Blue Chip Regatta - Final Results
The final day was sunny and warm but the northeast winds winds were anemic at best, and hovered around 3-5 mph. The course was a 2 1/2 and at the top mark it was shortened in length by moving the leeward mark closer.
Jim Gluek (X-751) got out to a nice little lead at the first mark going out in the lake to the right while a majority of the fleet headed toward the North shore. he was followed by Kevin Jewett (V-123), Doug McNeil (WH-111) and Tom Monroe (WH-77). Kevin dropped out of second when he headed toward the North shore and the others found a little more pressure out in the lake. It tunred into a battle between Gluek, Monroe, and McNeil. McNeil got by the two others on the last tack to the finish.
Rob Evans (M-1) made a steady climb through the fleet starting in 13th place and then moving to 9th, 5th, and finally 4th. Augie Barkow (V-37 was 4th in the standings going into the last race and rounded the first mark in 8th place. Unfortunately for him he too played the north shore too much and made a steady decline at each mark rounding to end up 15th and dropping him to 8th place for the regatta. Ouch. Tom Burton (M-9) had a similar fate but not quite as bad. He was 5th in the regatta going into the race and rounded the first mark in 5th place. So far so good. But on the next two legs he fell to 14th place and with the total points so close that would have dropped him several places in the regatta. Tom managed a little comeback and finished 11th, enough to hold onto to 5th place in the regatta.
Besides the two White Lake's boats having the best day with a first and third, and Evan's nice rally in the final race, the Mystery Guest, Dave Ullman must have felt some satisfaction ending in a tie for second place (with 40 points) in the regatta with Vincent Porter (I-49) and Art Brereton (TO-101). He did it the hard way too. Dave, who was in 16th at the first mark in todays race showed his true prowess. Dave architected a steady climb at each mark, next rounding 10th, then 8th, and finally 7th. Nice racing in tough conditions. Art Brereton (TO-101) had to move up from 11th at the first mark to 8th for the race to stay in a tie for regatta second place.
The final results are:
Total
1 V-123 Kevin Jewett 1 2 13 1 9 5 22
2 I-49 Vincent Porter 2 1 2 6 19 10 30
3 ?? Dave Ullman 3 4 10 15 1 7 33
4 TO-101 Art Brereton 4 5 6 2 15 8 32
5 M-9 Tom Burton 6 16 4 5 3 11 34
6 V-777 Bob Biewer 8 7 3 17 5 6 40
7 M-1 Rob Evans 10 8 19 4 2 4 43
8 V-37 Augie Barkow 13 3 1 9 7 15 33
9 X-751 Jim Gluek 11 9 18 7 10 2 57
10 WH-77 Tom Monroe 14 17 8 14 6 3 62
11 WH-111 Doug McNeil 16 6 14 8 18 1 63
12 H-7 Lon Schoor 9 11 12 10 11 13 66
13 CR-66 Rob Terry 5 18 9 18 4 14 68
14 V-11 Peter Friend 12 19 11 3 17 9 71
15 GL-7 Toby Sutherland 7 14 5 16 20 12 74
16 TO-33 Steve Johnson 17 10 16 11 16 17 81
17 V-15 Eric Good 18 12 7 13 21 20 91
18 H-8 Tim Sugar 15 21 17 19 12 16 100
19 H13 Pat Heaney 19 15 20 21 8 18 101
20 I-71 Patrick Doran* 21 20 15 12 14 21 103
21 SC-3 Walter Prause 21 13 21 20 13 19 106
* Ken Wruk injured himself the day before the regatta and could not skipper I-71.
