Summer Tally Races J30
Regionals Narragansett Bay 7
spin legs -- 10 +2 Newport YC
6 spin legs -- 6
cancelled no wind --
4 Narragansett Bay Yachting Assn.
1 spin legs -- 2 JYC --
1, spin legs --
1 [Vee Jayers on J30 Rhapsody] Sail
Newport Blind National Regatta
4 [Vee Jayers on Sail Newport
J/22]
Training Camp: Program A -- 18, spin legs --
20, spin peels --
2 Program B -- 1
[Vee
Jayers on Schooner Lynx] Program C -- 2 NYC 420
practice
[Vee Jayers on NYC 420s]
September, 2012 ... Blind
Nationals Naples Team hosted by Vee Jay in
Newport
The Collier
County/Naples team of Kris Scheppe, driver; Bill Meismer, coach/tactician; Lee
Gates, jib trimmer; and Tina Kurys, main trimmer; participated in the U.S.
Blind Nationals in Newport. After one day of practice on Vee Jay and one day
practice in J/22 Boat 1 at 7-12 kts breeze ... the first day of racing saw
steady 17 with shifty gusts to 25.
Unfortunately, Tina got caught in the main sheet during a gibe and broke her
arm in the first race. The fleet shared a number of roundups going upwind, and
a number of unexpected gibes sailing directly downwind on the W/L course just
north of
Ft. Adams and between Goat and Rose Islands. Tina, after
a painful second race, was off-loaded to a coach boat, shipped over to Newport
YC, then to the Newport Hospital emergency room.
Fortunately ER was empty when she
arrived, so they were able to splint up her arm so that she was able to make it
back to Sail Newport for the Saturday afternoon after racing Beer
Bash.
The Team was unable to find a blind
substitute as required by the rules, but RC allowed Cap'n Vic to take her place
on Sunday. Fortunately, Sunday the wind was 7-12. And the team was scored 5th.
Kris, Coach Bill, Tina, and Lee
[Sat. Photos from Vee Jay by Dan
Kurys]
August, 2012 ... Opti NE Green Fleet RC by Newport Yacht Club
NYC Race
Committee in charge of keeping 40 "Green" Fleet boats busy. Over 300 boats
participated.
Solid day of racing just north of Ft. Adams.
Cap'n Vic on the RC working a camera. One of the spin legs picked up a rain
shower that cooled everyone off. For More
420s in action click here.
July, 2012 ... Tall Ships
Newport
Vee Jay was on the water
nearly a week checking out Newport's Tall Ships.
June/July, 2012 ... America's Cup
Action
Vee
Jay crew helped out at the Oliver Hazard Perry Tall Ship exhibit at Ft. Adams
during AC week, which got us on site every
day. TK's skills at video
games won him a guided tour of the "gated" Oracle camp
including introduction to some team members.
June 2012 ... Quonset Air
Show
Conditions were just right to spin up
bay for the Air Show.
June 2012 ... Newport to Bermuda
Start
This year may have been the first
of these races that Vee Jay was at a spinnaker start. Spinnaker conditions ran
most of the race.
The 90 ft maxi Rambler
cut 14 hours off the record and did the 635 mile race in 39 hr, 39
min.
Looked like they had 20 on the crew.
[Photos from the deck of Vee Jay off Castle Hill Lighthouse by
TK]
Race Committee boat complete with
tent and lounge chair viewing platform.
May 2012 ... Following along with
the Class 40s ... "Inshore" race to Beavertail and Back
Following
their double-handed race fom Charleston, SC, these Class 40 boats finished the
2012 Atlantic Cup with a
traditional race to Beavertail and Back.
Vee Jay kept them company for most of the way to Beavertail.
For this race they could have up to six on the
crew, and you could tell the faster boats had the full crew and were able to
tack the two headsails easily.
Vee Jay
had just Paul and Cap'n Vic ... we were doing OK, down the East passage, till
the tack lengths opened up.
2012 Newport Race
Crew Eric -- Port
trimmer Dyanne -- Sewer Jens -- Main trim --
Ji -- Main trim -- Jimmy -- Port
trimmer Johnny -- Starboard trimmer
Lisa--Sewer and Photos Mikko --
Mast Ron -- Starboard trimmer Paul -- --
Foredeck TK -- Main trim and photos {Vee Jayer's Teen
Recruiter} Vic -- Skipper Dr. Helen -- Vee
Jayer's Ship's Doctor