1. Jim McCree, Dave Corcoran and Tim Bottimer2. Ron Lester, Kevin Keller and Jay Levy.3. Joe lassaux, Joan Nufzigger and Michelle Lassaux

41st Annual Burl Harmon Memorial Indiana Open Regatta
Saturday & Sunday, May 3rd & 4th 2003

We threw a nice party but nobody came! This 41st Indiana Open Regatta
was raced in almost ideal conditions. The weather was fair with air
temperatures in the mid sixties and winds varying from 5 to 15 knots on
Saturday and slightly less on Sunday morning. Paul Dovey of the local
Indianapolis Sailing Club served as Race Committee Chairman and Pete
McGinity as Regatta Chairman.

After a skippers’ meeting at noon on Saturday, four races were run in
succession on a six leg Olympic course into a northwest wind. Sunday
morning two races were run on a similar course but toward the northeast.
The sailing was wonderful but the competition for John McCree and his
able crew of Dave Corcoran and Tim Bottimer was missing. With only six
boats on Saturday and seven on Sunday, this was the lowest turn-out by
far over the past 41 years.

After the Saturday racing, a steak cook-out and pleasant discussion
after dinner was a welcome treat. Our future plans are to continue to
host this event on the first weekend in May. We hope that other fleets
will look at the entire regional picture before scheduling a new regatta
on a weekend when another one is scheduled. Otherwise, regattas with
larger number of participants will become only a memory.
Fleet 270
41st Indiana Open Lightning Regatta - May 3rd & 4th, 2003
Indianapolis Sailing Club
Place Sail# Crew/From 1 2 3 4 5 6 T
1 14323 John McCree, Dave 1 1 1 1 1 1 5
Corcoran, Tim Bott-
imer, Bay City MI
2 14024 Ron Lester, Kevin 2 3 2 2 2 2 10
Keller. Jay Levy,
Lake Wawasee
3 14359 Joe Lassaux, Joan 4 2 4 3 3 3 15
Nufzigger, Michelle
Lassaux, Indpls
4 14610 Ken Woods, Ben 3 5 5 5 4 4 21
Venoir, Ken
McGinity, Indpls
5 12296 Pete, Moira McGniity 5 4 3 4 5 6 21
Stephen Bahr, Indpls
6 14537 Walt, Steve Tinsley, 6 6 6 dns 6 5 29
Paul Voss, Indpls
7 13279 Andy, Zack & Dan dns dns dns dns 7 7 38
Cook, Indpls
Ken McGinity