Event: National Championship

Class: SeaWind

Date: November 3-4, 2012

Location: Litchfield Park, Arizona

Host Club: West Valley RC Mariners (WVRCM)

Entries: 24 (2 were unable to compete)

Weather: Light, variable winds, mid 80's.

Races completed: 11 (1 discards)

Scoring System: Low point, Odds/Evens TWEAT program

Regatta Committee and Valuable Assistants: Tom Ruttledge, Race Director, Dirk Brewer, Scorer, Gary Spendlove, Observer, Mike Eades, Regatta Director, Al  Stiewing, Chuck Goerke, Hap McGill , Steve Sherry & Pat Barnes.

 

2012 SeaWind National Championship (Top 10)

November 3-4, 2012 Litchfield Park, Arizona

Place    Skipper                                    Sail #   Points             

 1         Mike Eades                               86        21

 2         Kelly Martin                               19        21

 3         Eric Rosenbaum                          67        28

 4         Dave Nydell                              224       35

 5         Dennis Desprois                         06        40

 6         Jim Ball                                    345       46

 7         Rob Shaw                                 709       48

 8         Peter Jennings                            90        48

 9         Hal Birkey                                  293       51

10         Al Stiewing                                135       52

 

Sponsored by Tred Avon YC and the Oxford RC Laser Fleet

Venue: TAYC Dock

PRO: Dave Branning

Scorers: Bonnie Richards, Elaine Hepkin and Melanie Buchanan

 

Seventeen top skippers arrived at TAYC in Oxford, MD on Saturday, October 27 and were greeted to breezy and choppy conditions as a preview to hurricane Sandy. The day was spent with "C" sails as the NE winds and Tred Avon River chop kept the excitement going throughout the day, but the rain and cold stayed away. Don Barker, Chestertown, MD, secured a well-deserved win with a steady day in the A fleet and three bullets in the 9 races sailed. Don is the first winner of the newly created Jim Karr Region II Perpetual Trophy, named for Oxford's Jim Karr, who was responsible for bring RC Lasers to the Mid-Atlantic Area. Don defeated Riverton's Ryan Lippincott, also with three wins, and Oxford's Roger Vaughan, who was third, three points behind Lippincott. Rounding out the top five was Riverton's Jim Flach in 4th and NYC's, Hank Buchanan in fifth. Most of the fleet, other than the top four, spent the day moving up and down the A and B fleets, in a Promotion/Relegation format, and ended up counting some double figure races that kept them out of the money. This was a top notch competitive fleet and sailing was aggressive and demonstrated terrific starting and mark rounding skills in the choppy conditions. Thanks to TAYC and the Oxford RC Laser Fleet for a terrific venue and their always perfect hospitality.

 

Top 10 Results:

Don Barker                         21

Ryan Lippincott                   25

Roger Vaughan                    27

Jim Flach                            35

Hank Buchanan                   44

Jamey Betz                         45

Rob Seidelmann                   49

Nick Mortgu                        60

Bob Roe                             65

Harry Henkel                      76

  Well we have crowned the 2012 Annapolis EC12 Regatta and Region 2 Champion. This regatta also marks the end of the sailing season for the Colonial Cup. Over two days we sounded the starting gun 27 times in conditions that covered the spectrum. We saw light and shifty to puffy and scary for short periods of time. Never did the wind maintain velocity long enough for the skippers to pull out their B Rigs.

  In the end Dave Ramos took home the top award. Mark Rinehart, Jamey Betz and Don Barker all sailed well to keep the competition close. Dave finished the regatta with three bullets to bring his total to ten for first place finishes. Not to be out done Rinehart also matched Ramos with ten bullets for the regatta. Jamey had six bullets evenly split between the two days and Dave Branning had the other bullet. Very consistent and generally in the hunt was Don Barker. Every skipper had at least a top five finish and seven of the skippers had a top three or better finish.

  The weather was near perfect each day and on Sunday the skippers were having as much fun socializing on the dock as they were sailing. It was a struggle to motivate them to splash their boats to go sailing again. They seemed to be having a lot of fun talking about RC sailboats and the such.
  If you haven't sailed in this regatta you are missing one of the great EC12 sailing venues. Hopefully you can join us in 2013.
 

Top 3
Place Name         Sail # Score 
1 David Ramos       5      42 
2 Mark Rinehart     66     50 
3 Jamey Betz        34     60 

 

The Greater Worcester Model Yacht Club hosted the 2012 US12 R1CR on October 21, 2012. There were 9 boats participating under very challenging wind conditions, the winds were 5 to 15 mph and gust over 20 coming out of the west. Unfortunately the west wind is blocked by a hospital on a hill so we had swirling winds all day but with the strong breeze we managed to complete 20 heats, 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. The morning heats were dominated by Ron Rhault winning 5 of the 10 heats sailed and holding a 1 point lead over Bob Shluger at the lunch break. The afternoon was dominated by Bob Shluger winning 5 of the 10 heats sailed in the afternoon and propelling him to the win, this is his 3rd championship in the last 4 years. Trophies were awarded to the top 3 places: first to Bob Shluger with 34.2 points, second to Ron Rhault with 42 points and third to Mike Flynn with 62 points. The Tweat Scoring System was used, great computer scoring system, designed for odd-even but works great for one fleet.

 

2012 US12 R1CR Results:

Place     Skipper                                                Sail#      Points

1              Bob Shluger                                       54           34.2

2              Ron Rhault                                         07           42

3              Mike Flynn                                         46           62

4              Bob Ciabaszewski                                13           67

5              Al Fearn                                            32           77.5

6              Alain Jousse                                       49           99

7              Bob Jones                                          12           104

8              Christine Johnson                                28           131

9              Will James                                          53           152

 

 

Come get chilly and then eat chili.

 

Date: December 2, 2012

 

Skippers Meeting: 9:30am

 

Racing: 10am-3pm with a chili break around Noon.

 

Entry fee: $12. 

 

Online entry only:  http://form.jotformpro.com/form/23142742756959

 

Regatta Director: David Brawner, david@brawner.net

 

In case of a frozen lake, the regatta will be held the next Sunday that the water is soft enough again.

 

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