2014 US Nationals – Day 3

Okoboji, July 30, 2014. Report by Danielle Richards (SCIRA USA)

Day 3 Report

The competitors were moving a little slower this morning, either sleeping in a tent for four + days is catching up or the posted weather forecast wasn’t enough to invigorate them to launch. The news from the 0830 competitors briefing was that there is no news and everything is continuing as planned. First start at 1000 and two scheduled races.

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Apparently one of the locals wasn’t as optimistic about the racing conditions as the Race Committee, he brought his suit and tie with him to the club and after making some repairs and looking at the lake decided that there would likely be no racing and his time was better spent catching back up at work…to bad he didn’t stay.

Regatta Chair Pat Flood, from the Iowa Nebraska Fleet 309 is very happy with how things were going so far as we hit the mid-week point. Considering the conditions available the Race Committee has made the best of it and managed to keep the event on schedule. Pat has enlisted the help of his siblings to help him host the event with his brothers and sisters housing a large number of the participants and his sisters assisting with the daily meals. The Snipe fleet really is a family affair.

The legendary Gonzalo, “Old Man” Diaz had a great day on the water today. Sitting in11th place today and only 5 points out of 10th. The Old Man and Patti Bess are putting up a good fight to stay in the top 1/3rd of the fleet. Gonzalo will be celebrating 70 years of Snipe sailing in 2015 and apart from still being a competitive sailor on the course he is a great story teller on shore sharing tales of previous nationals.

The youngest skipper in the fleet, Guy Thomas, sailing with his father Will Thomas of the Lincoln (NE) Snipe Fleet is also holding his own in the pack of veterans. Guy sailed with his sister Sarah in the Junior Nationals over the weekend and after having some boat issues there has teamed up with his father for the Open Nationals.

This evening the fleet is headed to dinner at the Okoboji Classic Car Museum and is schedule to complete the remaining three races on schedule, 2 on Thursday and 1 on Friday.

Place	#	Country		Skipper & Crew	Division	Fleet	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Total
1	29841		PUR	Raul Rios & Henry Dumke	Junior	591	1	– 3	1	1	1	1	3	8
2	29941		USA	Doug Hart & Ryan Hopps	Master	495	2	– 4	3	2	4	3	2	16
3	30288		USA	Augie Diaz & Aine McLean	Master	7	3	5	2	3	3	– 6	4	20
4	30473		USA	Ernesto Rodriguez & Kate Sheahan	Senior	7	4	1	5	7	2	4	– 10	23
5	30860		USA	Carol Cronin & Kim Couranz	Master	17	5	– 8	4	4	5	2	5	25
6	30904		USA	Lee Griffith & Hillary Noble	Master	256	– 14	2	7	5	9	5	7	35
7	29778		USA	Roberto Guaragna & Andre Guaragna	Master	7	7	6	6	10	7	– 19	1	37
8	30089		USA	Andrew Klein & Jessica Claflin	Master	77	6	9	9	– 18	11	8	8	51
9	30088		USA	Will Crary & Lara Dallman-Weiss	Junior	309	9	10	13	6	8	10	– 16	56
10	30618		USA	Don Bedford & Eric Heim	Senior	495	– 16	7	10	14	6	9	11	57
11	30336		USA	Gonzalo Diaz & Patti Bess	Master	7	8	12	– 15	11	14	12	6	63
12	30568		USA	Peggy Tautz & Steve Tautz	Senior	640	11	– 15	14	9	10	11	9	64
13	29109		USA	Stuart Robertson & Adam Elshahawry	Master	495	12	14	– 34 dsq	8	24	7	13	78
14	30262		USA	John Coolidge & Christian Cyrul	Senior	142	10	– 18	12	12	16	16	15	81
15	30600		USA	Kevin & Maxwell Hetherington-Young	Senior	77	– 20	11	11	13	18	18	12	83
16	29972		USA	Michael Bowers & Belinda Barnes	Senior	77	13	13	17	16	17	15	– 18	91
17	28472		USA	Cliff Wright & Hannah Graham	Master	444	15	– 23	18	17	12	13	19	94
18	28099		USA	Laura Dalgleish & Daniel Dalgleish	Senior	1	– 22	16	20	15	13	17	14	95
19	30477		USA	Gene Soltero & Laura Dahl O’leary	Master	1	– 25	17	8	19	21	20	21	106
20	31157		USA	Martin Bebb & Anne Rusnak	Master	68	21	25	26	– 27	19	14	17	122
21	28482		USA	Chris Scofield & Courtney Zurek	Senior	309	17	20	19	22	22	22	– 25	122
22	29323		USA	David Baker & Andrea Slouka	Master	640	19	19	21	24	26	– 27	22	131
23	29738		USA	George Rood & Jan Churchill	Master	309	24	22	16	20	– 28	24	27	133
24	28900		USA	Doug Swenson & Sarah Thomas	Master	210	23	21	23	23	20	– 28	26	136
25	28444		USA	Guy Thomas & William Thomas	Junior	567	26	27	25	– 34 dnf	15	21	24	138
26	27731		USA	Rick Scofield & Natasha Mason	Master	309	27	– 34 ocs	22	25	23	29	20	146
27	31188		USA	Mike Slouka & Steve Kurtz	Master	640	– 28	24	28	28	25	25	28	158
28	29692		USA	Carl Mattson & Julie Mattson	Master	640	– 32	29	31	21	27	26	30	164
29	27523		USA	William Brush & Tina Brush	Master	309	29	28	24	30	30	31	– 34 dns	172
30	28470		USA	Stephan Irgens & Monica Irgens	Master	705	18	26	27	– 34 dnc	34 dnc	34 dnc	34 dnc	173
31	30221		USA	Steve Avery & Harry Whittenburg	Master		30	31	29	26	29	– 34 dnc	34 dnc	179
32	31244		USA	Eliot Payson & Tyler Payson	Master	640	– 31	30	30	29	31	30	29	179
33	30680		USA	Philip Lee & Damaris Cano	Master	309	– 34 dnc	34 dnc	34 dnc	34 dnc	34 dnc	23	23	182