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8th ANNUAL SWEETCORN

Seventeen boats turned out for the eighth running of the SYC Sweet Corn Regatta.

We held a Skippers meeting at 10:30 sharp in the pavilion of the Susquehanna Yacht Club.

All the while anxiously and nervously looking over our shoulders at the river for the assurance of wind.

The extreme hot weather had broken with the arrival of a front that moved through the day before leaving a moderate breeze coming down from over the hills in the NNE by N.

There has been a dearth of wind so this most welcome breeze seemed promising. It turned out to be an occillating but steady northern flow at times reaching ten knots but mostly in the vicinity of six.

At 11:15 the committee had the marks placed at 3/4 mile intervals, and the first gun went off. John Heffner and his wife Julie who came from Havre De Grace to be committee warned us to take our lunches aboard as he would sail us till we ran out of wind. We sailed five legs on an H course with the start finish line 1/3 of the way up the windward leg. This gave a chance to all those who had mediocre starts to claw their way back up into the running.

Bob Astrove from fleet fifty with his son and another youngster who had never sailed before on a lightning showed us all how it was done winning the first race handily in his woodie, Hull number 7603.

Nabeel Alsalom took the second race, (Oh woe is me, it looked like the visitors were going to do it again, take the trophy home with them.) But Carol Park came from not too far behind to rally with three bullets.
Her last start was a picture perfect Port tack over the fleet, just clearing Jason Werner by two feet. (Way to live dangerously Carol.)

Bob Astrove sailed into second sporting a 1,2,2,5,11 Frank Hanson took third place honors with a 4,4,3,5,5, Nabeel Alsalom had a very good showing w/ a 1,2,2,3,14(ouch),

Park sailed prodigiously holding off the major competitors with three bullets.

Thanks go to Bill Remorenko the Regatta Chairman and his wife Linda for producing this fine event. Thanks to Steve Naudel for the outstanding breakfast fare, As well as Sue Mikell and Carol Shue for the great steak and corn roast. Also Gary Hoffer for making the place look so neat and clean, Gary Babin and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxillary, for acting as crash boats. And last but not least the participants who came to make this all possible.

RESULTS

SAIL # SKIPPER, CREW R.1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total Pts. Place

14902 C. Park B. Remorenko, R. Cosentino 7 2 1 1 1 12 1

7603 B. Astrove,B. Astrove, B. Urosu 1 5 11 2 2 21 2

15159 F. Hanson, T. Hanson, S. Slieker 4 4 3 5 5 21 3

15142 N. Alsalam, C. Lopez, R. Roberts 2 1 2 14 3 22 4

15210 K. D. MacNeil, M. Jay, C. Muska 3 7 8 3 8 29 5

15024 J. Werner, H. Dodd B. De Brineat 18 3 5 4 4 34 6

14425 C. Crockett, M Keen, T. Iacona 5 6 13 6 10 40 7

13813 K. Kuhn, J. Kuhn, B. Lally 6 9 9 8 11 43 8

10302 M. Hergan J. Goldstein, L. Sharwarko 13 8 4 7 14 46 9

14525 J. Bates, J. Smekal, N. Smekal 11 13 7 11 7 49 10

14629 T. Compton, A. Dolezal 12 16 6 10 6 50 11

14365 T. Dexter, N. Dexter, S. Imm 8 15 12 9 9 53 12

15118 S. Mikell, R. Doherty, S. Naudel 9 12 10 15 12 59 13

15210a C. Noble, T. Bowman, D. Dexter 14 11 15 12 13 65 14

9897 M. Giuon 10 10 17 16 15 68 15

11582 W. Poyck, K. Henry, J. Fullerton 15 14 16 13 16 74 16

15024x G. Hoffer, P. Lamb 16 17 14 17 17 81 17