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Carolyn Nute Regatta – Final

Mission Bay, October 27-28, 2012. Doug Hart and Becky Nygren won the Carolyn Nute Regatta. Regatta report by John Fretwell. Day 2 of the 2012 Carolyn Nute Memorial Regatta saw light air and some significant shifts in the leaderboard! After a clean sweep of first places from the son/father team of Tyler and Chuck Sinks on Saturday, Sunday opened with a bullet by Dave and Barbie Tillson, with skippers Aine Fretwell and Randy Lake close behind. In the next race it was Doug Hart with Becky Nygren in first, with the top junior team of Scott Sinks and Daniel Ron taking second. Tension was building, but the wind was not, as the fleet waited in in postponement, wondering if a final race and dependent throwout would occur before 3:30pm deadline. At this point the junior teams of Ryan Hopps/Alexandra Fayer and AJ Reiter/Riley Gibbs were tied on points for the second Jr. Worlds berth, if the throw out came to be!

by John Fretwell 10/29/2012

Mission Bay, October 27-28, 2012. Doug Hart and Becky Nygren won the Carolyn Nute Regatta.

Regatta report by John Fretwell.

Day 2 of the 2012 Carolyn Nute Memorial Regatta saw light air and some significant shifts in the leaderboard! After a clean sweep of first places from the son/father team of Tyler and Chuck Sinks on Saturday, Sunday opened with a bullet by Dave and Barbie Tillson, with skippers Aine Fretwell and Randy Lake close behind. In the next race it was Doug Hart with Becky Nygren in first, with the top junior team of Scott Sinks and Daniel Ron taking second. Tension was building, but the wind was not, as the fleet waited in in postponement, wondering if a final race and dependent throwout would occur before 3:30pm deadline. At this point the junior teams of Ryan Hopps/Alexandra Fayer and AJ Reiter/Riley Gibbs were tied on points for the second Jr. Worlds berth, if the throw out came to be!

Race 6 was finally started in around 5 knots of breeze, with a few boats OCS at the pin. In his first event steering his own boat (29197 previously owned by legend Craig Leweck), Ryan Hopps closed with a bullet to secure a berth in Rio, 2013 along with Scott Sinks (5th)! When the numbers were crunched, the top four boats in the regatta were separated by a mere 4 points! Congrats to Doug Hart and Becky Nygren on a fantastic win, and to all 24 Snipe teams who enjoyed amazing weekend on Mission Bay!

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Place	#	Ghoul	Goblin	R1	R2	R3	R4	R 5	R 6	Total
1	29941	Doug Hart	Becky Nygren	2	2	3	– 6	1	6	14
2	29222	Sinks	Sinks	1	1	1	– 12	3	9	15
3	28854	Randy Lake	Marnie Bonner	3	– 9	2	3	4	3	15
4	30109	David Tillson	Barb Tillson	4	4	5	1	– 6	2	16
5	28687	Scott Sinks	Daniel Ron	– 10	6	9	5	2	5	27
6	29248	Aine Fretwell	Cutter O’Connell	8	5	– 10	2	7	8	30
7	29197	Ryan Hoops	Alexandra Fayer	11	– 13	11	4	10	1	37
8	29108	AJ Reiter	Riley Gibbs	7	– 25 dnc	8	10	11	7	43
9	30330	Eric Heim	Andy Reiter	12	10	7	11	– 16	4	44
10	28857	John Fretwell	Jesse McKnight	9	8	12	– 16	8	16	53
11	30618	Don Bedford	Jen Lyons	6	12	14	– 20	12	10	54
12	30550	Patrick Snow	Matt Capetta	– 17	7	6	15	14	14	56
13	29439	Ryan Ratliffe	Tanner Chapko	15	– 20	18	9	5	11	58
14	30337	George Szabo	Diana Waterbury	5	3	4	– 25 dnc	25 dnc	25 dnc	62
15	29646	Aimee Heim	Terra Berlinski	– 19	11	15	7	17	15	65
16	30113	Bob Bowden	Skylar Lee	13	15	13	19	– 22	13	73
17	29166	Sonya Smith	Jamie Snow	14	– 25 dnc	21	21	9	12	77
18	28464	Nobu Nakagaki	Kazua Fujita	– 22	19	16	14	15	17	81
19	29702	Lanny Coon	Willem Perry	20	16	– 22	13	19	20	88
20	305501	Storm Brown	Clayton Schulter	– 21	14	19	17	21	19	90
21	29013	Chris Wright	Lauren Wright	16	– 25 dnc	25 dnc	18	18	18	95
22	28679	Jameson Perry	Katherine Matheson	18	17	20	– 22	20	21	96
23	30800	Rick Arneson	Diana Waterbury	– 25 dnc	25 dnc	25 dnc	8	13	25 dnc	96
24	28955	Scott Dalin	Evan Charles	23	18	17	23	– 25 dns	25 dnc	106