Perrrfect
Star man Phil Toth sends in this report…
Rolex Miami OCR 2010
Day 3
Today getting to the start was very interesting to say the least…some boats found that getting there on time in the light air required rocking and pumping, dodging islands or skimming over shoals, and even breaking out the paddle, and in our case all 4.
The 5 minute gun fired when we were 5 minutes and 45 seconds away from the start line. Things were looking pretty grim but 10 seconds after the start, as we were rounding the back of the committee boat to cross the start line, we were as deep in the fleet as a porn star taking it in the seat meat. Just then the sailing gods smiled upon us and the abandon race flag was hoisted due to a large wind shift. They say it is better to be lucky than good…it just seems that the good guys always seem to be able to make luck happen when they need it to…
Today’s conditions were about as perfect as you could ask for…temp in the 70s with 8-12kts and a few shifts to keep you on your toes. Most other sailing towns do not get it this nice at the best of times. This event is so popular since conditions are this nice in the middle of winter here in Miami. Many times through the day you often hear how horrible the weather is where ever that sailor is from, Boston 18F, Paris 32F and so on. Out on Biscayne Bay the wind tended to be a bit more stable throughout the day than yesterday with not as much of a persistent shift.
The leaders stayed pretty much the same with the biggest move being Andy "Slump Buster" McDonald and crew Austin Sperry jumping up from 5th to 3rd over all, taking the red jersey from Mark Mendelblatt and John Von Schwarz who dropped down a spot into 4th. Coming into the finish of race 3 "Slump Buster" McDonald was well established on the port lay line coming in for a pin end finish when Mark "Splat" Mendelblatt came streaking across on starboard and took both boats into a dial up head to wind. Shortly after Mendelblatt tacked over onto port and crossed the line in second with Andy McDonald in 3rd. Mendelblatt probably wont be expecting to many waves through on port from Andy tomorrow after cleanly executing that little cute maneuver. Results. Photo Rolex / Dan Nerney.
| Pos | Sail | Skipper | Crew | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Total Points |
Pos |
| 1 | 8156 | Horton, Andy | Lyne, James | USA | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | [5] | 11.00 | 1 |
| 2 | 8317 | Melleby, Eivind | Pedersen, Petter Morland | NOR | 1 | 11 | 2 | [20] | 1 | 1 | 16.00 | 2 |
| 3 | 8250 | Macdonald, Andrew | Sperry, Austin | USA | 3 | 5 | 12 | [16] | 5 | 3 | 28.00 | 3 |
| 4 | 8267 | Mendelblatt, Mark | Von Schwarz, John | USA | 8 | 8 | 1 | 11 | [25/OCS] | 2 | 30.00 | 4 |
| 5 | 8376 | Smith, Jud | Fatih, Brian | USA | 5 | 4 | [19] | 14 | 2 | 8 | 33.00 | 5 |
| 6 | 8273 | Szabo, George | peters, rick | USA | 6 | 3 | 9 | [15] | 7 | 10 | 35.00 | 6 |
| 7 | 8263 | Jorissen, Sander | veldhuizen, erik | USA | 9 | [13] | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 37.00 | 7 |
| 8 | 8169 | Zanetti, Alberto | Warburg, Gustavo | ARG | 15 | 2 | [18] | 9 | 6 | 7 | 39.00 | 8 |
| 9 | 8235 | Johansson, Oskar | Hynes, James | CAN | 11 | [14] | 5 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 40.00 | 9 |
| 10 | 8278 | Milner, Mike | Cheer, Roger | CAN | 4 | 7 | 11 | [13] | 9 | 12 | 43.00 | 10 |
| 11 | 8404 | Whipple, Larry | wolfs, mike | USA | 17 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 11 | [23] | 47.00 | 11 |
| 12 | 8215 | Allen, Bill | Nichol, Mike | USA | 13 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 12 | [15] | 48.00 | 12 |
| 13 | 8107 | Mckenzie, Paul | toth, philip | AUS | [16] | 16 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 50.00 | 13 |
| 14 | 8000 | Anosov, Arthur | Dolan, Mark | USA | 10 | [20] | 4 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 54.00 | 14 |
| 15 | 8285 | Diaz, Augie | prada, bruno | USA | 12 | 6 | [25/DSQ] | 2 | 25/OCS | 11 | 56.00 | 15 |
| 16 | 8077 | Jennings, Jack | Sharp, Brian | USA | 7 | 12 | 15 | 22 | [25/OCS] | 13 | 69.00 | 16 |
| 17 | 8157 | Rodriguez, Ernesto | Giannini, Christian | USA | 18 | [21] | 21 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 73.00 | 17 |
| 18 | 8132 | Kohlhas, Jock | Gesing, Adam | USA | 19 | 15 | 6 | [23] | 17 | 21 | 78.00 | 18 |
| 19 | 8238 | McCorkell, Joe | Coleman, Ian | USA | 14 | 17 | [20] | 17 | 15 | 18 | 81.00 | 19 |
| 20 | 8271 | Cullen, Allan | Cullen, Rob | CAN | [23] | 22 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 82.00 | 20 |
| 21 | 8217 | Phinney, Mike | Balmert, Brad | USA | [20] | 18 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 86.00 | 21 |
| 22 | 8336 | O’Donnell, John | NGUYEN, HUY | USA | 22 | [23] | 17 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 96.00 | 22 |
| 23 | 7750 | Burmester, Jens | Mehlen, Markus | GER | 21 | 19 | 23 | [24] | 19 | 24 | 106.00 | 23 |
| 24 | 8084 | Teitge, Robert | Burgess, Rick | USA | [24] | 24 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 109.00 | 24 |
