GMC Yukon/Sailing World Chicago NOOD Regatta

June 11-13, 1999

S2 7.9 Results
Place Sail # Boat Name Race # 1 2 3 4 Total
1 432 K2 2 5 1 2 10
2 357 Bebop 1 6 7 3 17
3 542 Hand Tack 6 3 2 6 17
4 507 Second Wind 10 4 3 4 21
5 88 Ol' Blue Eyes 11 2 5 5 23
6 461 Crime Scene 3 9 11 1 24
7 395 Peregrine 7 1 8 10 26
8 13 Sadie Hawkins 4 7 6 9 26
9 15261 Painkiller 5 11 4 11 31
10 427 Stability Fact 8 8 10 7 33
11 22 Kaboom 9 10 9 8 36

When some 1200 racers arrived at the Chicago Yacht Club this morning for the final day of racing at the GMC Yukon/Sailing World NOOD Regatta, they were met with fog, rain and no wind on Lake Michigan.  With a slow-moving front that showed no signs of quickening its path across the Lake, the Race Committee postponed racing on land at 8:30 AM.   Racers went into waiting mode, while the Race Committee scrambled for every piece of information they could gather to determine their next step.

The Race Committee abandoned Race 5 at 11:15 AM.  The view from the weather maps -- which the committee had been consulting since 5 AM Sunday morning -- looked bleak.   And the picture on the water showed no more promise:  The southeast breeze dropped as low as 1 to 2 knots, with only a half-mile of visibility in the fog. 

Winds at the Chicago NOOD were generally light throughout the three-day series, with 5- to 8-knot breeze on Day 1 and 2- to 8-knot breeze on Day 2. 

S2 7.9s used the Chicago NOOD to vie for the class championship.  Doug Padnos (Holland, MI) broke free of a two-way tie for first after the first day of racing to capture the 1999 S2 Mid-West Regional Championship. Source: GMC Yukon/Sailing World NOOD web page)



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