Official Newsmagazine of the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation

Lake Michigan SuRF

Volume 26, Number 13 December 2016

LINDY THOMAS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION Lindy Thomas will be inducted to the Lake Michigan Sailing Hall of Fame as part of the Chicago Yacht Club Honors Ceremony on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 6:30 pm CST, at Monroe Station. The ceremony honors Chicago Yacht Club members who have made significant achievements in sailing. Cost is only $25 per person, including appetizers and two drink tickets. Please make plans to attend this event. Call (312) 861-7777 to register for the event.

LMSRF RETURNING TO THE BOAT SHOW! Building on its mission to grow sailing and sail racing in the Lake Michigan area, the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation will be an exhibitor at the 2017 Chicago Boat, RV & Strictly Sail Show. Information about new programs for 2017, racing schedules, grants opportunities and more will be available. The show this year is at McCormick Place-South, in Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday through Sunday, January 11-15, 2017. Show dates & hours: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM The program guide and seminars list are being prepared and should be posted soon. For tickets, seminars, exhibitor lists, and more, visit the show web page at: https://www.chicagoboatshow.com/.

2016 BEST ON LAKE MICHIGAN CHAMPIONS by Michael Hettel Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation’s 2016 Offshore Championships, known as the Best on Lake Michigan series, have been completed. Here are the winners: PHRF FLEET

Defiance is the winner. Owned by Dale Smirl, she sailed 23 races. The Constitution trophy is awarded to this offshore championship winner. FARR 40 FLEET Norboy is the winner, owned by Leif Sigmond, she finished only a half point ahead of Hot Lips. Continued on page 5

Crew of Defiance celebrates Best on Lake Michigan win at the Boaters’ Bash. Photo by Gail M. Turluck.

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CORPORATE MEMBERS Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation is grateful for the support of its 2016 Corporate Members and sponsors. Please use the links below to learn about them and see how they may help you reach your sailing goals.

2016 LMSRF Corporate Members

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Manitowoc Marina World Yachts

For information on becoming an LMSRF Corporate Member, email lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org.

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In This Issue … Lindy Thomas Hall of Fame Induction Invitation .................. 1

LMSRF Returning to the Boat Show ......................................... 1

2016 Best on Lake Michigan Champions ................................. 1

About Lake Michigan SuRF and LMSRF ................................... 2

2017-2020 RRS Released ............................................................. 6

2017 LMSRF Meeting Schedule ................................................. 6

Lake Michigan Performance Handicap Racing Fleet News .. 6

Missing! ........................................................................................ 7

The Cold Facts on the ‘120-Degree Rule’ ................................. 7

2016 National Sailing Hall of Fame Class Inducted ............... 8

Olaf Harken Releases New Book ............................................ 10

Seul Choix Lighthouse Race Being Developed ..................... 10

MBSAS Gets SASS-y as Season Wraps Up ............................ 10

Save June 23 for 2017 Queen’s Cup ........................................ 11

Growing Sailing – Sheboygan Style ........................................ 11

Louie’s 18th Last Regatta – Final Report ................................. 12

Area III Racing Growth Committee Moving Forward ......... 12

North Point Marina Seeking Better Days ............................... 12

Area IV Considerations ............................................................ 13

Area V Season Wrapup ............................................................ 13

Inshore One-Design Racing Council News ........................... 14

LMSRF Offshore Racing Council Report ............................... 14

Measurement Rules Committee Update ................................ 15

SYRF Downwind Aero Project, New Studies ....................... 15

CCA Grant to ORR ................................................................... 17

Olympian Bora Gulari Joins Quantum Racing ..................... 18

Midwest Out of Youth Olympic Development Program ..... 19

Early Training for Olympic Sailing Program ........................ 19

Sheboygan Leaders Aid San Francisco Blind Clinic ............ 20

Race Management News ......................................................... 21

Match Racing News .................................................................. 21

LMSRF Participation in Richardson Remains Strong .......... 21

Lake Michigan Major Championships ................................... 22

LMSRF Grants-In-Aid Committee ......................................... 22

Grants-In-Aid Reports ............................................................. 23

Open Houses ............................................................................. 26

Special Member Benefits .......................................................... 26

Cool Things our Clubs Do ....................................................... 26

Letters to the Editor .................................................................. 26

Sailing Education ...................................................................... 27

LMSRF Classifieds .................................................................... 28

Heard on the Rail ...................................................................... 28

US Sailing News ........................................................................ 29

World Sailing News ................................................................. 31

What Happened ........................................................................ 32

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BEST ON LAKE MICHIGAN, continued from page 1

(Left) Ryan Weber with La Tempête’s Best on Lake Michigan flag presented by Offshore Racing Council Chair Michael Hettel. (Right) Chris Duhon with Tequila Mockingbird’s Best on Lake Michigan flag being congratulated by past LMSRF Area III Vice Commodore Janet Hansen.

BENETEAU 40.7 FLEET La Tempête, owned by Tom and Ryan Weber, is first by only one point over Turning Point. BENETEAU 36.7 FLEET

Tequila Mockingbird, owned by Chris Duhon, capped off a highly successful season with its Best on Lake Michigan win. J/105 FLEET

Sealark is the winner, owned by LMSRF Life Member Clark Pellet. TARTAN 10 FLEET

Meat is the winner and was raced by owners Brian Kennalley, Ed Mui and Craig Roehl.

Clark Pellet (center) picks up the Best on Lake Michigan flag for Sealark, flanked by Michael Hettel (left) and Janet Hansen (right).

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2017-2020 RACING RULES OF SAILING RELEASED by Gail M. Turluck Just the other day the 2017-2020 Racing Rules of Sailing rule book arrived in my mailbox. A few rules are tweaked and there are notable changes to Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions. There are a number of articles giving an overview of the changes and rationale for their being made. Here is a link to one by Rob Overton: http://tinyurl.com/Overton-Scuttlebutt-17-20RRS. Count on plenty of workshops and seminars to help sailors and race organizers better understand this quad’s tweaks.

2017 LMSRF MEETING SCHEDULE LMSRF Board Meeting Monday, January 9, 2017, 7:00 pm EST LMSRF Board Meeting

Saturday, March 11, 2017, 10:00 am EST LMSRF Board of Directors face-to-face meeting Macatawa Bay Yacht Club, 2157 South Shore Drive, Macatawa, MI 49434 LMSRF Board Meeting Monday, May 8, 2017, 7:00 pm EDT LMSRF Board Meeting

Monday, July 10, 2017, 7:00 pm EDT LMSRF Board Meeting

Monday, September 11, 2017, 7:00 pm EDT LMSRF Board Meeting Saturday, November 11, 2017, 10:00 am CST LMSRF Board of Directors requested to personally attend Location TBD, Chicago, Illinois LMSRF Annual Meeting

Saturday, November 11, 2017, 12:00 noon CST LMSRF Board of Directors, Committee Chairs and Members, Individual Members and Yacht Club Representatives requested to personally attend Location TBD, Chicago, Illinois

LAKE MICHIGAN PERFORMANCE HANDICAP RACING FLEET NEWS by Bruce Hubel The season for Lake Michigan Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (LM-PHRF) offshore sailboat handicapping for 2017 has arrived. LM-PHRF is a separate organization from Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation. LM-PHRF is based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and its web site is www.lmphrf.org. Monthly LM-PHRF committee meetings started in November and continue through January. Rules and procedures, prior data/applicants and provisional rated boats are all reviewed during this period. Typically we get rating appeals at this time. LM-PHRF will be reinforcing the procedures that are in writing already. Emphasis is returning to the regional handicappers as front line handicappers for new applicants and applicant renewal questions. This connection is intended to get faster certificates and quick answers for owners on their handicap. It is best that boat owners submit their 2017 LM-PHRF rating application as soon as the renewal is received by them.

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Of note: last minute entrants to a regatta need to know a strict application time frame is going to be enforced. To avoid late application issues, NOR announcements need to be very clear for entrants in your regattas. We all want maximum participation in our regattas, so please reinforce the time required in your Notice Of Race (NOR) to avoid problems. Concerns for LM-PHRF you may want me to deliver? Feel free to contact me! This is the timetable established for a new LM-PHRF applicant during the mid-season. Please pass the following to your organization race leaders. Handicap renewal applications and new boat handicap applications must be mailed at least three weeks prior to a race that an owner would like to enter. Make sure to complete the application item by item so the information provided reflects how the boat will be raced in 2017. The processing time is necessary because of mail interchange between owner, Regional Handicappers and LM-PHRF office. If boat owners send their LM-PHRF rating application on the last day of March 15th, they can expect their LM-PHRF certificate to be distributed about April 15th, which is not unreasonable. We encourage submissions in February! It is the obligation of each offshore race scheduling club to make this clear. Regional Handicappers must inform Clubs in their area to note this in their event NOR.

MISSING! Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation seeks to discover the location of three missing trophies:

There is a J/105 Trophy, awarded to the Best on Lake Michigan champion not owned by LMSRF. It is a J/105 half model on a plaque. It was donated by Larsen Marine and is owned by the J/105 fleet. Last known location was the Goose Island Brewpub.

There is a Tartan 10 Trophy, a ship’s wheel, donated by Larsen Marine, maybe 2' in diameter. Its last location is

unknown.

There is an LMSRF Team Trophy a/k/a the Edward Willman/Palmer Johnson Trophy donated by Palmer Johnson, last seen at Muskegon Yacht Club. It is a half-hull model on a plaque.

Photos and past winners are available at: http://lmsrf.org/index.php/offshore-championships/best-on-lake-michigan-results. Please contact the Office at lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org with any information on these trophies. Thank you.

THE COLD FACTS ON THE ‘120-DEGREE RULE’ The boat may be put away for the season, but the occasional warm fall day still brings plenty of paddlers and frostbite sailors out on the water. Knowing when to wear the thermal protection offered by a dry- or wetsuit is key. However, a long-assumed guideline meant to help watersports enthusiasts make the right decision, sometimes known as the “120-degree rule,” may instead put them in danger. The 120-degree rule is a formula that adds together the air and water temperatures to determine when thermal protection is required. It assumes that if the total is above 120 F, that no dry- or wetsuit is needed. “Using this simple formula,” says BoatUS Foundation Assistant Director of Boating Safety Ted Sensenbrenner, “a sailor or paddler could mistakenly believe that if air temperature is the low 70s and water temperature is hovering around the low 50s, that thermal protection is not necessary. That could not be farther from the truth.”

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Sensenbrenner says that warm fall or spring days give paddlers a false sense of security. “Water temperatures have plunged, but the warm sun on your face hides the reality that accidentally going overboard at this time of year could quickly lead to trouble.” According to research, sudden cold-water immersion can kill in several ways: involuntary gasp reflex and hyperventilation, cold incapacitation, and immersion hypothermia. Not wearing a life jacket compounds the drowning risk. A word to the wise? “Always wear a life jacket when in an open boat or on deck, and consider the water temperature when dressing for your next boating adventure,” says Sensenbrenner. For more on cold-water boating including what to wear, go to www.BoatUS.org/cold-water-boating.

2016 NATIONAL SAILING HALL OF FAME CLASS INDUCTED The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) marked its ongoing effort to preserve the history of sailing and its effect on American culture as it inducted nine sailing legends for their impact on the sport. The sixth annual Induction weekend was hosted by the prestigious St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, California, from which sailboats could be seen racing on San Francisco Bay, from Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz, visually underscoring the link to the sport and its significant contributors who were being honored.

The 2016 Inductees to the National Sailing Hall of Fame (top, left to right): Ed Baird, Deon Macdonald (accepting for Bill Ficker), Tor Perkins (accepting for Tom Perkins) and Robert Johnson (accepting for Irving and Exy Johnson); (bottom, left to right): Rod Johnstone, Bob Johnstone, Dave Ullman and Malin Burnham. Photo credit: Igor Capibaribe Photography.

Six living and three posthumously inducted sailors make up the NSHOF Class of 2016: America’s Cup winning helmsman Ed Baird (St. Petersburg, Fla.); legendary sailing champion (Star Worlds, Congressional Cup and America’s Cup) Bill Ficker (Newport Beach, Calif.); husband and wife sail training pioneers, adventurers and authors Irving and Electa “Exy” Johnson (Hadley, Mass.); brothers and J/Boats founders, Robert Johnstone (Newport, R.I.) and Rodney Johnstone (Stonington, Conn.), respectively, marketing guru and boat designer; yachtsman and sailmaker Dave Ullman (Newport Beach, Calif.); as well as America’s Cup sailor and Star World Champion Malin Burnham (San Diego, Calif.) and the innovator behind the superyacht The Maltese Falcon, Tom Perkins (Belvedere, Calif.), each of whom was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Beginning with a forum attended by a large contingent of high school sailors, the course of the Induction weekend was navigated by Master of Ceremonies and 2011 Inductee Paul Cayard. The student athletes were interested in what the Inductees did to win and why so many had stayed in the sport so long. “First, and most important, is to have a good time while you’re doing it and to make sure the people you are doing it with have a good time, otherwise it will be a one-time thing,” said Inductee Rod Johnstone. Johnstone and his brother Bob were born in Glen Ridge, N.J., and grew up racing out of the Wadawanuck Yacht Club in Stonington, Conn. When Bob Johnstone helped his parents build a Lightning in the garage of his childhood home at age 13, it was clearly a sign of things to come. He worked as a sailing instructor and raced intercollegiate regattas while studying history at Princeton (class of 1956), before starting a 17-years long career with Quaker Oats, first managing subsidiaries in Colombia and Venezuela, before returning to Chicago where he would become the company’s Marketing Man of the Year. All the while he continued to sail in a variety of classes, including a Soling with which he placed sixth in the 1972 Olympic Trials. Bob is the founder of the U.S. Youth Championship and a community boating program, SAIL Wilmette. “What brings me joy in life is sharing that love of sailing and the sea with others,” said Bob Johnstone. Rod Johnstone also graduated from Princeton (1958) but his career as a yacht designer got its start in the 1960s through a correspondence course he took with Westlawn School of Yacht Design (now the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology). While working as an ad salesman for Soundings magazine, he too built his first sailboat in his garage. It cost him roughly $400 in fiberglass and wood and incorporated rigging and hardware from his brother’s Soling. Ragtime would go on to beat everything she came up against while being sailed by an all-family crew. In 1977, Bob and Rod founded J Boats Inc., after AMF/Alcort (producer of the Sunfish), which Bob had taken from the red into the black, was sold and he got involved in the Johnstone’s new boat. Bob went into partnership with Rod and Tillotson-Pearson agreed to produce the design on spec in return for the U.S. build rights. They were soon producing the J/24 which has gone on to become the most popular recreational keelboat in the world. Rod’s designs (44 and counting) include 17 that have been named Boat of the Year, received ISAF international class status or recognition in the American Sailboat Hall of Fame. Four decades and 15,000 J Boats later, the Johnstone’s family business now includes six of their sons in various roles. “I designed the J/24 because of my family, because I wanted a family sailboat,” said Rod Johnstone. “It all came together because we loved to sail and because sailing together has been a thing for us right from the beginning... I thank everyone who sails our boats, for living the dream for me. Whether I wanted to go around the world or around Cape Horn, all these were dreams I’ve had while designing these boats. There are a lot of our owners who’ve done that. Thank you very much to everybody who has ever sailed a J Boat and has lived those dreams. I still want to live those dreams and I’ll still keep designing boats.” For more on the other Inductees, please visit: http://halloffamers.nshof.org About the NSHOF: The National Sailing Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to: preserving the history of the sport and its impact on American culture; honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing; the teaching of math, science and American history; inspiring and encouraging sailing development; and providing an international landmark for sailing enthusiasts. The NSHOF has partnered with US Sailing and the U.S. Naval Academy, and is associated with yacht clubs throughout the country, in its efforts to recognize role models of outstanding achievement. For more information on the NSHOF, please visit: www.nshof.org.

OLAF HARKEN RELEASES NEW BOOK Fun Times in Boats, Blocks, & Business - Olaf Harken has just released a personal memoir of his youth overseas, his time in

the US Navy, unconventional business ventures, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harken from its beginning

until today.

He reveals some of the interesting and fun culture that built Harken through handshake deals and grew the reputation of

the company one sailor at a time.

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"After being caught in the middle of a Japanese invasion during WWII, we didn't have many

records of our family history. Therefore, I wanted to record some of my stories to pass on to our

children and sailors everywhere. We never imagined how all of our misadventures would turn

out, but it's sure been a hell of a ride," said Harken.

“Everyone loves adventure stories and the adventurer of our generation is the risk-taking

entrepreneur. Harken’s story is a tale of guts, creativity, and smarts. Olaf and Peter created

mighty hurdles for their competitors and slick products that made sailboats faster, safer and more

fun,” said Don Macaulay, publisher and a cofounder of Sail magazine.

The book is available now for purchase: http://www.harken.com/productdetail.aspx?sku=2399.

LMSRF AREA I NEWS

SEUL CHOIX LIGHTHOUSE RACE BEING DEVELOPED by Gail M. Turluck Leaders in the Manistique, Michigan area have started the process to organize a sailboat race from Seul Choix Pointe around Beaver Island and back to Seul Choix Pointe as a benefit regatta for the Seul Choix Pointe Lighthouse association. They seek to draw trailer-based offshore sailboats from Manistique, Beaver Island, St. Ignace, and Escanaba. The race would take about a day to complete and is approximately 50 miles total. They may hold the first one in 2016 or 2017. As more information is available, updates will appear in Lake Michigan SuRF.

LMSRF AREA II NEWS

MBSAS GETS SASS-Y AS SEASON WRAPS UP by Ken Quant With the first season in the books, an MBSAS fleet wrap-up meeting was held October 26 to get feedback and ideas for next season. It was fairly well attended for a fall meeting, with almost everyone offering up good insight at one point or another. The main topic was how to handle division splits next season to get an even distribution of boats across all starting lines. A number of interesting suggestions were discussed including merging JAM and Spinnaker boats into three divisions and combining the distance races with the course races to create one larger series with more throw outs. No decisions were reached, so suggestions on how the fleet can improve are still welcome. Send them to mbsasfleet@gmail.com. But one thing was decided. The name of the fleet will be changed! MBSAS just doesn’t roll off the tongue. Beginning next season the group will be known as the Saturday Afternoon Sailing Series: the SASS fleet. The other big announcement is that Craig Griffith has offered to take over as Fleet Captain for next season, with help from fleet founders Tom Pease and Ken Quant. Craig’s enthusiasm for the fleet since its inception has been obvious, and his vision should help guide it into the future. A big thank you goes out to Craig for stepping up to help going forward, as well as to Robert Franke, Paul Dondero, Dave Wehnes and the South Shore Yacht Club & Milwaukee Yacht Club Race Committees for all their help with getting this first season in the books.

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SAVE JUNE 23 FOR 2017 QUEEN'S CUP by Jerry Kedziora At the conclusion of the 2016 Queen’s Cup to St. Joseph, I had the pleasure of announcing to a cheering and very enthusiastic crowd that the 2017 Queens Cup Race will finish off South Haven, Michigan, and will be hosted by the South Haven Yacht Club. The 2017 Queen’s Cup Race will be raced on Friday, June 23. The race will be a weekend earlier than the 2016 race to avoid being so near to the Fourth of July. As the racers were checking in at race headquarters in St. Joseph after they finished this summer, I had a chance to listen to several of them. They all liked the changes we made to the 2016 race, including earlier starts and the emphasis that we put on adding more one design fleets. The 2016 race had four offshore one design sections, and for the 2017 race we would like to have more, including Catalina 30’s and J/111’s, for example. We gave all the offshore one design fleets their own start provided they had six boats or more from their class register for the race.

GROWING SAILING-SHEBOYGAN STYLE by Leslie Kohler The 2016 Women’s Match Racing World Championship and the Blind Match Racing World Championship were great successes. We certainly had better weather, as far as temperature goes, compared to the 2014 Blinds. It was fun to see how the two groups interacted. I believe that the donut eating contest was a favorite. I believe that Women’s Match Racing is starting to really take hold, as Liz Baylis tells me that WIMRA has already begun to raise funds for their 2017 season. SEAS of course is working to help develop the sport of Blind Match Racing by continuing to hold match racing clinics around the country. Matt Wierzbach and Juju Senfft have just returned from San Francisco where the clinic was fully subscribed and could have had three more students if we would have had enough boats to accommodate them. Some of the participants were brand new sailors. The team in the office are working well together and we even have regular meetings with the guys out at boat works so both groups know what is going on with the other and we have feedback and suggestions from all members of the team. We now have a strategic plan put together which will be reviewed and critiqued by the board. The plan is strongly inclined to the 2017 plan but with incremental expansion of programs and participation going forward to 2021. Of course as we learn from our results and experience we will be modifying the plan yearly to better serve the community. The Sheboygan Youth Sailing Club board has renamed the organization to Sheboygan Youth Sailing Center which I believe will help clear up some of the confusion within the community about what they do. We have been reasonably successful over the last three years in getting the word out that they also teach adults and this has been the largest growing segment of their business. As part of the plan, SYSC and SEAS will be working more closely together and will be developing instruction we hope will be of interest to more individuals, concentrating on basic sailing and cruising skills. We truly appreciate all of you that are interested in the growth of boating in our area. Please, if you have ideas about things you think might be of benefit to the program let us know. I had one mom come to me and suggest that we create a mother-daughter class, as there are less opportunities for them to do things together than there are for the dads and sons. We always love hearing how we might be able to engage more people in boating.

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LOUIE’S 18TH LAST REGATTA-FINAL REPORT Louie’s 18th Last Regatta is in the books. We continue to raise an impressive amount of money for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and enjoyed a wonderful day of sailing on Lake Michigan. We thank everyone who sailed, donated and fund raised, the Milwaukee Ale House, all of the board members and their helpers for running a flawless event, and everyone who has made this annual event such a success. The Louie's 18th Last Regatta Video is released! View it on line through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIRk59R0Zds&t=2s. We'd like to give a huge thank you to Take 7 Productions for creating this phenomenal video! Purchase Prints! New this year, you can purchase prints, greeting cards, and more from the Louie's 18th Last Regatta Image Gallery. They're perfect for Holiday cards, presents and more! All proceeds go straight to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. View the gallery here: http://louieslast.org/gallery.php. You Sail, You Pledge, The Kids Win! Thank you all and see you next year!

LMSRF AREA III NEWS

AREA III RACING GROWTH COMMITTEE MOVING FORWARD by Glenn McCarthy For clubs running their races through the A3RGC, meetings are being set this month to grow those LMSRF member clubs’ racing fleets. The meetings will include: • Deciding what mailing lists of all sailboats in harbors to acquire;

• Setting a schedule of four seminars in the off season to explain the steps to getting prepared for those new to racing;

• Determining who the speakers will be for those seminars;

• Outlining the schedule for these Grand Touring Fleet sailors; and,

• Assuring great parties with the goal of distributing awards the day of the race (instant gratification).

Additionally the A3RGC meets again in mid-December to write a survey to learn exactly what the existing Gran Prix sailors want in order to increase their participation. As we all have gone out on Saturday and Sunday races we have seen the harbors just chock full of unused sailboats. We'll give those sailors another use for their boats and another excuse to get out and go sailing. And, up to this point, they don't even know that racing is available to them, they never have heard from us. LMSRF is opening a new door to those unused sailboats.

NORTH POINT MARINA IN WINTHROP HARBOR SEEKING BETTER DAYS North Point Marina, in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, has been operated by the State of Illinois for 27 years and due to a lack of maintenance since the recession in 2008 has become run down, lost about 40% of its occupancy, and had its account holdings taken by the State for more pressing issues. The harbor master is retiring and the State put out a Request for Proposals to privatize operations of the marina.

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There are three bidders that submitted to manage the marina; these bids are being considered by the State Evaluation Team. Each of the bidders will make an oral presentation and the State Evaluation Team will then select a winning bidder. After that negotiations and contracting will put new management in place. It is anticipated this will occur about January 1, 2017. North Point Marina is the largest marina on the Great Lakes. The marina opened in 1989 on 77 acres and has 21 docks and 1,477 floating slips that range in size from 30 to 60 feet. Offered with a slip contract are dock lockers, electricity, cable, free Wi-Fi, restricted parking and private bathhouses. Included is 24/7 security. There is a 10-lane free public launch with trailer parking. Also available are sand volleyball courts, a beach, a fish cleaning station, fishing pier, and several picnic areas.

LMSRF AREA IV NEWS

AREA IV CONSIDERATIONS by Grant Cheney, LMSRF Area IV Vice Commodore Muskegon Yacht Club is considering establishing a race that is concurrent with the Queen’s Cup. Their leadership feels that their members are better served by having a race that always finishes in Muskegon each year, as opposed to the rotating finish ports South Shore Yacht Club is using as their model. The name of this race is to be determined, however “Trans Michigan Race” may be resurrected as the title for this event. The Tripp Memorial Cup (LMSRF Area IV’s lone sponsored event) will start in Holland, Michigan, in 2017 on June 21. This serves as a mid-point on the shoreline for all Area IV boats that want to have a fun race, as a way to deliver their boats for either the Queen’s Cup or the Muskegon event. Offshore race participation and total numbers of competitors in Area IV events increased slightly year over year, around 5% according to yacht club reports. Good news. A few “new” events are being discussed for 2017. There may be an offshore one-design weekend on July 22-23 for those boats returning to Area IV and Area III after the Chicago-Mackinac race that are not doing the Bayview Mackinac or Harbor Spring Regatta – stay tuned. Junior sailing and racing continues to grow and set participation records at member clubs. Most clubs are actively putting program in place to “retain” these youth sailors and transition them to adult sailing program-inshore one-design and offshore. We will be revamping the Area IV Boat of the Year series to reflect some of the newer events in the area and allow for “throw outs” so people are encouraged to enter that may not travel much beyond their own ports – which is a reality of todays’ racing. Looking to add more fun, pursuit or non-windward-leeward events for 2017 that may overlap with current events in the area or may be standalone events. Weeknight and casual racing/sailing is a growing desire in our area.

LMSRF AREA V NEWS

AREA V SEASON WRAPUP by Jordan Owen, LMSRF Area V Vice Commodore The LMSRF Area V Boat of the Year and Quantum Freshwater Cup champion was Spar Wars of Boyne City Yacht Club, owned by past Area V Vice Commodore Bruce Hubble, who scored class wins in all of three of the regattas comprising the Freshwater Cup.

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For 2017 I will be working with Quantum to help reorganize the Freshwater Cup program, with a split of handicap and one-design divisions. Boyne City Yacht Club has dropped their featured invitational regatta, meaning the loss of a major event but presenting an opportunity to adjust the greater calendar for Area V. One of the opportunities discussed is the development of a stand-alone Area V multi-club event. The most interesting possibility is a Beaver Island race rendezvous with boats racing from Harbor Springs, Charlevoix, and Northport on the second weekend in August. In the future, the best case scenario could see this grow into a major regional event. Inshore one-design keelboat growth is our strongest sector with resurgent interest in the Melges 24 class and the rise of the J/70s in Harbor Springs. I will be developing a database of area race committee resources to aid and encourage inter-club participation. I will also be scheduling a Race Officer training clinic through US Sailing for next June in Traverse City. Hopefully, these efforts should provide an immediate return in demonstrating the utility of LMSRF and the benefits of membership.

INSHORE ONE-DESIGN RACING COUNCIL NEWS

World Sailing has approved the Viper 640 Class's application to become a World Sailing Class. This is the description of the World Sailing Class Association recognition: Classes which offer a high standard of international competitive sailing and satisfy the criteria set out in ISAF Regulation 10 may be designated as a World Sailing Class Association. There are many advantages of becoming an World Sailing Class that include holding a World Championships, providing Race Officials and the services offered by the World Sailing Committees and Technical and Offshore Department, these advantages are further explained in the documentation on the World Sailing web site. In accordance with the Regulations, all World Sailing Class Associations must send a completed annual report on the activities of the Class including membership, boat registration, world championship reports and financial status before February each year. The Class Reports received by World Sailing are published on the relevant Class page.

OFFSHORE RACING COUNCIL NEWS

LMSRF OFFSHORE RACING COUNCIL REPORT by Michael Hettel, Chair Might the Best On Lake Michigan Offshore Championship Series have plateaued? The Best On Lake Michigan Offshore Championship Series is Area III centric. 2016 had the same fleets: Tartan 10; J/105; Beneteau 36.7; Farr 40; Beneteau 40.7; and PHRF. Competitors were mostly the same boats in offshore one-design fleets, there was some variability of boats in the PHRF fleet. Races selected for the 2016 series featured the same events. For the offshore one-designs, it was by fleets' choice. It was LMSRF choice for PHRF.

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The winners were the same in offshore one-design and PHRF fleets. Participation was level for offshore one-design fleets as 2015 and 2014. Participation level for PHRF boats was up by 116 in 2016 compared to 2015 and 2014.

MEASUREMENT RULES COMMITTEE UPDATE by Thomas L. McIntosh Here is a brief update to the different approaches to handicapping today’s Lake Michigan Fleet. There are six different handicaps available today to offshore sailboat race organizers. For more information on each just click the attached link: http://www.ussailing.org/racing/offshore-big-boats/. On Lake Michigan today, LM-PHRF is used in the majority of offshore races, followed by ORR which is used by Chicago Yacht Club for the Mackinac Race and other major races. ORR has introduced ORRez which uses the VPP but also has a subjective component. I will try to get more information on ORRez as it becomes available. Portsmouth Yardstick has also been used by a few clubs to try to get more Inshore One-Design boats like Lasers, Sunfish, 420’s and Flying Scots out sailing in mixed fleet racing. As in the past, I have and will continue to attend LM-PHRF meetings this winter.

SYRF PUBLISHES RESULTS FROM DOWNWIND AERO PROJECT, APPROVES FUNDING FOR

NEW RESEARCH STUDIES In the last few months there has been tremendous activity in both existing and new projects supported by the Sailing Yacht Research Foundation (SYRF). The results of these programs will further enhance SYRF's mission to assist in the science behind handicap racing.

First, the second phase of the Downwind Aero Moments and Forces project has been completed, with the final report and results now published and available in the SYRF Library. This Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) study was designed and carried out to improve the understanding of downwind aerodynamic performance. With Phase 1 (published in February 2016) providing the moments and forces for a range of downwind sails at Apparent Wind Angles (AWA) greater than 130°, Phase 2A was designed to expand the initial dataset to include tighter AWA data with simulated custom tight angle sails, compared to the Phase 1 sails which were based on produced sail designs. Phase 2B sought to quantify the effect of increasing and decreasing the girths of the mainsail and gennaker; using the sail designs from Phase 1 as a base, Phase 2B separately morphed the girth of the mainsail and gennaker, re-running the AWA and True Wind Speed sweep from Phase 1 to capture geometric effects of such changes.

Total Pressure Isosurface, hull, mast, Code 0 & Mainsail

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"The approach of Phase 2 proved valuable in developing a comprehensive collection of the total forces and moments on each sail as well as total sail plan," said lead investigator JB Braun of North Design Services. "Supplementing the wider AWA range dataset produced by Phase 1 with Phase 2A's tighter AWA Code 0 type sail data helps better define the relationships and crossovers between Code 0, A2, and A3 sails through a range of wind angles and speeds. In particular, Phase 2A demonstrates how the crossovers change as the girth of a Code 0 is modified."

The value of this study for handicappers is that in combining the results of Phase 1 and Phase 2A, it yields a more complete dataset that covers a full range of offwind sailing angles. Phase 1 provided data across a range of AWA from 45 to 150° for three types of gennakers across a TWS of 8, 12, and 16 knots. Phase 2A provided data for two types of Code 0 sails (a Code 0 without girth restriction and a Code 0-75% conforming to a 75% girth rule) across a range of tighter AWA. SPECIAL SYRF CONFERENCE CALL MEETING WITH JB BRAUN Braun will be available Wednesday, December 7th for a call-in conference where he explains the value of this study and is available to answer questions. Details for this special event are available as follows: SYRF - Ask JB Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM EST Join this meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone:

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/900789453 You can also dial in using your phone: United States +1.872.240.3412 Access Code: 900-789-453 Other news is that the Board has approved the funding for the initial exploratory phase of the Performance Prediction Plan, or P

cubed, an ambitious research project that will help to identify the tools and methods needed to create a comprehensive performance prediction plan applicable across a wide variety of boat types. This initial phase will evaluate the results generated by both panel and RANS code tools to determine if the panel codes, which are more cost-effective, are of sufficient accuracy to use in the second phase of the project. Coming from the completion of the Wide Light Project, SYRF Technical Director Jim Teeters has worked with designers on the SYRF Advisory Council to develop a standard 14 Meter hull form that can serve as a test base to evaluate future CFD-based research projects. SYRF will publish this hull form online and encourages all to share their results from the published test matrix. "The goal is to encourage an open source collaborative environment within the yacht design community," says Executive Director McKenzie Wilson. Lastly, last week Wilson represented SYRF in a panel discussion on Performance Data Collection Technologies at the Design and Technology Symposium of the Yacht Racing Forum held over November 28-29 in Malta. The support of the KND performance analysis project was described, along with an active and lively discussion on the value of this topic in front of a packed room of international and influential designers, sailors, organizers, technologists and media. "We have not been to this event in two years," said Wilson, "and by most accounts this was the most successful edition yet. We not only helped educate more people about SYRF and what we do, but also made and intend to

Backpressure Observed on TP52 at TWS16 at AWA 35

Luff Curve Pressure. Sail trim was adjusted between iterations to achieve neutral pressure on the luff as indicated by white color

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develop some valuable contacts among potential donors of both new datasets made available for the Library as well as funds to help support our efforts." "These projects demonstrate the tremendous efforts made by our Advisory Council, Board and research associates at pursuing science in the interest of sailing," says Chairman Steve Benjamin. "We hope that you remember SYRF in your year-end plans for charitable donations, as there is no better value in supporting an organization that strives to help improve fair racing in offshore sailing." For more information on SYRF, visit www.sailyachtresearch.org.

CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA GRANT TO SUPPORT THE OFFSHORE RACING RULE The Cruising Club of America (CCA) is pleased to announce that it has approved a significant grant for the continued support of the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR), which is owned and administered by the Offshore Racing Association (ORA).

“Since the founding of the CCA, in 1922, there has been an inherent interest in the development and maintenance of handicapping systems,” explained CCA Commodore James Binch of New Canaan, Conn. “Beginning in 1926, and forming what is now called the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee in partnership with the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, there has been a need for the CCA to be intimately involved with small yacht handicapping and give it support.”

ORA Executive Director Bjorn Johnson (Newport, R.I.) is gratified to be working in partnership with the CCA for the continued improvement of the ORR handicap system. “This generous grant will enable us to not only continue research but also implement cutting edge technology so that ORR can maintain its status as the best Velocity Prediction Program available for sailors’ use worldwide,” said Johnson. “ORA Technical Director Jim Teeters (Middletown, R.I.) is working with his team to complete an improved version of ORR for 2017 and into the future, making the best rule even better.” The ORR, with its multiple features, custom help for event organizing authorities, and course configuration adjustments, is continually evolving. With over 1,000 certificates produced in 2016, ORR is the fastest growing rating system in North America. The ORR is used in classic inshore and offshore races, including the Newport Bermuda Race, Transpacific Yacht Club Races,

Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, Bayview Mackinac Race, Pacific Cup, Vallarta Race, Rolex Big Boat Series, SoCal 300, California Offshore Race Week, Little Traverse Yacht Club Annual Regatta and One-Design Series, Marion Bermuda Race, Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race and many other races. For more information about ORR please visit: www.offshoreracingrule.org.

ABOUT THE CRUISING CLUB OF AMERICA The Cruising Club of America (CCA) is rapidly approaching its second century of championing efforts to improve seamanship, the design of seaworthy yachts, safe cruising and racing techniques, and ocean-wide environmental responsibility. The CCA is distinctive in its continuing efforts to promote “the adventurous use of the seas.” A high bar of competency is set for inclusion in this influential organization, including passage making experience, proven offshore cruising and racing skills, leadership, and demonstrated congeniality. The CCA’s 1300 international members volunteer their collective efforts to support the best practices in boating at eleven stations throughout the U.S.A., Canada and Bermuda. In conjunction with the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the CCA organizes the Newport Bermuda Race, North America’s premier offshore ocean race held every two years and a real world proving ground for its safety and seamanship recommendations. For more information and resources visit www.cruisingclub.org. CCA Stations: Bermuda * Boston * Bras d'Or * Chesapeake * Essex * Florida * Great Lakes * New York * Pacific Northwest * San Francisco * Southern California

ABOUT THE OFFSHORE RACING ASSOCIATION Formed in 2005, the Offshore Racing Association is a not-for-profit membership organization working as a liaison between sailboat owners, rating rule administrators, US Sailing, yacht clubs, sailing organizations and organizing authorities for offshore and round-the-buoys events. The ORA, recognized internationally as one of the premier rule developers, is dedicated to improving current rating rules – both in their content and administrative processes – while making provisions for new high-performance boats to compete in more events. The ORA provides promotion and development of objective, science-based rating systems for fair handicapping of offshore-capable racing yachts, and guides the management of these systems at all levels, serving not only as advocate for the

concerns of competing sailors but also as evaluator of technical input. For more information: https://www.offshoreracingassociation.org.

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OLYMPIAN BORA GULARI JOINS QUANTUM RACING AS HELMSMAN FOR 2017

In January, when Quantum Racing toes up to the starting line at Quantum Key West Race Week, the crew will include Bora Gulari who is joining the team for the 2017 52 Super Series. With Lake Michigan based owner-driver Doug DeVos steering the boat in Key West, Gulari will serve as strategist and begin his training with the team. Gulari is scheduled to take the helm in March with the Super Series Miami Royal Cup and will fill a very similar role as Ed Baird’s over past few years with DeVos’ involvement. Gulari is known for his 2016 Olympic Sailing on the Nacra 17 and the Moth, where he has claimed two World Championships. He is also a top Melges 20 and 24 sailor. Gulari’s experience on the TP52 goes back to 2009 and includes Steve Benjamin’s American TP52 Spookie and the helmsman position for Phil and Sharon O’Niel’s Natalie J, a Michigan-based 52. Gulari was also set to sail in the 35th America’s Cup aboard the Italian boat Luna Rossa before they withdrew from the competition. Adding to these credentials, Gulari was named 2009 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. Of his new role Gulari says, “The opportunity to be part of the best grand prix team around is awesome. I’m honored and excited to get on the boat. I can’t wait to get on with it!” When asked about his small boat sailing, Gulari says that will continue as well. “I have some unfinished work in the Olympic catamaran, and the Moth sailing keeps the skills sharp.” “This choice may surprise people due to Bora’s reputation in multihulls and foiling,” says Quantum Racing manager Ed Reynolds, “but when you look at what’s he’s done on the 52s, you realize Bora is one of the most versatile and top performing sailors out there. We’re very confident he’ll be able to fit in this role, but everyone knows you don’t replace a guy like Ed Baird.” Reynolds says the search for a new helmsman/strategist was launched when Ed Baird decided to accept a bid to work with Tony Langley’s Gladiator for 2017. “We’re pleased to welcome Tony as a new client, he’s been a stalwart of the 52 class. Through his new role, Ed will take the lead in transferring the Quantum methodology to Gladiator.” As for the move, Baird says he is pleased to maintain ties with the Quantum Racing program while helping Quantum Sails deliver a high level of customer support and service to a new client. “This is a very exciting opportunity and I look forward to helping bring the Quantum Racing style of learning process to the Gladiator program.” Quantum Racing is owned by Doug DeVos of Ada, Michigan. The team is three-time winner of the 52 Super Series and five-time TP52 World Champion.

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YOUTH SAILING NEWS

MIDWEST NOT A PART OF THE 2017 YOUTH OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM by Gail M. Turluck While there are 49 designated 2017 events to cause development of top youth sailors in hopes of their choosing to pursue Olympic excellence, not a single one of them is scheduled to be held in the Midwest, much less on Lake Michigan. Link to info: http://www.ussailing.org/olympics/odp/. How do our young sailors get exposed to and meet today’s up and coming youth champions and hot sailors? How do our developing sailors get a chance to see, touch, feel and maybe try the state of the art equipment that will be the platforms for the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan? Does anybody on the lake have a vision of our once again developing Olympic sailors and bringing home the gold? Lake Michigan has a long and proud history of success. Send your thoughts to lakemichigansrf@gmail.com.

CRITICAL EARLY TRAINING FOR US OLYMPIC SAILING PROGRAM There was a lengthy era when USA was the dominant Olympic sailing nation, but that era passed some time ago, the result of a domestic focus on youth participation rather than international excellence. The slide was apparent to insiders, but after the

program failed to win a medal at the 2012 Games, training initiatives got the financial support needed to turn the tide. Critical to this turnaround is the US Sailing’s Olympic Development Program (ODP). While most Americans were celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday last month, top youth sailors from around the country, plus select international athletes, took advantage of the time to assemble in Miami for three days of intensive and innovative training. Organized by ODP in cooperation with regional racing teams and the US Sailing Center Miami, the ODP Racing Camp challenged athletes to demonstrate their skills in a hybrid racing and educational environment. With a focus on collaboration and identifying areas of mutual improvement, coaches

were able to approach sailors during all stages of the racing and provide continuous feedback. One hundred thirty-three youth sailors participated in the 29er, International 420, Laser Radial and Nacra 15 classes, which are mainstays of top international youth competition. The camp also served as the final training camp for a handful of American teenagers who will head to Auckland, New Zealand, in a few weeks for the 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships. Augmenting the preparation of U.S. Youth Worlds Team athletes is a key annual objective of the ODP, and this year’s 2016 YWT athletes at the camp had the benefit of being pushed hard by dozens of the country’s best sailors, some of whom will go on to represent the United States at future editions of the world’s premier youth sailing event. "For our Youth Worlds Team, the timing was perfect,” said Leandro Spina, US Sailing’s Olympic Development Director. "This was a final chance to fine tune racing skills. This is one reason why the controlled environment was so effective. But it worked very well for everybody that participated. We hit a lot of targets in the same weekend." Spina finds the controlled the environment and collaborative approach as mission critical. "We believe in two things: the power of sharing and the value of strong competition. Without competition, sharing information does not help. But racing without sharing is a missed opportunity. Everybody benefits from our approach." Participants and results: http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=13607&show_crew=1

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ADAPTIVE SAILING NEWS

SHEBOYGAN LEADERS AID SAN FRANCISCO BLIND MATCH RACE CLINIC by Matt Wierzbach Juju Senfft and I are just back from another blind match racing clinic, this time in San Francisco, California, with 12 participants, many of them new sailors. Despite being inexperienced, the sailors did a great job getting around the course and surviving the onslaught of sailing vocabulary thrown at them. The increase in participation from last year, and many new faces, shows just how fast interest in blind/visually impaired sailing and match racing has grown. We plan to continue the clinics around the country as we did last year, attempting to interest organizations, sighted guides, and of course visually impaired sailors to take part in this amazing activity.

Photo courtesy: Sailing Education Association of Sheboygan.

SEAS is also deep into planning mode and we are working on various educational topics for the long cold winter to be capped off with a Crew School in March. We are in the process of confirming dates and details and will post them at www.seasheboygan.org when confirmed. Topics will include knot tying, splicing, a seminar on the different forms of racing, and at least one topic a month until we get back out sailing this spring. We also want to hear from you, if there are any topics you’d like to learn more about let us know and we will see what we can do! We are also continuing our long term planning this month and are working hard to focus our activities to our vision of Boating for Everyone. We plan to expand keelboat offerings, continue working on adaptive solutions in both equipment and instruction for those with disabilities, and continue working with the other lakefront entities to best utilize the equipment, staff, and lakefront for the betterment of all. The future looks bright for SEAS and the Sheboygan boating community.

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RACE MANAGEMENT NEWS

RACE COMMITTEE

by Eric Lind Here's a topic that I've not written much about previously. What kind of record keeping should we be doing during and after an event? This area is not discussed in detail in the US Sailing Race Management Handbook and a lot depends on the level of the event, but at the very least we should be keeping a log with details about each race. It should include: start time, wind conditions, start line

violations/exonerations, any situations witnessed, actions taken by the Race Committee, and finish time of first boat is a pretty good start. If your event is using a Judge, he/she will most likely supply you with a form or forms to report any actions to the Jury. If you want a copy for your records, take a picture of it with your camera. Along with all this I think it's also a good idea to record any changes or improvements that you and your crew think will improve the event. Find an opportunity to discuss these ideas with the organizers soon after the event while everything is fresh in your mind.

I keep an envelope for each event with all of my forms used for each race, forms from the mark boats, copies of the Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions and supplements, any protests, and a copy of the results. I generally store these for a few years. There are two reasons to keep these: they may come in handy for planning future events and may be useful if a question comes up regarding the event. I also log the event into the Sailing Officials Automated Reporting System site at www.ussailing.org within days of the event. The forms that I referenced above are generally developed on my computer using templates from previous events, but US Sailing has forms available on their site and both Yacht Scoring and Regatta Network generate forms on their web sites. For a typical event I generally have three forms. The signal boat will need a start/finish form, the windward mark boat needs a mark rounding form, and the leeward mark/pin end boat needs a mark rounding/finish form. Printing these on three different paper colors makes keeping track of them easy. I also try to have scratch sheets available for all mark boats as well.

MATCH RACING NEWS

LMSRF PARTICIPATION IN YRUGL RICHARDSON TROPHY REGATTA REMAINS STRONG by Gary Hendrickson, LMSRF Delegate to YRUGL The LMSRF Richardson Qualifier was hosted by Chicago Match Race Center / Chicago Yacht Club in Sonars June 24-26, 2016. This event served concurrently as a regional ladder qualifier for US Sailing’s USMRC and USWMRC as well as for LMSRF. The weekend was heavy-weather challenged and the regatta had to be foreshortened somewhat. Don Wilson’s and Steve Lowery’s teams provided quite an exciting show for the finals. Overall Results: 1. Don Wilson 2. Steven Lowery 3. Nicole Breault 4. Marc Hollerbach 5. Peter Holz

6. Conner Miller 7. David Storrs 8. Matthew Hughes 9. Landon Gardner 10. Mark Davies

Don Wilson is the 2016 LMSRF Lake Michigan Match Race Champion! For details go to https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_match_race_results.php?regatta_id=11815.

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The annual 2016 Richardson Trophy Regatta was sailed October 1-2, 2016, at Bayview Yacht Club in their fleet of Ultimate 20’s. The six YRUGL member associations were invited to send 2 teams each to fill 12 slots. Due to lack of entries, LMSRF was allowed to send three teams to Bayview, including LMSRF’s 2015 defending Richardson Champion Peter Holz. The regatta weekend proved to be soggy with light air for the eight teams competing, undoubtedly favoring the Detroit River current and local knowledge. Overall Results: 1. Nathan Hollerbach - DRYA (past Richardson Champion) 5. Peter Holz - LMSRF (past Richardson Champion) 6. Mark Davies - LMSRF 8. Mark Johnson - LMSRF Over the past 10 years, the YRUGL Richardson Trophy Championship has been won more often than not by Lake Michigan, and the trophy itself has spent much of its time in the trophy cases of the yacht clubs of its LMSRF Richardson Trophy Champions, as opposed to with competitors of the other five lake associations who are members of YRUGL. What a change from the years prior to 2003, when the last time LMSRF had won the Richardson was in 1968!! Now, we will have to work hard next year to get the trophy back where it belongs, with us!

LAKE MICHIGAN MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Get your championship listed here. Simply email lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org with the date, event title, host club, and web site URL for the event or club. Thanks!

2017 NATIONAL ONE-DESIGN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Leland Yacht Club, Leland, Michigan www.lelandyachtclub.com AUGUST 25-27, 2017 2017 HOBIE 33 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP Grand Traverse Yacht Club, Traverse City, Michigan http://www.gtyc.org SEPTEMBER 19-23, 2017 2017 VINTAGE WOOD STAR GOLD CUP Gull Lake Yacht Club, Richland, Michigan http://gulllakecc.com/yacht-club-schedule-events/

LMSRF GRANTS-IN-AID COMMITTEE

The LMSRF Grants-In-Aid Committee continues its work of funding education, championship race participation, and hosting of outstanding major events to benefit Lake Michigan area racers. At the November LMSRF Board Meeting two new members were appointed to the committee: Gene McCarthy of Chicago, Illinois, and Alan Silverman of South Haven, Michigan. LMSRF extends its heartfelt thanks to Helen “Cookie” Mueller, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Clare Wegert, of Chicago, Illinois, for their many years of service to the committee and the association.

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LMSRF GRANTS-IN-AID REPORTS

The Grants-In-Aid Committee considers applications and makes grants to LMSRF members for sailing education and events from the proceeds of the LMSRF Endowment Fund. Not one penny comes from dues. Learn more and locate the application by visiting: http://tinyurl.com/LMSRF-GIA-Ap.

The 2016 Lightning Youth World Championship was without question the most educational, most fun, and most eye opening regatta that I have ever sailed. Experiencing the struggles of logistics, team management, overseas travel, and a difficult boat rotation helped me to grow into a sailor vastly more experienced than the one that entered this event. After placing second at the 2015 Lightning Junior North American Championship it took a while to decide if going to the Youth Worlds was the right decision. Fundraising, organizing the trip, and sailing an event of this caliber seemed like a stretch. We considered and decided to go, and to begin our campaign immediately. Through the generosity of so many donors, we managed to raise enough to entirely fund this trip along with multiple training sessions surrounding it. In June, the team for Worlds sailed together for the first time. Meredith joined Noah and I in Sheboygan for two days of training and then the Midwest

District Championship regatta. Immediately after sailing together, we knew this team was a good fit. In early July, I went to the Buffalo Canoe Club and practiced with Meredith. Finally, and right before the Youth Worlds, Noah and I sailed the Atlantic Coast Championships. This was our best Lightning regatta ever, as we finished third in a competitive 46 boat fleet. Three days after we returned from the ACCs in North Carolina, team 15390 set out for Salinas, Ecuador. Our travel there was uneventful, with no luggage lost, even the sails. We bussed from Guayaquil to Salinas on the morning of Friday, July 22 with many other American and Canadian teams. Upon arrival, our sails were measured in and the competitors began to settle in. Saturday brought the initial boat draw and competitors meeting. We drew the famous “Black Beauty,” Juan Santos’ boat. Our practice race was dicey as we were fouled at the start, but we were fast and tactically sound. The opening ceremony on Saturday night was very tasteful. I ended up raising the US flag, which was the proudest moment, for me, of this regatta.

The first championship race was Sunday morning. We had a bad start, but cleared and earned a sixth place. This was sailed in classic Salinas conditions of 8­10 knots and minimal chop. Our second race was our worst. We were over early and never made it back to the top. At the finish, we were 18th. It was a long sail in that day, dark by the time that we hit the dock, but we knew that we could only improve. At the end of day 1, USA 15390 was in 13th in a 20 boat fleet. For day 2, there was a bit more breeze, 13­16 with more wave action. Once again, we got off the line poorly in the first race but managed another sixth. In the second race, we were looking good after two legs, but found ourselves on the wrong side of a 20 degree shift and eked out a fourteenth. Since

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after four races, a throw-out was in order, we moved up to ninth after this day. The third day was our most consistent day of the event. To keep with our trend, we scored another sixth in the first race (yes, three times in a row now). Going into the second race

of the day, we knew we wanted to place better to make the long sail in a bit more bearable. Our first beat was strong and we rounded the leeward mark in 6th. We put ourselves on the wrong side of yet another left shift and lost boats on the second windward leg, falling to 11th at the top mark. On the final run, we caught a streak of pressure on the left side and sailed back into eighth place, right behind seventh. After these races, we moved into eighth place, in striking distance of the top 5. After racing that day, we participated in my first protest, which was a stressful experience, but we came away victorious. The highlight, however, from day three was the humpback whales on the course. We sailed 40 feet from two whales casually swimming around the starting area. That made the event. As the championship had been locked up on the day before, the winning team from Brazil elected not to sail the final race. They had won every race previously, so this opened the stage for another team to take the final race. We were second row at the start and tacked to clear. The first minute off the line was full of tacks as our lane was constantly taken. Once we got going in a straight line, we were super-fast and extended to the right side of the course. At the windward mark we rounded in third, our highest position to that point in the week. On the run, we passed team Chile and got around the leeward mark in second. We held this position up the beat and down the final run. Chris Schon, another USA boat won. Crossing 1 and 2 with USA teams was a great way to end the regatta. The scores were tallied and 15390 was in seventh place at the end of racing. We were one point from sixth and only three from fifth. I send my congratulations to Felipe Rondina and his team from Brazil. They sailed a perfect regatta, scoring 6 points in seven races. It was very impressive to watch this team work. The same goes to all competitors at this regatta. No team was lagging behind. Sailing in a regatta like this emphasizes what the sport needs to be

doing as a whole. In Ecuador, I met friends I will keep forever. We will continue to sail against each other at events and keep our classes strong. This, more than anything, is the biggest gain from the regatta. Lifelong bonds and the experience of planning this trip will stay more within me than race results. Finally, thank you for your support of my team. Without generous donations, this trip never would have happened. The Youth Worlds was the most fun and important regatta that I have ever competed in. It has turned me into a far better

sailor and team manager. Thanks to all that gave their support in any way to this team.--Doug Wake

The 2016 Sunfish US Masters Championship Regatta was hosted by Gull Lake Yacht Club, Richland, Michigan, August 5-7, 2016.

The event opened with a half-day Clinic presented by 2011 and 2002 Sunfish US Masters Champion and 2015 Force 5 North

American Champion Rich Chapman for approximately 20 attendees. Boat set up was reviewed in detail, with tailored application

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to each individual reviewed. Then came a couple hours of on the water work with practice starts to learn how to better position one’s self for success and mini-races for boat handling and mark rounding improvement. This was the first Sunfish Clinic in the Midwest in many years. This day was hot and humid, with winds of 9-15. For the weekend’s championship, mercifully a cold front came through, taking the humidity away, leaving comfortable low 80’s temperatures for 38 competitors. Saturday’s races were in winds that were somewhat a bell curve, light to start and finish, but as high as 12-14 so the last two races Saturday featured triangle courses instead of windward-leeward. Many of the 38 competitors were thrilled to have the triangle courses and enjoyed some planing as part of the experience. Sunday morning dawned with a nice breeze that was fading. Only one race could be completed before the time limit ran out. The Gull Lake Sunfish Fleet, Gull Lake Yacht Club, and greater Kalamazoo community all worked together to run a first rate event. The Chair has learned about the “high” of being the host and seeing through a highly successful event and what follows as a balloon busting slowdown on organizational leadership. This is the biggest take-away; I’ve seen other leaders simply fall away and not return after hosting a major championship and I didn’t understand why. I’m too much into sailing and sail racing to let that become my reality; it’s really important that sailors remember to stay connected to the major event hosts and let them know they value their participation. The grant from the LMSRF Grants-in-Aid Committee was the difference maker for drawing a 33% larger fleet than has been to this regatta when held in the Midwest in over 20 years and making the clinic a reality. Thank you to LMSRF.—Gail Turluck The 2016 US Sailing Championship of Champions regatta which was hosted by Lake Bluff Yacht Club from October 6th through 9th, 2016 on Lake Michigan in Lake Bluff, Illinois. LMSRF generously provided a grant in support of this regatta. The regatta brought together 19 competitors from around the US, all of whom had won national championships in a variety of one-design class boats. The regatta was sailed in Sunfish sailboats all lent by the members of the host club. Racing was held in a variety of conditions including light winds all the way up to winds in excess of 20 knots. As a round robin event, competitors switched boats after each race. The principal race officer was Mark Foster and assistance on the water and on land was provided by many club members. Over the weekend, a total of 20 races were completed allowing each racer to sail every boat provided. First place in the regatta was won by Paul-Jon Patin of Forest Hills, NY, second was Greg Gust of Dallas, TX and third place was Eugene Schmidt of New Orleans, LA. When not sailing the competitors had a number of dinners and other social events offered by our club. Lake Bluff Yacht Club very much appreciates the support of LMSRF for this regatta and we look forward to hosting more championship regattas in the future.—Doug Warren On behalf of the Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation’s Board of Directors, volunteers, and most importantly, program participants, thank you and the LMSRF for the $1,000 grant. Your generous donation helped fund US Sailing certification Level 1 Small Boat Instructor course to certify six Volunteer Instructors. They all gave a tremendous amount of time over the years to the program and this year they were able to help our regular instructing staff and allow us to get more boats on the water at our peak times. The Level 1 Instructor course is designed to provide instructors with information on how to teach more safely, effectively and creatively. Your support helps to further our mission of helping people with physical disabilities achieve self-esteem and independence through sailing. Learn more about JGASF at www.juddgoldmansailing.org. Again, we appreciate your generosity and look forward to working with you and the LMSRF in the future.—Peter D. Goldman and Kerry Tarmey

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Directly support the sport of sail racing and sail racing education through a donation to our 501(c)(3) charity. Donations have built the LMSRF Endowment Fund to over $500,000. The proceeds of the investment are awarded through the LMSRF Grants-In-Aid program.

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OPEN HOUSES

BURNHAM PARK YACHT CLUB, Chicago, Illinois, will be having open houses on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,

January 13-15, 2017, during and after the Strictly Sail Boat Show. They plan to have live music on

Saturday night.

SPECIAL MEMBER BENEFITS

Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation's Corporate Member program provides the opportunity to provide current LMSRF Individual Members with special benefits annually only available to our members. Current offers:

World Yachts: LMSRF members who are thinking either of buying or selling a boat get a free market analysis, a $25 value. Click link at right and contact Eric Jones.

COOL THINGS OUR CLUBS DO

WINTHROP HARBOR YACHT CLUB, Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, held its 3rd Annual Painting and Sleepover recently. Several women from the club had quite the night out! They shared dinner by candlelight, enjoyed a painting class from Dawn, the owner of Just Your Art in Mundelein, added some wine and chocolate, and enjoyed relaxing in their PJ's. It was such a wonderful night of friendship and creativity.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What do you think would make sailing better on Lake Michigan? What would you like to see LMSRF do for our sport in our area that it is not doing already? Write to: lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org.

Anyone been missing their catamaran trailer between Macatawa and Saugatuck? Thanks to storm induced waves it's reappearing! --Mitch Padnos

Suggest adding the Grosse Point Lighthouse in Evanston, Illinois, to your list of museums in the Lake Michigan area. http://www.grossepointlighthouse.net/visit.html - Tony Close

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SAILING EDUCATION

To have your event listed here, please email title, host/location, date and time, very brief description of program, who to contact with phone and email, and pre-registration or web site link to lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org.

SEAS WINTER EDUCATION SERIES - KNOT TYING WORKSHOP. Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00 pm, Sheboygan Yacht Club, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Presented by Whitney Kent and Tony Orelebeke, $10 admission (Sheboygan Yacht Club members-Free). Join us for a holiday-themed night of knot tying. A good sailor can tie many knots, including those that are purely decorative. We’ll go over useful knots and their purpose on a sailboat and end the evening by making a Monkey’s Fist ornaments to take home. All line will be supplied. Register here: http://www.seasheboygan.org/events-2/?action=evrplusegister&event_id=39. SEAS WINTER EDUCATION SERIES – SPLICING. Wednesday, January 18, 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm. Instructors: Whitney Kent and Tony Orelebeke, $10 admission (Sheboygan Yacht Club members-Free). Learn how to make a loop in your new dock lines or how to splice a new shackle onto your halyards yourself at our new splicing workshop. We’ll go over proper whipping and seizing procedures, how to make an eye splice in 3-strand rope, double braid rope, or 12-strand rope. This is a useful skill for those who sail any kind of boat keelboats, Lightnings, and other dinghies!

CHICAGO TARTAN 10 FLEET WINTER TALK, January 21, 2017, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, 601 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, Illinois. Free. NMEA/ABYC MARINE ELECTRICAL STANDARDS TRAINING, January 24-27, 2017, NMEA and ABYC combined four-day training event will focus two days on ABYC marine electrical standards and training, and two days on NMEA marine electronics standards and training.Register here: http://tinyurl.com/01-17-NMEA-ABYC-training. This is the marine industry's premier training event specifically designed as a one-stop shop for boat builders, installers, technicians, marine mechanics and surveyors to get trained on ABYC and NMEA standards. Sponsor Location: Larsen Marine, 625 E. Sea Horse Drive, Waukegan Illinois. CHICAGO TARTAN 10 FLEET WINTER TALK, February 18, 2017, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, 601 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, Illinois. Free. CHICAGO TARTAN 10 FLEET WINTER TALK, March 18, 2017, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, 601 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, Illinois. Free. GREAT LAKES CRUISING CLUB SCHOOL has a full program of live and recorded webinars for the school’s seventh year of operation. Several December live webinars are already open for registration, with roughly thirty additional live classes still to come in the first half of 2017. In particular, please watch for numerous "new-this-year" webinars taught by both familiar GLCC School faculty members as well as distinguished new-to-GLCC School instructors. Remember GLCC School’s recorded webinar offerings. Check out the Chris Parker Marine Weather Basics and Mastering GRIBs webinars offered both individually and as a package by the most respected and relied-upon offshore weather router in the business. Also check out the Successfully Living and Working Together on a Boat webinar by accomplished ocean cruising couple and published authors Virginia and Robert Gleser. These and other recordings are available for immediate registration, and can be viewed at any time and as many times as you wish – just see the Recordings section of the GLCC School web site: http://www.glccschool.com/open-classes.

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LMSRF CLASSIFIEDS

Classifieds available—Reach our distribution of over 2600 subscribers, plus club members from those that forward to their membership, plus those reached through our Social Media shares! Rates: 20 words or less for $10; 20-40 words for $20, 40+words for $.50 per word. Paid in advance. Email lmsrfadministration@lmsrf.org for more information. Submission with payment deadline: 20th of the month before next issue.

SAILBOATS FOR SALE

C&C SR33 race boat, lots of life left and tons of great sails. Must see to appreciate. http://tinyurl.com/SR33-LMSRFClassified.

Price is negotiable! Call Eric, 616.490.1059. Boat is in Grand Haven, MI.

MELGES 24 one-design, Hull 137. $22,000. Call Eric, 616.490.1059. Boat is in Grand Haven, MI.

Heard on the Rail … (tattle on your friends!)

SAILED OFF TO A LAST SUNSET With sadness we share the news of our sailors now off with the breeze always on the stern quarter … Thomas J. Herrmann, M.D., Age 80 of Bellaire, Michigan, passed away Monday, September 12, 2016. He was born May 28, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Thomas A. and Josephine (Lynch) Herrmann. Beloved husband of Mary A. (Backelant) Stephens. Tom graduated from the University of Detroit High School, University of Notre Dame, the University of Michigan Medical School, and the Harvard Business School. He became a transplant surgeon and had the privilege of working under Dr. Thomas E. Starzyl, often referred to as "the father of modern transplantation." Under Dr. Starzyl Tom was part of the team that performed the first liver transplant in the world. Tom later went into administration at the University of Michigan and became the associate dean of the medical school. Prior to retiring he was Director of physician services for the Humana Health Systems. Proud father of Thomas (Kathy) Herrmann of Bend Oregon, Janette Herrmann Luitgaarden of Seattle ,Washington, Michael (Terri) Herrmann of Sylvania, Ohio, and Renee (Thomas) Loftus of Denver, Colorado; grandfather of nine. Tom was an avid sailor who loved spending time on his sailboat, his beloved Bounty. Services have been held. Memorial contributions are suggested to the University of Detroit High School. Robert J. Ringa, Jr., 67, of Lake Villa, Illinois and Long Lake, Illinois passed away on Thursday, November 10, 2016. Bob was born

in Chicago on September 23, 1949, the son of the late Robert and Lorraine Ringa. Bob graduated from St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, earned a B.S. from the University of Denver in 1971, and graduated from Worsham College of Mortuary Science in 1972. Before assuming leadership of the family funeral home in Lake Villa, he served as Vice President of a major furniture manufacturing company for twenty years. Bob also served as president of the Lindenhurst-Lake Villa Chamber of Commerce for four years and has served on boards of directors for many additional community organizations in Lake Villa and the surrounding communities. He was a lifelong member of Prince of Peace Church, serving as an usher for many

years. In addition to his family, Bob's passions in life were sailboat racing on Long Lake, duck hunting, and funeral service. He is survived by his wife Robyn; sons RJ III (Megan) and Andrew (Colleen); and grandchildren Maceo, Lincoln, and Lanigan. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his sister Janet. Services have been held.

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US SAILING NEWS

US SAILING SEMINARS, TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING If you have questions about training, contact our local representatives to the US Sailing Training Committee: Cappy Capper, Member at Large, 3645 Laurel Dr, Wayzata, MN, 55391, 612.961.1756. Don L. Glasell, Member at Large, 1360 N Sandburg Terr, Apt 2202, Chicago, IL, 60610, 773.276.2333.

US SAILING SANCTIONED SAFETY AT SEA SEMINAR Visit http://www.ussailing.org/education/safety-at-sea/find-a-seminar-near-you/ for the up to date schedule and to register for any session.

RACE OFFICER, JUDGE, UMPIRE AND CLASSIFIER CERTIFICATION Visit http://www.ussailing.org/race-officials/become-a-race-official/ for the up to date schedule and to register for any session. Check frequently, as once posted, events often fill quickly.

SMALL BOAT INSTRUCTOR, SAILING COUNSELOR, INSTRUCTOR TRAINER, KEELBOAT, WINDSURFING INSTRUCTOR, Reach-STEM INSTRUCTOR, ADAPTIVE SAILING INSTRUCTOR, JUNIOR BIG BOAT, COMMUNITY SAILING, OR POWERBOAT CERTIFICATION Visit http://www.ussailing.org/education/ for the up to date schedule and to register for any session. As sailing season nears many instructor sessions will be added. Check frequently as once posted, events often fill quickly.

2017 US SAILING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CALENDAR Visit http://www.ussailing.org/racing/championships/ for details on each of these Championships and also for qualification requirements. As they are made available to us, Lake Michigan SuRF will publish information about Area K qualifying events.

HANSON MEDAL TO CREW OF CITY GIRL The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee awarded the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to the crew of City Girl for their rescue of 11 sailors from fellow competitor WhoDo during the 2016 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. The rescuing sailors were honored with the Hanson Rescue Medal at the Mackinac Race Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Chicago Yacht Club on November 5, 2016. Rescue Report It was Sunday, July 24, 2016 at, roughly, 3pm during the Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, when WhoDo, a One-Design 48, was sailing in steady 25 knot winds with their A2 spinnaker, with gusts to 30, in four-foot seas with air temperatures around 80 degrees, water temperatures around 70, a mile away from shore. A puff broached WhoDo, spinning the boat and a loud crashing sound was heard. An order was made to drop the spinnaker, as it was being doused, a crew noticed the rudder sticking out the side of the boat. The skipper realized he had no steering and went below to investigate. With water rushing in, he immediately called Mayday on the radio, told all crew to get on deck and wear lifejackets. Bilge pumps were activated, and Erik Owen went inside to the back end of the boat to stuff a bunk cushion into the hole where the rudder post used to go through the bottom of the boat. By now, the water was two-feet deep inside the boat and he was concerned the boat could sink at any moment and wisely abandoned this effort. City Girl, a C&C 30 One-Design, heard the Mayday call, and crew member Tac Boston spotted WhoDo a half-mile away. City Girl took their sails down and motored over quickly. They found the WhoDo crew in their life raft; a line was passed and the raft pulled alongside City Girl. The crew of WhoDo, including Eric Owen, Michael Burns, Sheri Dufresne, Michael Gilburt, Gordon

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Mackenzie, Helen Mackenzie, Russell Madsen, Connor Mashlan, Kathryn Mitzka, Dan Reddinger, and Neil Weston, were all pulled aboard. Five other boats stopped racing to stand by and offer assistance, including Heartbreaker, a One-Design 35 (2nd in Section), Triumvirate, Blue Flash (1st in Section), Trippwire, and Evvai. They were all awarded redress for their time off the course The United States Coast Guard was informed of the recovery and City Girl motored to Leland, Michigan to drop off the WhoDo crew. For rescuing their fellow mariners in challenging conditions, US Sailing is pleased to award the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to the crew of City Girl including William Bremer (Chicago, Ill.), Philip Barnard (Kingstown, St. Vincent), Zygmund Beatty (Cole Bay, Sint Maarten), Tac Boston (Sarnia, Ontario, CN), Erik Bremer (Austin, Texas), and John Leadingham (Concord, N.C.). The Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal is awarded to any person who rescues or endeavors to rescue any other person from drowning, shipwreck, or other perils at sea within the territorial waters of the United States, or as part of a sailboat race or voyage that originated or stopped in the U.S. The medal was established in 1990 by friends of the late Mr. Hanson, an ocean-racing sailor from the Chesapeake Bay, with the purpose of recognizing significant accomplishments in seamanship and collecting case studies of rescues for analysis by the Safety at Sea Committee of US Sailing for use in educational and training programs. Any individual or organization may submit a nomination for a Hanson Rescue Medal.

US SAILING E-NEWSLETTER The most recent issue of the US Sailing e-newsletter has been released. They asked that it be shared, so if you’re not a member or did not receive it, here’s the link: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9e7179c6be5d4ffc7b83d82dc&id=cc1cf5be93&e=5d2ee396ab Buried in this issue with the announcement of the NSPS (to be held February 16-18, 2017) is an add on in the registration button for the “National Conference” (former Annual Meeting), to be held in Austin, Texas, February 14-15, 2017. Registration closes on December 31, 2016.

MALCOLM PAGE TO LEAD THE US SAILING TEAM TOWARDS TOKYO 2020 US Sailing announced the selection of two-time Olympic Champion and seven-time World Champion Malcolm Page (Sydney, Australia) as the Chief of Olympic Sailing, succeeding Josh Adams as head of the national team and overall U.S. Olympic sailing effort. “Malcolm’s experience and expertise make him an ideal choice to lead our team, and build on the progress that was made during the Rio 2016 quadrennium,” said Bruce Burton, President of US Sailing. “Malcolm has demonstrated an ability to win at the highest level, has been part of a winning system and can bring athletes and coaches together. Our team is on the rise, and with his leadership we will continue that ascent by building scale within our program, both in terms of numbers and in abilities.” Page is widely considered the most successful Olympic-class sailor in Australian history. He was honored with a place on the Australian Institute of Sport’s “Best of the Best” list in 2011, and in October 2016 was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. “I’m very excited to get back into the performance side of the sport, which is where I cut my teeth, and where my passion has always been,” said Page. “I am looking forward to working with an ambitious group of American athletes and helping them realize their dreams. The US Sailing Team has an extraordinary history in Olympic sailing, with more medals won than any other nation. I know I can play a part in getting the United States back to the top.” Page most recently served as Head of Media for World Sailing, and prior to that worked as a Communications Consultant at the Australian telecommunications company Telstra. Page also brings extensive experience in athlete management to his new role, as

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he was the Chef de Mission for the Australian Team at the Pacific Games, served for seven years on the World Sailing Athletes' Commission and was Captain of the Australian Sailing Team from 2005-2012. Page takes the reigns of a U.S. Olympic sailing program that has undergone significant changes in recent years, with increased resources directed towards both the national team and at reinvigorating US Sailing’s youth development effort. Guided by the Project Pipeline strategic initiative, US Sailing’s Olympic Development Program (ODP) was founded in 2015 and has already jumpstarted the performance sailing careers of hundreds of motivated American youth athletes. On the national team level, the US Sailing Team reached the podium in Rio 2016 with Caleb Paine’s bronze medal in the Finn Class, and qualified for six medal races in ten classes. “The U.S. does not lack for sailing talent, and I have no doubt that we can and will compete with the best,” said Page. “Our challenge lies in finding enough resources and managing them well. I hate losing, and I want to give American athletes the chance to represent their country to the best of their abilities, as I was able to do in my own racing career.” Page will assume his new role on January 1st, 2017.

WORLD SAILING NEWS

2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS World Sailing’s 2016 Annual Conference brought together more than 1,000 delegates on November 5 to 13 in Barcelona, Spain. Here are some of the highlights that occurred over the weekend: • At this year's Annual Conference, elections were held to name the President and Vice Presidents who will serve a four-year term up until the World Sailing's General Assembly in November 2020. Kim Andersen was elected as World Sailing President, dethroning incumbent Carlo Croce. Joining Anderson on the Board of Directors will be seven newly elected Vice Presidents. • George Andreadis (GRE) was awarded the Beppe Croce Trophy, which honours an individual for their outstanding voluntary contribution to the sport of sailing. The trophy was first awarded in 1988 in memory of Beppe Croce, World Sailing President from 1969-1986. • World Sailing, the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA), and the Global Kitesports Association (GKA) signed an important Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to record a new governance structure for Kiteboarding. The IKA will remain fully responsible for the course racing disciplines of Kiteboarding. The GKA will run World Championships and World Cup events in the Kiteboarding expression performance disciplines of wave, strapless freestyle, big air, and twintip-freestyle and slider/obstacle events. • On the topic of gender equality at the Olympic Games, Sailing at Beijing 2008 had 35% of athletes as female, London 2012 was 37% and at Rio 2016 it was 43%. At Tokyo 2020, the International Olympic Committee wants to achieve full parity and the upcoming Youth Olympic Games will be the first Games where it will be 50/50. World Sailing Council endorsed the principle of 50/50 gender equality in sailing athletes for the 2020 Olympic Games. • The Para World Sailing Committee completed its equipment evaluation and proposed the 2.4 Norlin OD (Keelboat), Hansa 303 (Dinghy) and WETA (Trimaran). World Sailing will now enter class contractual discussions with the classes. • World Sailing Council approved the recommendation from the Oceanic and Offshore Committee to introduce a combined rating World Championship. This will see the IRC and ORC work towards a jointly scored World Championship and team World Championship from 2018 onwards and a new combined Offshore World Championship based on existing offshore events. • The Viper 640 and International One Design were granted World Sailing class status and Council gave the Equipment Committee approval to approve the Nacra 15 and Neil Pryde CR:X at the 2017 Mid-Year Meeting providing the worldwide distribution requirements of regulations are met by that time. • The venues of the 2017 and 2018 Annual Conference were decided. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico will host delegates in 2017 and Sarasota, Florida, USA in 2018.

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WHAT HAPPENED …

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2016 Sunfish World Championship Federación Colombiana de Vela, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia November 22–27, 2016 In a fleet of 63 competitors from 17 different countries, Alonso Collantes of Peru won the Sunfish World Championship held November 22-27 in Cartagena, Colombia. The South American sailors dominated the competition, taking eight of top ten positions, with US sailors David Mendelblatt and Eduardo Cordero in third and ninth, respectively. The top female champion was Caterina Romero of Peru in fourth overall with a total of seven women aged 16 to 72 years competing. Collantes mastered the variety of conditions, which experienced swells of 10-15 foot generated by Hurricane Otto to the north, to build a 40 point lead in victory. “These same conditions are in Lima,” he reports. During the summer months, Collantes sails about four times every week. In the winter, he sails every weekend. The 2017 Sunfish Youth World and World Championships will be held at the Brant Beach Yacht Club in Brant Beach, NJ, in late August. The 2018 event will be held at the Carolina Yacht Club in Wilmington, NC. The 2019 Sunfish World Championships will be in Bonaire, and the 2020 Worlds are scheduled for Martinique.--Vicki Palmer Link to results: http://www.sunfishcolombia.com/site-map/resultados/worlds-2016/92-dia-5-resultados-finales

2016 ICSA Match Racing National Championship San Diego Yacht Club, San Diego, California November 18-20, 2016 The 2016 College Sailing Match Racing National Championship, hosted by San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC), concluded on San Diego Bay. After three days of competitive racing, Georgetown University won the Cornelius Shields Sr. Trophy. The final day of racing consisted of a knock-out round for 9th and 10th place, Quarter Finals, Semi-Finals, Petite Finals and Finals. Race Committee was able to pull off all races with winds at 5-7 knots. After the Semi-Finals, Dartmouth College and College of Charleston raced for the first to 2 points in the Petite Finals. Dartmouth won the first two races and was first to two points, making them the third place finishers and College of Charleston fourth in the overall standings. Georgetown University and Hobart & William Smith Colleges faced off in the Finals. Due to light winds at the end of the day, Race Committee changed the format to declaring the first team to 2 points as the winner. Since Georgetown won the first race and Hobart and William Smith Colleges won the second race, it came down to the 3rd race where Georgetown University finished first, and ultimately won the overall championship. Coach Janel Zarkowsky reflected on how it felt when Georgetown won. "It feels great. We realized that Georgetown has won 3 out of the last 5 match racing championships. It feels good to be developing a team with that many wins. One of the takeaways from this weekend is that the fastest boat always wins. So if you put 90% effort into being the fastest, the match racing becomes really easy.” Georgetown alumnus Nevin Snow joined Zarkowsky on the water the final day to support the Hoyas. Snow, a San Diego native, won this title twice during his college career and is currently the #2 match racer in the country. Georgetown University won the Coed National Dinghy Championship in May which was also raced in San Diego Bay. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, coached by Scott Iklé, finished second overall. Iklé was proud of his team for placing second after the exciting last three races of the weekend against Georgetown. “Collegiate match racing has come a long way and this weekend's top teams were all great competitors. All of the teams here were well prepared, which made it even more fun to be a part of." Dartmouth College also had another great day of sailing, focusing on good handling and boat speed throughout each race. Though they were not able to beat Georgetown in the Semi-Finals, Coach David Thompson was happy to finish third after winning against College of Charleston in the Petite Final. “It was bittersweet. We have three seniors on the boat, so placing in the top three was a good way to cap their season. I'm 90% positive that our skipper, Charlie, is going to keep match racing in the future, so this isn't the last of him." Lake Michigan’s Indigo Leslie sailed for Wisconsin. 1. Georgetown University AJ Reiter '17, Meaghan MacRae '18, Sean Segerblom '20, Roger Dorr '18 2. Hobart and William Smith Colleges Greiner Hobbs '18, Sam Hallowell '16, Noah Barrengos '18, Maya Weber '20 3. Dartmouth College Charles Lalumiere '17, Nathaniel Greason '17, Rebecca McElvain '19 4. College of Charleston Christophe Killian '18, John Thompson '18, Laura Masterson '20, Howard Meyers '17 5. University of Southern California Matthew Hecht '16, Melissa Schem '18, Paul Chyz '18, Peter Wong '18 6. University of South Florida Sean Cornell '18, Brendan Feeney '18, Orrin Starr '19, Mandi Dickie '18 7. Boston College Charles Sinks '18, Erika Reineke '17, Peter Lynn '19 8. University of Wisconsin Charles Bocklet '17, James Sitter '17, Benjamin Witman '16, Indigo Leslie '17 9. Texas A&M University Galveston John Hanna '19, Haley Walker '18, Ian Beck '19, Jonathan Sager '20 10. University of Washington Kate Flanagan '17, Rachel Cohen '19, Athina Ebert '17, Hayden Potter '20

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2016 ISSA Great Oaks Regatta Jesuit High School/Southern Yacht Club, New Orleans, Louisiana November 19-20, 2016 Saturday started with STRONG Winds from the north. Steady 20+ with gusts to 30. The race committee postponed until 11am. Then noon. Then 1pm. Finally at 2pm the red fleet had their harbor start. The green fleet remained on shore until the red fleet completed their first race. While the red fleet race their second race, the green fleet headed for the lake. Race 1 and 2 were sailed in 4ft seas with the wind at 010. Then the green fleet returned to the harbor to swap boats. While the red fleet raced the wind lessened a little and the green fleet returned to the lake by 1630. Races 3 and 4 were sailed during a beautiful sunset. The top 17 schools in Red and Green fleets from Saturday competed in the Gold fleet on Sunday. Sunday started out like Saturday with strong winds and high seas. Racing was postponed for one hour. The Silver fleet commenced racing at 10:45. The temps were in the 60's with sunshine. The breeze and seas diminished through the afternoon. 8 races were completed. Congratulations to Jensen Beach Falcons in third, St. Patrick Fighting Irish in second and the winners: Brother Rice IL Varsity. The Gold fleet commenced racing at 10:30. Through the day the temps were in the 60's with sunshine. The breeze and seas diminished through the afternoon. 10 races were completed.16 schools competed in the consolation Silver fleet on Sunday.

1. Scarlet

1 4 3 1 11 3 1 2 1 1 28 Orono

1 5 8 9 20 23 24 26 27 28 28

3. Navy

4 3 9 3 2 6 3 5 9 13 57 Wayzata

4 7 16 19 21 27 30 35 44 57 57

12. Maroons

15 14 8 9 4 8 7 11 12 15 103 U Chicago Laboratory

15 29 37 46 50 58 65 76 88 103 103

13. Red

5 12 11 12 14 5 11 16 13 11 110 Spring Lake

5 17 28 40 54 59 70 86 99 110 110

Silver

1. Varsity

2 6 8 1 2 1 3 1 24 Brother Rice - IL

2 8 16 17 19 20 23 24 24

Green

1. Warriors

3 2 3 3 11 Westminster

3 5 8 11 11

5. Red

6 3 5 4 18 Spring Lake

6 9 14 18 18

Red

1. Scarlet

1 3 1 3 8 Orono

1 4 5 8 8

3. Maroons

3 5 9 4 21 U Chicago Laboratory

3 8 17 21 21

6. Navy

7 4 6 10 27 Wayzata

7 11 17 27 27

12. Varsity

12 12 11 5 40 Brother Rice - IL

12 24 35 40 40

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ISSA National Keelboat Invitational Lakewood/Shorecrest Prep, St. Petersburg, Florida November 19-20, 2016

1.

Corona del Mar High School

28

Max Mayol '19

Sea Kings

Robert Garrett '17

David Wood '19

Cameron Wood '18

7.

Minnetonka High School

60

Conrad (Cort) Vandlik '17

Skippers

Carl Eaton '17

Hannah Dillahunt '17

Matthew Kickhafer '19

8.

St. Ignatius College Prep

67

Ray Groble '17

Wolfpack

Aisling Sullivan '18

Matthew Alfano '17

Nicholas Alfano '18

2016 U.S. Disabled Sailing Championship Clearwater Community Sailing, Clearwater, Florida November 17–20, 2016 Dee Smith captured the 2016 U.S. Disabled Sailing Championship in Clearwater, Florida, following three days of racing at this US Sailing National Championship, hosted by Clearwater Community Sailing Center. Sailors racing in a fleet of 12 2.4mR sailboats tallied nine races, with three on Friday, two on Saturday and four on Sunday. Smith won seven races over three days and did not compete in the final race of the championship on Sunday. “The first two days were light and shifty, but today, we had more wind which is always more fun,” said Smith. “I saw a lot of improvement in the fleet each day,” added Smith who offered instruction to the fleet this week. Smith is a former America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race competitor and many other high-level racing programs over the course of his career. The Maryland native has hundreds of thousands of ocean racing miles under his belt. Smith’s top results to date include a 4th at the 2016 Paralympic Games and 5th at the 2016 Para Sailing World Championship. Placing second was Charlie Rosenfield (Woodstock, Conn.), an experienced and accomplished 2.4mR sailor who won this title in 2012, 2011 and 2009. Rosenfield said, “The hosts were outstanding, the weather was great and I think it was a very successful event. It’s great we have so many new people and they are right there in the mix doing well.” The regatta’s youngest competitor, Barbara Galinska said, “I think I learned more in the last five days about sailing than I ever have. The most beautiful thing about sailing with these guys is that they are all such tough competitors. The staff here and race committee was amazing.” It is US Sailing’s goal to organize events like this with host organizations around the country to increase participation and drive more awareness to the opportunities in adaptive sailing. This US Sailing National Championship is one of the oldest sailing regattas in the U.S. for sailors with disabilities. The talented field often includes Paralympians, current or former US Sailing Team members, and new contenders. First established in 1986, the U.S. Independence Cup became US Sailing’s National Championship for sailors with disabilities in 1989. In 2007, the regatta moved under the championships division of US Sailing and was renamed the U.S. Disabled Sailing Championship. These athletes raced to stake claim to the Judd Goldman Trophy. Peter Goldman donated the Judd Goldman Trophy in honor of Justin “Judd” Goldman (1914-1989) who, despite his own physical disability, was an accomplished sailor and inspired the creation of the Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program in Chicago. 2.4mR 1. Demetrio Smith Annapolis, MD 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 [DS] 11 2. Charles Rosenfield Woodstock, CT 2 3 2 2 3 [4] 3 2 2 19 3. Daniel Evans St. Petersburg, FL [7] 2 4 3 5 3 2 5 1 25 4. Peter Eagar Toronto, ONT [5] 4 3 1 2 5 5 3 5 28 5. Tim Ripley Randolph, NJ 6 5 6 8 [9] 6 4 4 3 42 6. Jeffery Reinhold Bellevue, WA 4 6 5 6 6 2 [9] 8 8 45 7. Brad Kendell Clearwater, FL [10] 9 9 5 4 8 7 6 4 52 8. Kevin Holmberg Tampa, FL 3 7 7 [9] 8 9 6 9 7 56 9. Sammy Lugo Riverview, FL 8 8 8 [10] 7 7 8 7 6 59 10. Charles McClure Chicago, IL 9 10 11 11 10 10 [12] 10 9 80 11. Barbara Galinska Chicago, IL 12 12 10 7 12 [DS] 10 12 10 85 12. David Caras St. Petersburg, FL 11 11 [BF] 12 11 11 11 11 11 89

2016 MCSA Coed Fall Conference Championship Hope College Sailing Club, Holland, Michigan November 12-13, 2016 Teams arrived promptly at 9am for the skippers meeting, Coach Cappy Capper and RC Jack & Linda Knoblauch led the morning’s meeting; informing sailors of temperatures in the 50's, winds from the south-west at 7-10knts, water temperatures in the high 50s. Winds were shifty, and slowly clocked to the west throughout the day. Sailors rotated off the front lawn of Macatawa Bay Yacht Club efficiently and quickly. During the first few races sailors became accustomed to a race committee who was serious about over early boats, resulting in 3 OCS starts, and a general recall in the first race of the day. During the day a few abnormalities occurred; including a slipping anchor issue with the RC boat resulting in finishes recorded by substitute RC boat. Races concluded with a last B fleet rotation (6B) around 3:30pm. Later in the evening teams attended a banquet, including a speaker, to finish this day’s events. Sundays racing consisted of windier conditions, a westerly persisted throughout the day, steady between 13 and 20 knots of wind. The windier sailing provided for fast conditions, and more protests than the

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previous day. Temperatures were in the mid to upper 50s, and the sun never wavered. Rotations continued off the front docks of the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club. Protests resulted in two DSQ's for the day. Recovery the Race Committee boat continued to have problems with its anchor, which resulted in substitute boat acting as RC for a few starts until the situation was rectified. We completed 2 full rotations on this day of racing, solidifying scores. Congratulations to Northwestern, Michigan, and Wisconsin for placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd overall in this regatta!

1. Northwestern A 2 1 4 1 5 3 1 1 1 2 21 Wildcats B 5 1 1 1 4 8 1 1 1 2 25

7 9 14 16 25 36 38 40 42 46 46

2. Michigan A 4 4 1 2 1 2 4 3 2 4 27 Wolverines B RA 4 2 4 5 1 2 3 5 5 47

20 28 31 37 43 46 52 58 65 74 74

3. Wisconsin A OC 3 3 3 2 1 2 DQ 4 1 51 Badgers B 3 2 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 26

19 24 31 37 42 46 51 69 75 77 77

4. Minnesota A 3 5 6 7 10 8 5 8 6 11 69 Gophers B 2 3 3 2 1 2 4 5 4 6 32

5 13 22 31 42 52 61 74 84 101 101

5. Michigan State A 7 11 7 BKD 13 9 7 2 5 9 78 Spartans B 1 8 5 6 2 5 6 6 3 4 46

8 27 39 53 68 82 95 103 111 124 124

6. Toledo A 5 8 8 6 9 7 6 6 8 7 70 Rockets B 7 7 7 5 9 6 8 8 6 9 72 12 27 42 53 71 84 98 112 126 142 142

7. Marquette A 6 6 5 4 7 4 9 7 10 6 64 Golden Eagles B 8 5 10 9 6 7 7 9 11 8 80

14 25 40 53 66 77 93 109 130 144 144

8. Hope A OC 9 10 9 4 12 8 5 7 5 85 Flying Dutchmen B 6 10 6 8 7 11 5 4 8 3 68

22 41 57 74 85 108 121 130 145 153 153

9. Grand Valley State A OC 2 9 8 3 6 3 9 3 8 67 Lakers B 4 15 11 10 8 9 10 10 9 10 96

20 37 57 75 86 101 114 133 145 163 163

10. Michigan Tech A 11 13 13 11 12 13 11 10 11 12 117 Husky One B 11 6 8 7 12 4 9 7 7 7 78

22 41 62 80 104 121 141 158 176 195 195

11. Notre Dame A 1 7 2 5 6 5 10 4 DQ 3 59 Fighting Irish B 14 14 14 14 15 15 12 13 13 14 GDQ 158

15 36 52 71 92 112 134 151 180 197 (20) 217

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12. Chicago A 10 10 14 13 11 11 13 11 13 14 120 Maroons B 10 11 12 11 11 10 11 11 10 11 108

20 41 67 91 113 134 158 180 203 228 228

13. Northern Michigan A 12 14 11 10 14 14 12 12 12 13 124 Wildcats B 12 9 13 13 10 12 13 12 12 12 118

24 47 71 94 118 144 169 193 217 242 242

14. Western Michigan A 8 12 12 14 8 10 14 13 9 10 110 Broncos B 9 13 DF DS 14 14 14 14 14 13 137

17 42 70 100 122 146 174 201 224 247 247

15. Ohio State A 9 15 DS DS DS DS DS DS DS DS 152 Buckeyes B 13 12 9 12 13 13 DS DS DS DS GDQ 156

22 49 74 102 131 160 192 224 256 288 (20) 308

2016 ISSA Atlantic Coast Championship Rochester Yacht Club, Rochester, New York November 12-13, 2016 The morning started off a bit cool and gray with a nice southwesterly breeze. As the fleet of 20 boats headed out to Lake Ontario the clouds started to burn off. The first start was 10:30am and off went all the teams in the shifty and puffy southwesterly breeze. The racing and rotations went very smoothly and everyone seemed to be having a great time! Loads of smiles and even some laughs were heard. Even though the high temperature only reached 45 it was a beautiful day of high school sailing in Rochester, New York! Let's hope for another wonderful day of racing on Sunday. Sail fast and have fun! Sunday morning started out warm with a nice southerly breeze yet again (warm as in not freezing, this is Rochester so warm to us is 40 degrees.) The sailors sailed out to the lake for a 10am start. As the morning went on the wind kept building right into the afternoon, as the day went on we saw a gust up to 25kts. The sailors were having a blast hiking out and planing downwind on the waves. We raced a total of seven races on Sunday and we were in and packing up around 2pm. We had a great awards ceremony with some great giveaways from Quantum sails as well as Ronstan. Thank you to both companies for supporting the ACC's. I would also like to thank everyone at the Rochester Yacht Club for putting on such a well run high school regatta. Great sailing by all and we hope everyone had a great time!

1. Christchurch A 2 1 1 8 1 1 11 11 3 4 3 46 Seahorses B 2 2 2 1 3 3 4 10 8 3 10 48

4 7 10 19 23 27 42 63 74 81 94 94

7. Walter Payton College Prep A 13 11 6 15 13 4 8 7 4 14 10 105 Varsity B 7 10 9 15 1 19 6 5 9 4 5 90

20 41 56 86 100 123 137 149 162 180 195 195

11. Orono A 7 2 7 4 4 2 1 5 7 1 9 49 Scarlet B 17 14 19 17 17 9 19 18 17 15 15 177

24 40 66 87 108 119 139 162 186 202 226 226

13. New Trier High School A 10 3 18 9 9 9 9 9 16 10 14 116 Trevian B 16 17 17 13 10 4 12 13 15 9 19 145

26 46 81 103 122 135 156 178 209 228 261 261

17. Wayzata A 16 9 10 13 5 12 12 12 12 2 12 115 Navy B 15 16 16 14 14 10 15 17 19 12 7 155

31 56 82 109 128 150 177 206 237 251 270 270

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18. St. Ignatius College A 17 10 13 12 14 19 18 4 18 17 16 158 Wolfpack B 12 6 18 5 19 5 9 14 14 6 9 117

29 45 76 93 126 150 177 195 227 250 275 275

2016 Chicago Yachting Association Frostbite Regatta Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, Chicago, Illinois November 12, 2016 For the second year in a row the Frostbite Regatta lucked into temperate conditions with gentle breezes. With sunshine, temperatures in the 50’s and west-southwest winds of 7-13, a complete rotation was sailed by two divisions for a total of twelve races in 420s. Led by Andy Camarda, John Madey and Jane McMillian brought together teams from six of Chicago Yachting Association’s member clubs. Courses were windward-leewards. Coffee and donuts opened the day and pizza was provided for lunch. Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club announced their intention to host again as the winner (repeat winner) of the regatta.—Gail Turluck

Burnham Park Yacht Club team. Belmont Yacht Club team.

Midwest Open Racing Fleet team. Jackson Park Yacht Club team.

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Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club team. Columbia Yacht Club team.

Skipper’s meeting at CYA Frostbite Regatta; 420’s sailing in Montrose Harbor with the skyline as the backdrop; yes, one team capsized-happily in the last race of the day; the victorious Chicago Corinthian Team posed with the perpetual trophy as they celebrated their win. Photos by Gail M. Turluck.

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1. Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club

Val Smith/Markell Pool; Ben Marden/Liz

Colicchia; Jacob Karlin/Theresa Trejo, Mike Schroff 1 1 BYE BYE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 11

2. Jackson Park Yacht Club Nate Webb/Tyra Taylor; Laura Beck/Arlis Ball 2 2 DNF 2 2 3 BYE BYE 2 2 2 3 20

3. Burnham Park Yacht Club Chad Miles/Rich Anderson; Neville White/Tyler Dunn, Jim Faulkner 5 5 1 4 BYE BYE 4 4 3 3 3 1 33

4. Columbia Yacht Club Vanessa Gates/Mike Kearschner; Joe Harris/Simone Harris 4 3 2 1 4 5 2 2 5 5 BYE BYE 33

5. Midwest Open Racing Fleet Mike Ciechanowski/Jenn Gremski; Jim Nachtman/Monique Tran 3 4 3 3 3 2 3 5 BYE BYE 4 4 34

6. Belmont Yacht Club John Knoepke/Jane McMillan; Alex Verslype/Jeff Doornbos BYE BYE 4 5 5 4 5 3 4 4 5 DNF 39

2016 MISSA Great Lakes Championship Hinsdale Central/Latin of Chicago/New Trier High School/St. Ignatius College/Walter Payton College Prep, Chicago, Illinois

November 5-6, 2016 A great day for the MISSA Great Lakes Championship out of Chicago Yacht Club Belmont Station. There was a west wind at 8-13 knots creating very tricky and inconsistent conditions from the buildings. Another day with a dying westerly. Wind tapered off by noon and then shifted to the SE at about 5 knots. We got in 13 races total in each division. Congratulations to Kettle Moraine for winning the 2016 MISSA Great Lakes Championship. Thank you to all the race officials for 2 brilliant days of sailing.

1. Kettle Moraine A 5 7 2 10 1 2 4 8 1 5 5 2 3 55 Varsity B 8 17 8 8 2 8 7 13 10 16 4 3 10 114

13 37 47 65 68 78 89 110 121 142 151 156 169 169

2. Orono A 2 1 3 1 2 1 7 6 2 15 1 3 10 54 Scarlet B 16 7 9 2 17 6 2 15 15 6 7 2 16 120

18 26 38 41 60 67 76 97 114 135 143 148 174 174

3. Minnetonka A 6 15 17 9 12 9 12 2 12 1 10 6 4 115 Skippers B 10 11 3 1 4 7 3 2 2 5 9 7 2 66

16 42 62 72 88 104 119 123 137 143 162 175 181 181

4. Arrowhead A 1 2 1 2 3 13 1 1 8 6 11 8 1 58 Warhawks B 4 13 11 4 10 18 8 10 13 19 2 8 8 128

5 20 32 38 51 82 91 102 123 148 161 177 186 186

5. Walter Payton College Prep A 8 5 5 4 9 4 6 10 7 10 9 4 19 100 Varsity B 3 8 1 12 7 2 4 14 16 13 14 17 6 117

11 24 30 46 62 68 78 102 125 148 171 192 217 217

6. Wayzata A 7 4 6 6 8 6 11 4 6 13 6 15 9 101 Navy B 9 2 14 11 14 9 6 11 6 10 15 13 14 134

16 22 42 59 81 96 113 128 140 163 184 212 235 235

7. St. Ignatius College Prep A 16 9 4 13 13 7 16 7 10 18 17 11 11 152 Wolfpack B 12 5 13 10 3 3 13 4 4 9 5 1 1 83

28 42 59 82 98 108 137 148 162 189 211 223 235 235

8. Grosse Pointe South A 12 13 OC 12 14 16 3 5 18 9 8 9 6 145 Blue Devils B 11 4 5 OC 6 16 9 7 1 1 3 6 5 94

23 40 65 97 117 149 161 173 192 202 213 228 239 239

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9. New Trier High School A 3 6 7 3 6 11 2 3 4 11 19 12 2 89 Trevian B 2 10 16 14 8 11 15 5 5 18 19 16 15 154

5 21 44 61 75 97 114 122 131 160 198 226 243 243

10. Oconomowoc A 9 10 9 7 5 14 8 11 9 19 4 17 7 129 Raccoons B 1 1 17 7 15 10 14 1 18 11 6 5 13 119

10 21 47 61 81 105 127 139 166 196 206 228 248 248

11. Grosse Ile A 19 17 13 16 18 12 17 16 5 8 13 18 18 190 Red Devils Scarlet B 17 6 10 3 5 5 10 6 3 4 1 9 9 88

36 59 82 101 124 141 168 190 198 210 224 251 278 278

12. Latin of Chicago A 17 18 8 18 17 19 9 9 3 4 2 1 13 138 Varsity B 14 12 2 13 16 4 5 8 12 8 18 18 12 142

31 61 71 102 135 158 172 189 204 216 236 255 280 280

13. East Grand Rapids A 14 11 16 11 7 8 10 14 11 7 7 16 15 147 Pioneers B 6 3 15 6 12 12 16 9 14 15 11 14 3 136

20 34 65 82 101 121 147 170 195 217 235 265 283 283

14. Detroit Country Day A 18 16 15 19 16 15 OC 19 16 12 18 14 17 215 Varsity B 7 9 4 5 1 1 1 3 11 2 10 12 4 70

25 50 69 93 110 126 147 169 196 210 238 264 285 285

15. Hinsdale Central A 4 14 14 5 15 17 5 13 17 14 16 7 14 155 Varsity B 5 16 7 15 11 13 12 19 9 3 8 4 11 133

9 39 60 80 106 136 153 185 211 228 252 263 288 288

16. Mahtomedi A 11 19 10 15 4 3 14 12 13 2 3 10 8 124 Zephyrs B 18 14 12 16 18 14 18 16 7 14 13 10 19 189

29 62 84 115 137 154 186 214 234 250 266 286 313 313

17. U Chicago Laboratory Prep A 15 8 11 17 11 5 13 15 15 17 12 13 5 157 Maroons B 15 19 18 9 9 17 11 12 17 12 17 11 17 184

30 57 86 112 132 154 178 205 237 266 295 319 341 341

18. Lake Forest A 13 3 18 8 19 10 18 17 14 3 14 5 16 158 Scouts B 19 15 19 17 19 15 17 18 8 7 16 19 18 207

32 50 87 112 150 175 210 245 267 277 307 331 365 365

19. Southwest Senior A 10 12 12 14 10 18 15 18 19 16 15 19 12 190 Varsity B 13 18 6 OC 13 19 19 17 19 17 12 15 7 195

23 53 71 105 128 165 199 234 272 305 332 366 385 385

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2016 Shepherd Championship Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago, Illinois November 5-6, 2016 Beautiful sunny day on the Columbia Bay. SE Winds from 6-10mph. W/L 2x with rotations and great viewing just off the race course. 8 races were completed in each division, with racing winding up around 4:45pm. Sunday was another spectacular November day with temps in the low 70's. Wind was not as cooperative as yesterday with a few holding patterns on the water throughout the day waiting for wind. 2 races completed in each division, with the final race of the event being sailed outside of the harbor. Thank you to all of the competitors for great sailing and sportsmanship throughout the weekend. Congratulations to Spring Lake for winning the 2016 Shepherd Championship.

1. Spring Lake A RG 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 11 24 Red B 8 2 3 4 1 9 6 13 1 6 53

10 13 17 22 24 34 41 58 60 77 77

2. West Bloomfield A 11 5 5 4 11 3 15 6 8 8 76 Lakers Varsity B 6 6 1 3 4 4 7 2 8 8 49

17 28 34 41 56 63 85 93 109 125 125

3. Grosse Pointe North A 8 13 11 5 9 13 5 11 2 10 87 Norsemen B 1 1 4 2 10 5 11 1 3 11 49

9 23 38 45 64 82 98 110 115 136 136

4. Beacon Academy A 3 4 10 11 4 6 7 3 9 9 66 Varsity B 4 4 12 10 6 10 2 9 7 9 73

7 15 37 58 68 84 93 105 121 139 139

5. Evanston Township High School A 7 11 2 8 15 10 16 12 16 13 110 Zac B 2 5 5 1 3 1 1 12 4 4 38

9 25 32 41 59 70 87 111 131 148 148

6. Benilde St, Margaret’s A 1 3 17 15 13 4 8 1 10 6 78 Red B 7 11 2 5 5 3 10 10 10 12 75

8 22 41 61 79 86 104 115 135 153 153

7. Brother Rice - IL A 9 2 3 3 10 2 3 13 4 1 50 Varsity B 12 7 10 16 14 16 13 11 6 13 118

21 30 43 62 86 104 120 144 154 168 168

8. Lane Tech College Prep A 2 8 4 2 6 8 12 17 7 3 69 Varsity B 13 10 16 13 8 13 12 8 2 5 100

15 33 53 68 82 103 127 152 161 169 169

9. Culver Academies A RA 16 7 7 3 11 4 14 6 4 90 Maroon B 5 8 8 9 13 7 8 14 5 10 87

23 47 62 78 94 112 124 152 163 177 177

10. Traverse City West A 6 12 13 14 14 5 17 9 17 17 124 Varsity B 3 9 9 8 2 2 3 6 13 1 56

9 30 52 74 90 97 117 132 162 180 180

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11. Loyola Academy A 13 7 9 9 12 17 2 2 15 12 98 Zac B 9 12 11 6 9 6 4 4 14 7 82

22 41 61 76 97 120 126 132 161 180 180

12. Lyons Township A 10 9 14 16 5 14 10 8 11 7 104 Lions B 11 13 7 11 12 11 9 3 11 2 90

21 43 64 91 108 133 152 163 185 194 194

13. St. Francis Traverse City A 12 17 15 12 16 9 9 16 12 16 134 St Francis Gladiator B 10 3 6 7 11 8 5 5 9 3 67

22 42 63 82 109 126 140 161 182 201 201

14. Fenwick A 14 10 6 6 2 12 6 5 3 5 69 Friars B 16 16 14 15 OC 12 16 17 16 16 156

30 56 76 97 117 141 163 185 204 225 225

15. Traverse City Central A 5 6 8 13 7 7 13 7 5 14 85 Varsity B 14 15 15 12 15 15 15 15 15 15 146

19 40 63 88 110 132 160 182 202 231 231

16. Lincoln Park A 15 14 12 17 17 15 14 10 13 2 129 Varsity B 15 14 13 14 7 14 14 7 12 14 124

30 58 83 114 138 167 195 212 237 253 253

17. Trinity A 16 15 16 10 8 16 11 15 14 15 136 Blazers B RA 17 17 17 16 17 17 16 17 17 169

34 66 99 126 150 183 211 242 273 305 305

2016 ICSA Singlehanded National Championships Texas A&M-Galveston Sailing Club, Galveston, Texas November 4-6, 2016 The LaserPerformance Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships, hosted by Texas A & M University at Galveston and Sea Star Base Galveston wrapped up with Boston College coming out on top of both championships. Scott Rasmussen (Cape Coral, Fla.), a freshman at Boston College won the Men’s event and Erika Reineke (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), a senior at Boston College won the Women’s event. The championships included the top 18 men and top 18 women singlehanded sailors in the nation. LaserPerformance provided new Lasers and Laser Radials for the events and Marlow Ropes provided mainsheets. The competitors sailed out of Sea Star Base Galveston on Offatts Bayou. The conditions for the first day of racing, on Saturday, were winds ranging from about 4 knots

on the light side to about 12 knots in the windier moments. The average for the day was about 8 to 10 knots. It was shifty and flat water sailing under sunny skies and warm temperatures. The sailors completed 10 races and finished the day around 5 p.m. Sunday the conditions were a little windier and cloudier than Saturday, but still flat water and tricky shifty winds. The competitors completed four races finishing up the event around 12:30 p.m. with 14 races total sailed for the regattas. Rasmussen is the winner of the Glen S. Foster Trophy, awarded to the first place finisher. This is his first collegiate national championship and it’s the first time that Boston College has won the Men’s Singlehanded Nationals. Now Boston College has won each college sailing national championship title. “I did not feel a lot of pressure going into the event,” says Rasmussen, “I felt confident, but it was nerve wracking during the regatta. I kept it all together and just kept sailing.” Rasmussen was never leading the event and only won the regatta in the very last race, which he won allowing him to gain leverage on the regatta leader, Nick Baird, from Yale University who placed 14th in the last race and Gerald Williams from College of Charleston who placed 5th in the race and was one point ahead of Rasmussen going into it. “It was an all around challenging event, but it was a lot of fun being with everyone I know, we are all friends out there, and it’s great

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being part of a team with Boston College,” says Rasmussen. Gerald Williams from College of Charleston placed second and received the George Griswold Trophy. He finished only three points behind Rasmussen. In third place was Nick Baird, from Yale University, only one point away from Williams. This was also a special event for Boston College because Erika Reineke won the Women’s Singlehanded Nationals. Reineke is the winner of the Janet Lutz Trophy, awarded to the first place finisher. She finished the regatta with only 31 points and was 39 points ahead of second place. She won eight out of the fourteen races. “I was really nervous before this event,” says Reineke, “But on Friday my coach helped me calm my nerves. I found that adjusting to the different conditions was key and my main focus for the event.” Reineke felt that the regatta could have gone to any one of her competitors. “I tried to stay focused on my racing and take it step-by-step, which is what all of the other girls were doing too, so I was nervous of everyone out there,” she said. “We don’t sail Lasers much in college sailing, only in the fall really, and it’s what I grew up sailing and I have always loved them, so any chance I can get in the boat is fun,” said Reineke. Kelly-Ann Arrindell, from College of Charleston, finished in second place with 70 points. Also with 70 points, in third place, was Lindsey Baab from Brown University. Mens - Laser

1. Scott Rasmussen '20 Boston College

12 5 2 5 8 5 6 7 7 1 1 17 4 1 81

12 17 19 24 32 37 43 50 57 58 59 76 80 81 81

2. Gerald Williams '19 Charleston

5 9 13 3 11 11 3 6 1 12 3 1 1 5 84

5 14 27 30 41 52 55 61 62 74 77 78 79 84 84

3. Nicholas Baird '19 Yale

6 14 3 8 2 1 4 4 3 7 5 6 8 14 85

6 20 23 31 33 34 38 42 45 52 57 63 71 85 85

4. Enrique Pacas '17 Charleston

2 8 1 14 3 9 9 9 15 6 2 3 6 2 89

2 10 11 25 28 37 46 55 70 76 78 81 87 89 89

5. Stefano Peschiera '18 Charleston

7 1 7 DQ 1 3 OC 1 6 4 4 7 7 3 89

7 8 15 34 35 38 57 58 64 68 72 79 86 89 89

6. Alp Rodopman '17 Tufts

9 7 4 7 5 4 5 14 4 5 12 8 12 11 107

9 16 20 27 32 36 41 55 59 64 76 84 96 107 107

7. Malcolm Lamphere '18 Yale

1 11 10 12 14 12 1 3 5 13 8 2 9 10 111

1 12 22 34 48 60 61 64 69 82 90 92 101 111 111

8. Greg Martinez '18 Georgetown

3 2 14 2 9 2 13 11 9 3 10 9 18 8 113

3 5 19 21 30 32 45 56 65 68 78 87 105 113 113

9. Gary Prieto '18 Navy

13 3 6 1 6 8 2 5 8 10 7 13 17 18 117

13 16 22 23 29 37 39 44 52 62 69 82 99 117 117

10. Brendan Shanahan '17 George Washington

10 10 9 9 4 10 12 12 11 8 14 4 3 6 122

10 20 29 38 42 52 64 76 87 95 109 113 116 122 122

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11. William Marshall '19 Stanford

8 16 5 13 10 7 7 8 13 11 6 12 5 4 125

8 24 29 42 52 59 66 74 87 98 104 116 121 125 125

12. John Hanna '19 Texas A&M Galveston

4 13 11 6 12 6 10 15 2 2 17 10 11 9 128

4 17 28 34 46 52 62 77 79 81 98 108 119 128 128

13. Jack Marshall '18 Georgetown

14 4 8 4 16 14 8 2 12 9 15 14 10 12 142

14 18 26 30 46 60 68 70 82 91 106 120 130 142 142

14. Luke Muller '18 Stanford

18 6 17 11 13 17 11 10 18 16 9 5 2 7 160

18 24 41 52 65 82 93 103 121 137 146 151 153 160 160

15. James Harvey '17 Washington U

16 17 12 10 7 13 15 13 10 18 11 11 16 15 184

16 33 45 55 62 75 90 103 113 131 142 153 169 184 184

16. Michael Levy '19 Oregon State

11 12 15 16 15 16 16 16 17 17 13 16 14 17 211

11 23 38 54 69 85 101 117 134 151 164 180 194 211 211

17. Charlie Kutschenreuter '19 Wisconsin

15 18 16 17 17 15 14 18 16 14 16 15 13 13 217

15 33 49 66 83 98 112 130 146 160 176 191 204 217 217

18. Korbin Kierstead '19 Wisconsin

17 15 18 15 18 18 17 17 14 15 18 18 15 16 231

17 32 50 65 83 101 118 135 149 164 182 200 215 231 231

Women-Laser Radial

1. Erika Reineke '17 Boston College

3 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8 1 2 3 31

3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 25 26 28 31 31

2. Kelly-Ann Arrindell '20 Charleston

2 3 4 6 14 3 7 3 1 5 9 4 1 8 70

2 5 9 15 29 32 39 42 43 48 57 61 62 70 70

3. Lindsey Baab '18 Brown

1 2 6 3 10 6 3 4 5 10 6 5 3 6 70

1 3 9 12 22 28 31 35 40 50 56 61 64 70 70

4. Haddon Hughes '19 Georgetown

5 4 10 8 2 5 6 2 10 6 1 7 9 4 79

5 9 19 27 29 34 40 42 52 58 59 66 75 79 79

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5. Dana Rohde '18 Coast Guard

4 8 7 4 8 10 5 6 3 2 14 6 4 11 92

4 12 19 23 31 41 46 52 55 57 71 77 81 92 92

6. Louisa Nordstrom '20 Yale

9 9 2 5 3 4 11 9 9 3 5 11 5 14 99

9 18 20 25 28 32 43 52 61 64 69 80 85 99 99

7. Kelly Cole '19 Charleston

11 1 3 10 6 8 10 7 8 8 3 10 8 7 100

11 12 15 25 31 39 49 56 64 72 75 85 93 100 100

8. Lola Bushnell '18 Georgetown

10 6 13 12 4 9 8 5 4 4 2 2 12 12 103

10 16 29 41 45 54 62 67 71 75 77 79 91 103 103

9. Lenox Butcher '20 Pennsylvania

6 7 8 2 15 12 13 14 7 13 7 3 6 2 115

6 13 21 23 38 50 63 77 84 97 104 107 113 115 115

10. Riley Legault '19 George Washington

12 13 12 13 7 7 2 8 6 12 10 8 7 1 118

12 25 37 50 57 64 66 74 80 92 102 110 117 118 118

11. Isabella Loosbrock '19 Boston College

7 11 17 11 5 2 14 13 11 9 4 12 14 5 135

7 18 35 46 51 53 67 80 91 100 104 116 130 135 135

12. Simone Staff '18 UC Santa Barbara

8 10 11 7 9 11 4 11 12 7 13 9 10 15 137

8 18 29 36 45 56 60 71 83 90 103 112 122 137 137

13. Haley Fox '18 Stanford

14 14 5 14 11 17 9 12 13 11 15 13 17 13 178

14 28 33 47 58 75 84 96 109 120 135 148 165 178 178

14. Ellie Ungar '19 St. Mary's

13 15 9 9 12 13 17 18 15 17 12 15 11 9 185

13 28 37 46 58 71 88 106 121 138 150 165 176 185 185

15. Olivia Gugliemini '19 Stanford

15 12 14 15 13 14 15 10 14 14 11 16 13 10 186

15 27 41 56 69 83 98 108 122 136 147 163 176 186 186

16. Laura Smit '18 Washington

16 17 16 16 16 18 12 15 16 16 16 14 15 16 219

16 33 49 65 81 99 111 126 142 158 174 188 203 219 219

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17. Libby Reeg '17 Hope

17 16 18 17 17 15 16 16 17 15 18 17 16 18 233

17 33 51 68 85 100 116 132 149 164 182 199 215 233 233

18. Haley Walker '18 Texas A&M Galveston

18 18 15 18 18 16 18 17 18 18 17 18 18 17 244

18 36 51 69 87 103 121 138 156 174 191 209 227 244 244

2016 Fall Frostbite Series Chicago Yacht Club, Chicago, Illinois October 2-November 21, 2016 Laser

1. Jason Brown Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 1 2 [8] 4 3 3 [7] [6] [6] 5 2 [8] 2 1 3 [9] [DS]

[DS]

[DS]

[8] 3 3 3 53

2. Paul Wurtzebach

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 7 4 3 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

1 3 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

2 3 1 2 1 3 4 3 1 3 1 5 4 5 2 58

3. Jake Lundberg Sachem's Head Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

5 1 1 4 4 [DC]

[DC]

3 5 5 3 2 5 [8] 5 1 3 2 5 5 [7] [8] 4 2 [DC]

4 [DC] 69

4. Allan Brener N/A 6 [7] 5 2 2 4 3 3 6 5 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

3 4 3 [7] 5 6 [7] 6 [12] 5 5 [7] 6 6 DS 92

5. Mitchell Polgar Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

1 5 2 1 2 [DC]

[DC]

6 DF 6 8 7 8 7 4 6 BF [DC]

[DC]

7 6 7 9 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC 135

6. Christa

Georgeson

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 4 5 7 4 6 5 5 6 10 6 7 6 7 9 9 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

12 9 6 8 DF* [DC]

[DC]

[DC] 143

7. William W. Fox

Jr.

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

9 7 9 8 DF 5 4 4 2 6 5 6 7 2 10 8 9 10 [DC]

[DC]

DC DC 166

8. Andrew

Aronson

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

3 2 5 2 2 2 3 [DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC 1 2 1 2 4 DF DC DC 191

9. Roman Plutenko

None [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 1 1 1 1 209

10.

Patrick McBriarty

None 5 6 6 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

8 1 8 4 4 4 5 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC 8 5 10 6 DC DC DC DC 212

11.

Russell Schulz Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

7 9 2 7 9 6 8 9 9 7 4 7 4 1 [DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC 221

12.

Annie

Baumann

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 8 8 8 8/DNS

7 6 DF 5 11 DF [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DS 10 9 9 DS [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DF* DC DC DC 230

13.

Dave Abbott Pewaukee YC 3 2 4 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

5 4 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

7 6 8 3 4 5 6 DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 233

14

.

Chris Berger Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 1 1 1 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 2 4 4 7 6 5 7 4 240

15.

Andrew Paleczny

Key West Community Sailing Center

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

8/DNS

4 7 DF DF [DC]

[DC]

DF 9 8 10 10 [DC]

[DC]

DF [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC 13 11 13 12 DC DC DC DC 253

16.

Robert Christie Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 4 3 2 3 3 2 2 7/DNF

290

17.

Elizabeth Schulz

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

12 [DC]

10 10 10 11 DF [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 13 12 13 DC DC DC DC 344

18.

Marcin Koziarski

none [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

4 10 [DC]

[DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 11 10 11 11 DF* DC DC DC 355

19.

Owen

Patterson

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 440

19

.

Armand

Candea

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 440

19

.

Peter Tarsney Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 440

Vanguard 15

1. John

Schellenbach

Chicago Yacht Club [3] [3] 2 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

1 2 1 1 1 [3] 3 1 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 [DC]

[DC]

31

2. Mel Levy Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 2 1 3 1 1 1 2 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

2 2 1 2 2 DS 3 5 3 2 DS [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC 54

3. Daniel Floberg None [DC]

[5] [5] [DC] DF 3 4 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 3 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DF]

DS 71

4. Val Smith Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 1 2 1 [DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] DC DC DC 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 DC DC DC DC 1 1 77

5. Daniel Burns

4 4 4 3 3 4 3 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

4 5 5 5 5 3 4 4 5 5 4 4 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DF]

[DC]

78

6. David Stix Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

2 1 2 [DC]

[DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 2 2 2 1 2 DF 109

7. Otto Hansen

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

2 2 2 1 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 3 2 129

8. Michael

Schroff

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DF 3 2 1 3 DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 140

Sonar-PM

1. Molly McMahon

Chicago Yacht Club 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 [4] [DF]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [DC]

[DC]

1 2 1 2 1 [3] 3 3 3 [DS]

[DS]

[DS]

37

2. Jerry Miarecki Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 1 [3] 2 1 [3] 1 [3] [DF] 1 [3] 2 [3] 2 [3] [3] 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 44

3. Kevin Foote Chicago Yacht Club 1 2 2 1 [4] [4] [3] [3] 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 [4] [4] [4] 3 2 3 1 1 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 45

4. Jamie Sunderland

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 3 2 4 4 4 2 1 1 3 1 3 4 4 2 2 2 4 4 4 2 3 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC

DC DC DC 83

5. Tim Snyder Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC

DC DC DC 150

J/70

1. Sarah Renz Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [3] [3] 2 [7] 1 [5] 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 23

2. John Schellenbach

Chicago Yacht Club 2 1 1 1 4 [5] [5] [5] [OC]

[7] [7] [7] 4 3 3 2 2 4 [6] 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 44

3. Donald Wilson Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 1 2 1 1 3 2 3 3 1 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

8 3 1 1 [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC 90

4. Gary scott Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club 4 3 3 2 DF [DC] 6 3 8 8 5 5 6 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

5 6 7 7 [DC]

[DC]

DC [DC]

[DC]

DC 105

5. Laura Sigmond Mark Teborek

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 7 1 4 2 2 3 4 4 BF [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

7 1 3 4 [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC 109

6. James

Prendergast

Chicago Yacht Club 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 8 7 4 6 6 5 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC 124

7. Steve Knoop Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 2 4 3 4 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] DC 2 2 DS 3 5 4 6 DC DC DC DC DC DC 127

8. John

Woodcock

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 6 7 8 6 5 6 8 8/DNS

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

6 8 5 DS DC DC DC DC DC DC 156

9. Rick Kaiser Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

8 9 9 6 DF [DC]

[DC] [DC]

DC DC DC 4 7 8 5 DC DC DC DC DC DC 181

10.

Amy Neill Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

4 1 2 2 3 DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 184

11.

Matthew Gallagher

Chicago Yacht Club 3 4 2 4 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF [DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 194

12.

Adam Bowen N/A [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 2 2 3 3 DS DC 196

13.

Lloyd Karzen Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 242

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1. Mark Norris Chicago Yacht Club 1 2 3 2 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

2 1 3 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 2 [5] [6] [9] [5] [4] 37

2. Patrick Norris Chicago Yacht Club [3] [5] 1 [4] 1 [3] 3 3 [4] 3 2 [4] [4] [5] 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 [5] 1 1 2 37

3. Amy Baxter Chicago Yacht Club 2 1 2 1 3 2 1 4 DF DS [9] [9] [9] [10] 3 1 1 3 2 [DS]

[DS]

[SF] [SF] 1 7 3 2 3 [DS]

52

4. Lisa Scully Chicago Yacht Club 5 3 4 3 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

5 6 2 5 2 7 57

5. Matthew Nurre

Chicago Yacht Club 6 4 7 5 4 4 4 2 3 4 4 3 3 3 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

7 3 8 6 7 6 93

6. Mitchell

Wywiorski

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club [9] 6 [8] 7 6 5 6 5 DF DS [10] [10] [10] [11] 6 4 4 5 4 3 3 3 3 6 [10] [10] 8 [9] 8 102

7. Andrew

Bezaitis

4 8 5 8 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF DS 5 5 5 6 4 6 5 6 6 DS DS [SF] [SF] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC 132

8. Mark Boruta Chicago Yacht Club 7 7 9 DF 5 6 5 6 DF DS 8 8 8 9 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC 223

9. Ted Lutton Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC 5 5 6 4 5 4 4 [SF] [SF] DC DC DC DC DC DC 278

10.

Jarrett Altmin Chicago Yacht Club 8 9 6 6 [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF DS 11 11 11 12 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 294

11.

Vanessa Gates Columbia Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] 7 7/DNF

7 7 DF DS 13 13 13 13 [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 300

12.

Matt Alfano Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 4 1 1 4 4 3 311

13.

David Phlamm Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 8 9 4 3 6 1 325

14

.

John Bezaitis

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF DS 6 6 6 7 [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 329

15.

Max Kiener Mackinac Island Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF DS 7 7 7 8 [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 333

16.

Greg Tabb

[DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC AF 4 7 7 8 5 337

17.

John Dischner Ephraim YC [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

DF DS 12 12 12 4 [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 344

18.

Rocque Lipford

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 9 8 9 DS DC DS 362

19.

Henry

Merrilees

N/A [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 420

19.

Emmett Nevel Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC] [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 420

Sonar-AM

1. Matt Clark Chicago Yacht Club 1 1 [2] [DC] [DC]

[2] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 [2] 2 2 2 15

2. Amy Baxter Chicago Yacht Club 2 2 1 1 1 1 [3] [3] [3] 2 2 2 2 [3] [3] 3 3 22

3. Michael Whitford

Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

2 2 3 2 2 2 [DC]

[DC]

DC DC 1 1 1 1 27

4. Ivan Sagel Chicago Yacht Club [DC]

[DC]

[DC]

[DC] [DC]

DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 60

2016 Racing Yacht Fleets Series Chicago Yacht Club, Chicago, Illinois May 14-October 8, 2016 Etchells 1. Brass Monkey Michael Frerker 1 [4] 1 [4] 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 3 [4] [DS*] 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 2 [4] [DS] 39

2 Julia Rick Kaiser 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 3 3 DS* 1 1 DF* [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] 3 4 4 1 3 1 DC DC 75

3. Firebolt Daniel Somers 3 3 4 1 [DC] [DC] [DC] 2 4 5 2 [DC] [DC] [DC] 1 3 1 DC DC DC 1 3 5 2 1 6 3 1 81

4. Dixie Fred Joosten 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 4 1 2 DS* [DC] [DC] [DC] 2 1 3 [DC] [DC] [DC] 5 5 2 DC DC DC 1 DS 82

5. Patriot Willian Fox Jr. [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC 4 3 DS* 4 4 DS 2 2 1 6 7 6 4 4 5 DC DC 132

6. Leverage Zach Egan [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC 5 5 4 DS* 2 2 DF* DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 5 5 4 DC DC 164

7. China Girl Michael Dannecker [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 4 6 7 6 6 3 2 2 176

8. Hokule'a Richard Sidell Jr. [DC] [DC] [DC] 5 [DC] [DC] [DC] 6 6 6 DS* DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 7 2 3 DC DC DC DC DC 182

9. Free Spirit Douglas Anderson [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 220

Shields

1. Peanut Kristian Martincic 1 1 [DC] [DC] 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 [DS] [DF*] 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 [4] 1 1 1 4 2 32

2. Insidious Gary Ropski 2 3 [DC] [DC] 3 3 2 1 2 2 [DC] [DC] [DC] 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 3 3 2 2 2 3 52

3. Sundance Mike Schwartz 6 2 1 1 6 6 DS 3 3 [DS*] 3 DS DF* [DC] [DC] [DC] 4 3 4 4 5 1 2 [DS] DS 1 1 79

4. Hellcat Sam Veilleux 3 6 [DC] [DC] 2 4 3 4 4 3 [DC] [DC] [DC] 5 5 4 DC DC DC 6 2 5 4 3 5 3 4 102

5. Trouble Chris Economos 5 7 3 3 [DC] [DC] [DC] 7 6 [DS*] 2 1 DF* 1 4 DS 5 5 5 5 6 [DS] 5 5 6 5 DS 103

6. Dauntless Mark Passis 7 4 [DC] [DC] 5 5 4 6 DF DF* [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC 3 4 2 2 1 2 6 4 3 6 DF 114

7. Yankee Girl Julian Schink 4 5 2 2 4 2 5 5 5 4 [DC] [DC] [DC] 4 3 3 6 6 6 [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC 120

8. Water Goblin Eric Beyer [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 7 DF DS 7 6 4 DC DC 184

J/70

1. Special K^2 Steve Knoop [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] 5 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 2 5 1 [DC] DC 4 3 2 1 52

2. Nitemare Amy Neill 2 3 2 3 1 [DC] [DC] [DC] 2 2 2 2 3 1 [DC] [DC] DC 2 2 1 DC DC DC 88

3. Eagles Wings John Gottwald [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC 3 4 3 DC DC DC 3 3 3 DC 4 5 4 3 4 144

4. Rip Rullah Robert Willis [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 4 1 2 1 1 3 1 4 3 155

5. Empeiria John Heaton 3 4 3 1 3 [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC 1 1 3 DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 169

6. Black Pearl Adam Bowen [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] 6 [DC] DC DC 4 3 4 DC DC DC 5 7 5 DC DC DC DC DC DC 199

7. Lost Boys Gary Scott 4 2 4 [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC 4 4 DS DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 203

8. USA167 James Prendergast [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 1 2 4 DC 3 2 DC DC DC 207

9. Johnny Utah Ryan Foley [DC] [DC] [DC] 4 4 2 1 3/DNF [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 209

10. Hotspur John Woodcock 5 5 5 [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC 7 4 6 DC DC DC DC DC DC 212

11. Surprise Donald Maxwell 1 1 1 [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 228

12. Taipan Lloyd Karzen [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 2 1 2 230

13. Norboy Leif & Laura Sigmond [DC] [DC] [DC] 2 2 [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 244

14. Bucephalus Andrea Krasinski [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] [DC] DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC 6 6 7 DC DC DC DC DC DC 244 Beneteau 36.7

1. Soulshine Jarrett Altmin 1 1 1 [2] 2 5

2. Split Decision Nick Norris 2 [3] 2 1 1 6

3. Tequila Mockingbird Chris Duhon 3 2 3 [DC] DC 15

4. Tango Chuck Norris 4 4 4 [DC] DC 19

5. Fog Charlie Wurtzebach [DC] DC DC DC DC 28

5. Sorcerer Don Draper [DC] DC DC DC DC 28 Farr 40

1. Hot Lips J C Whitford [2] 1 2 1 4

2. Inferno Philip Dowd 1 2 1 [3] 4

3. Norboy Leif Sigmond/ Marcus Thymian [3] 3 3 2 8

4. Eagles Wings John J Gottwald 4 4 4 [DS] 12

5. Taipan Lloyd Karzen 5 5 [DS] DS 16

6. Tiller Libbi Dust [DC] DC DC DC 21

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Tartan 10

1. Lightning Steve Karstrand 6 4 [8] 1 1 DS 15

2. Sassafras David Barch 8 9 [10] 2 2 DS 24

3. Winnebago timothy rathbun 3 1 1 [DC] DC DC 33

4. Meat Brian Kennalley 1 2 3 [DC] DC DC 34

5. Mutiny John Schellenbach 2 5 2 [DC] DC DC 37

6. Skidmarks Lou Jacob 4 3 5 [DC] DC DC 40

7. Retention Mark Croll 5 6 4 [DC] DC DC 43

8. Tango II Martin Plonus 7 8 6 [DC] DC DC 49

9. Water Works Rick & Mary Ann Lillie DF 7 7 [DC] DC DC 54

10. Amateur II Michael Platzke 9 10 9 [DC] DC DC 56

11. Jing Bang David Finlay 10 11 11 [DC] DC DC 60

12. Blueprint Michael Better [DC] DC DC DC DC DC 70

12. Terminal Velocity Simon Beemsterboer [DC] DC DC DC DC DC 70

J/105 1. The Asylum Jon Weglarz [1] 1 1 1 1 1 5

2. Rocking Horse Sandy Curtiss [4] 2 2 2 2 2 10

3. Caught in Traffic Dave Pierce 3 5 [DS] 3 3 3 17

4. Gangbusters Mark Gannon 2 4 4 [DC] DC DC 22

5. Flying Pig Mike Sheppard [DF] 3 3 DC DC DC 24