Our local hero.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Cockburn [mailto:mcockbur@adobe.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:36 AM
To: Newell D. Smith
Subject: Emery, and they spelled his name right
Check it:
U.S. YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP
Early morning thunderstorms caused a short postponement ashore before
giving way to a "honking southerly." The winds built from 12 to 14 knots by
the first race that started just after 11 a.m. PRO John Archibald switched
the starting order and courses today. Club 420s started first and sailed
the outer loop trapezoid while the Lasers sailed the inner loop. The winds
started due south. The RC Team reacted to a slow but persistent left shift,
adjusting the course for each race. The winds built to 15 knots for the
second race, then gradually died to 10 by the end of the third and final
race of the day. The three- to four-foot seas with heavy chop made for
excellent planning conditions.
Emery Wager (Seattle, WA) showed the Laser fleet how to sail today with three bullets. Each one was a bigger horizon job than the last. Emery showed great speed by passing boats both upwind and down. Dropping his worst race, Emery has six points in seven races. In the 54-boat 420 fleet, Leigh Kempton (Island Heights, NJ) and Kaitlin Storck (Huntington, NY) had a perfect score today - three aces. They won the second race by nearly a minute. But, San Diego sailors Zach Brown and Melanie Roberts remain in first place with 17 total points to Kempton and Storck's 20 points. - Lee Parks, http://www.ussailing.org/ Received on Wed Jun 25 11:05:42 2003