Jeff Linton (75316) and Rod Koch drove up to Gulfport to race the Gulf Coast Regionals
and got in some great practice for the '97 NA's that are at the same place the following
week. Typical summer conditions for Gulfport bring 12-15 kts out of the south around
12:00, but this weekend, the wind never really filled in with the true seabreeze.
Race one started in about 5-8 kts and shifty, however neither side payed off heavily, with
Joanne Weberlein and Zane Yoder (2469) going up the left side while Bishop Stieffel
worked the right. The three rounded together and led around the triangle.
Joanne and Bishop traded the lead several times up the final leg but Joanne sailed
sharp in the last 200 yards and held on to win.
A mix up at the start of race one pocketd a 12 for Kevin Northrup, but in race two, he
got back on track working up from 6th to 3rd chasing the leaders, Hank Saurage and Jeff
Linton, all the way to the finish eventually finishing 2nd behind Jeff. Hank got out
of phase a third of the way up and lost Jeff, Kevin and Rod Koch.
Jeff and Kevin would repeat thier 1, 2 positions in race three. Joanne came in third
in this one but a 28 in race two would prove devistating as a squall sucked out the wind
for Sunday's races and there would be no drop.
PL Skipper Total R1 R2 R3 1 Jeff Linton 6 4 1 1 2 Kevin Northrop 16 12 2 2 3 Bishop Stieffel 17 2 7 8 4 Alan Uram 24 3 6 15 5 Hank Saurage 26 8 4 14 6 Rod Koch 27 14 3 10 7 Marcus Eagan 28 7 17 4 8 Tommy Harris 30 9 15 6 9 Joanne Weberlein 32 1 28 3 10 David Blouin 33 19 9 5 11 Ellis Ollinger 37 6 12 19 12 Gilly Chamberlain 38 13 5 20 13 Chris Friend 39 17 13 9 14 Zane Yoder 41 10 8 23 15 Todd Edwards 43 11 21 11 16 Ash Beatty 47 16 10 21 17 Leslie Kelly 47 18 11 18 18 Mary Hewes 50 5 18 27 19 Chuck Barnes 53 26 14 13 20 Jerry Blouin 55 24 24 7 21 Clinton Edwards 57 21 19 17 22 Kippy Chamberlain 63 25 26 12 23 Ann Edwards 64 20 16 28 24 Anton Speaker 68 23 29 16 25 Melissa Warren 74 15 33 26 26 Peter Sladovich 76 22 30 24 27 Trin Ollinger 76 29 25 22 28 Chris Evans 81 27 23 31 29 Steven Hoard 84 28 27 29 30 Sam Waller 86 30 20 DNF 31 Erik Booth 88 32 31 25 32 Micki Gramm 89 31 22 DNF 33 Alva Carbonette 97 33 34 30 34 Chris Carron 98 34 32 32 35 Jennifer Adams 107 35 DNS DNS