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Duck Cup 2015

“What a blast”, “Can’t wait until next year”, “One of our favorite events of the year”, “Who left the $%^& sprinklers on?” these are some of the comments that we heard after this year’s amazing Duck Cup. The Duck Cup began in the 80’s with a bunch of catamaran sailors on the Outer Banks, took a brief hiatus and returned in the 90’s and has been going strong ever since. The Duck Cup is always different as we make decisions on racecourses and formats based on weather, tides, wildfires, storms etc. This year we worked with EMSA and Division 9 to work this event into their point series.

The first day 28 Beach Cats did 2 laps from the Currituck Sound Bridge due to the tides and wind direction making sailing to the Currituck Lighthouse not a very desirable option. It became 24 miles of upwind/downwind racing in winds ranging from 8-14 knots. It was a long day and everyone was tired, but not too tired to enjoy some great food from High Cotton and Lori’s famous beergaritas. Charles Thuman and Jon Britt took line honors on their Tornado, but wound up in third corrected behind Phillippe and Dee Dee Laurent on their F-16 and Mark and Hannah Williams on their H-16.

Winds were up on Sunday and all the tired sailors were happy to see a shorter distance race in 15-18 knots of breeze and flat water. The course was a big reaching course right off the town of Duck and it was quite a show from shore. The Hobie 16’s ruled the day and took the top 6 spots corrected while Phillippe and Dee Dee took line honors.

28 boats entered the Duck Cup and 25 finished both days. Carter and Max corrected into 3^rd place overall on their H-16, Phillippe and Dee Dee Laurent finished in 2^nd overall on their F-16 and Mark and Hannah Williams were the Winners of the 2015 Duck Cup. We would like to make a special shout out to Carter and Max since they were not recognized at the awards. Race committee (me) made a mistake in the calculations which was discovered on Monday. Sorry.

The Duck Cup is an old school catamaran event with great camaraderie, an eclectic mixture of sailors and boats, most everyone camping on site and just an overall good time. We had Worrell 1000 veterans, accomplished buoy racers, new sailors, youth sailors as both crews and skippers and good participation from our quickly growing A-Cat fleet on the Outer Banks.

Come join us at next year’s Duck Cup the weekend of June 11-12, 2016.

Results:

Day 1	#	Captain	Crew	Class	Rating	Elapsed	Corrected Time
1	318	Philippe Laurent	DeeDee Laurent	F-16	64.5	199.1	308.68
2	113886	Mark Williams	Hannah Williams	H-16	78.7	246.67	313.43
3	851	Charles Thuman	Jon Britt	Torn	60.5	192.22	317.72
4	113592	Carter Lucas	Rachel Lucas	H-16	78.7	252.83	321.25
5	4568	Greg Johnson		N500	73.22	242.17	330.74
6	104613	Lloyd Graves	Kiel Bollero	H-16	78.7	260.5	331
7	15	Dan Berger		SC-15	74.7	248.2	332.63
8	3787	Bill Shelton	Megan Shelton	H-16	78.7	264.25	335.76
9	112205	Mark Van Doren	Max Lucas	H-16	78.7	265.17	336.93
10	42	Todd Hard		A-Cat	65.5	224.3	341.92
11	102	Mac McCallum	Martie McCallum	F-16	64.5	221.93	344.07
12	1423	Dean DiLillo		N5.8	69.3	241.63	348.67
13	108616	Carter Paradis		H-16	76.33	267.2	350
14	103	Zach Grosse	Jillian Resch	N5.7	72.2	254.07	351.89
15	717	Derek Binkley	Allison Binkley	F-16	64.5	232.98	361.2
16	500	Robert Peters	Hardy Peters	I-20	60.2	221.52	367.97
17	234	Zander Stewart		A-Cat	65.5	242.07	369
18	194	Simon Rees		A-Cat	65.5	247.02	376.55
19	105	Oliver Ross		474	81	307	379.01
20	23	Ryan Boyle		A-Cat	65.5	250.5	381.85
21	FLA	Dick Hitchcock		Weta	78.5	307	391
22	286	Jon DeDoer		A-Cat	65.5	258.62	394.23
23	76909	James Autry	Evan Williams	H-16	78.7	322.57	409.87
24	103	Andy Squint		H-18	71.29	293.93	412.3
25	57	Ebor Ross		N5.5	71.9	319.2	443.94
26	1488	Kip Davis	David Jones	N5.8	69.3	320.12	461.93
27	104	Matt Gifford	Byron Gifford	N5.8	69.3	333.18	480.77
28	87972	Ray Midgett		H-16	78.7	DNF	DNF

Day 2	#	Captain	Crew	Class	Rating	Elapsed	Corrected Time
1	104613	Lloyd Graves	Kiel Bollero	H-16	78.7	54.18	68.84
2	113886	Mark Williams	Hannah Williams	H-16	78.7	54.38	69.10
3	76909	James Autry	Evan Williams	H-16	78.7	55.55	70.58
4	112205	Mark Van Doren	Max Lucas	H-16	78.7	56.12	71.31
5	3787	Bill Shelton	Megan Shelton	H-16	78.7	57	72.43
6	113592	Carter Lucas	Rachel Lucas	H-16	78.7	57.53	73.10
7	1423	Dean DiLillo		N5.8	69.3	52.2	75.32
8	108616	Carter Paradis		H-16	76.33	58	75.99
9	15	Dan Berger		SC-15	74.7	56.78	76.01
10	103	Zach Grosse	Jillian Resch	N5.7	72.2	55.68	77.12
11	318	Philippe Laurent	DeeDee Laurent	F-16	64.5	51.4	79.69
12	4568	Greg Johnson		N500	73.22	58.73	80.21
13	1488	Kip Davis	David Jones	N5.8	69.3	58.27	84.08
14	717	Derek Binkley	Allison Binkley	F-16	64.5	54.3	84.19
15	104	Matt Gifford	Byron Gifford	N5.8	69.3	58.82	84.88
16	103	Andy Squint		H-18	71.29	60.85	85.36
17	FLA	Dick Hitchcock		Weta	78.5	68.03	86.66
18	851	Charles Thuman	Jon Britt	Torn	60.5	52.45	86.69
19	286	Jon DeDoer		A-Cat	65.6	57.32	87.38
20	23	Ryan Boyle		A-Cat	65.6	57.43	87.55
21	234	Zander Stewart		A-Cat	65.6	57.45	87.58
22	102	Mac McCallum	Martie McCallum	F-16	64.5	58.08	90.05
23	105	Oliver Ross		474	81	73.57	90.83
24	57	Ebor Ross		N 5.5	71.9	65.47	91.06
25	42	Todd Hart		A-Cat	65.6	DNS	DNS
26	500	Robert Peters	Hardy Peters	I-20	60.2	DNS	DNS
27	194	Simon Rees		A-Cat	65.6	DNS	DNS
28	87972	Ray Midgett		H-16	76.33	DNS	DNS

Overall	#	Captain	Crew	Class	Rating	TOTAL
1	113886	Mark Williams	Hannah Williams	H-16	78.7	382.53
2	318	Philippe Laurent	DeeDee Laurent	F-16	64.5	388.37
3	113592	Carter Lucas	Rachel Lucas	H-16	78.7	394.35
4	104613	Lloyd Graves	Kiel Bollero	H-16	78.7	399.84
5	851	Charles Thuman	Jon Britt	T	60.5	404.41
6	3787	Bill Shelton	Megan Shelton	H-16	78.7	408.19
7	112205	Mark Van Doren	Max Lucas	H-16	78.7	408.24
8	15	Dan Berger		SC-15	74.7	408.64
9	4568	Greg Johnson		N500	73.22	410.95
10	1423	Dean DiLillo		N5.8	69.3	423.99
11	108616	Carter Paradis		H-16	76.33	425.99
12	103	Zach Grosse	Jillian Resch	N5.7	72.2	429.01
13	102	Mac McCallum	Martie McCallum	F-16	64.5	434.12
14	717	Derek Binkley	Allison Binkley	F-16	64.5	436.08
15	234	Zander Stewart		A-Cat	65.6	456.58
16	23	Ryan Boyle		A-Cat	65.6	469.40
17	FLA	Dick Hitchcock		Weta	78.5	477.66
18	76909	James Autry	Evan Williams	H-16	78.7	480.45
19	286	Jon DeDoer		A-Cat	65.6	481.61
20	103	Andy Squint		H-18	71.29	497.66
21	105	Oliver Ross		474	81	534.77
22	57	Ebor Ross		N5.5	71.9	535.00
23	1488	Kip Davis	David Jones	N5.8	69.3	546.01
24	104	Matt Gifford	Byron Gifford	N5.8	69.3	565.65
25	42	Todd Hart		A-Cat	65.6
26	194	Simon Rees		A-Cat	65.6
27	500	Robert Peters	Hardy Peters	I-20	60.2
28	87972	Ray Midgett		H-16	76.33

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