Photos by Bob Maher 
NOYC's BENZ FAGET WINS 2002 LEGG MASON MIDWINTERS
February 14-17, 2002
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Who's Racing
Final Results (7 races, 57 boats)
1. Fats, Faget, 35
2. Wavemaker, LeBlanc, 38
3. Diesel Snack, Johnston, 42
4. Tejas, Foster, 43
5. Slow-poke, Cordell/Faust, 44
6. Chunder, Flynn, 45
7. Bess, Fischer, 49
8. Layline, Nixon, 52
9. Hoss, Progelhof, 63
10. Redneck Racin', Schmidt, 70
11. Goin' Right, McCutchon, 84
12. Wild Tchoupitoulas, Andrews & Gamble, 87
13. Genesta, Elam, 94
14. USA 1024, Meric, 99
15. USA 964, Sullivan, 108
16. USA 919, Mahoney, 111
17. Traffic, Wehrheim, 115
18. USA 358, Schertz, 122 (Farthest Traveled)
19. Peter Pirate, Fuentes, 123
20. Sundance, Berge, 126 (Top Female!)
Other SYC/NOYC boats:
21. Comeback, Ward, 128
22. USA 1375, Blouin, 133
28. 22 Caliber, Wientjes, 152
29. Toy Monster, Kain, 155
32. Fast Company, O'Keeffe, 169
35. No Fear, Alan Borne, 180
42. Blew by You, Lovell, 211
44. Men's Kouch, Wilke & Hughes, 222
53. Wreckless, Bylsma, 257
55. Wizard 2, Carpenter, 294
2002 ST. PETERSBURG NOOD REGATTA Hustler with crew member, Rear-Commodore, Jefferson Davis Hampton won the J/29 one-design competition at the 2002 St. Petersburg NOOD with a 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 2nd and a 1st to finish with 14 points and 18 point ahead of 2nd place.
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Attention NOYC Members
Regatta and Race
Committee Meeting
Wednesday February 27, 2002
7:00pm - In the East room
The future of Racing/Regattas and Race Committee at NOYC. All members are encouraged to attend!
Phil Pizzeck – Regatta Chairman
John Wolf – Race Chairman
60 SECOND "INNER-VIEW"
with Scot Tempesta
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
2002 Commodore Steve Klyce
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
2001 Commodore Rudy Brunken
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
GYA Offshore Challenge Cup captain Jeff Hampton
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
NOYC’s Best Wednesday Night Racer Ryan Bancroft
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
2001 US Sailing Men’s National Champion Tom Baker
60 SECOND INTERVIEW
Great Lake Race winner John Dane III
RACE COURSE GUIDE is available online thanks to John Wolf. This includes all racing marks on the South shore of Lake Ponchartrain.
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Commodore Steve Klyce
Manager Debbie David
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MARDI GRAS REGATTA WRAP-UP
Down in New Orleans where the blues were born…it takes a
cool cat…just to blow his horn. We
had yet another great weekend of light air sailing. We had perfect weather that hovered around
the high 50’s to low 60’s but the breeze crumped in the afternoon of both
days. The turn out was great for one
design and a little light for phrf.
We had a total of 70 boats on three courses…so check out the
results, as I couldn't cover it all…especially when I sailed on both days.
On the GYA Capedeville course NOYC took three
bullets to win the regatta. The
NOYC team was made up of old timer Robert
Brennan, Rory Hebbler & Ryan Hebbler.
Rory & Ryan were both students of Gilbert’s Flying Scot School of
Sailing. Ryan’s first place finish qualifies
him for a driver slot on the 2002 NOYC Lipton Team. Ryan said, “I hadn’t driven a boat since Jr.
Lipton’s 10 years ago…it’s like riding bike”.
Ryan will be getting married in two weeks and we will miss him
dearly.
In the Opti Class, they had 13 boats. JJ Killeen won the white fleet, Keil
Kileen won the blue fleet and Jackson Benvenutti won overall class and
red fleet. With a name like that he
should be racing grand prix carts in Italy….it sounds very fast…good name for a
driver.
In the Laser Radial Class, they had 6
boats. John Loe was first and Baker
Potts finished second. GYA
webmaster Bishop Stieffel won the very competitive Sunfish class. This was a very competitive fleet as each
skipper won at least one race out of the five sailed. Christian Gambel (The good one) won
the V-15 class and Bernie Wolf won the open Scots class.
Over on the keel boat course, Zephyr
won the 6 boat J-30 class with inconsistent finishes of two firsts and two
fourths. Danny Cassanova sailing Jackpot
was nosed out in two very close finishes by Manny Blanco’s Cuba Libre
but was able to win the point tiebreaker to take second in class. In the J-22 class Dwight Leblanc
skippering Wavemaker had ringer Hans Douglebourg (past Soling
world champion) racing with him on the first day. They double handed their J-22 to a first
place finish passing most of the J-30’s that started five minutes ahead. Wavemaker took the four race series with 13
points that included a DNS. Some nice
guys from Tejas on Green Flash finished second and may have had two good
of a time at the French Quarter on Saturday night. Benz Faget’s J Poupon finished
third.
Over on the handicap course, it was a new “Boat
Out Of The Box” dealer weekend! Allen
Borne of Pontchartrain Yacht Sales won class B sailing his new C&C
99 with two first place finishes and a third. Stanton Murray of Murray Yacht Sales
won Class A driving his new Beneteau 36.7 with similar finishes. Cliff Dummett’s Bravurra 29 Beast
came on stronger in every race and finished Second in Class A. Non Spinnaker was won by Awapui.
It was a first class regatta. The race management was excellent even though
some impatient sailors had to learn a lesson the hard way. A special thanks is in order to all the
volunteers, planners and sponsors that include Treasure Chest Casino & Meme’s Grocery store that helped made it such a fun
weekend. Next event at NOYC will be
Leukemia Cup March 23rd &
24th.
-steinkamp
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