1999 United States Sunfish Pan American Trials
July 9-11, 1999
David Van
Cleef from Newport, RI will be the United States Represenative for the Pan American Games
for the Sunfish Class. He finished with a fifth and a third in the last two races to
clinch the series held on Lake Ontario. The trials were hosted by the Rochester Canoe
Club. His final total was 18 pts. He was able to drop the fifth race where he was scored
with 19 pts. after failing to sail the correct course.
Conditions
on Sunday were very different from Saturday. Winds were 5-12 mph from the NW. There was
still some chop left over from the previous day, but it was nothing like the 20-25 mph
winds and 5-7 ft waves that the sailors contended with on Saturday. Current Mid Winter
champ and Sunfish class measurer Todd Edwards placed second with 22 pts. Jeff Linton from
Tampa Fl. placed third with 27 pts. Larry Suter from Laurel, NY (31 pts) and local Doug
Kaukeinen (36 pts) rounded out the top five. Larry Suter overtook Joe Blouin and Gerard
Coleman on the last beat to win the first race on Sunday. In race 8, Jeff Linton won his
third race as the wind was fading.
Larry
Suter was awarded the top Master. Doug Kaukeinen was selected by his peers to recieve the
Sportsmanship Award. Doug and Clinton Edwards also recieved special "Goofy
Northerner" and "Goofy Southerner" awards from RCC Junior member
"Heather Woman" Stewart. Many thanks go out to the outstanding race committee
and our sponsors, Karpus Investments, West Marine (ask Alan Scharfe about his new One
Piece!!), Shumway Marine, Montana Mills Bread, Eastern Mountain Sports and the Mentholatum
Company. For complete results and awesome pictures, please check Donna Faust's work on the
RCC website at http://www.ggw.org/rcc.
Good luck
to David VanCleef at the Pan Am Games in Canada!!
Mike
Fortner
Rochester
Canoe Club
57923
Final Results:
Pl
Sail Skipper
Home Town
R1 R2
R3 R4
R5 R6
R7 R8
Total
Points
1 77388 David VanCleef Newport, RI
1 1 5
1 19 2
5 3 18
2 76453 Todd Edwards
Praireville, LA 2 4
2 5 6
4 3 2
22
3 75316 Jeff Linton
Tampa, FL
4 6 12
8 1 1
6 1 27
4 75451 Larry Suter
Laurel, NY
7 11 4
2 4 6
1 7 31
5 52853 Doug Kaukeinen Rochester, NY
8 3 3
7 2 8 14 5
36
6 76035 Rod Koch
St. Petersburg, F 5 9
9 4 3
3 10 8
41
7 77945 Gerard Coleman Galveston, TX
9 10
10 6 7 19 2
6 50
8 1881 Joe
Blouin Tampa, FL 15 2
1 14
14 12
4 4 51
9 59541 Rich Chapman
Libertyville, IL 10 8 14 3
5 5 15 10 55
10
30376 Alan Scharfe Manchester, MA 3 5 18 13 10 9
9 14
63
11
59864 Chris Houston Ambler, PA 13 7
6 10
9 7 11 17 63
12
55285 Tom Donahue Brigantine,
NJ 6 17
8 17
16 11
7 9 74
13
64328 Dan Feldman Highland
Park, IL 11 12 7 11 8 19 16 12
77
14
86429 Dave Connolly Sarasota, FL 14 13 16 9 12 10 13 15
86
15
77348 Clinton Edwards Bay St. Louis, MS 17 15 11 16 11 19
8 11
89
16
43916 Derek Jackson Mountain Lakes, NJ 16 14 15 12 15 13 12 18 97
17
60673 Mark Weider Rochester,
NY 12 18 17 15 13 19 17 13
105
18
5785 Lee Parks
Newport, RI
18 16
13 19 19 19 18 16 119