Wednesday Night Fun Race Standings A Fleet
Summer Series Standings 1 st Russell Brown 2 nd George Hambleton 3 rd J . D . Sweitzer
Fort Walton Yacht Club Letter Log August 2018
30 ° 25.60 ’ N 86 ° 35.58 ’ W
Breakaway Thorfinn
Amigo
Wednesday Night Fun Race Standings A Fleet
Joint Endeavour
My Mistress
Livin Right
Peer Pressure Rebel
Sam Grant & Charles Hine Robbie Epstein
B Fleet Jeff Brown Ron Hankins
C Fleet Pat White M Fleet Matt McGee
V Fleet Darren Cooke Nitin Bawa
Summer Series Standings 1 st Russell Brown 2 nd George Hambleton 3 rd J . D . Sweitzer
Fort Walton Junior Team Competes at the GYA Junior Lipton Cup
Southern Yacht Club hosted ten all youth teams from ten yacht clubs , for the 73rd running of the Gulf Yachting Association ’ s Junior Lipton Regatta . Part of the GYA ’ s Capdevielle Series , the Junior Lipton Cup is sailed by all youth teams , eighteen and under in a six-race series where each skipper may only drive a maximum of two races .
Over 80 sailors from Florida to Texas had a great time on Lake Pontchartrain during the six-race series . The phrase " Kids Playing With Snakes " was seen and heard throughout the boat park .
Representing FWYC was Christopher Duck , Cameron Farrah , Katie Cardozo , Zach Lambert , Jessica Lambert , Mateo Arellanos , Dalton Edeker and Parker Dewrell . Chris , Cameron and Zach all took a turn at the helm . Katie was scheduled to helm on Sunday but unfortunately the main halyard broke and the team was unable to sail the last 2 races of the series . The FWYC Juniors put in lots of hard work learning the new boat and their efforts paid off by sailing technically perfect races in challenging conditions .
Winds throughout the weekend ranged from 5 , to 16 knots , allowing for the Lake Pontchartrain chop to build up . With some puffs hitting 17 and a 20-knot puff here and there , the youth drivers had all smiles with boat speeds in the teens and waves to play in . One funny comment by one sailor was “ We went faster than I am old , I have never been that fast on a sailboat before ”.
All the youth teams handled their Vipers extremely well , with tight starts , close mark roundings , boats gybing in sync with each other to cover one another . Spectator and support boats were boxed out by race management boats flying green flags to give the fleet room and space and to make sure no on the water coaching during racing was permitted . Quite honestly , the fleet was sailing so well , that one could not assume the event was a youth regatta .
At the end of the regatta , Pass Christian YC , pulled off a win over host club Southern YC . Gulfport YC came in third . Lakewood YC received the Uncle Roy Trophy for winning the last race of the series . The Leslie Beard Sportsmanship Award was awarded to Pontchartrain YC after voting by their fellow youth peers .
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