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Lewes Yacht Club hosts three regattas over weekend

LYC and Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association sailors have strong finishes
The top three finishers in the Rowland Marshall Mobjack National Championship use the wind after rounding a mark. They are (front to back) Sarah Lester and Tony Ingram, second place; Mark Arnold and Tom Moore, first place; and Paynter Ingram and D.J. Parry, third place. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Ron MacArthur
August 27, 2021

Capping off a busy summer regatta season, Lewes Yacht Club hosted three fleets of sailboats Aug. 21. Races on Aug. 22 were called off because of inclement weather.

Local racers fared well in the events. In the Rowland Marshall Mobjack National Championship, former national champs Mark Arnold and Matt Franks of Chesapeake, Va., took top honors, followed by former champs Sarah Lester and Tony Ingram of Lewes Yacht Club in second, and Paynter Ingram and D.J. Parry, also of LYC, in third.

The team of Lester and Ingram was forced out of the third race with equipment failure, losing valuable points. They won two races and finished second in two others. The team of Arnold and Franks won three races and finished second twice.

The Family Award was presented to Tom and Duncan Ward; the Anchor Award went to Al Williamson, and the Sportsmanship Award was given to Tom Ward.

Nancy Jaywork of Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association won the Sunfish Regional Championship followed by fellow RBSA sailors Jim Knab, second, and John Barrere, third. David Miller, who has Lewes ties, finished fourth, and Lewes Yacht Club sailor Connie Miller was fifth. Only four points separated the top three racers.

In the Hobie Summer Winds Regatta, Walter Myers of Ocean City, N.J., finished first in the Waves class. His son, Tyler Myers, LYC sailing instructor, finished in fourth place.

Other Hobie winners included skippers Rich McVeigh, Hobie 16, and Bill Colgan, Hobie 18.

 

Hobie Cats in the Wave fleet start the first race of the Summer Winds Regatta in Delaware Bay off Lewes Beach.
Walter Myers of Ocean City, N.J., was the top sailor in the Summer Winds Hobie Regatta Waves class.
Skipper Mark Arnold and crew Matt Franks of Chesapeake, Va., are the 2021 national Mobjack champions.
The Lewes Yacht Club Mobjack team of skipper Sarah Lester and crew Tony Ingram hikes out to take advantage of the wind. They finished in second place.
Mobjack sailors skipper Paynter Ingram and crew D.J. Parry of Lewes Yacht Club round a mark. The team finished in third place.
The top three finishers in the Sunfish Regional Championship head to the finish line in one of five races. They are (l-r) Nancy Jaywork (4830), first place; John Barrere (6676), third place; and Jim Knab (4752), second place. All are members of Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association.
Nancy Jaywork of Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association won the Sunfish regional championship by one point over fellow RBSA sailor Jim Knab.
David Miller of Lewes was the top local finisher in the Sunfish regatta, taking fourth place. He won the first race of the day Aug. 21.
Connie Miller of Lewes Yacht Club finished in fifth place in the Sunfish regatta.
Skippers Bill Colgan (16934) and George Kuney (17013) had four close races, with Colgan taking first place in the Hobie 18 class.
The colors of the Hobie Cat sails provide a strong contrast to the dark skies on the horizon.
Tyler Myers, Lewes Yacht Club sailing instructor, finished fourth overall in the Summer Winds Hobie Regatta Waves class.
Mobjack national champions Mark Arnold and Matt Franks hoist their spinnaker.
The Lewes Yacht Club Mobjack crew of Sarah Lester and Tony Ingram, second place, gets out in front of third-place finishers Paynter Ingram (Tony’s father) and D.J. Parry.

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