The Punta Gorda Regatta is the second stop on the Florida Winter Circuit. Here is the current list of entries which totals 24. There is still time to register, so if you're interested go to http://www.floridaec12.com and click on "Regattas" for the entry form.

Perkins
J. Luscomb
Greer
Hedderick
Dion
Ward
Kelter
Wubbe
Gray
Balaschak
Kaighin
Scheuer
B Pardee
Steacy
B Brown
J Pardee
Elder
Santoro
Kelly
Goldworthy
Pearce
Merrello
Clarke
Burkhart

The initial fleet lists have been posted on the Florida EC-12 website. You can see the lists by clicking on:

http://www.floridaec12.com/fleet-list-PG.html

The weather forecast is BEAUTIFUL. Wind 5-10. Temps 67 - 82. Sunny. Perfect A Rig Weather! See you there.

Very flukey wind today. 1-3 knots from all directions. Patience,patience...
After 9 races with no throw outs:

Alan Perkins
Gerhard Kelter. 40
Dick Hedderick. 42
Martin Gray. 45
Jack Ward. 47
Jon Luscomb. 57

Anybody's game....more wind predicted for tomorrow.

Sorry guys, the original post did not include Alan's score. He is actually out in front by a point. Sorry about that...
Still, anybody's game.

How about party Marty???

The sailing Sunday was really good. Nice steady 5-8 winds.

Top five final results with two throw outs:

Alan Perkins
Dick Hedderick
Jon Luscomb
Gerard Kelter
Martin Gray

Report should be issued shortly.

Here are the final results with points. NO SNOW HERE....

Punta Gorda Results


1 Alan Perkins 45
2 Dick Hedderick. 50
3 Jon Luscomb 64
4 Gerhard Kelter. 66
5 Martin Gray 73
6 Tony Burkhart. 79
7 Jack Wubbe 91
8 Jack Ward 97
9 Al Dion 106
10 Bud Elder 109
11 Jim Kaighin 110
12 Bill Brown 111
13 John Steacy 129
14 Jim Pardee 145
15. Jim Kelly. 145
16 George Balashak. 167
17 Brenda Pardee 180
18 Marty Scheuer 183
19 Dan Pearce 217
20 John Santoro 220
21 John Goldsworthy 224
22 Jim Merello. 234
23. Judy Clarke. 243

Quick Report:

Satuday was an RD's nightmare. Winds were from every direction and seemingly swirly most of the day. At times there was none. The winds would shift 180 degrees before anyone made it to the top mark. Congrats to Art Haws for patiently and happily running races. He was always walking between the starts and finishes and helping. His large group of volunteers were also outstanding. They were klling fire ants while we sailed.....Finishes were all over the board, but Perkins, Hedderick, Gray, Ward and Kelter still sailed well.

Congrats to Brenda Pardee for here first win in A class!!! She sailed great and she has earned it. She works at this and it is paying off for her. It was really neat to see her dad run to her when she crossed the line. All eyes were on her on that last beat. Her Dad was "coaching a bit" and Brenda politely said "Shut UP!" He did.... Brenda said she stopped breathing half way home to the finish and tears of joy were apparent as she sat on the ground beaming after finishing. Good Stuff for us and a big round of cheers. Also a newcomer to the fleet, another lady Judy Clark promoted into A fleet for the first time this weekend too and she was well on her way to staying there, but inexperience came. She was in the top 5 coming into the first mark and the wheels came off unfortunately....way to go Judy! I hope she kept her first clothes pin.

Sunday was better for all of us with light Southeast winds that built to around 8 knots as the morning progressed. Lots of shifts and lots of opportunities for passing. Fun Fun Fun.

Thanks Again to the Suncoast Model Yacht for having us. See you in Naples! Happy Holidays to all of you.

You and Karen have a great Christmas in the City of Lights!

Merci Beaucoup John......