The 68th Annual One Design Regatta and 48th Mobjack Nationals turned out to be a great regatta.

Early registrations were very light, about half of what the previous year was, but the 100 degree temperatures broke just in time and the weekend was fantastic. We had 65% of our registrations on Saturday morning. Thanks go to our busy registration volunteers Lori Moyer and SB Londrey.

The two days of racing for the 85 boats started with good brisk winds on Saturday providing some hard racing. On Sunday we had more August-like conditions with a drifter for the first race and a filling seabreeze for the afternoon. John Smith and his Shallop crew could have beat all of us in Sunday’s first race. Some fleets got in 5 races over the weekend and other got as many as 9.

The Mobjacks got in 3 days of racing and were very glad to see the weekend bring cooler temperatures and some wind.

We had nine different fleets with Lasers being the largest at 15 and Optis next with 11. The Opti team, veterans that they are now, chose to sail out around Stove Point where the wind and waves on Saturday gave them the challenge they were looking for.

The results are posted on the website, but he champions are:

Mobjack – Mark Arnold, Front Runner – Chris Rouzie, Flying Scot – Jerry Latell, Hampton One Design – Latane Montegue, Laser – Tim Elfebein, Laser Radial – Kyle Swenson, Albacore – Barney Harris, 420 – Josh Epperson, and Opti (overall) – Alex Jacob

Thanks to our Race PROs: Brooks Zerkel, David Hazlehurst, Eric Powers and their teams of dedicated race committee professionals from our Off-shore group. The Tiki bar was back and, of course, Mr. Merchandise Noel Clinard was selling. T-shirt sales were brisk. Thanks to our tractor drivers and retrieval coordinators we can haul out 40 trailer launched boats in 45 minutes. And the girl who’s everywhere was there too - special thanks to my crew Sharon who was Social coordinator. Many thanks to her breakfast, after race social, bartender and dinner volunteers. Flying Scot Fleet 103 served dinner while the Front Runners and Mobjacks as well as others manned the Tiki hut.

It was good racing and a lot of fun. If you weren’t sailing or volunteering you missed a great weekend regatta.

Vice Commodore, Event Chair, Ric Bauer