Texas State Sunfish Championship
Rush Creek Yacht Club
Heath, Tx
April 27 – 28, 2002

Rush Creek Yacht Club was host to the 2002 Texas State Sunfish Championship. A total of 26 sailors from as far away as Kansas and Chicago, showed up for the event.

Winds gusting to 20 + knots greeted the fleet for the first 2 races Saturday morning. Paul Foerster took an early regatta lead posting a 1 – 2, a lead he would never give up. Afternoon winds built to 25 – 30, forcing postponement until Sunday.

Sunday dawned as a perfect day for racing with 10 - 15 knot breezes. Paul started of where he was on Saturday by posting a 1 – 2 to start the day. Hank Saurage did his best to catch Paul by posting a 2 – 1, leaving him only 1 point behind with 2 races remaining. In typical style, Paul won the final 2 races and the regatta.

Place Skipper R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
1 Paul Foerster 1 2 1 2 1 1 6
2 Hank Saurage 3 1 2 1 3 2 9
3 Ash Beatty 2 3 7 3 2 7 17
4 Greg Gust 6 4 4 4 4 3 19
5 Joanne Kolius 5 6 3 5 5 4 22
6 Roy Shaw 4 5 6 7 6 6 27
7 Robert Cummings 8 9 5 6 8 8 35
8 Martin Ottenheimer 9 7 8 8 7 5 35
9 Bill Jackson 7 12 9 9 11 13 48
10 Jim Irwin 10 8 11 11 9 14 49
11 Ben Borden 11 13 13 17 10 9 56
12 Brian Zars 12 11 10 16 14 16 63
13 Harriet Ottenheimer 14 14 12 10 15 15 65
14 Pat Manning 16 15 14 15 12 11 67
15 Vicki Stone 18 DNF 15 14 16 10 73
16 Charles Price 13 DNS 17 12 13 DNS 77
17 Herman van Beek 15 DNF 20 13 17 17 82
18 Doug Snyder 22 10 16 DNS DNS DNS 92
19 Peggy Malecki DNS DNS 18 DNS 18 12 92
20 Doug Andrews 17 DNS 19 DNS DNS DNS 102
21 Bryan Taylor DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 110

Texas State Sunfish Championship
Junior Fleet

Place Skipper
1 Brad Winslett
2 Sean Gust
3 Ryan Schwend