2005 Halloween Classic

Mohican Sailing Club, Mansfield, OH

Oct 15-16

Twenty-One crews showed up and sailed in this years Halloween Classic Regatta at Mohican and if some one of them left disappointed we certainly didn’t hear them say it.

In a nut shell what people come for we had.  Weather, excellent.  Partly sunny both days with highs in the 60's on Saturday and high 50's on Sunday.  Wind.  Oh yes we had that too, mostly around 12-16 kts. with not infrequent blasts up to 22+kts. on Saturday and a more even 8-12 kts. on Sunday.  Food, yep, by the counter full.

Early arrivals Friday evening got their camp sites or RV’s set up for the weekend.  Saturday am and it was hot coffee and many dozen fresh donuts and other pastries, followed by Mike and Jon Chambers serving up sloppy joes and all the fix’ns.  Bill Buckles and crew Ed Edgell provided EMS service after the windy races with “The Blender” and as a tuned us up for....the Chili Cook off Saturday night.  There were six official entries and despite some less than ethical lobbying, the best batch won the vote, MINE!  Sounds of the “The Blender” reappeared after dinner as did some kind of bean bag toss game with rather odd rules and required hails.

Sunday morning, and in most cases following several doses of pain killers, came the ultimate pain killer, the He-Man Breakfast.  After the racing it was a hot lunch of chili, some kind of pizza like bread things and fruit, and apples and lots of that stuff.

Big thank you to Denny Dieball who came down from Toledo and ran our races and assisted in the kitchen with the He-Man, you don’t get a better RM.  Thanks to Joe and Gina Volter from Cleveland who ran the safety boat and helped Denny and even brought his own boat to do the job right.  Thank you to all the Mohican club and Jet fleet No. 4 members that worked so hard to put it all together and make our guests glad they came.  And the biggest thanks of all to all our guests that made the trip, took the time and sailed and spent the weekend with us.  It was a blast thanks to everyone.

The racing was wild, windy and close, except for Brent and Ben who as is usual drilled us.  They were caught admiring the autumn colors apparently when a 22+knot shift/gust put them.....well.....I’m not sure how to describe it but, in the drink.  I would say they went swimming but if any of you have every watched Ben Stock try and swim.....scrap iron floats higher.

They sailed out of a complete swamping and finished 13th.

From the scores you can see the rest of the racing was very close.  Many newcomers were there and just sailed great.  Many, many nice words about the Jet and the people that sail them.  We are looking forward to seeing all of these faces in Jets again soon.

Marion Zaugg

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Results (B Fleet Shaded)

 

Race

Place

Sail

Skipper

Crew

1

2

3

4

5

Total

1

1132

M. Zaugg

 C. Van Keuren

2

2

1

3

2

10

2

698

B. Barbehenn

 B. Stock

1

1

13

1

1

17

3

324

P. Kreitzer

 E. Sherer

5

7

5

6

8

31

4

1093

C. Clark

 D. Crist

7

6

4

7

9

33

5

1136

D. Michos

 M. Brock

8

3

2

8

13

34

6

120

B. Ireland

 J. Minerd

9

8

3

12

3

34

7

1135

B. Buckles

 E. Edgell

6

DNF

6

2

5

40

8

1148

M. Chambers

 J. Chambers

11

5

7

17

6

46

9

1133

D. Parker

 B. Parker

4

4

DNF

4

21

55

10

1134

N. Ireland

 M. Scantland

3

DNF

DNS

5

7

58

11

138

B. Regan

 E. Regan

10

9

11

16

12

58

12

1091

I. Baker

 B. Young

14

15

10

9

11

59

13

1138

M. Schilke

 K. Schilke

13

11

9

13

15

61

14

1131

C. Peshek

 Bev

12

14

8

14

17

65

15

1129

C. Engler

 C. Redfern

17

12

DNF

10

10

71

16

884

K. Hugon

 A. Roessner

15

10

14

18

14

71

17

398

E. Toivonev

 R. Galyen

16

13

12

19

18

78

18

665

M. Gemperline

 J. Gemperline

DNS

DNS

DNS

12

4

81

19

94

B. Joudrey

 B. Drennen

DNS

DNS

DNS

15

16

96

20

833

J. Histed

N/A

DNS

DNS

DNS

20

19

106

21

180

T. Parker

S. Parker

DNS

DNS

DNS

DNS

DNS

109


Results Posted 11/09/05

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