 The Oakcliff Team has been working overtime from the 'normal' overtime. We will have the 6 Match 40s on the water tomorrow for Dave Perry's Clinegatta. On Saturday we'll add two more and all of the support boats for our Grade 3.
The lineup is impressive:
Jon Singsen of King's Point sailing with a boatload of cadets , Mike Buckley winner of the 2010 Chicago Cup,
Doug Shannon long time Oakcliff racer who has flown in some of his team from Vegas, David Niemann a surgeon from Wisconsin who performs up to 30 surgeries a week. It will be interesting to see if he can translate this skill onto the race course.
Mark Lees is an up and coming team traveling from the UK and Bob Hughes of Chicago is racing with Tovar Mirsky's team as his crew. Tovar is ranked an incredible 4th in the world. Bob Hughes has also had success on his own winning the Canada's Cup which is a long running America's Cup type challenge cup between the United States and Canada. Last but not least, Oakcliff Coach and legend, Dave Perry will jump from coach to competitor. Three of the teams, Dave Perry, Will Tiller and Doug Shannon will be racing with Oakcliff Teams on board. Stacking the deck.
A big shout out to all of the volunteers who are making this event happen. Todd Field, Amanda Downing, Herve Riou, Liz Duffy, Henry Lee, Bob Limoggio, John Meirs race committee and on the water support. The umpire team of: Jesper Wilken our CHUMP (chief umpire) from Denmark, Bruce Cook, Phil Pape, Yoram Sharett, John Tracy, Jim Walsh, Heinrik Pedersen, Daryl Waskow. And for housing our wayward sailors: David Storrs, Ayer Bellerman, Will Glenn and John Mooney. And of course Hunt for the use of two of his brand new match 40s to bring the regatta fleet up to 8.
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