Florida Pixie #5
The fifth Pixie was held on 5-17-98 at the Gulfport Yacht Club. Winds were 5 to10, with "washing machine" chop. Rod, Nancy, and Joe spent the afternoon battling it out with each other. Rod won the first two races by a small margin. Nancy had her turn in the third race.
Quite behind the three leaders was the rest of the fleet. Mindy led the rest of the fleet going into the third race but as usual Paul woke up and slipped ahead at the last minute.
Audrey Creamer, the leader in the B fleet, had an explosive day finishing each race better than a third of the A fleeters.
Results:
A Fleet Rod Koch 1-1-2 4 Nancy Haberland 2-2-1 5 Paul Strauley 8-6-3 17 Mindy Katz 4-4-9 17 John Spray 5-8-4 17 Joe Blouin 3-3-Dnc 20 Ed Nist 6-9-5 20 Dave Kaighin 9-5-8 22 Erik Erickson 10-10-6 26 Dave Van Cleef 7-7-Dnc 28 Joe Creaney 11-11-7 29 Rick Pantall 12-12-11 35 John Montanari 13-13-10 36 B Fleet Audrey Creamer 1-1-1 3 Barbra Meyer 3-2-2 7 Jay Monten 2-3-3 8 Sarabeth Reeves Dnf -Dnc-Dnc 18 Marge Joiner Dnf-Dnc-Dnc 18
Many thanks to the Gulfport Yacht Club and Jeremy Dixon for running the
races.