2010 Sunkist Series #4 Outside Course

February 7, 2010
Newport Beach, CA
Sailing on Super Sunday is usually a tough sell to racers who want to make sure they see the football game and all the cool commercials. However, the Balboa Yacht Club made sure there was plenty of wind for a fast race course so racers could make the game on time!
Racers enjoyed 10-14 knots of wind to get out of the harbor, beat to the windward buoys and the slide back to the harbor entrance. It was perfect wind with a perfect race course.
I sailed on the J-105 LEGACY which sailed with the "harbor killer" genoa out of the harbor. Major secret weapon! It is a 155% light weight "CZ" genoa with a loose luff! Very versatile and powerful for downwind and reaching conditions and easy to get rid of when the carbon or kevlar headsail is unfurled for upwind work!

-Race Results-
*Class "A" start video*
*Class "B" start video*


*Legacy Finish video*
Race photos from Legacy -prestart-

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1st 2009 Sunkist-CHOC race

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Newport Beach, CA

Saturday and Sunday had 111 boats race in Balboa Yacht Club's Sunkist Series #1 benefiting the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). The racing was tight with many Ullman Sails customers coming home with trophies!Sunday's trophy winners included John Turpin and Ray Godwin's Farr 40 "Temptress" (2nd Class A), Bill Taylor's R/P 42 "Scavenger' (1st Class C), Jim Kerrigan's Olson 30 "Eris", Pete Johnstone's Schock 35 "Whistler", Roger Gooding's Evelyn 32 "Rhythm", Brian & Betsey Dougherty's J-105 "Legacy", Jeff Burch's J-105 "Hot Ticket" and Mark Wyland's J-105 "Lucky Star (2nd-7th Class D) and all with Ullman Sails inventories!

-Saturday (Inside) Race Results-

-Sunday (Outside) Race Results-

-more pictures-

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Sunkist Series #4 Outside Course

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Newport Beach, California
The rain came and went, the wind came and stayed. Racers enjoyed perfect 10-12 knot winds for Balboa Yacht Club's Sunkist Series #4. Many of the PHRF classes had the top spots up for grabs in their class's and Sunday's race would determine the podium position. Class "A" had IT'S OK and Radical Departure going head to head with IT'S OK beating Radical on the tie breaker! IT'S OK sails with a partial inventory from Ullman Sails.

AMANTE dominated Class B with straight bullets all four races! Maybe AMANTE can use this speed to bring home the "silver" in the upcoming Newport-CABO race!? Good Luck! Scavenger, Bill Taylor's R/P 42 was a solid second place for the series beating their nemesis "Reliance" handily on Sunday. Both AMANTE and Scavenger sail with inventories from Ullman Sails!

Class C was up for grabs going into Sunday, Double Time, Legacy, and Whistler were in a 3-way tie for first. Legacy led race #4 from start to finish and thought victory was at hand (by 1 second corrected over Double Time), but the official resultes showed a tie on corrected time with Double Time. The RC took the time out to the hundredths position and the time was still the same. BYC handed out two first place finishes and gave Double Time the Series trophy for beating Legacy back during race #3! Close finish!

CHA CHA CHA took class D with consistent finishes in the top three all series.Pussy Cat was the winner of Class E finishing just ahead of ELAN and CAMPAIGN II who sail with Ullman Sail inventories.

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full results -click here-

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Sunkist Series #3 Outside Course

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Newport Beach, CA
Balboa Yacht Club's Sunkist Series #3 did not disappoint. Racers were greeted with perfect 10-13 knots of wind from the SW-W. It looked like all the fleets got out of the harbor with good wind and tacked up the beach to the far and mid windward marks. Spinnakers were set and the fleet raced back to the entrance turning buoy "J" for the headsail dog leg to the short finish. Remember racers, 5 knot speed limit in the harbor!

The next race for the outside course classes is February 8th. Many of the classes are up for grabs and the final race #4 will be the deciding race! Class "C" has a three way tie for first place with "Legacy", Whistler" and "Doubletime". Check back after race #4 to see who the winner is!

Check Sunskist Series results -click here-
Legacy onboard pictures of race#3 -click here-

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Sunkist Series #3 Inside Course

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Newport Beach, CASome wind, some clouds, some sun, some cold weather and some boats gets you some great racing. That was the recipe for Balboa Yacht Club’s Saturday inside small boat course. The racers were excited about the chance of good wind that eluded racers during the first two Sunkist Series. But, heavy on the racers and sailing community mind was the news of local and national hero and Para-Olympic Gold Medalist Nick Scadone who lost his battle with ALS on Friday morning. Nick’s Sabot was available as a”boat bouquet” at BYC for people to bring flowers in his memory.

for more Sunkist#3 Inside Course story -click here-

More pictures from “Mischievous” –click here-

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