2015 Great Western Challenge - December 5-6,2015
Lake Christine
Ashby Minnessota
Gold fleet
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Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 Points
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1 US 4691 DENNIS, JOHN (S) 1 1 1 3.00
2 US 4824 CHRISTENSEN, MARK (S) 2 2 2 6.00
3 US 4926 Orelebeke, Steve 5 3 4 12.00
4 US 44 SHERRY, RON (S) 4 6 5 15.00
5 US 5432 BLOOM, MIKE (S) 9 4 3 16.00
6 US 5224 THIELER, JAMES 6 5 7 18.00
7 S 713 GUSTRING, RICKARD (M) 7 9 8 24.00
8 US 4487 ATKINS, CHAD 8 8 9 25.00
9 US 4868 RICHARDS, JULIE (M) 11 7 11 29.00
10 US 5166 Berger, Chris 13 11 12 36.00
11 US 5214 MCDONAGH, JIM 12 12 17 41.00
12 US 2545 DERUSHA, MIKE (S) 10 15 22 47.00
13 US 60 HARPER, JOHN (M) 30 10 6 46.00
14 US 4638 LOVEJOY, GUY 20 20 10 50.00
15 G 737 BOHN, JOERG (S) 17 23 16 54.00
16 US 602 MEYER, TOM (M) 19 14 21 54.00
17 KC 5514 Curtis, John 23 19 15 57.00
18 H 467 VAN RIEMSDIJK, DIDERIC (S) 3 27 28 58.00
19 US 5508 Sugar, Tim 24 18 19 61.00
20 US 2766 Van Rossen, Peter 25 21 14 60.00
21 US 5116 CLAPP, DAVE 14 24 26 64.00
22 US 5219 Baker, Kent DNS 16 13 66.00
23 US 5298 Brown, Scott (S) 29 17 20 66.00
24 US 4975 EVANS, ROB DNS 13 18 68.00
25 US 5510 Sugar, Hugh 26 25 24 75.00
26 US 4148 DIXON, TIM (S) 18 22 DNS 77.00
27 US 637 Mead, Joe 28 28 23 79.00
28 US 5369 MILLER, MIKE (M) 15 29 DNS 81.00
29 US 5391 VERBURGT, TOM 21 26 DNS 84.00
30 US 4923 Blum, Jeff 27 DNS 25 89.00
31 US 2000 LEBEAU, LEON (S) 16 DNS DNS 90.00
32 US 5501 Orelebeke, Peter 22 DNS DNS 96.00
33T US 445 CAVE, BOB (M) DNS DNS DNS 111.00
34T US 5435 KJOLLER, JODY DNS DNS DNS 111.00
35T US 5479 HEARN, DANIEL DNS DNS DNS 111.00
36T US 2360 JOHNS, PETE (GM) DNS DNS DNS 111.00
Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds
*** Fixed US4975 (Rob Evans) finish results. Sorry that took so long
Silver fleet
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Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 Points
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1 US 5536 Schmidt, Matt 1 1 1 3.00
2 US 4775 WHITCOMB III, EBEN (S) 5 5 4 14.00
3 KC 3786 NETHERCOTE, Warren 6 10 6 22.00
4 US 4335 Glick, Dave 4 8 15 27.00
5 US 5050 OELSCHLAGER, TIM 9 9 9 27.00
6 US 5486 Elsmo, Dave 8 11 12 31.00
7 US 4203 Fitzgerald, Patrick 12 14 5 31.00
8 US 5633 JOHANSON, PETER 11 12 11 34.00
9 US 5506 Hurd, Charlie 10 17 8 35.00
10 US 1277 Bowman, Hal 3 3 DNS 36.00
11 US 5501 Doe, Bob DNS 6 3 39.00
12 US 5435 Kjoller, Jody 2 7 DNS 39.00
13 US 5022 Hillyer, Chase 14 16 10 40.00
14 US 4882 WOLLAM, RICHARD (M) 7 4 DNS 41.00
15 US 148 Hovland, Nick 16 18 7 41.00
16 US 5498 Gordon, Rick 17 13 13 43.00
17 US 492 Orelebeke, Cole 13 DNS 2 45.00
18 US 5290 Gauthier, Ray 19 15 14 48.00
19 US 5484 Doe, Dave DNS 2 DNS 62.00
20 US 5096 Kennedy, Steve 15 DNS DNS 75.00
21 US 4699 Wolffe, Tom 18 DNS DNS 78.00
22 US 5362 Doe, John DNS 19 DNS 79.00
23T US 3433 CUMMINS, ROBERT (M) DNS DNS DNS 90.00
24T US 5169 LIZEE, ALAN DNS DNS DNS 90.00
25T US 1313 RAST, ROBERT (M) DNS DNS DNS 90.00
26T US 5405 Bushey, Sam DNS DNS DNS 90.00
27T US 294 LOENNEKE, LOUIS (GM) DNS DNS DNS 90.00
28T US 4950 RATLIFF, MATT DNS DNS DNS 90.00
29T US 5479 Hearn, Frankie (JR) DNS DNS DNS 90.00
Scoring system: IDNIYRA Worlds
Thanks
Thank you to all the competitors who drove from places far and wide. Driving to a fun regatta not really sure of what the conditions may be is a huge leap of faith in our Minnesota scouting. This year was unusual in the fact that Christina was really the only frozen body of known water in our state. We hope you were rewarded in another of JD's annual regattas and fun sailing! Different conditions to sail in with the 3" of snow that turned crust, wet, draining with puddles in the 2 days. What a great dedicated bunch of ladies and gentleman we have! Thank you JD, Jim, Deb and Loretta for your fine work.
Mike Miller
US5369
Thanks to Loretta and Deb
And a very thankful thanks goes out to Deb and Loretta who worked so great together. It was really nice to have Deb taking down the scores and Loretta working the keyboard back in warm and dry. Thank you both very much.
Thanks all!
It was great fun to see so many friends in Ashby, MN. Thanks to all the sailors who traveled so far to make this year's GWC such a big event. We had close to 60 boats! The western and central region were well represented while the east coast boys showed up in droves. All very impressive when you consider the 24 hour drive! We had eastern sailors from Nova Scotia, Kingston, Ontario, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and as far south as Deep Creek, Maryland. And yes, Jorge (Germany) Diderik (Netherlands) and Rickard (Sweden) came from Europe.
As always, Friday was the best day. We had a good breeze, good ice and 5 scrub races. It was darn near a perfect day. Saturday saw very warm temps, lighter air and very wet and slushy ice conditions. 30 inch insert runners sharpened to 100* ruled the day. Sunday was a bust as the wind never materialized. We were sent home at 10 am.
Kudos to JD and Jim for their efforts. Many thanks to Deb and Loretta. Tip of the helmet to Mike Miller for scouting the ice on Wednesday.
Think Ice.