Weta Summer Sailstice organizer in SoCal managed to win himself an Easy Stow fender when he signed up for Summer Sailstice. At the end of the summer, during the America's Cup on San Francisco Bay, he traveled North to race at Richmond Yacht Club in the Weta West Coast Championships. He kept up his prize winning ways picking up a 3rd in a fleet of 14 Wetas. Keep it up Bruce.
Nice video and report from the growing West Coast Weta fleet:
The Weta West Coast Champs, held on the 21st and 22nd of September out of Richmond Yacht Club was good fun, with great race management by the women's Byte fleet (and some good AC related banter!) on a tricky tidal and shifty race course and with a great although sometimes distracting view of the America's Cup racing.
Saturday dawned light and shifty and Sunday started the same, but the breeze built through the day. Everyone was sitting out on the ama upwind, but downwind the heavier crews found life more difficult in the lighter breezes.
Chris Kitchen dominated the racing, making most of his gains downwind and in the starts. Although the one time he went for a cheeky port tack start, Randy Smyth and Toni Sacco shut him down! Having experienced Chris' annoying downwind speed before, my personal theory is that Chris has sailed the Weta so long that he can steer the boat to its optimal speed without thinking about it, leaving him plenty of time to think about the shifts and tide. Chris' take on the regatta was all positive, he says "the buzz was just so fun, everyone was smiling and enjoying themselves, no matter how they ended up in the fleet".
