Judgment Day Update

May 21, 2011

So far Judgment Day has been pretty much like any other spring/summer day on the Cityfront.

Topgallant ducks Shameless in the SF Bay 30 start. ©2011 norcalsailing.com

While waiting for the Singlehanded Farallones racers to round their windward mark and make it back to the finish line, observers watched two YRA races and a Team Race Invitational. The JS9000 JetStream, which dropped out of the Singlehanded Farallones at 10:12, made it back to the dock at Golden Gate YC in time to pick up some crew and make the start of the YRA race. 'Double-Dip Dan' Alvarez shanghaied Stephen Buckingham of Starbuck, which had also made it back to the dock after returning from the ocean, and another SSS racer, Greg Nelsen, who had ventured out of the Estuary Friday night to deliver his Azzura 310 Outsider to the City, saw the conditions, and turned back around.

JetStream and the Flying Tiger Centomiglia at the start of the YRA race. ©2011 norcalsailing.com

The needle-nosed JetStream tried to turn into a submarine west of Alcatraz and the intrepid trio had second thoughts and made a second return to the dock. When asked about the chop outside the Gate, Dan said, "I don't refer to that as chop. Some of those were monstrous." Stephen called the Cityfront race a "flogorama."

Stephen, Greg and Dan out for a second adventure. ©2011 Erik Simonson/www.pressure-drop.us

For more on the Singlehanded Farallones Race, see www.sfbaysss.org. For the YRA race, see www.yra.org, and for the Team Race Invitational, go to www.stfyc.com. Go to our previous report for a story about the start and first leg of the Farallones Race.

Phil Krasner on his Express 27 Wetsu just past the bridge, before all hell broke loose. ©2011 Stephen Buckingham