Don Barker Wins First Region II Championship and the Jim Karr Trophy

Chestertown, Maryland’s, Don Barker, grabbed the Region II Championship at Tred Avon Yacht Club in Oxford, Maryland on October 27th.  The Oxford Fleet presented a perpetual trophy in honor of Jim Karr, who brought the first RC Laser fleet to the Mid-Atlantic area. The trophy will be the Jim Karr RC Laser Region II Trophy and competed for annually among the region’s RC Laser fleets. With freshening Northeast winds on the front end of Hurricane Sandy, the 17 boat fleet donned C sails and braved a tricky chop for 18 heats of Promotion Relegation sailing. Fortunately the weather was in the 60’s and no rain arrived. Don nosed out West Jersey’s Ryan Lippincott by four points and fleet-mate, Roger Vaughan by six points. Jim Flach, sailing in only his third RC Laser regatta, grabbed 4th place and Manhattan’s Hank Buchanan rounded out the top five.  The top four spent the day consistently staying in the top fleet while the rest of the fleet moved up and down the two fleets. At one point in the day, Bob Roe sailed in 6 heats in a row between the A and B fleets. As a testament to skippers paying attention to boat management, we had only a couple equipment holds for the entire day.

Here is link to pictures from Jim Flach

https://picasaweb.google.com/jim.flach/2012RegionIIRCLaserChampionship

Link to Pictures from Bob Roe

https://picasaweb.google.com/dbranning11/2012RCLRegionals#

RESULTS
Place	Skipper	Points
1	Don Barker	21
2	Ryan Lippincott	25
3	Roger Vaughan	27
4	Jim Flach	35
5	Hank Buchanan	49
5	Jamey Betz	45
6	Rob Seidelmann	49
7	Nick Mortgu	60
8	Bob Roe	65
9	Harry Henkel	76
10	Terry Rapp	77
11	Jim Karr	82
12	Victor Oberg	91
13	Roger Baldwin	93
14	Rick Ferguson	110
15	Dan Stomka	122
16	John Tochko	125