FBYC Juniors Shine in Hyannis

Strother Scott on Monday August 3, 2009 04:47PM

Alain Vincey called in today and was so excited he could hardly stop speaking. Bottom line, he reported that the FBYC Junior Racing team had "swept" the racing at the Hyannis Yacht Club's Regatta for One-Design and PHRF classes. http://www.hyannisyachtclub.org Quoting HYC "This is the premier regatta on Cape Cod drawing boats from as far west as Chicago, as far south as Annapolis, and as far north as Canada." Perhaps HYC should have added "as far south as Deltaville, VA"

Results are posted at here.

In the Laser Radial - FBYC sailors got 2, 7, 11 and 12 (being Kyle Swenson, Ben Buhl, Madeleine Alderman, and Austin Powers) but I am told the contestants included adults, so in fact Kyle Swenson was the first Junior - actually tied for first and lost the tie-breaker.

In the Optis, FBYC got 1, 2, 4 and 8 among 45 optis. The names were Alex Hanna, Graeme Alderman, Erin Jacob, and Jeremy Herrin.

In the 420, Alex Jacob rebounded to finish 17 out of 105 420s - and that was counting his DNC in Race 1. Alain said he was the only boat the set his spinnaker in the heavy air conditions - and paid the price with a broach and a bent-broken mast - which was replaced for racing the next day by the hard working shore staff - including father James Jacob and Alain Vincey who also competed in the Full Rig and Radial Rig classes, respectively.

Congratulations to all!!!

FBYC Juniors Shine in Hyannis

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