After three days of a brutal winter whipping San Francisco bay with gale force winds, power outages, and trees blown down, the 83 competitors for the second installment of the Richmond Yacht Club Small Boat Midwinter Series were greeted by overcast conditions and light and variable winds.
With 10 one design classes and two open classes, the series is comprised of individual events in December, January, February and March. It includes separate race courses for junior sailors (Inside the Breakwater), multi-hulls, and centerboard classes. Conditions favored the Breakwater course where the Breakwater Open Classes, and one design classes got 6 races in. The Southhampton Courses still managed to get three races completed despite the light winds.
Top Finishers include:
El Toro Sr. (10 Boats)
- Gordie Nash (Richmond Yacht Club)
- Arthur Lange (HP Sailing Club)
- Michael Quinn (Richmond Yacht Club)
- Dane Perrott (Richmond Yacht Club
- Lauren Cefali (RYC/SFYC)
- Will Cefali (RYC/SFYC)
- Kyle Larsen (PYSF/SYC)
- Nabil Shahim (RYC)
- Laurie Davis (Inverness)
- Gail Yando (RYC)
- Mary Cefali (RYC)
- Andrew Hamilton (RYC)
- Colin Moore (RYC)
- Tim Russell (SFYC)
- Steven Bourdow (Sequoia Yacht Club)
- James Vernon
- Mark Halman (RYC)
- Stephen Hutchison (EYC)
- Zhanya Kirueshkin-Stepanoff (SCYC)
- Michael Spranger (Berkeley Yacht Club)
- Douglass McWilliams (Lake Washington Sailing Club)
- Ian O'leary (BYC)
- David Rasmussen III (RYC)
- Chris Currier (LW Sailing)
- David Anderson
- Greg Paxton (RYC)
- James Parker (City of Oakland)
The date of the next installment of the Small Boat Midwinters is Feb. 3, 2008
