SCIRA Vice-Commodore Bertel Bojlesen and crew Nicolas Bojlesen mastered the windshifts and medium breezes to win the regatta and earn a spot in the Oklahoma Nationals Heinzerling Division (go for the board meeting-stay for the regatta!). Kent Sisk celebrated his return to Eugene with a second after drafting 470 veteran and Fern Ridge guru Kerry Poe as crew (yes, he did break a hiking strap in one race). SF fleet members Andy Pontious and Elizabeth Pontious strategically saved themselves a nine-hour drive by shipping their boat and flying in Saturday morning to take third place. Seattle's Cliff Wright and Joel Wright earned the distinction of best capsize two feet short of the finish line in Race 3 and still managed to take fourth in the regatta. Rounding out the top five were Seattle's Kirk Smith and Diane Zabriski, who dominated the one light air, shifty, drifter, fresh breeze race.

Eugene YC's members upheld Oregonians' reputation for being disarmingly friendly and hospitable, providing breakfasts, dinners, campfires, free camping and MOST OF ALL getting the rain to stop each day just as the sailors were rigging up to go to the race course. Since this regatta was a pre-prelude to the 2001 Nationals-all agreed the Pacific Northwest is a great location for a "serious sailing-serious fun" regatta. Members of the Snipe "greased bearings" fraternity will want to begin thinking ahead to then-- Oregon is close to everywhere and state law forbids you to pump your own gas-they still have service stations!

1) 27668 Bertel and Nicolas Bojlesen  Willamette        1-3-1-4-1-3=13
2) 27928 Kent Sisk/Kerry Poe   OBYC                     3-4-4-5-6-1=23
3) 26843 Andrew and Elizabeth Pontious   San Francisco  7-5-2-6-2-2=24
4) 28103 Clifford and Joel Wright CYC                   2-1-9-3-4-6=25
5) 25872 Kirk Smith/Diane Zabriski  CYC-Leschi          8-2-11-1-5-4=31
6) 28447 Charles and Graham Heimler  San Francisco      6-6-5-10-3-5=35
7) 27377 Jim Lampros/???  Willamette                    4-8-3-8-10-8=41
8) 26615 Joe Harvard/Katherine Neville  San Francisco   10-9-8-2-8-9=46
9) 27415 Dave and Kay Patterson  Willamette             5-7-DNF-12-7-7=53
10) 26832 Jim Miller/???  CYC-Seattle                   9-12-7-7-11-10=56
11) 23594 Gene Patrick/???  Willamette                  11-10-10-9-9-11=60
12) 26995 Shawn Zabriski/???   CYC-Seattle              14-11-6-11-DNF-DNS=72
13) 20130 Colin Anderson/???  CYC-Seattle               13-14-12-DNS-DNS-DNS=84
14) 25992 Ava Moore and family  San Francisco           12-13-DNF-DNS-DNS=85