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No surprise, JY #3511 rounding the windward mark first. MICHAEL MELLA
How many boats? Perhaps six with just inches between each of them. The weather mark is “buried” somewhere in the middle of the pack! MICHAEL MELLA
A “picture perfect” start in the first race with the ultimate winning team of David Whelan and Sinéad FitzGibbon (3511) smartly choosing the pin end, far right. MICHAEL MELLA
Rounding the weather mark is not for the fainthearted! Another stalwart club team, Derrick Galen and Amelia Steelman, sails now eased, are in the foreground heading for the gybe mark. MICHAEL MELLA
In only two of the six races did David Whelan and Sinéad FitzGibbon not cross the finish line first! MICHAEL MELLA
David Whelen and Sinéad FitzGibbon took home the gold in Sunday's JY15 regatta, crossing the finish line first in four of the six races. The award was presented by fleet caption and former club commodore Bud Rodgers, who earlier aided the current commodore, Nick Gazzolo, tally the score aboard the race committee motor yacht Sweet Pea, skippered by Marty Knab. MICHAEL MELLA
David Whelen and Sinéad FitzGibbon took home the gold in Sunday's JY15 regatta, crossing the finish line first in four of the six races. The award was presented by fleet caption and former club commodore Bud Rodgers, who earlier aided the current commodore, Nick Gazzolo, tally the score aboard the race committee motor yacht Sweet Pea, skippered by Marty Knab. MICHAEL MELLA
David Whelan and Sinéad FitzGibbon out in front, about to T-bone the photo boat! Boat #88, on the opposite tack, is last year’s winning son/mom team Seth Barrows and Joan Butler. Sunday, racing against 13 boats, they finished in a respectable third place. MICHAEL MELLA
The beauty of a downwind reach! MICHAEL MELLA
Concentration is the name of the game! From left: Charlotte LeClue/Ellie Goldberg, Joshua LeClue/Will Rains (foreground), #3508 Julian Barrowcliffe/Jen Theiss and #2018 Trevor VonKaenel/Sara Nightingale. MICHAEL MELLA
Seth Barrows and Joan Butler, hiking out after rounding the weather mark, while #2416 Colin Schneider and Andrew Schneider and second place overall father/son duo #2211 Will and Paul Priebe approach the mark. MICHAEL MELLA
A JY pas de deux! MICHAEL MELLA
Look who squeezed in the middle of Lee Oldak/Sarah Alford (#8) and the Trevor VonKaenel/Sara Nightingale team (#2018): David Whelen and Sinéad FitzGibbon (#3511)! MICHAEL MELLA
Another close-quarters mark rounding, overall winner #3511 smack in the middle. MICHAEL MELLA
Boats heading for the gybe mark, sails eased for the broad reach. MICHAEL MELLA
JY’s jockeying for position after the start in race number four. RC boat’s anchor line can be seen in the foreground. MICHAEL MELLA
Hiking out to maintain an even angle of heel on a windward leg. MICHAEL MELLA
Charlotte LeClue at the helm with Ellie Goldberg “manning” the gybe sheet, poised for action. MICHAEL MELLA
David Whelan and Sinéad FitzGibbon, once again out in front. Note the seagull aloft keeping a bird’s eye view on the action. MICHAEL MELLA
Lee Oldak, left, owner/skipper of the hard-to-beat sloop Purple Haze on every Wednesday night race, on port tack, giving room to privileged starboard tack skipper Dylan Abel. MICHAEL MELLA
Lee Oldak alters course a few degrees to keep the approaching boat from striking him off his port quarter. MICHAEL MELLA
Lee Oldak, here on his JY15 and throughout the summer skippering Purple Haze, exhibits the concentration needed to win, while Sarah Alford fine-tunes the jib. MICHAEL MELLA
Broad reaching, some boats “wing and wing.” The tiny red PFD clad/white hat person below the boom of #88 is none other than Sinéad FitzGibbon; she and David Whelen on their way to another win. MICHAEL MELLA
Mayhem at a mark rounding! One can hear “STARBOARD!” being yelled, demanding room, from one end of this fleet to the other. MICHAEL MELLA
