“Weegie”, a Columbia Carbon 32, was on the water again over Memorial Day Weekend competing in the 2014 Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race. This is a 186 nm distance race that starts off Stamford Harbor rounds Block Island and finishes back in Stamford Harbor. “Weegie” was sailing in the PHRF 2 (Time on Time) division – a fleet of 8 boats. They crossed the finish line after a little more than 37 hours to claim 2nd place in PHRF 2 and a very respectable 4th out of all 26 PHRF boats competing. Even more remarkable is that “Weegie” was sailing with a crew of just 3!
“”It was a fun race, the boat went wonderfully, we were looking at 10+ hours potentially of planing on the way home, but the wind turned making it mostly an upwind race. We did get the kites up for a bit on the back of Block, the ocean swells making it interesting! This race we had a code zero and our new square top main, our upwind performance was much higher on the polar meter. With all the upwind time, we held our own against much bigger boats.”
- Richard Fleischman, Owner/Skipper of “Weegie”
2014 Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Results – PHRF 2
| Pos | Sail | Name | Type | Rating | Corrected Time |
Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA 28990 | Spectre | Tripp 40 | 33.0 / 1.1149 |
1:12:51:48 | 2 |
| 2 | USA 60449 | Weegie | Columbia 32 | 54.0 / 1.0762 |
1:15:58:33 | 4 |
| 3 | USA 60937 | threebeans | Santa Cruz 37 | 30.0 / 1.1207 |
1:16:03:15 | 5 |
| 4 | USA 51512 | Rocket Science | J 120 | 45.0 / 1.0924 |
1:16:11:35 | 6 |
| 5 | USA 30252 | Moxy | X-Yachts xp33 | 75.0 / 1.0400 |
1:17:56:49 | 13 |
| 6 | USA 224 | That’s Ridiculous | Beneteau First 36.7 | 87.0 / 1.0204 |
1:18:27:39 | 14 |
| 7 | USA 60260 | Milky Way | Dufour 40 | 81.0 / 1.0301 |
1:18:49:10 | 15 |
| 8 | USA 60077 | Respite | Archambault A40RC | 33.0 / 1.1149 |
DNS | |
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