the 2013 Wayfarer Midwinters Sunday: W awards & post-race by Uncle Al (mostly) ........

A massage from the skipper of Black Skimmer for his hard-working crew. ........

Wayfarer Regatta Chair, Mike Murto, gets the ceremony underway. ........

3rd in the white-sail fleet (non-spinnakers) were Ottawa's Andy Douma and Robin Allardyce, who lost a tie-breaker to ... ........

... LESC's Dave Hepting and Maryland's Kevin Denley. After a scoring error was corrected, Dave and Kevin also turned out to be our Most Improved team of the 2013 Midwinters, beating their seed by six positions. ........

First among non-spinnaker boats were LESC's Jim Lingeman and Pat Kuntz. ........

3rd overall and in the US Nationals were Jim and Linda Heffernan of North Carolina's Lake Townsend YC. ........

Runners-up were East Lansing's Marc and Julie Bennett. ........

Sailing a dazzling series in which they counted nothing but bullets were Montreal's Peter and Alex Rahn. ........

At awards time, we thought there was a three-way tie for Most Improved among (l to r) Robin Allardyce, Andy Douma, Daniel & Rob Wierdsma, Dave Hepting, Kevin Denley ........

Tom Erickson displays his prize. In keeping with Nick Seraphinoff's warning about the need to have a knife handy in case of emergency entanglements, all teams who did not finish "in the money" received top-quality knives.. ........

Izak Kielmovitch ........

Chip Cunningham ........

Richard Johnson ........

Uncle Al and Tony ........

Richard Watterson and his sister, Mary Ellen ........

USWA Commodore and last year's winner, Jim Heffernan, gets set to present the Designer's Trophy (for top US boat in the Nationals) to ... ........

... Marc and Julie Bennett. ........

(l to r) Mary Seraphinoff, Linda Heffernan, Michele Parish were, I believe, discussing the Seraphinoff plans to buy a house in Eustis - something that has since become a reality. ........

For some of us, this was one last 2013 Florida sunset and we got a good one!!    - click here for larger image ........

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