| Wayfarers
Shine at Happy HOT Regatta |
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(19 Nov 15) Led
by Jim and Linda Heffernan's fine overall victory in
a 27-boat fleet, nine Wayfarers made an impressive
showing at the 4th annual HOT Regatta hosted by the
Lake Townsend YC near Greensboro, NC on behalf of earlier.org and
the fight against breast cancer. In fact, five of
the top eight places belonged to Wayfarers after
Portsmouth corrections had been made. Also sailing
were six Flying Scots, an assortment of five
multihulls, three Buccaneers, two Lightnings, a
Tanzer 16 and a Holder 20.
 HOT IV champions, Jim and
Linda Hefferan, congratulated by Lake Townsend YC
Commodore, David Duff
The weather forecasts had been
dubious, with rain and light winds expected, and
it turned out that our prognosticators got it
right. In fact, Friday afternoon turned to have
the best weather of the weekend, as we practised
in pleasant winds and bright sunshine.
 Friday afternoon practice: (l to r)
Tony Krauss, Ken Butler, AnnMarie Covington, Nick
Seraphinoff.
AnnMarie enjoyed her sail in the Mark IV enough that she now has one on order. Saturday began with patchy winds
and gray skies. The winds were very challenging on
both days. Nothing illustrates this better than
the fine race-one victory scored by Mark Wilson
and Steve Morris, a win that was followed by
13-20-22 placings. Even though winds strengths
were similar on both days, there were,
surprisingly, several major reversals of form from
one day to the next - see Bart Streb, Tony Krauss,
Al Schonborn, Mike Sigmund and Tom Bews in the overall results.
  Tony and Nick (W11044) in fine Saturday fettle After
Saturday's two races, Cleveland's Tony Krauss with
Detroit's Nick Seraphinoff as crew were
comfortably atop the standings after placing a
very impressive 2-3. Tied at 9 points were
Charlotte's Richard Johnson with wife, Michele
(8-1), and Oakville, Ontario's Al Schonborn with
Susan Cole of the host LTYC (3-6). Lurking in 4th
overall were Jim and Linda Hefferan who had 10
points from 6-4 finishes. Lying in 5th overall was
a Flying Scot, Chris Kerman who had placed 10-2.
 The Sunday belonged without a doubt
to Bart Streb and his wife, Janet (above),
who sailed their Buccaneer Adrenalin to a
pair of impressive wins, just as Bart had promised
over beer the night before. Also doing an
excellent job of coping with the tricky conditions
on Sunday were the Heffernans (4-2) and Chris
Herman (2-4) while veteran Flying Scot sailors,
Uwe Heine and Nancy Collins, took little time in
getting comfy in Impulse II W10978 which
they were in the process of buying from Nick.
Their Sunday 5-3 may well have sealed the deal!
When the dust had settled - early, after only two Sunday races to leave time for awards and results of various fund raisers for earlier.org - it was Jim and Linda Heffernan of the host club who took overall honours, a mere two points up on Flying Scot, Chris Herman, also of the host club. Underscoring once more how inconsistent most people's finishes were, Richard Johnson and Michele sailed Black Skimmer to 8-1-9-7 finishes, yet were a comfortable 3rd overall. After a pair of fine Sunday wins in their Buccaneer Adrenalin, Bart and Janet Streb shot up to series 4th, beating out Tony and Nick in W11044 who plummeted to 11-14 finishes on the Sunday. The latter ended up needing a tie-breaker to edge out Flying Scot, Robert Bouknight and his wife, Nancy. A mere one point further back was one of our two new Lake Townsend Wayfarer teams, Uwe Heine with Nancy Collins, who in turn edged out Uncle Al with Sue Cole.  Uwe and Nancy - a fine addition to our Class  Phil and Nancy in the still lovely W864 Rounding out the top ten were a
Tanzer 16 (Eric Rasmussen with wife, Joleen) and
another Flying Scot (Wendell Grundlach with Andy
Foreman). Our other new LTYC Wayfarer team, Phil
Leonard and wife, Cathy, sailed W864, formerly
owned by Nick Seraphinoff and Tony Krauss, to
series 16th beating out a pair of more experienced
Wayfarer LTYC clubmates, AnnMarie Covington with
Matt Stalnaker and Ken Butler with daughter, Kelly
Smith. Completing the Wayfarer roll of honour was
Trish McDermott of the host club who combined with
Ali Kishbaugh of Charlotte's Catawba YC to place
23rd.
On behalf of all us participants, a huge thank you to all the many Lake Townsend volunteers who kept up the developing tradition of the HOT Regatta as an event not to be missed!! The purely Wayfarer point of view can be seen below: |
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HOT Regatta 2015
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| Rank | SailNo | Helm/Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 611 | Jim & Linda Heffernan | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 2 | 11044 | Tony Krauss/Nick Seraphinoff | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | 10873 | Richard Johnson/Michele Parish | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | 10978 | Uwe Heine/Nancy Collins | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| 5 | 3854 | Al Schonborn/Sue Cole | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | 864 | Phil & Cathy Leonard | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 26 |
| 7 | 276 | AnnMarie Covington/Matt Stalnaker | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 27 |
| 8 | 449 | Ken Butler/Kelly Smith | 7 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 29 |
| 9 | 1392 | Trish McDermott/Ali Kishbaugh | 9 | 8 | 7 | DNF | 34 |
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