At The Dock	Three's Company	Roy Woolsey Jr., Mark & Dan, LIYC Commodore	All The Winners

Here is a report from Len Bose, captain of Lido 14 Fleet 1

9-23-07 Newport Beach, CA Lido Isle Yacht Club's Roy Woolsey Regatta. With the Class Championships behind us for the 2007 season, things around the boat garden were very relaxed as we set up our boats and headed off to LIYC. As the entry list grew to over 20 boats things, started to get quite loud with new sails being raised.

When you start off the tower at LIYC it is very tricky to take the weather end of the start line because it is very close to the docks. If you get it right, you get a great chance to play the shifts on the right side of the course.  Team Richley (Buddy & Maxsom), sailing in their first Lido event in Roy Woolsey's boat “LIFT” seemed to have done this before and placed a close lee-bow on Class Champion Mark Gaudio at the first weather mark, then held on for a second place finish. I thought to myself, “Welcome to the fleet Buddy - you got lucky your first race” Well Buddy proved me wrong and sailed to a forth place in an event that was almost a carbon copy results of the Class Championships. Team Johnson decided enough was enough after race two and Terry decided to cleanse herself of the bad juju and went for a short swim while docking after race two. Whatever she said to Walter worked because they went on to a 1,1,3 and Walter was getting away with a unique system for arriving at the right spot at the starting line and plugging the last three starts.

I did not really sail my best and got pasted a couple of times, examples are: sailing around Lido Isle and heading to X mark while taking the isle too close the fleet did an end run around us. On the third race, the I broke the tiller and for some reason I had duct tape in the boat. We fixed it then got back in the race and this was not or worst result. Fortunately Dina and I got a 2,5 in the last two races.

Along with Team Richley, there were two new teams from Marina Del Rey racing.  One was Don Baker, on his first "away" Lido 14 race the other was sailing in Kelly Cantley's boat - I don't know the names so we'll have to wait for the results on that one.

B Fleet had seven boats with Balboa YC junior sailors Christophe Killian, Ryan Davidson & Jr. Kent sailing to second place with Ryder Nesbitt sailing with his Mom, HOW COOL IS THAT, sailing to first place.

Quotes on the water: One of the better ones was, Dina and I were sailing down wind from mark T to mark W.  Teams Richley and Schupak were on either side of us all on port tack. Schupak “Leeward boat Len”.  Len “Nothing I can do Steve I have a weather boat telling me proper course” Schupak “ Well tell him to come up” Richley “ Proper course” Len “ I wish you guys would make up your mind” and I thought brokering boats was difficult! Team Richley closed that deal by gibing to starboard. We were trying to get out of that sandwich because we still owed Papadopoulos a 360 who was just behind us. “GOOD TIMES”

- Len Bose

Roy Woolsey (1917-2007)

In 1958, Roy Woolsey and his son Roy Jr. raced in the very first Lido 14 Championships.  They also raced together in the recently held Golden Anniversary Championships, showing all of us that Lido 14 sailing and racing is a life long pursuit.  Roy lead an exemplary life, serving as our role model on how to live, love, and pursue happiness.  He will be sorely missed.

(L-R)  Roy Woolsey and crew David Shockley waving at the 2007 Class Championships, Roy at the podium at the Championships, Roy Sr. and Roy Jr. at the Class Championships, Roy receiving an award from Championships Regatta Chair Bob Yates, Roy shaking hands with Christophe Killian, the youngest skipper at the Championships.

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