Boomerang Regatta

Lauderdale Yacht Club,
Lauderdale, Florida
Jan 24-25, 2009

Lauderdale Yacht Club hosted over 208 junior sailors for the 2009 Boomerang. The race is named for the unique course configuration sailed by the Opti Fleet to accommodate a sand bar just off the shore of the LYC facility.

Again this year, the Optimist Green class was divided into Opti-Green (37 boats) and Opti Yellow (38 boats) to accommodate the number of sailors. Despite the large number of entrants, and an atypical north wind which necessitated a 2-hr postpone for the Opti Course, Regatta Chairman Are Friesecke and the team at LYC managed to get four races for the Opti Course on Saturday, and five races on the ocean course (for Laser, Laser Radials and Club 420s).

Sunday's conditions were a bit more difficult, the wind never settled in for the Opti course, but the Ocean course managed to get another three races in. Results for the event:

Opti Green (37 boats) -- 3 Races

1. Olivier Grup (PBSC) - 1,1,4 -- 6 pts.
   
2. Blair Lalor (PBSC) - 5,4,6 -- 15 pts.
3. Brooke Conrad (MRPF) - 9,5,2 -- 16 pts.

Opti Yellow (38 boats) -- 3 Races

1. Zachary Jordan (SYSP) - 1,2,2 -- 5 pts.
2. Shawn Harvey (CRYC) - 2,10,4 -- 16 pts.
3. Dillon Riera (CRYC) - 3,14,1 -- 18 pts.

Opti Red (27 boats) -- 4 Races

1. Christopher Williford (LYC) - 1,1,3,1 -- 6 pts.
2. Elliot Caple (NCSC) - 5,2,4,3 -- 14 pts.
3. Christopher Craven - (LYC) 3,7,8,2 -- 20 pts.

Opti Blue (33 boats) -- 4 Races

1. Wade Waddell (LYC,PBSC) - 1,2,2,2 -- 7 pts.
2. Kai Friesecke (LYC) - 3,3,3,1 -- 10 pts.
3. Scott Ewing (CRYC) - 2,1,1,10 -- 14 pts.

Opti White (28 boats) -- 4 Races

1. Ian MacDiarmid (PBSC/BHYC/Team M) - 1,1,4,2 -- 8 pts.
2. Sean Brennan (CRYC) - 4,2,2,12 -- 20 pts.
   
3. Jensen McTighe (LYC) - 5,7,1,10 -- 23 pts.
   

Laser (8 boats) -- 8 Races

1. Mike Matan (CPYC) - (3),1,1,1,1,1,1,3,3 -- 11 pts.
2. Michelle Davis (CGSC) - 1,4,2,2,2,3,4,(6) -- 18 pts.
3. Chalmers Pierce (ESC) - 2,(5),4,4,5,2,1,1 -- 19 pts.

Laser Radial (23 boats) -- 8 Races

1. Erika Reineke (LYC) - 1,2,(6),1,2,4,2,3 -- 15 pts.
2. Dodge Rees (PYC) - 3,4,4,4,1,2,1,(18) -- 19 pts.
3. Edgar Diminich (FLYC) - (9),3,1,3,5,1,7,1 -- 21 pts.

Laser 4.7 (6 boats) -- 8 Races

1. Mallory Willett (SPYC) - 1,2,1,1,1,1,1,(4) -- 8 pts.
2. Danny Friedman (USSCMS) - (4),3,2,4,2,2,3,3 -- 19 pts.
3. Kayla Ellis (BBYC) - 3,4,(5),3,5,4,2,1 -- 22 pts.

Club 420 (8 boats) -- 8 Races

1. Chanel Miller/Christina Lewis (LYC) - 1,1,1,1,1,(3),1,3 -- 9 pts.
2. Axel Sly/Mac Agnese (LYC) - 2,(7),3,2,4,1,2,2 -- 16 pts.
   
3. Julian Harris/Megan Place (LYC) - 4,3,2,(5),2,2,3,1 -- 17 pts.