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Wayfarer North American Midwinters at Lake Eustis Sailing Club

by Trevor Fisher 12 Feb 2014 06:22 GMT 31 January -2 February 2014

On the 2nd February, the Irish crew of Trevor Fisher / Emily Watt won the annual North American Wayfarer Mid Winter Championships. The event was sailed hosted by Lake Eustis Sailing Club, in central Florida.

Only 4 of the scheduled 7 races were sailed, due to very light winds and fog. The small but competitive fleet included reigning World Champions, Peter and Alex Rahn from Montreal, as well as crews from Toronto in Canada, North and South Carolina, Delaware, Michigan, the host club in Florida plus a competitive English crew of David and Anne Pugh, now resident in Toronto.

The four races were held in very tricky conditions, with Fisher / Watt winning two races, and the Pughs and Rahns wining one each. However, after the four races, Fisher and Watt were clear winners, with the Pughs taking 2nd overall and the North Carolina team of Jim Heffernan and Jim McIntyre taking 3rd.

The commitment that the North American Wayfarer fleet have to travelling to events is gob smacking – the Rahns drove over 1500 miles from Montreal to Florida, yet this was easily overshadowed by Sarah Pedersen, who drove over 2500 miles from Idaho to the event!

The event is unusual in that there are no discards.

Overall Results:

PosSeedHelm / CrewR1R2R3R4Pts
11Trevor Fisher/Emily Watt12216
26David & Anne Pugh413412
33Jim Heffernan/Jim McIntyre246214
44Richard Johnson/Michele Parish535922
52Peter & Alex Rahn3DNF1324
65Nick Seraphinoff/Craig Yates754824
712Dave Hepting/Charley Jensen877729
88Cynthia & Jim Best66DNF534
99Tom Erickson12118637
1014Ken Butler & Ken Jr.1099TLE38
117Jim Lingeman/Pat Kuntz11810TLE39
1211AnnMarie Covington/Mike Tighe910DNFTLE46
1313Izak Kielmovitch/Bill Hemphill161211TLE49
1416Sarah & Jim Pedersen131412TLE55
15Jesse & Carolyn Tate1513DNFTLE58
1610Mike Murto/Anne Ireland14DNCDNCTLE58

Fisher / Watt would like to take this opportunity to thank Fred J Malcolm for sponsorship enabling attendance at this championship.

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