Woodman (2nd), Greenbaum (1st), McInnis (3rd)

The first-annual New England Sunfish Championship concluded in thrilling fashion, coming down to the final race of the 2009 season with Scott Greenbaum taking the race and the championship by a single spot.

With the win, Greenbaum took home a new racing sail. Woodman (2^nd) won a hiking pants set and Bill McInnis (3^rd) got a spray top. These prizes were donated by Vanguard Sailing Center of RI. Additionally Lee Parks (4^th) and Paul Odegard (8^th) won a raffle for nice Atlantic vests, donated by Boatthings.com. THANK YOU SPONSORS! Full results.

Drew Buttner won the last race to re-take the lead and the New England Regional #2 July 18-19 at Lake Wequaquet on Cape Cod.

Ethan Buttner. Beating you on the race course soon!

The top 3 were: 1) Drew Buttner, 2) Andy David, 3) Bill Brangiforte. Scott Greenbam (4th) was maybe the most consistent but broke his mast in a race on Saturday and had to take a DNF that hurt. Drew won the last race while Andy had his bad one to decide the championship. Bill Brangiforte was also very consistent. The fleet had 30 boats, not including the sizeable enthusiastic Junior fleet — Wequaquet has 80 juniors in their sailing program now! Full results will be posted on the WLYC site.

Weather was fantastic, with mostly WSW breezes that ranged between 5-20 (in puffs). The breeze built as the day went on both days. We sailed 9 races over the two days. The WLYC, as always, were great hosts.

Rapid Buttner gave a nice presentation before the Regatta where he went through the names of each of the 43(?) past winners of the Wequaquet Regatta. He’s missing some names from the late ’70s, so feel free to fill in the gaps here or contact him.