1998 NJ State Championships Results

A picture perfect September weekend and tight Snipe racing made for a fabulous NJ State Championship, hosted by Surf City Sept. 12-13. The first chance to put points toward the annual Call of Fall series brought ten boats from as far away as Boston for the five race series in fantastic warm 10-15 knot winds.

Andrew Pimental and Carol (Newman) Cronin won three of the five races. These two co-skippered the event, to give Carol some tiller time for the upcoming Women's Worlds. The no co-skippering rule was probably put on the books to keep crews from finding out how much room there is in the back of a Snipe! Local sailor Lee Griffith teamed up with Cottage Park ace crew Melitta King to finish second, in a close duel with John and Maggie Manderson that came down to the last beat of the last race. And the usual Snipe camaraderie was in full evidence at the beach in the rain after dinner on Saturday night.

--Carol Newman Cronin

Carol did a great job on the write up and I will add the results of the Surf City Invitational and New Jersey State Championship. I would only re- emphasize the fantastic social calendar including all-you-can-eat mussels marinara, italian feast, dancing on the YC porch to live music (Hal Davis and the Doctors of Rhythm). This was a multi-class extravaganza with Lightnings, Jet 14, Mariner, Laser, Laser Radial, Sunfish, and Optimists spread over three courses at once. It was a sailing fest!

Below are the scores for the top ten. Note that the event was not SCIRA sanctioned and was scored using Low Point Scoring System Rule A2 of the RRS.

--Lee Griffith

1  Andy Pimental / Carol Cronin    	1   2   1   1   4      9
2  Lee Griffith / Mellita King          3   3   3   3   1     13
3  John and Maggie Manderson        	2   4   2   2   3     13
4  Bill Kelley / Monique Gaylor         4   1   6   6   5     22
5  Pedro Lorson / Mimi Berry            5   7   7   5   2     26
6  Lisa Pline / Sherry Eldridge         9   5   4   4   7     29
7  Lorie Stout / Liz Filter             7   8   8   7   6     36
8  Brad Dunn / Julie McCormick         10   9   5   9   8     41
9  Dave Applegate /  Janice Davey    	6   6   9 dnc dnc     43
10 Bob Coyle / Chuck D'Antonio       	8  10  10   8 dnf     47