The
2006 EC-12 Region 4 Regatta Champion is Mark Rinehart. Mark
triumphed over a fleet of 19 skippers at the 2006 AMYA EC-12
Region 4 Championship Regatta that was held on August 6-7, 2006
at Delia Park in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Finishing behind
Mark and also receiving trophies were: Scott Rowland, Gary
Mueller, Rick West and Jack Wubbe.
The
Regatta skippers began arriving at Delia Park on Friday, August
4th, to check in and to participate in the practice
races that were held on the park’s pond. On Saturday morning,
the Regatta’s race director, Jim Grover, and his assistants from
the Detroit Model Yacht Club, began setting up a
windward/leeward course along the pond’s west shoreline. The
windward mark consisted of two buoys, one an ‘offset’, that were
treated as a single mark. The leeward mark also consisted of
two buoys, which were treated as a ‘gate’ that the skippers had
to sail through and then had the option of turning to port, or
to starboard and heading into the wind. This course layout was
used throughout most of the regatta, although the course had to
be relocated during the lunch break on both days to keep that
course aligned with the wind direction. 22 of the 24 races were
‘two lappers’, with races 22 and 23 being a single lap of the
course.
The
winds on both days were light, under 10 mph, and were shifting
direction frequently, which gave all of the skippers the
challenge of responding with adjustments to their sail position
and course direction. The early morning temperatures were in
the upper 60s and the mid-afternoon temperatures rose into the
mid-to-upper 80s. Both days were also ‘mostly sunny’.
Saturday’s racing consisted of 4 races in the morning and 8
races after lunch. Mark had finished first in six of the races
and Scott Rowland in four of them. Gary Mueller and Rick West
each had a first place finish. These were the four leading
skippers as the day’s racing ended.
Sunday’s racing also consisted of 12 races, with Scott closing
the gap to Mark with 5 firsts, 4 seconds, 2 thirds and a fourth
(which was a throw-out!). Mark started the day’s racing with
one of his 4 firsts and had 3 seconds and 2 thirds; the other
three races were throw-outs. Gary had another first and Rick
missed the final 5 races with a rudder servo ‘problem’, but had
a large enough lead over Jack Wubbe that he retained his fourth
place.
Six
skippers ended up with first place finishes in at least one
race. Mark Rinehart ended up with 10 first place finishes,
Scott Rowland with 9, Gary Mueller with 2, and Rick West, Jack
Wubbe and Robert Hill each with one.
With 19 boats on the racecourse, there were a few
‘entanglements’, but the skippers all handled the occasional
protest call on the water and quietly went back to racing. We,
at the Detroit Model Yacht Club enjoyed hosting the EC-12
Regatta for such a fine group of skippers.
Written by Bruce Zemke, for the Detroit Model Yacht Club –
07AU06
Place Skipper
Sail # Points
1 Mark Rinehart
66 35
2 Scott Rowland
15 38
3 Gary Mueller
90 65
4 Rick West
94 94.3
5 Jack Wubbe
64 104
6 Robert Hill
23 122
7 Ray Dagenais
75 139
8
Tom Magnusson
33 154.1
9 Scott Todd
33 162
10 Paul Proefrock
63 173
11 Dave Harrington
05 192
12 Ole Kistler
48 193
13 Frank Novak
17 199
14 Kerry Pebbles
44 216
15 Frank Vella
89 239
16 Gary Garden
37 287
17 Tom Lenhart
29 313
18 Dick Hein
34 318
19 Larry Rapp
54 334
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