PCCSC Women's Championship
Conference Championship
2 Divisions
UC Santa Barbara in FJ
http://scores.collegesailing.org/s14/pccsc-women/
Saturday, April 5
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Day 1 of the Women's PCCSC Championship was riddled with strange
breeze from every direction. An early morning strong Northeasterly was
immediately an unusual sign for Santa Barbara. It began to clock right
to a point where it looked like it might actually become consistent
from the west, but even then it was fluky.
After setting the course and getting into a start sequence at 10:45
am, 30-45 degree shifts resulted in several postponements during
sequence and a few abandoned races. Shifts were coming frequently
enough that a square course would become a fetch within a matter of
minutes. On top of it, a strangely strong current had sailors working
much harder to get around the course than is typical in Santa Barbara.
Finally around 12:00pm, the wind clocked to the west with the illusion
of consistency and allowed the RC to get a race started and through
two legs before it began to twirl around again. Close to the end of
the race, they let it run and decided to move the course to a location
more to the west in hopes of avoiding the wind eddy that is created
off the mountains.
Some good races occurred after that even though the conditions were
very shifty and difficult to predict, but in the last race of the day,
as boats were crossing the finish line in a dying breeze, it shifted
around 180 degrees to the east. Off in the distance was an immensely
dark wind line with obvious white caps. What was a 3-4 knot race from
the west became 20+ knots 5 minutes later from the east. Numerous
boats capsized, caught unprepared by the waves going in one direction
against the heavy breeze. The course was shifted around as the safety
boats cruised to help the teams out (sometimes jumping in themselves
to get boats up). Even as the RC was ready to go, it quickly became
apparent this was the end of the day at 4:00pm. NOAA predicted 40 knot
breeze in the next 20 minutes and the RC pulled the plug to get the
girls ashore as quickly as possible.
Trying conditions is probably an understatement. The Race Committee
did a phenomenal job trying to get things going despite the most
difficult of wind shifts. One fisherman said "I ain't seen anything
like this in my 30 years of fishin'".
Stanford led the first day, followed by Hawaii, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly,
and UCSB.
A huge thank you to PRO John Long, Umpire Latham Bell, and the coaches
of Hawaii and Stanford for assisting with rotations.
Top 5
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Visit http://scores.collegesailing.org/s14/pccsc-women/ for full
results.
# Team A B TOT
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1 Stanford Cardinal 24 12 36
2 Hawaii Rainbows 21 43 64
3 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 50 23 73
4 Westmont College Warriors 61 42 103
5 Southern Cal Trojans 50 66 116
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