2019 RC Laser Southern Circuit Report

Many contributing factors make this RC Laser regatta series so popular! Who can beat the Florida sunshine in February and March? How about the area surrounding the sailing venues? Ft Lauderdale, Naples, St Petersburg, Punta Gorda, and The Villages. Each year I tend to stay a little longer. It’s also the friendships made and revisited and the spirit of competition that draws skippers from around the country to these five regattas. Thank you to all the skippers who attended this year’s RC Laser Southern Circuit regattas. Hope to see you again next year.

Thank you to the five clubs who supported and hosted these regattas; Sabal Pines MYC, The Villages Model Yacht Squadron, Tampa Bay RC Laser Fleet, Sun Coast MSC, and Naples MYC. These five clubs are professionals in hosting regattas for many years and their dedicated and talented regatta hosts; Barr Batzer, John Goldsworthy, Steve Lippincott, Skip Newfield, and Richard Flach make these events fun and without them this series would not be possible. We’d also like to recognize the Race Directors who guided us throughout the regattas, Barr Batzer, John Santoro, Jim Pardee, John Steacy, Randy Williams, and the teams of volunteers from each club that gave their time so we can have fun sailing our boats. Thank you all!

All of the RC Laser Southern Circuit Regattas use the Gold-Silver fleet format for racing, thus allowing competitors to sail against their peers. It’s exciting to see an improving skipper win their first trophy in the silver fleet. This year’s Silver Fleet winners were, Jim DeSeno, Chris Dingle, Jim Pascalides, Larry Lefczik, and Terry Naylon.

As usual the weather was perfect at every regatta. A and B sails with lots of Florida Sunshine! The Gold Fleet is getting more competitive with better skippers from other fleets joining in to enjoy the simplicity of the RC Laser and the competition. This year’s Gold Fleet winners were Larry Lefczik with two gold fleet wins, Dave Branning, Dave Brawner, and Rob Stephanz. Great sailing!

Plan now to attend all of 2020’s RC Laser Southern Regattas.

2019 Southeast Florida Regatta – 2/17/2019

GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Dave Branning 22
2 Henry DeWolf 23
3 Fred Sambolin 26
4 John Antweiler 30
5 Bill Bentz 31
6 Tom Barlosz 35
7 Dorian Goldberg 38
8 Mike Campbell 38
9 Mike Lyon 59
10 John Yates 72
SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Jim DeSeno 34
2 Mike Price 35
3 Hal Steward 37
4 Myles Loesel 38
5 Tim Leonard 43
6 Fred DeSantis 44
7 Henry Spingler 45
8 Tony Corkell 45
9 Ray Sculczewski 60

2019 The Villages Winter Regatta – 2/23/2019

GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Dave Brawner 17
2 Jon Luscomb 21
3 Nick Mortgu 31
4 Fred DeSantis 42
5 Ray Sculczewski 44
6 Henry DeWolf 45
7 Tony Corkel 49
8 Charles Sumner 56
SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Chris Dingle 30
2 Larry Lefczik 31
3 John Goldsworthy 40
4 Joe Devine 41
5 Mike Campbell 45
6 Jim Rutherford 45
7 Joan Lefczik 60

2019 Tampa Bay Sunburn Regatta – 2/24/2019

GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Larry Lefczik 25
2 Chris Dingle 26
3 Henry DeWolf 27
4 Nick Mortgu 33
5 Charles Sumner 40
6 Geoffrey Harvey 44
7 Tony Corkell 51
SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Jim Pascalides 21
2 Steve Lippincott 28
3 Dave Fine 37
4 Joan Lefczik 43
5 Ray Szulczewski 48
6 Howard Germon 48
7 Kirk Sears 52

2019 Punta Gorda Regatta – 2/26/2019

GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Ron Stephanz 17
2 Dave Branning 23
3 Jim Pascalides 33
4 Jack Ward 45
5 Dave Fine 45
6 Harry Henke 49
7 Myles Losel 59
8 Jim Karr 63
9 Howard Germon 63
10 Joan Lefczik 79
SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Larry Lefczik 25
2 Janice Anderson 38
3 Doug Jones 44
4 Mike Campbell 45
5 Frank Vella 49
6 Roger Baldwin 54
7 Chris Dingle 62
8 Bob Lewis 62
9 Colin Finley 80

2019 Naples Tune-Up Regatta – 2/28/2019

GOLD FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Larry Lefczik 20
2 Jim Flach 26
3 Dave Branning 27
4 Jim Karr 31
5 Harry Henkle 33
6 Bill Ewing 47
7 Steve Lippincott 47
8 Jim Craft 49
9 Roger Baldwin 64
SILVER FLEET
Place Skipper Points
1 Terry Naylon 22
2 Ray Szulczewski 22
3 Gerhard Kelter 26
4 Frank Vella 38
5 Joan Lefczik 40
6 Fred DeSantis 42
7 Ron Stryker 51
8 Richard Flach 51

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