2011 US IOM National Championship Report
2011 IOM National Championship Regatta, a superbly well organized event hosted by Sabal Pines Model Yacht Club and primary sponsor International Yacht Training. Venue: Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield Beach, Florida November 3rd through November 6th. Four days of excellent sailing conditions tested the skill of 32 skippers from 6 different countries, BAH, BAR, CAN, GBR, TRI, and USA. On Friday fourteen heats were counted and checked by our score keeper Kathy Fearon (well done Kathy!!!!!) before the PRO Fred Rocha brought the day's racing to an end. Saturday, the third day of competition began with a 90 degrees wind shift, making Tony Gonsalves jump on his personal kayak a couples times helping the RC reset the course. With his local knowledge Tony was able to set the best race courses possible. There was a Saturday night celebration at Dane's house! Beer, wine, rum and more rum....BBQ by Peter Allen (BAR) & Peter Knox (TRI).....Nice to see everybody having fun... what do you think we all talked about? Racing Rules of Sailing obviously. On Sunday fourteen heats in total, were counted before the famous Jamaican BBQ prepared by Peter Fearon and provide by Mike French - International Training Yacht was served. http://www.yachtmaster.com So, after four days, 26 Races, 52 Heats it is a pleasure to announce:
2011 US IOM National Champion Brad Gibson - GBR 42(Sailing USA 70), United Kingdom
2nd Tony Gonsalves-BAR51, 3rd Peter Allen-BAR74, 4th Craig Mackey-USA29 & 5th Denis Rogers-USA43
2011 US IOM National Master Champion Peter Allen - BAR 74 Lintel, Barbados 2011 US IOM National Grand Master Champion Ted Flack - USA 45 Temptation, Detroit Michigan Event Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/111847759668509402506/UsNationalRegattaNov3rdThru6th2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCM7rxp2YppnYjAE&feat=directlink http://www.flickr.com/photos/hew_hamilton/6327139459/in/set-72157628087098862 |