Laser Midwinter West 2010 vc

Richmond Yacht Club hosted the Laser mid-Winter West regatta in warm but not too breezy conditions. Many of them were excited about being somewhere where snow was not still on the ground. Competitors from all over the United States and Canada showed up to race in Laser Radials and full rigs. With seven races over the three days, there was plenty of opportunity to make mistakes and drop out of contention. Sean Kelly and Kevin Taugher fought it in the full rig division all three days but the 5 point advantage after the first day held up as Sean got to discard his one bad score. Making an encore appearance in the class was John Bertrand who won a Laser World Championship before most of the competitors were even born. He came in 4th out of 54 boats. Local knowledge also seemed to play a big part with 5 of the top 8 boats from the Bay Area. The racing was much tighter in the Radial division where Kieran Chung didnt squeeze out his one point win over Mitchell Kiss until the very last race. Three other racers didnt end up with any double digit finishes after the throw out.