The Chesapeake 20 racing schedule for the 2012 season is now available.  We are tentatively looking at Sunday April 22, 2012 for our Spring Meeting at WRSC at 5pm.  This years C20 nationals will be at the MRYC away race.

Clay Taylor in Endeavor handily won the Annapolis to West River race by staying out in the middle of the Bay and using the favorable current all the way to Thomas Pt. and then one tack to WRSC.  He observed the crab floats since the schedule tide shift was delayed by over an hour.  Six 20s participated with Osprey and Contrary in second and third.

For the Billy Heintz WRSC annual regatta, Bob Blomquist in Gracie dominated the five boat fleet in pretty heavy winds on both Saturday and Sunday.  There was a capsize, broken headstay, ripped up fairlead, among the damages as we either had to deal with large powerboat wakes on Saturday off Rhode River, or a rolling sea on Sunday off Curtis point.  See delays below.

Below is a summary of the first day of the World Championships held at West River on Sunday August 14.   The second day was cancelled to due high winds on August 21.  See story below.  The final standings are:

Endeavor/Clay Taylor    2  2  2  1    7
Kit/Peter Bell                 1  1  4  2    8
Gracie/Bob Blomquist    3  3  1  6   13
Osprey/Gerhard Klose   4  5  3  3   15
Stormy/Ted Weihe        5  4  6  5   20
Spirit/Robin Hartge       6  6  5  4   21
Childs/David Childs       7  7  7  7   28

Mile River Yacht Club

American Red Cross One Design Regatta

 

Seven Chesapeake 20s raced at the Miles River Yacht Club Regatta on August 6 and 7, 2011.  Most towed over by Robin’s powerboat, and Barbara’s sailboat, except for David Childs who achieved one of his bucket lists by sailing over single-handed.  Unfortunately, the bucket list came without a bucket which he could surely have used at the regatta.

The winds were southerly both days, and by the fourth race on Saturday, there were gusts up to 20 knots.  In early racing the wind was out of Miles River, but shifted to off the shore.

There were plenty of shifts, but generally going left paid off on Saturday, and right on Sunday.   On Sunday, there were good puffs coming out of St Michaels, and a huge calm area in the center which filled in as approaching the finish.

 

On Saturday, there were two capsizes: Heather Childs that needed to be towed in (but no damage), and Osprey that got right back up with hardly any water in the bilge.

Seven races were held with a throw out.  With three firsts, Gracie led the way with Endeavor and Stormy, next in order.  As you can see from the score sheet below, there were plenty of position changes, and four out of the seven scored at least one first.   

 

Boat	Skipper	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Points
Gracie	Blomquist	2	1	1	(4)	2	4	1	11
Endeavor	Taylor	3	5	2	1	(6)	3	2	16
Stormy	Weihe	4	2	4	3	3	1	(5)	17
Spirit	Hartge	(5)	4	3	2	5	2	4	20
Osprey	Klose	1	3	5	(8)	1	6	6	22
America	McCullough	8	8	8	(8)	4	5	3	36
Childs	Childs	6	8	8	8	8	8	(8)	46

 

In 2011, the Chesapeake 20 Association provided a perpetual trophy to the Miles River Yacht Club to be awarded to first place at their annual one-design regatta.  As noted below, Chesapeake 20s and their predecessors, Twenty Foot Knockabouts, have been racing at MRYC since the early 1930s.

This oldest MRYC trophy was donated by the Kolb family on behalf of Doug Kolb who won first place in the 1947 regatta aboard Jade #37.  We have incomplete records of racing over the years at MRYC, but a very interesting race took place in 1935 in which Vanity won the free-for-all (which means anything goes including extra sails) while nearly sinking. 

See more details below.