Jon Luscomb put on a fine performance to top the fleet and take home the championship and the Sir Francis of Graham Trophy. For the most part it was summertime weather with light fluky air and we fed the bugs well. Congratulations Jon! Thank you Mark, Carter, Nick, Skip and all of the volunteers that traveled to run this event. It was certainly a fun weekend!

Top three names to go on the trophy:

1st Jon Luscomb
2nd Reichard Kahle
3rd Alan Perkins

UnFRICKEN believable! Way to go Jon. Florida is very proud of you buddy.

Joe Walter #24

My Buddy 's Jon Cong!!!!!!!! Go Go to Florida

Baron Bremer
EC12-81

Jon,

Nicely done brother O mine. That was a well earned victory as they don't come easy in this class. Their was no shortage of possible winners in that line up.

GO TEAM BLACK BOAT!!!

Chuck
#84

I almost forgot. Since Reichard is also a member of the Florida Association, we can claim that Florida had a clean sweep. 1,2,3...GO FLORIDA!

Yes, I know, he represented Dixie, but he is a four time Florida Champion and that makes him a Floridian to me.

Congratulations to John, Reichard and Allen. Sounds like a great regatta.
My thumbs are getting itchy. With this weather the ice will not last long now.

Big time CONGRATS Jon in winning the Champions regatta and bringing home the "Sir Francis on Graham" trophy to Fla.Job well done! I'm sure Uncle Frank is smiling. How did you escape the dunking in the lake? I did hear you got an H20 shower from Ricky(the Joker)Gerry though.

Congratulations, Jon. Now I get to sail with "The Champion" this weekend! You have made us all proud.

Hell yeh dude. Jon, High 5 from Perth, WA !

The entire results are as follows:

1 Jon Luscomb
2 Reichard Kahle
3 Alan Perkins
4 Dave Brawner
5 Dave Ramos
6 Doc Greer
7 John Bottensek
8 Tony Shoaf
9 Gerry Cobley
10 Martin Gray
11Chris Kakavas
12 Ernest Freeland
13 Bill Ewing
14 Dave Branning
15 Scott Vernon (only sailed Saturday)

Thanks to all the skippers for attending and Reichard for the local club support

Mark Rinehart aka Pinky

Regatta Photos link https://picasaweb.google.com/105219775925901981186/Champions2012#

Photo link courtesy Doc Greer.

Now that I have re-entered the atmosphere, Thanks to Mark and his team for running a fun event and to my fellow competitors for rooting for me. I had a blast and was surprised at the results. I did not expect to do anything but learn (which I did) a lot.

It was great to sail with all of you. I have dusted the Sir Francis of Graham Trophy and it is sitting proudly on our mantel!

See you all net March!

By the way - This was our first trip ever to Charleston and Karen and I fell in love with the place!

Best,

I now have regained internet access after a &*(%$!!.
Jon: way to go ,you sailed magnificently!

Please find a video of the 2nd race which lasted about 30 Mins and had to be split into two movies for youtube to handle it.

Note the max resolution is 1080 x 720p.....you may select a resolution suitable for your environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAf9kxXRkDs&feature=youtube_gdata Part I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoqKHBXKys&feature=youtube_gdata Part II


enjoy

Martin:

Very cool video. I like the insert of Doc's photos of the mark roundings. Thanks for posting these they are pretty neat!


Jon