2002 Big Boat Series. The weather was great and everyone was glad to be sailing. The regatta started with a touching wreath ceremony in honor of the 9/11 tragedy and ended on a glorious Sunday BayTour race. Good Timin' showed her muscle and won the 7 race Big Boat Series by posting a very consistent and impressive 1,3,1,4,7,1,2 total of 19 in a very competitive fleet of 33 boats. Good Timin' was the only boat to not take a deep score and proved her overall skill in a variety of sailing and racing conditions. Blackhawk 11,6,16,2,1,2,1 total 39 beat Nantucket Sleighride 2,4,4,5,8,11,5 total of 39 in a tie breaker followed by Zuni Bear 10,5,2,3,3,15,4 total 42 and Irrational Again 7,7,8,1,5,3,15 total of 46.

Thursday and Friday saw racing on the TI course with a finish at the StFYC race deck. The fleet raced the classic double sausage courses in 15 to 25 knots of wind against building flood tides. Most boats went for tide relief in the Cone of Alcatraz while a few brave souls tried (unsuccessfully) to go up the City Front. Thursday finsihes saw both upwind and downwind finishes at the StFYC race deck which was quite nice viewing, but nerve wracking finishing. On top of everything else, the Ellison yacht Ronin decided to watch just east of the breakwater and made a 75 yard city front lane into a 25 yard lance for both hard charging Farr 40s and short tacking J105s! On Friday, the race committe got everyone finsihing in the same direction.

Saturday started with a long up down course followed by a TI to City Front race deck finish. The fleet again went up the cone (all of them) but a few tried leaving Alcatraz to port....which did not really work out. The winds picked up and several boats found an advantage working the shore in the second race. Sunday was the classic bay tour race from temporaries near TI, Yellow Bluff, A/B Race Deck, TI, Blackaller, race deck spinnaker run finish. Knowing the last race of the season was up, the J105 fleet got off under a Black Flag after 2 generals and an i flag. The Fleet worked its way to Yellow Bluff only to be rolled by the Farr 40s on the mark rounding and reach to the StFYC.

Winning bullets in the BBS were Good Timin' (race 1,3 and 6), Blackhawk (race 5 & 7), Irrational Again in race 4 and Arbitrage in race 2. Other good showings were put in by Irrational Again for overall 5th, Zuni Bear's 2,3,3,4,5, Nantucket's steady 2,4,4,5,5,8, Walloping Swede with a 5 top tens and a 3 on Sunday, Charade iwth a 2,3,4,4, Tiburon with 5 top tens, Jabberwocky with a pair of 8s, Bandwidth with a 6,8, Orion iwth a 6, Bella Rosa with a 7,7,9, Natural blonde with a 6, Jose Cuervo with a 8,9,11, Horse Play moving up to a 17 overall, Hazardous Waste with a 6, and Juxtapose with a 21,23. Congratulations to all who competed and we all look forward to next season.
RANK
BOAT
SAIL
SKIPPER
HULL
POINTS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1
Good Timin
35
Perkins / Wilson
35
19
1
3
1
4
7
1
2
2
Blackhawk
28682
Dean Dietrich
40
39
11
6
16
2
1
2
1
3
Nantucket Sleighride
414
Peter Wagner
414
39
2
4
4
5
8
11
5
4
Zuni Bear
284
Bergman / Bennett
284
42
10
5
2
3
3
15
4
5
Irrational Again
46456
Jaren Leet
152
46
7
7
8
1
5
3
15
6
Arbitrage
116
Bruce Stone
116
51
12
1
3
7
2
14
12
7
Walloping Swede
157
Tom Kassburg
157
55
9
11
7
11
9
5
3
8
Charade
111
Tom Coates
111
63
3
2
21
15
4
4
14
9
Wind Dance
375
Pugh / Littfin
375
76
4
10
6
19
13
6
18
10
Tiburon
265
Steve Stroub
265
78
5
9
5
8
20
22
9
11
Jabberwocky
149
Brent Vaughn
149
88
13
8
20
16
10
13
8
12
Bandwidth
405
Roland van der Meer
405
89
15
21
11
14
14
8
6
13
Orion
28905
Gary Kneeland
44
92
18
12
12
6
12
10
22
14
Bella Rosa
128
David Tambellini
128
93
14
16
22
9
18
7
7
15
Natural Blonde
173
Deisinger / Cooper / Thom
173
95
6
14
15
12
11
27
10
16
Jose Cuervo
28558
Sam Hock
42
103
8
15
23
20
17
9
11
17
Horse Play
400
Richard Parker
400
125
29
18
9
13
26
17
13
18
Advantage 3
84
Pat Benedict
84
130
21
20
24
10
23
16
16
19
Hazardous Waste
388
Sack / Cihak / Youngling
388
133
20
13
13
28
6
19
34
20
Kookaburra
28438
Craig Mudge
338
144
19
19
14
21
19
32
20
21
Wianno
28142
John Sullivan
181
155
24
30
18
18
32
12
21
22
Whisper
355
Eden Kim
355
159
16
24
10
34
30
18
27
23
Just Foolin Around
266
Paul Dines
266
159
25
17
25
30
15
21
26
24
Larrikin
337
Stuart Taylor
337
164
23
26
30
24
24
20
17
25
Alchemy
275
Struttmann / Sanford
275
164
17
31
17
23
28
24
24
26
Capricorn
196
Bill Booth
196
167
32
23
19
22
22
26
23
27
Lightwave
319
Richard Craig
319
170
28
22
31
29
16
25
19
28
Bald Eagles
347
Paul / Ligget
347
173
22
25
26
17
25
30
28
29
Juxtapose
268
Ariel Poler
268
192
27
32
29
26
21
23
34
30
Jupiter
468
Paul Farr
468
193
26
28
27
25
33
29
25
31
Pippin
217
David Owen
217
206
30
27
28
27
31
33
30
32
Energy
46060
Jamie Isbester
71
218
31
29
32
34
27
31
34
33
Anna Laura
382
Grossman / Kaiser
382
222
34
34
34
34
29
28
29
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