The race committee put together a full schedule for today including all 3 disciplines (course racing, freestyle, and slalom). Here are a few of the action shots. Click on any of the photos below to see the full gallery for the event.
It didn’t look all that windy last night at Crissy and there was a 3 knot current so most sailors didn’t venture off the beach. Steve was absolutely flying on his slalom board and 7.3m North Sail, doing laps from the Golden Gate Bridge down to Alcatraz and back.
The formula racers were offered up a treat last night at their regularly scheduled 5:30 race. Normal conditions are that the breeze will die off as the evening progresses so sailors rig a bigger sail than needed for the first race to have enough power for later on. Yesterday evening was different. At the skippers’ meeting, race office John Craig reviewed the weather forecast, winds solid 28mph with gusts over 30, and gave the sailors a choice. Did they want to race formula or get in some freestyle and slalom practice. The choice was made and instead of the normal 10-11m sail, the sailors rigged up their 5-6m sails.
As always, if you see yourself in any of the photos, please add a comment with your name. Then I can group all your photos together for you like this: Steve Bodner, Al Mirel, David Wells, Jean Rathle.
I stopped by Crissy Field yesterday after work and got a few shots of Steve Bodner and Soheil Zahedi getting in some good slalom sailing. They were both using 7.3m North sails but different 105l boards. The water was amazingly flat in near the beach making for some fast jibes. At 8pm they were still going strong. Check it out…
