2002 Junior Rondinella
Bay-Waveland Yacht Club
June 22, 2002

Bay-Waveland Yacht Club hosted this year's Sunfish Fleet 511 Junior Championship for the Rondinella Trophy on Saturday, June 22.  Andrew Eagan opened with four straight bullets in  in conditions that may have favored him a bit over defending champion, Jackson Benvenutti.  This might be considered an impressive start in the seven race series, but throw in the fact that he raced in the one hundred mile Gulfport to Pensacola race the night before, finishing at 4:30 in the morning!  He hitched a ride back to Bay St. Louis and made the 12:30pm first race in the championship.  Winning the regatta was quite an accomplishment, but even more incredible was the fact that the boat he raced to Pensacola on, John Dane's Melges 30, "Tiburon", won the distance race also.

Photos - Courtesy Tom Whitehurst

Results

Pos Name Pts Sail # R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
1 Andrew Eagan 10 78495 1 1 1 1 2 3 1
2 Jackson Benvenutti 13 43681 2 2 3 2 1 1 2
3 Katja Riise 23 78347 3 4 2 4 4 2 4
4 Gary Taylor 33 77348 5 5 6 3 3 4 6
5 Erik Tanner 36 68854 6 3 4 6 5 5 7
6 John Chapoton 40 567 4 5 5 5 7 6 8
7 Alex Boudreaux 47 78388 8 7 7 7 6 7 5
8 Charlie Cady 60 85987 10 12 9 9 9 8 3
9 Holden Leblanc / Mac Cady 61 Bl/Ye 11 8 8 8 8 9 9
10 Lauren Whitehurst 79 8471 7 12 12 12 12 12 12
11 Paul Keith 81 78790 9 12 12 12 12 12 12