Brian Shenstone’s Drago wins the 2010 Class Championship held in conjunction with Annapolis Race Week
This is Team Dragos 5th Cal 25 National Championship. (Results Below)



Bob Orr from Draco Shared his story from the 2010 Cal 25 National Championship
 
 
Hurricane Earl was brushing the outer banks of North Carolina as Brian Shenstone and Bob Orr's Cal 25 "Draco" arrived in Annapolis to sail in the 2010 Cal 25 National Regatta.  Harald Kolter, Art LeVasseur and Lee Shuckerow rounded out the crew.  Joanne Shenstone, Denise LeVasseur, Jerry and Fran Anderson also travelled to Annapolis to provide support - much of the time  from the bar at the Annapolis Yacht Club. 
 
A strong frontal system pushed the hurricane out to sea on Friday and gave us three beautiful days of warm, clear weather and mostly good winds.  On Saturday we sailed in an offshore 20 knot westerly with gusts to 30 knots.  Draco won the first race, placed second in the second race to former national champions Art and Scott Melendres from Long Beach, California, and won the third.  The wind on Sunday was not as strong but still out of the west.  Draco won the first race, but in the second race the wind died to drifting conditions and the local experts, Jimmy and Mike Praley on "Upchuck" (formerly “Chubby Pickle” from Detroit) used their local knowledge to advantage to win by a wide margin.  At the end of two days Draco led by four points over the Praleys and by eight points over the Californians. 
 
Labor Day was predicted to be light air, but a building southerly gave the fleet a good 15 knots to work with.  Draco won the first race, but incurred a protest at the start of the second race.  The only options available were a 20% penalty if acknowledged at the time of the protest, a 40% penalty at mediation, or the committee room.  We chose not to acknowledge.  Although we were 14
th off the starting line, we worked through the fleet to win the race.  The Praleys finished second and we calculated that if we beat them in the last race, we could take the 40% penalty and still win the regatta.  The California team won the last race, we were second and the Praleys finished third.  We took the 40% penalty at mediation, resulting in a one point victory and our fifth national championship in the last seven years.  Next year the nationals will be held in Detroit and we are looking forward to some great racing here!
 



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2010 ARW Fleet 3
Series Standing - 8 races scored
Regatta results saved: Monday, September 6, 2010 5:30:05 PM EDT


Division: Cal 25 (16 boats) (top)








Pos

Sail

Boat
Skipper

1

2345678Total
Points
Pos
1

1633

Draco
Brian Shenstone
Bob Orr

1

2
1
1
6
7/40%
1
2

21.00

1

2

453

Upchuck
, Jimmy/Mike Praley

2

4
4
4
1
2
2
3

22.00

2

3

17850

TBD
, Art & Scott Melendres

3

1
2
6
7
5
3
1

28.00

3

4

1606

Krigare
, Erik & Marty Lostrom

5

7
3
2
17/OCS
6
5
4

49.00

4

5

5854

Makani
, Jim Burdick

6

6
10
12
2
3
6
7

52.00

5

6

1226

White Cap
, Tim Bloomfield

4

5
6
14/20%
4
7
9
9

58.00

6

7

1242

One Eyed Jack
, Lee & Kyle Bollhorst

7

8
5
9/10%
12
8
4
6

59.00

7

8

896

Zephyr
, David Hoyt

17/RAF

12
7
3
5
4
12
8/20%

68.00

8

9

1651

Indefatigable
, Scott Sauvageot

8

3
11
10
9
13
10
10

74.00

9

10

503

ShOrT BuS
, Chris Sullivan

11

9
9
8
8
11
13
11/20%

80.00

10

11

1845

Hasty
, Will Farrell

17/DNS

10
8
9
14
10
7
11

86.00

11

12

1297

Quintet
, Mike Miller

10

13
12
5
13
12
8
17/DNS

90.00

12

13

1203

Harlequin
, Leo Surla

12

11
13
14
3
15
17/NoFin
17/DNS

102.00

13

14

1821

Cal Tip'n
, Kristi Merritt

9

17/DNS
14
15
10
14
14
17/DNS

110.00

14

15

1813

CL2
, Geoff Swanhart

17/DNS

17/DNS
17/DNS
13
11
9
11
17/DNS

112.00

15

16

1657

Chicken Little
, Charlie Husar

17/DNS

17/DNS
17/DNS
17/DNC
17/DNC
17/NoFin
17/NoFin
17/NoFin

136.00

16


Some Pictures from Team One Time.
Thanks to One Time crew Pat Graham.


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