A Wild LB Race Week Finishes with Highs, Lows

Byline: Rick Roberts LONG BEACH — Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week brought broken hearts to some, but a happy daze to others in a wild windup to the West Coast’s largest keelboat regatta June 30, co-hosted by Long Beach Yacht Club and Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. Daniel Woolery felt the experience both ways, and four of the other 14 class winners came from behind to prevail on the third and final day: Jay Golison of Alamitos Bay YC in Viper 640s, David Hood of Long Beach YC in Catalina 37s, Bob Lane of Long Beach YC in his Andrews 63 Medicine Man in Random Leg 1 and Tony Festa of California YC in Open 5.70s. Woolery, owner-skipper of Soozal, a King 40 from the Dana Point YC, had overcome a 10-point disqualification suffered by his team and six other boats in PHRF-2 class for rounding the wrong windward mark on Day 1 — June 28 — but battled back into first place by winning all three races June 29. Then, as he lined up for the first of two final races June 30, his boat was T-boned in the portside transom by Tango, a J/133 from Balboa YC coming downwind from the start...