This year's CMBA National Regatta was in honor of our past President and fierce competitor Linwood (Erky) Gregory. Erky passed away earlier this year. |
Joe Bousquet brought a newly restored Swiss Moth to the regatta to see if he could break the strangle hold which the Mistral design has had on the Gen II division for decades. |
This year also saw the arrival of several junior sailors to our ranks including Sam Moncla in John Pugh's Europe, Nr 118 and Bodie Blackford in John Sanders' Dorr Willey Nr 913. |
Another junior sailor is Lorelei Kelly sailing Greg Duncan's Europe Nr 125; |
Bill Boyle sailed his Abbott. |
Donald Hewitt returned to sail Greg Duncan's Connecticut Legend. |
Bodie Blackford in John Sanders' Dorr Willey Red Robin. |
Rounding out the Vintage fleet is Don Janeway in his father's Ventnor. |
The Generation I fleet had five boats. Here is my son Erik sailing our ex-Meg Gaillard Europe Ooh La La. |
Lorelei also was in a Europe. |
Sam sailed a Europe |
Eric Bellows in the ex-Merv Wescoat Shelley Look Out. |
Your old diarist rounded out the Gen I fleet sailing a Galetti-built wooden Europe Femme Fatale . |
In the Gen II group we have Josh Kiggans sailing Joe Bousquet's Mistral Try-Umph. |
Zach Balluzo Sailed his newly acquired Mistral Y2K Bug. |
John Zseleczky sailed Y2K2. |
Mike Parsons (NR 79) sailed the newly redecked Revolution. This is Revolution's third deck. |
And of course Joe Bousquet was in Swiss Miss. |
With the cast introduced, I will take a short intermission before sorting through more of the over 200 pix which my daughter Ingrid took. |
I had a good start!
ReplyDeleteIndeed you did!
DeleteAwesome pics ala Ingrid and great commentary by George. So wonderful to see so much young blood and a strong Vintage fleet.
ReplyDeleteGeorge, is Joe's Swiss the same shape as the boats Denis Weber and Jean Pierre Rogo brought to the Internations in Cape May back in the mid 60's. They had a chine.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, they finished one/two.
ReplyDeleteYes, Swiss Miss is an old Fletcher-built boat--v. similar to Roggo, Weber and Barth's boats back at the Cape May Worlds in '65.
ReplyDeleteErky introduced me to Moth boats, after which I built Tomahawk and later a Collins design (like) Sidewinder. It was fun and will do it again someday.
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking in Scott. Yes, we all miss Erky. Just posted more pix today.
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