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Newport Beach, CA
The wind for NOSA's 14 Mile Bank Race was taken from a Clint Eastwood movie title "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". PHRF Class "A" had 12 of the 14 starters finish before the 6:30 pm deadline with the Richley Family's Choate 48 "AMANTE" taking the class and fleet overall PHRF title. "AMANTE" sailed with all carbon GPL upwind sails and AirX nylon spinnakers from Ullman Sails Newport Beach. Way to go "AMANTE". Most of Class "A" finshed with some wind, that was the good.
J/105 "LEGACY" PHRF Class "B" Winner rounding 14 Mile Bank buoy
photo from www.Joysailing.com
The next PHRF classes only had 1 finisher from their classes. That was the ugly. Showing speed upwind to the 14 mile bank bouy and then downwind speed (with no spinnaker) Kerry Deaver and crew sailed their Andrews 43 "Kahoots" to a double class victory in the non-spinnaker class and the double-handed class! "Kahoots" sails with Fiberpath headsails from Ullman Sails. "Kahoots" beat several spinnaker boats her own size in with no spinnaker!photo from www.Joysailing.com