Day two was just about as nice a day as anyone could ask for. Chamber of Commerce weather with a much better wind direction and fairly steady. Still enough shifts to challenge everyone. A very long windward-leeward course was set up by Jim Pardee with the help of Baron Bremer in the chase boat. It was warm in the sun, but cool and breezy in the shade of the trees along the East side of the lake. Robert Greer, David Zahn, Jon Luscomb and Calvin Obara where eager to knock me down a few pegs and try to bump me from the top spot. They did a great job of it in the first race of the day with Doc Greer winning, Calvin in second, David in third and Jon in fourth with me back in sixth place. Was I going to suffer another Sunday Choke? Fortunately, I managed to stay at the top of the fleet the rest of the day with mostly seconds and thirds and just one win. David Zahn and Jon Luscomb were sailing great and managed to close up the points at the top and dropped Doc Greer down to fourth over all. But they couldn't catch me and I took home my first ever Region 7 Championship trophy.
There was some other notable skippers sailing well this weekend. Frank Ligon sailed quite well with his best finish on the weekend a 2nd place and almost got a bullet today after leading half the race only to get passed due to a wind shift that gave a huge lift to a number of boats. Watch out for Frank now. He really is getting good. We were also glad to see Earl Mills return the EC12 Class after a long absence. It took him a few races to warm up and get the feel again, but he had a couple of exciting races.
The Florida Championship perpetual trophy is going back home to hang on the wall at Jon Luscomb's house. Which made Karen happy because she does not have to paint the wall where it was hanging before.
I want to thank Brenda Pardee for stepping up to RD so I could sail. She did a great job. Thanks also to her dad Jim, Baron and Cheryl Bremer, John Bottensek, Bill Wells, and Jackie Mills. This was a very well run regatta in difficult winds. I want to also thank all the skippers for one of the most quite and friendly regattas. Hardly and argument was heard and most everyone did their turns without much discussion.
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