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Women Sunfish sailors take over Delaware Bay

Lewes Mobjack sailors among top finishers in Rowland Marshall Memorial Championship
Amanda Callahan of Bristol Yacht Club in Rhode Island is winner of the Women’s Sunfish North American Championship, finishing first in four of six races. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Ron MacArthur
August 26, 2023

Lewes Yacht Club hosted the Women’s Sunfish North American Championship and the T. Rowland Marshall Memorial Mobjack Championship Aug. 19 and 20.

Forty sailors from 14 states took part in the Sunfish regatta with Amanda Callahan of Bristol Yacht Club in Rhode Island taking top honors, winning four of six races. She was also the top masters sailor. Callahan is a sailing coach at Bristol College.

Six boats participated in the Mobjack Regatta, with skipper Mark Arnold and crew Matt Franks of Broad Bay Sailing Association in Virginia Beach, Va., winning the championship. The Lewes Yacht Club team of skipper Sarah Lester and crew Tony Ingram finished in second place, and the LYC team of skipper Paynt Ingram and crew Margaret Ingram finished fourth. Lewes sailors Jeff Futcher and Ben MacIntyre took third-place honors.

Top 5 Sunfish finishers: 1. Amanda Callahan, Bristol Yacht Club, Rhode Island; 2. Gail Heausler, Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, Fla.; 3. Susan Tillman Berg, Wawasee Yacht Club, Ind.; Kelly Gendron, One-15 Brooklyn Sail Club, N.Y.; 5. Gretchen Seymour, Lake Bluff Yacht Club, Ill.

Lewes sailors: 22. Jenny Hopkins; 24. Connie Miller; 39. Achareeya Gaston.

Mobjack results: 1. Mark Arnold and Matt Franks, Broad Bay Sailing Association; 2. Sarah Lester and Tony Ingram, Lewes Yacht Club; 3. Jeff Futcher and Ben MacIntyre of Lewes; 4. Paynt and Margaret Ingram; 5. Tom Ward, Potomac River Sailing Association, Virginia; 6. Al Williamson, unaffiliated.

 

Sunfish get off a clean start in the first race of two days of racing on Delaware Bay.
Sunfish sailors head toward Lewes Beach during the first race of the regatta.
Jenny Hopkins of Lewes Yacht Club finishes in 22nd place, the top LYC sailor.
Lewes Yacht Club member Connie Miller sails to a 24th-place finish. She also coordinated the Sunfish regatta.
Lewes Sunfish sailor Achareeya Gaston has only been sailing about a year. She finished 39th in the regatta.
Mark Arnold and Matt Franks from the Broad Bay Sailing Association in Virginia Beach, Va., returned to claim the T. Rowland Marshall Memorial Mobjack title.
Crew Tony Ingram hikes out using the trapeze as skipper Sarah Lester works the tiller. The Lewes Yacht Club Mobjack finished in second place.
Lewes Yacht Club Mobjack sailors Paynt and Margaret Ingram hike out to take advantage of the wind as they near the finish line. They finished in fourth place in the Mobjack regatta.
Lewes sailors Jeff Futcher, skipper, and Ben McIntyre finished third in the Mobjack regatta.
Jennifer Means of Sarasota (Fla.) Sailing Squadron sails to a 22nd-place finish.
Kimmy Jackman (4872) of Bantam Lake Yacht Club in Morris, Conn., and Kerry Gendron (81743) of One-15 Brooklyn Sailing Club in New York round a mark. Gendron finished in fourth place and Jackman in 11th place.
The duo of Matt Franks and Mark Arnold won six of the seven races in the Mobjack regatta.
Mobjack sails bend in the wind during a Saturday race in Delaware Bay.
The LYC team of Sarah Lester and Tony Ingram are leading the summer Mojback series and finished second in the weekend regatta.
Sunfish sailors are in a crowd near the start of one of four races on Saturday.
It’s crowded around a mark as LYC sailor Connie Miller (4067), Gail Turlock of Gull Lake Sailing Club (Minn.) (10164) and Lisa Brown Ehrhart of Sarasota Sailing Squadron (Fla.) (4859) vie for position.
Kimmy Jackman of Bantam Lake Yacht Club (Morris, Conn.) prepares to come about as she ducks under the mast. She finished 11th overall.
Strong winds on Saturday test the skills of the Sunfish sailors.
A line of Sunfish prepare to round a mark on the course set by the race committee.
The Lewes duo of Jeff Futcher and Ben Macintyre try to recover after flipping their Mobjack. They recovered and finished third overall.
With the Cape May-Lewes Ferry in the background, Mobjack sailors compete in the T. Rowland Marshall Memorial.

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