Sebring Regatta............Leg 1Saturday, April 18th, 09The Tanglewood club kicked the season with a great regatta at their Island sailing venue.
It is a great location with a good view. Pleasant surroundings and great hosts.
12 sailors registered for the Regatta. Skippers represented several locations and clubs. In attendance
were skippers from Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Titusville and of course Tanglewood.
  John Egisi 1st place Frank Thorley 2nd
The first race kicked off just after 12:30pm with 7 or 8 mph winds, as the day went on we
saw winds increase to near 20 mph. This is the kind of winds that makes you find the
weak spots in your Footy. Most of the entries did manage to finish the nine races.
Finishing first was John Egisi which is no big suprise. John has been really successful with
his version of what a footy is supposed to be. Second was Frank Thorley which also no suprise.
Frank also has his own version of a Footy. Butch Bragg finished third also with yet another version
of the Footy. Adrian Sullivan finished fourth with his very nice 507.
  Butch Bragg 3rd Adrian Sullivan 4th
Pos Skipper Sail# Club City Scores Total Score Throwout Final Points
1 John Egizi 00 TWMYC Sebring 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 23 - 4 = 19 pts*
2 Frank Thorley 007 TWMYC Sebring 5, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 24 - 5 = 20 pts*
3 Butch Bragg 168 SPMSC Titusville 1, 6, 2, 5, 6, 8, 4, 1, 1, 6, 40 - 8 = 32 pts
4 Adrian Sullivan 47 CFMYC Orlando 4, 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 6, 3, 46 - 8 = 38 pts
5 Jim Child 2 TWMYC Sebring 7, 1, 5, 7, 1, 2, 2, 8, 8, 7, 48 - 8 = 40 pts
6 Dave Greisse 17 SPMSC Titusville 6, 8, 4, 3, 7, 4, 6, 4, 7, 5, 54 - 8 = 46 pts*
7 Darrell Krasoski 324 CFMYC Orlando 3, 5, 8, 6, 5, 9, 5, 6, 4, 4, 55 - 9 = 46 pts
8 Bob Boisvert 06 SPMSC Titusville 10, 9, 10, 10, 8, 7, 7, 7, 5, 6, 79 - 10 = 69 pts
9 John McKinney 606 TWMYC Sebring 9, 7, 7, 9, 10, 9, 8, 10, 9, 7, 85 - 10 = 75 pts
10 Bill Nielsen 835 Fort Lauderdale 8, 10, 9, 8, 9,10, 9, 10, 9, 7, 89, 89, 10 =79 pts
11 Rick Christoph 807 TWMYC Sebring 10, 12, 12, 12, 12, 6, 8, 10, 9, 7, 98 - 12 = 86 pts Representatives from the Titusville club was Bob Boisvert and Dave Greisse.
Bob was able to finish his first Footy Regatta after a sting of bad luck. Congratulations Bob!!!
Dave Greisse did well for his first regatta with his new footy.
Vero Regatta.............. Leg 2
Footy race in Vero Beach 23 May 1st John Egizi, 2nd George Emmert, 3rd Ed Rohrer
This is the first Footy Regatta I have missed since the beginning. This is the only picture I have.
 Left to right John Equizi, Ed Rohrer, George Emmert
6 skippers participated.
10 heats with two throw-outs. Results: 2 throw outs were subtracted from the scores below. 1st John Equizi 11 points 2nd George Emmert 14 Pnts 3rd Ed Rohrer 22 pnts 4th Bill Nielsen 32 Pnts 5th Skip Shaw 34 Pnts 6th Bernie Ceilley 51 pnts Titusville Regatta...........Leg 3 June 20thA big thanks to the newbee George and his friend Joe who served as Line Judge and Scorekeeper.
A big thanks to Bob and Daves support for helping make this regatta possible.
The first race began real close to the scheduled start time of 12:30 pm. on Saturday. What little wind there was seemed to be constantly changing directions. We had participants from Vero, Orlando and a record 6 footy entries from our club. Some races were nearly drifting matches. The wind filled to maybe 5 mph at some races. John Equizi managed to pull of 8 straight wins with his home built footy. Great job John, congratulations!    Regatta Results are as follows:
John Equizi............1st with 14 points Sail # 00 Dominator
Butch Bragg...........2nd with 26 points Sail # 168 Shark
Dave Griesse........3rd with 30 points Sail # 217 Microyacht
Jim Carter..............4th with 38 points Sail # 03 V12
Bob Boisvert..........5th with 63 points Sail # 06 Microyacht
George Emmert ....6th with 64 points Sail # 283 ?
Darrell Krasoski.....7th with 65 points Sail # 324 ?
Dick Ruffe...............8th Sail # 33 Microyacht
Glen Prunyi.............9th Sail # 01 Glen built boat
Titusville Regatta...........Leg 4 July 25thLeg four kicked off at 12:30 pm with six skippers.
Clubs represented in the event are as follows: Sebring, Orlando, Vero and Titusville. The wind was fairly consistent and made for a good day of sailing. During one race the wind seemed to be constantly shifting and offered a challenge to keep up with its direction.
Finishing first but having to earn it was John Equizi. Second was Butch Bragg followed by a Third place finish from Dave Geiesse.
John had 5 first place finishes, Butch 3 firsts and Dave had 2. Overall it was a fun but hot day.
A big thanks to our new members George and Mike.
Thanks guys for the canopies and filling the officiating positions.
Thank you for your participation in our club. Great Job !!!
Pictured below left to right.....John Equizi, Butch Bragg, Dave Griesse
 click image to enlarge Scores are listed below: 1st John Equizi 11 points sail # 00 Hull ...Dominator
2nd Butch Bragg 15 points sail # 168 Hull....Shark 3rd Dave Griesse 18 points sail# 217 Hull....Shark 4th Darrell Krasoski 32 points sail # 324 Hull....Razor 5th Bernie Ceilley 36 points sail# 2308 Hull....Flatfoot 6th Dick Ruffe 38 points sail# 33 Hull....Microyacht Orlando Regatta............Leg 5Saturday, August 15th, 09left to right Dave and Darrell, John Equizi, George and Darrell.
 The first race kicked off just after 12:30pm with 7 or 8 mph winds, as the day went on we
saw winds increase to 10 to 12 mph with gusts. Lots of Footys were observed doing the Footy dive.
The last race finished just before the rain started and we moved to cover for the awards.
It was noticed in this event is that almost all entries managed to finish the 10 races.
In our earlier regattas would start with 10 or 12 boats and only 3 or 4 would complete the event.
Looks like the designs and rigging are definately improving and the little boat is evolving.
Finishing first was was Dave Griesse with a Shark. Dave edged out John Egisi John finished with a second.
A newbie from the Titusville group, George Reed finished 3rd with a Shark also.
Butch Bragg finished with a 4th place with a shark.
I will post the final scores as soon as they are forwarded to me by
Darrell of http://www.sundaysloopers.com/
FFFIII Overall series winners The winners of this event after 5 races are:
John Equizi ..........1st place score after five races 1 1 1 1 2 one throwout 4 points
Butch Bragg..........2nd place score after four races 2 2 2 4 no throwouts 10 points
Dave Greisse.........3rd place score after four races 6 3 3 1 no throwouts 13 points
Darrell Orsosyk........4th place
Pictured below left to right John Equizi, Butch and Darrell, Dave and Darrell.
click image to enlarge.
These scores reflect a series of five Regatta's consisting of 10 races each.
A total of 50 races. There were four sailing clubs who participated in this series.
Plans for a new series with some modifications are underway.
Rules of this series stated it has to fit in the box and change sails as you wish.
New clarifications have been made to the box rudder rules so we will abide by those
in the upcoming series.
The new rule states it has to fit in the box and the rudder must have full range of movement.
We have agreed that the sails should have some restrictions as does the international rules for the class.
We also agreed that the international sail rules does not fit particularly well in Florida.
So sail rules governing the series are as follows:
You may use 3 sails, one of which is under 12 inches. That entitles the skipper to have 2 usable sails.
We find that a sail under 12 inches has no value in Florida.
So get the boats ready adjust your rudders if needed and prepare for XFC.
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