Pyewacket takes Genuine Risk

Rick Devereux

The wind picked up enough to have two races Sunday on the final day

of the First Team Real Estate invitational regatta off Newport Beach

pier.

Plagued with light conditions Saturday that cut short the races,

Sunday ended with 6- to 10-knot winds.

Genuine Risk won both races in Class 1, but it was not enough to

overthrow Pyewacket as the class winner.

Pyewacket, owned by Roy Disney, finished first Friday and Saturday

and second in both races Sunday for six points. Genuine Risk coupled

Sunday’s victories with a second and third in the previous races for

seven points.

“This has been one of the better regattas I’ve been in,” said

Robbie Haines, sailing master for Pyewacket. “I can’t remember seeing

this many spectators at a sailing race before.”

Taxi Dancer, with a first and fourth-place finish Sunday, was the

Class 2 winner with 12 points, holding off Rosebud, which had 14

points. Chayah sped to a first-place finish in the last race of the

regatta to win Class 3 with eight points.