Can you imagine the joy in Sawyerville with an ILYA win for the sisters? Today the highly competitive fleet came out to sail the last two races of their championship. Paul Reinicke, Maggie Walsh and Sunny Driscoll started the day with only one point separating them. The morning brought us four to six mile per hour winds from the East. This set-up the races to be sailed across the short length of the lake in the opposite direction from yesterday.
Since we were sailing two back to back races we again had a downwind finish for the first race. Our three leaders stayed pretty close to each other in the first race. Jan Gill broke away from these three to win the race. Sunny ended up second with Maggie third and Paul fourth. This maintained the lead for Sunny and Cindy Duchow.
The last race was very similar to race number five with the three leaders keeping a close eye on each other. In this race Sunny and Cindy jumped out to an early lead with Paul and Maggie further back. After leading in many of the races without winning Sunny put this race and the regatta away. Jack Zimmerschied and Fred Weber had the best races of their regattas by finishing second and third.
This was the first ILYA championship for the sister act of Sunny Driscoll and Cindy Duchow. They have been sailing together in Inland events since they were kids. Paul Reinicke and Helen Rehberger ended up second and Maggie Walsh and Terry Isabell were third. Jan Gill was the top Master and Heidi Vollmar won the top rookie.
  
1 V-7 Sunny Driscoll          12
2 V-151 Paul Reinicke       17
3 V-76 Maggie Walsh        19
4 WL-111 Jan Gill             21
5 V-44 Fred Weber            38
6 LH-117 Jack Zimmerschied 39

3  H-111 John Spargo        22

4  FD-4 Jack Boatman       25

5  FD-314 George Winter   25           
6  U-1 Steven Catlin           28

7 FD-499 Eric Hall              29           

8 FD-1 Tim Baccus             39  
9 WA-5 Justin Bolles          41 
10 NC-66 Peter Stambaugh 53    
11 FD-42 Greg Leifer          56

 

Thanks to Cedar Lake for hosting this regatta with a new format of M-16 champs and I-20 Invite. Together these two fleets provided Cedar with a fine event. Thanks to PRO Roger Walsh for serving in everyone's favorite across Cedar races.