Great breeze for day 1 of the Fall Pacific Coast Championship. Breeze came up about 11am from the ssw at about 4-5 knots. The first two races were sailed in that as the breeze began to shift to the sw and turn into a nice fall sea breeze maxing out at about 10-12 knots. 6 races were sailed in the C division, while b completed 5 races and A division finished 4 races. B and A fleets will start racing tomorrow. One protest was filed which will be heard tomorrow at report time.
The second day of the Fall Pacific Coast Championship brought less desirable conditions with a cloud ceiling that left the ocean glassed over. After attempting to set a course in a south easterly breeze that was extremely light, an on the water postponement commenced. The sailors were eventually sent to shore to be greeted by a southwesterly breeze shortly after. It filled at about 4-7 knots allowing for the race committee to finish 3 more races for the a division, 2 for b and 1 for c. It was very tight racing for the top spot with the Cardinal ultimately prevailing by one point over the Gauchos in the end and coming down to the finish of the last race.
The event is also scored with only two divisions for intersectional berth selection seeding.
Thank you so much to Noah DeLaurie, our on site emt and safety officer, as well as Rick Eickert and Lucas Pierce for assisting with varsity race course. The entire UCSB team helped run race committee on the jv course. Congratulations and thanks for participating go out to our northwest friends and all the teams in our conference.
The following chart shows the relative rank of the teams as of the race indicated. Note that the races are ordered by number, then division, which may not represent the order in which the races were actually sailed.
The first place team as of a given race will always be at the top of the chart. The spacing from one team to the next shows relative gains/losses made from one race to the next. You may hover over the data points to display the total score as of that race.