PCISA News

The PCISA team race championships were held on April 28 - 29, 2001, hosted by The San Francisco Yacht Club. The venue was San Francisco Bay, in the Richmond Harbor channel. Richmond Yacht Club was kind enough to allow the regatta to use their harbor and access. Seven teams participated: Corona del Mar HS (Corona del Mar), Coronado HS (Coronado), Marin Catholic HS (Kentfield), Newport Harbor HS (Newport Beach), Redwood HS (Larkspur), Robert Louis Stevenson School (Pebble Beach) and University of San Diego High School (San Diego).

Two evenly matched 6 boat fleets were provided by the SFYC youth training program for the competition. One fleet consisted of 2001 vintage Vanguard boats, the other fleet consisted of 1999 vintage Johnson boats. Sails were provided by PCISA. Two full round robins (42 races) were completed, then a "final four" round robin was sailed, for a total of 48 races. On Saturday the first race was started at approximately 11:00 am. Skies were partly cloudy, with wind speeds of 10 - 12 knots. As the day cleared, the breeze built steadily. Most of the races were run in wind speeds of 12 - 15 knots. Because the wind and tide were in the same direction for almost the whole day, the water was relatively flat. The final races were run at approximately 6:00 pm. 34 races were run on Saturday. On Sunday the first races were run at approximately 11:00 am in sunny conditions with wind speeds of 8 - 10 knots, building to 12 - 15 knots during the day. The second round robin was completed, and the final four round robin commenced. The last race was run and the sailors left the course area at 2:00 pm. Racing was generally tight, and the final results had to go to tiebreakers for first and second place as well as third and fourth place.

Final results are indicated below:

                         Round  Round   Final
                 robin 1 robin 2  four Overall
   
1.  Coronado HS     5 - 1  5 - 1  2 - 1  12 - 3
2.  University HS  5 - 1  5 - 1  2 - 1  12 - 3
3.  Newport Harbor HS  3 - 3  4 - 2  2 - 1  9 - 6
4.  Marin Catholic HS  5 - 1  4 - 2  0 - 3  9 - 6
5.  Corona del Mar HS  2 - 4  1 - 5    --  3 - 3
6.  Redwood HS          1 - 5  1 - 5    --  2 - 10
7.  Robert Louis Stevenson0 - 6  1 - 5    --  1 - 11

In the tiebreakers, Coronado defeated University of San Diego 3 - 0 for 1st place, and Newport Harbor defeated Marin Catholic 2 - 1 for third. As such, Coronado HS, University of San Diego HS and Newport Harbor HS will represent PCISA at the Baker championship.
Race by race results were:

Round robin #1 -

1. Marin Catholic d. Corona Del Mar
2. Coronado d. Newport Harbor
3. University of San Diego d. Redwood
4. Corona del Mar d. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Marin Catholic d. Newport Harbor
6. Coronado d. University of San Diego
7. Redwood d. Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Newport Harbor d. Corona del Mar
9. University of San Diego d. Marin Catholic
10. Coronado d. Robert Louis Stevenson
11. Corona del Mar d. Redwood
12. University of San Diego d. Newport Harbor
13. MC d. Robert Louis Stevenson
14. Coronado d. Corona del Mar
15. Newport Harbor d. Redwood
16. University of San Diego d. Robert Louis Stevenson
17. MC d. Coronado
18. University of San Diego d. Corona del Mar
19. MC d. Redwood
20. Newport Harbor d. Robert Louis Stevenson
21. Coronado d. Redwood

Round robin #2

22. Marin Catholic d. Corona del Mar
23. Coronado d. Newport Harbor
24. University of San Diego d. Redwood
25. Corona del Mar d. Robert Louis Stevenson
26. Newport Harbor d. Marin Catholic
27. Coronado d. University of San Diego
28. Robert Louis Stevenson d. Redwood
29. Newport Harbor d. Corona del Mar
30. University of San Diego d. Marin Catholic
31. Coronado d. Robert Louis Stevenson
32. Corona del Mar d. Redwood
33. University of San Diego d. Newport Harbor
34. Marin Catholic d. Robert Louis Stevenson
35. Coronado d. Corona del Mar
36. Newport Harbor d. Redwood
37. University of San Diego d. Robert Louis Stevenson
38. Marin Catholic d. Coronado
39. University of San Diego d. Corona del Mar
40. Marin Catholic d. Redwood
41. Newport Harbor d. Robert Louis Stevenson
42. Coronado d. Redwood

Final four -
1. Coronado d. Marin Catholic
2. University of San Diego d. Newport Harbor
3. Newport Harbor d. Marin Catholic
4. Coronado d. University of San Diego
5. University of San Diego d. Marin Catholic
6. Newport Harbor d. Coronado

Overall it was a very good weekend of sailing, with plenty of racing. I want to thank all of the teams for their participation, as well as thanking The San Francisco and Richmond Yacht Clubs for their support. I'm confident that PCISA will be well represented at Tabor.