Acknowledgments

Jake Kohl was the US Sailing Chairman of the 2007.  John Fox, from the Melbourne Yacht Club, was the Regatta Chairman.  Melbourne Yacht Club members volunteered to help with everything from the usual regatta business such as scoring and flag management to keeping water available for the sailors to cooking meals in the Pavilion at Ballard Park.  These people are pictured below.  I missed a photo of one important player:  Kevin Rejda from Pensacola.  Kevin was the beach captain who fixed the boats and helped crews get on and off the beach.  He was never stationary long enough to photograph.

 

Many thanks to Don Fidler of Ocean Cats for a place on the photo boat and his good efforts to get where the action was.
 

John Casey and John Williams, 2007 Alter Cup Champions This is true even though John Williams said they gave him a blank medal.  You can see it's not blank in the photo.  John, they really did give you a medal.  Is it true you wear it even in the shower?
John &Kath Lovell, 2nd Place, 2007 Alter Cup
John & Tiffany Tomko, 3rd Place, 2007 Alter Cup

 

The Ooops Files

The wind was sooo good, it was bad some of the time. Our intrepid sailor illustrate how to round a mark, crash a catamaran and land on the equipment without breaking anything,  living or inanimate. When I see this, I keep hearing Sinead O”Connors, Nothing Compares to You. These guys are sooo bad, they’re good..Sometimes when enough is too much, it really shows. 

 

 

Did you ever wonder
how beach wheels really work?  Little Beach Wheel Trolls push them around.  The grunting and huffing of those big pushers you see at events like the the Tybee 500 are all just for show.  Those big guys are slackers.  The real work is done by little guys you hardly ever see.  The proof is in the photos: