Sailing Scenery at the 2009 Birthday Regatta

Bucc 5239, Erin Morgan, and C14 no. 3941. (end of Friday pictures)

Hobie Tiger Team Chum and Capri 26 no. 41 sail at Lake Pleasant on Saturday, January 17, 2009 during the Birthday Regatta and Leukemia Cup.

Hobie Tiger Team no. 1529 Team Chum in center; Bucc 5220 Cassiopeia at left, with Merit 25 at right (probably no. 841, Blue Streak).

View toward Scorpion Bay Marina with Catalina Capri 26 no. 41x at left and J/24 no. 999, To the Nines, at right.yacht Cassiopeia

The Bucc starts here at the Birthday Regatta

Buccaneer 5239, Erin Morgan.




Blue Bucc with black and gold chute.

Buccs and friends

Buccneer start with nos. 524, 3659 Rainie's Day, and 3313 Dorado visible.

Birthday Regatta snapshots from January 17, 2009 at Lake Pleasant

J/80 USA 92, Zonie, sailed to first place in the PHRF spin fleet with four 1st place finishes.

Hobie Tiger no. 1529 Team Chum and Nacra no. 1812, Wet Kitty. The Hobie Tiger was a real tiger on the course with five bullets on Portsmouth corrected time finishes.

More multihulls, large and small multihulls; F27 Corsair Trimaran no. 448, Monsoon; and Hobie Wave D-back.

Yellow-hulled Merit 25 no. 67624, Dream On got a bullet and a bunch on 2nds.


Buccaneer 18 sail no. 5239, Em Heisler's Erin Morgan pulled by its piratically crimson chute, aaarh.

And more pix from Saturday at the AYC Birthday Regatta 2009

Chutes delight; red chute belongs to Bucc. 5235, Erin Morgan.

Martin 242 Team Gravity, Capri 26 no. 41, and many more.

Panorama of sail, including Capri 26 no. 41 at left.

Martin 242 no. 87313 Team Gravity and Cat Capri 26 no. 41. TG's four bullets placed it in 2nd place in the PHRF spin fleet, just 2 points behind the J/80.

Team Gravity's chute