2008 Results Page

     The 2008 event was our 25th regatta. Lots of celebrations were had about that including a cake with candles and a poster that everyone signed for display in the trophy case.  Saturday morning we were greeted with flat water and nearly no breeze. We went out, sailed a leg and the committee towed the fleet home for lunch.

     After lunch we were greeted by 3 to 12 mph winds from the East. Easterly winds must cross over 1200 foot hills before arriving at 680 foot above seal level Lake Travis. The winds were consistently centered around about 90 degrees but the winds were extremely tricky to navigate.  The fleet enjoyed four fine 45 minute races at the front and endured four annoying one hour races at the back. The near perfect sunny blue sky day made up for any suffering on the course.

     Sunday morning the fleet was greeted by cooler temperatures and cloudy skies and lots of wind. The wind again centered around easterly but the shifts were huge and the velocity changes were outrageous. Even the sailors at the top of the fleet occasionally found themselves fully hiked and lying in the water while frantically yanking their tillers to avoid a weather capsize or the dreaded "in irons while backing past the fleet" condition.

     Eric Faust had a weekend to remember. He was leading the event after six races and all he really needed to do was sail around the course a couple more times to claim the title. He made it through 2 1/2 of the four weather legs and then drifted back to the harbor with a torn sail and a three piece mast. As Eric Frantically scrambled to find parts, a sail and re-rig he was unaware Doug Kern, who won race seven and led the regatta by 4 points had more important things to do than sail the last race. Doug has young daughters and, when your kids are that age, Easter egg hunts trump sailboat races. Eric returned to the course with a six point lead and his favorite left side favored shifty wind conditions.

     Gavin Rudolph took off the official Easter Champion Belt and presented it to Eric.

Yellow means: signed up as Radial. The Radial fleet was too small so full rigs were provided and  rig switching per race condition for the yellow highlighted numbers was absolutely encouraged.

2008 Easter Laser Regatta                      
                       
Pos Name Sail # Race 1 Racce 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5  Race 6 Race 7 Race 8 TOTAL W/ Drop
1 Eric Faust 4020 2 1 2 2 2 1 22 3 35 13
2 Doug Kern 1275 1 5 3 1 6 11 1 22 50 28
3 Don Brown 8268 5 13 8 3 3 3 3 4 42 29
4 Doug Peckover 9482 16 2 5 12 1 8 2 1 47 31
5 Bruce Martinson 9089 9 9 12 5 5 7 5 6 58 46
6 Gavin Rudolph 8103 8 7 6 6 4 6 11 20 68 48
7 Neall Martin 9947 13 15 4 15 10 5 4 2 68 53
8 Fred Schroth 5002 6 8 9 7 11 2 12 13 68 55
9 Ravi Subramanian 8699 4 10 1 11 13 17 10 7 73 56
10 David Morgan 1854 18 4 11 10 7 10 8 9 77 59
11 James Freedman 1032 7 16 16 16 8 4 9 5 81 65
12 David Grogono 6263 17 12 15 4 15 9 17 10 99 82
13 Shawn Ryan 8900 15 18 17 9 14 18 14 8 113 95
14 Bob Wolf 11 14 17 7 18 20 13 16 19 124 104
15 Bruce Moore 6854 22 19 20 20 9 15 7 16 128 106
16 Bill Mitchell 8139 21 22 23 22 12 16 6 11 133 110
17 Charie Buller 5852 10 6 10 13 22 30 30 30 151 121
18 Kevin Gunn 3081 11 23 18 23 24 23 20 18 160 136
19 Colin Feik 111 27 24 25 36 17 17 13 14 173 137
20 Nicholas Huffeldt 1058 20 25 21 26 18 21 21 12 164 138
21 Luke Holmes 7677 3 20 24 8 30 30 30 30 175 145
22 Robert Goodson 5858 12 11 14 19 30 30 30 30 176 146
23 Steve Ehlers 658 30 28 29 28 19 14 15 15 178 148
24 Cal Herman 2308 24 14 28 27 16 12 30 30 181 151
25 Mike Mashl 1157 31 35 22 25 21 22 18 17 191 156
26 Renee Ruais – R 2453 19 21 13 14 30 30 30 30 187 157
27 Nelson Reynolds 1911 29 3 19 21 30 30 30 30 192 162
28 Pierre Bossart 5239