Reports
The photo below shows the delivery of the new long spinnaker pole. Evan and Jerry put over 40 hours into the fabrication.
Trim
of the new mainsail
4/5/06 (photos by Greg)
Duxship Race 4/22
Cesca took these great pictures of our new sails:
St. Francis Club
Regatta: Zamazaan crosses finish line first!
by Gary
Saturday April 29th -- A day of reconnecting for the commander and crew of
Zamazaan. After a long winter hiatus from the racing circuit while under
refitting and repair; Zamazaan emerged from the pack as a serious contender
for the 2006 racing season. Under the guidance of Captain Charles Weghorn
and with his unwavering steady hand, Zamazaan executed a brilliant strategic
start designed to intimidate and throw the competition off balance. This
was followed by a series of well planed-out tactical maneuvers across the
bay through treacherous currents, around dangerous obstacles, and finally
up the city front to perform a series of rapid, technically flawless tacks
to emerge as the undisputed leader of the pack. In honor of this achievement,
the St Francis Yacht Club race committee has bestowed upon Zamazaan the traditional “firing
of the gun” as she crossed the finish line, letting all know; Watch
out, Zamazaan is back!
Zamazaan decided to race without spinnaker. This made for a good contest with Aleta (Peterson 46), who used the kite on the second and third leg. The photos show Aleta taking the spin down after passing Alcatraz and on the last waterfront leg with plenty of tacks.
Zamazaan
Rocks Vallejo Race
by Gary
Saturday May 6th – Vallejo Yacht Clubs 106th running of the Vallejo Race
kicked off yet another season of racing on the Bay for 2006, and Zamazaan was
there! Zamazaan, who recently took first in the StFYC regatta race, was the
boat to watch this year from the moment she started. Observers noted that Zamazaan
relentlessly responded to changing wind conditions and course changes as if
she were a J24! Starting with a #3 Jib Zamazaan’s crew rigged for a #2
jib peel on the upwind leg, but changed mid-rigging to a 1.5 fractional kite
at the weather mark for a blast reach and then peel to .75 Masthead Kite, A.K.A, "The
Whomper". She then peeled again to a 0.5 Masthead Kite, A.K.A. "Whomper
Junior", and then back to the Whomper. Jibing over 20 times, hoisting
the #2 jib and finally dousing the Whomper in the harbor; Zamazaan rocked the
fleet with #1 in class to finish, #1 in class on corrected time and #1 Best
Dock Party! Of special
note, the Zamazaan victory lap through the Golden Gate on the return trip
home produced a recording breaking speed of over 10 knots.
Here is the link to Matt's photo gallery.
Zamazaan
Scores First in Northern Star!
by Gary
Saturday May 20 - For the third time in a row, the captain and crew of Zamazaan have sailed her to victory! Let it be known that Zamazaan has won the prestigious Northern Star race
Spinnaker
Cup Report
by Jerry
Zamazaan
showed her true prowess as we flew down the coast on Friday having made
a good exit out of the Golden Gate, despite some fun with a head sail change
in some difficult conditions. The long run down to Monterey involved quite
a few gibes and we arrived in Monterey late Friday evening after a trying
time getting to the finishing line as the wind decided to fade away! All
in all we had a great race and many contributions from the whole team helped
us to finish in style!
Those of us who stayed in Monterey had a great Saturday exploring the aquarium
and sampling the delights of Cannery Row and the downtown area.
The trip back on Sunday proved to be a little more eventful than expected since
the anticipated cruise back up to SF started with a building wind (up to 25-30
knots apparent) as we crossed Monterey Bay. We then had some engine problems
that slowed us a little and led us to have to beat up under sail past Santa
Cruz and Pigeon Point. We weren't able to fix the engine out on the water so
as the sun gave us a spectacular show setting into the Pacific we sailed into
Half Moon Bay harbor and docked successfully after some neat helming by Evan!
Delta
Ditch
by Gary
We needed to shave ~27 min off our time to have taken first.Janice said she
packed
6 spinnakers and she knew of two she didn't pack. She
thinks we did 20 sail changes over 7 hours, or about 3 / hour! All in all, we
did an excellent job racing Saturday and finishing in the center of the pack
is not so bad. By all accounts it was a blast!!
The complete
results are posted on the SSC web site. http://www.stocktonsc.org. Here
are the standings for the division Heavy 1:
Date: 06/10/06 StartTime: 11:00:00 Distance:
67.5 nm
| Pos | Sail | Boat | Skipper | PHRF | Type | Finish | Elapsed | Corrected |
| 1 | 26 | Samiko | Bailey,Dexter | 69 | Serendipity 43 | 18:23:54 | 07:23:54 | 08:26:22 |
| 2 | 28528 | Jarlen | Bloom,Robert | 72 | J-35 | 18:30:40 | 07:30:40 | 08:30:49 |
| 3 | US77220 | Infrared | Lopez,Ray & Bonnie | 60 | Davidson 44 mod | 18:22:24 | 07:22:24 | 08:34:32 |
| 4 | 46612 | Tivoli | Bentsen, Judy | 72 | Beneteau 42.7 | 18:37:50 | 07:37:50 | 08:38:57 |
| 5 | 38407 | Phantom Mist | Massari, Gary | 51 | Beneteau 40.7 | 18:22:20 | 07:22:20 | 08:44:43 |
| 6 | 3883 | Zamazaan | Weghorn, Charles | 21 | Farr 52 Custom | 18:00:12 | 07:00:12 | 08:53:59 |
| 7 | US3510 | Recidivist | Olcott,Ken | 27 | Schumacher 40 | 18:06:13 | 07:06:13 | 08:54:01 |
| 8 | 67205 | Aleta | Brown,Keith | 36 | Peterson 46 | 18:16:51 | 07:16:51 | 08:56:03 |
| 9 | USA41212 | Infinity | Gebhard,Gary | 33 | Holland 47 | 18:22:17 | 07:22:17 | 09:06:28 |
| 10 | 38383 | Isis | Busch,Brendan | -3 | Santa Cruz 52 | 17:55:37 | 06:55:37 | 09:20:05 |
| 11 | 29180 | Punahele | Caplan,Michael | 60 | Farr 40 1 ton | 19:22:02 | 08:22:02 | 09:43:53 |
| DNF | 93102 | Howl | Krueger,Peter | 21 | Sydney 38 | |||
| DNF | 8526 | Yucca | Easom,Hank | 90 | 8 Meter |
Standings after Encinal Race
7/29/06
The
results of last week’s
race are in, and Biz has kindly recapped our performance thus far this
year:
We finished second to Aleta on corrected time by just 4 minutes and 3
seconds in the Encinal race even though we got the gun. Good comeback but we
can improve and take first as well. We have gotten the gun in
Northern Star and finished second to Pegasus XIV, gotten the gun for Vallejo
and finished first; finished 2nd to Isis (SC 52) overall in the Delta Ditch
and finished 6th on corrected time. Aleta was 8th on corrected time
in D. Ditch. In the Monterey race we finished 18th of 28th in our division
but we beat Cipango on corrected time. Also Cipango did not finish Northern
Star, and in the Vallejo race they only beat us by 40 seconds on corrected
time so we are certainly competitive...3 guns out of 5 races!
For the OYRA standings Aleta leads with 8 points, Samiko has 10 and we
are in 3rd with 11 pts. That is because Aleta and Samiko raced the Sunday
race
back from Vallejo and Aleta got a 2nd and Samiko a 3rd while we got a 6th
as we did not race. We are in the hunt for the overall season trophy
and with a couple of good races we can move into first place.
Half Moon Bay Race
8/12/06 by Biz
Well done for a great race. We got the gun and also and importantly
finished first on corrected time. Our corrected time using the dreaded
time on time formula i.e. 650/ (550 plus handicap) or in Z's case 650/550
+ 21 or 650 divided by 571 times the elapsed time of 5hours, 21 minutes
and 39 seconds gave us a corrected time of 6 hours, 6 minutes and
9 seconds! Hope you all followed that math. Petard, a Farr 36 was
second with a corrected time of 6:18:54 and X-Dream was 3rd with a corrected
time of
6:40:14. Their handicaps are 93 and 60 respectively so we gave them
a lot of time and still won by a margin of 12 minutes. This was our
best race of the year so let’s keep up the momentum. For Zamazaan,
this was a one race event so it does not count in the War Horse overall
yearly standings where we remain in 3rd place but with a good chance to
take season's
honors by continuing to sail well. Cheers and a quick recovery for
Evan who is recovering from arm surgery but gave us plenty of moral support
at the dock and at dinner in Half Moon Bay!
Victory
at Windjammer
9/2/06
Zamazaan finished first in division 3 and 4-th overall after a gutsy race close
to shore. Aleta decided to catch a breeze further out on the ocean but got caugth
by low winds after midnight. Infra Red finished third in our division.
The three yachts and their skippers: Chuck Weghorn (Zamazaan), Ray Lopez (Infra Red), and Keith Brown (Aleta)
Gary receives the award and Jerry with the plaque.
Showdown
at Shark Island
9/30/06
With a clear win in the Farallones 2006 race, Zamazaan came one step closer to
first place in in the OYRA War Horse division for the entire year 2006. This
very light wind, yet heavily contested race went over 58 nm and 18 hours. From
the starting line off the Golden Gate Yacht Club Race Deck, yachts had to sail
via any route to and around the Southwest Farallone island either port or starboard
and return. Zamazaan pulled away from the fleet on the way out using isolated
patches of wind and tireless tacking. When trying to round the Farallones, we
caught a nasty header and had the hardest of times to get around that desolated
rock. Meanwhile one of the competitors coming on a more southern course got nicely
lifted and passed us on the way to the western tip sailing extremely close to
the island. Flashlight recon revealed a yellow hull and thus it was concluded
that Aleta had arrived for the showdown. The race was decided when
they got caught in a hole without any wind. At times it looked as if they were
drifting against the rocks. The return trip was all tireless trimming, twisting,
adjusting, tweaking and steering, as Cesca put it. We arrived back at the club
too late for dinner and too early for breakfast and resisted the temptation to
turn on the speakers for a dock party.
The standings:
| Pos | Sail | Boat | Skipper | PHRF | Type | Finish | Elapsed | Corrected |
| 1 | 3883 | Zamazaan | Weghorn, Charles | 21 | Custom Farr 52 | 03:48:30 | 17:58:30 | 17:38:12 |
| 2 | 26 | Samiko | Bailey,Dexter | 69 | Serendipity 43 Peterson | 05:40:43 | 19:50:43 | 18:44:01 |
| 3 | US41212 | Infinity | Gebhard,Gary | 33 | Custom Holland 47 | 05:20:06 | 19:30:06 | 18:58:12 |
| 4 | 67205 | Aleta | Brown,Keith | 36 | Custom Peterson 46 | 05:30:48 | 19:40:48 | 19:06:00 |
| 5 | 18127 | True North | Dunnavant,Jeff | 72 | Baltic 42 DP | DNF | : | : |
| 6 | 29180 | Punahele | Caplan,Michael | 60 | Custom Farr 40 1/T | DNC | : | : |
Comments after the race:
“At last Zamazaan has a crew that knows how to sail the old lady.
Do you know that you sailed into the 50's and 52's and wound up second
overall. We have had a great season and you all should be proud of what you
have accomplished. I've never sailed with a better or happier crew. Thank
You for a grand year!” --- Chuck Weghorn
“
I think you showed some real class staying in until the bitter end. My congratulations
to everyone. Zammi what a job talk about sailing to your rating both PHRF
and IR” --- Gary Gebhard
”
I second the congrats to Chuck - you did a fantastic job on the run home.
Guess I need to invest in a 1/2 oz or .3 poly now!” --- Dexter Bailey
“
What a day (and night) of racing! Congratulations to Zam for truly
kicking our collective butts! Chuck, you outsmarted us and did some
pretty damn fast sailing. I think the most amazing thing was after the first
8 hours of racing, we were all within a half mile of one another out at the
Island! And three of us finished in a 20 minute time frame. Pretty
good racing, if you ask me.” -- Keith Brown (Aleta)
