.
Kerim continues to light the pond on fire with another win overall. It’s not too late to enter the Nationals at San Francisco coming up!

The level of competition in this class has certainly lifted, in fact, the level of racing has lifted right across the board.
The information/ tuning sessions coupled with the ongoing sharing of knowledge is what makes being a part of the Argonauts so enjoyable.

Thanks guys for another great day at the pond.

A day of play next week, so bring what you got!

Best of luck to all of the Argonauts venturing up to Mason park next weekend to participate in the last DF 95 Traveller’s Series event on Saturday and to those skippers also participating in the team racing event up there on Sunday.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Argonauts are go!

Points Day Results – ODOM’s & Soling 50’s (March 8, 2025)

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/