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Region 5 Victoria Championship Regatta
(a.k.a. Festival of The Child)
Reports from The Woodlawn Racing Team

The Woodlawn Racing Team was back in action May 5, 6 and 7 at the 2006 Region 5 Victoria Championship Regatta in Oklahoma City, OK!  Updates on the adventures of our sailing hero's are posted below.

Note from The Webmaster: The updates below are interpretations of phone conversations I had with Ray Seta over the weekend of May 5-7th.  These are not quotations. 


Event 2006 Region 5 Championship                                  
Date(s) May 6-7, 2006                                  
Host Club The Sooner State Model Yacht Club                                  
                                             
Sort of choice     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
                                             
Position Skipper Sail # Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
25         26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26
1 A. J. Moritz 05 28 1 2 2 11 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 5 4 4 3 1 1
2 Charles Sudduth 124 44 4 4 3 1 2 7 3 2 4 2 1 2 1 5 3 3 5 1 4 4
3 Chris Macaluso 65 53 2 3 2 6 1 2 9 4 2 4 4 2 5 2 1 8 7 4 5 4
3 Albert Ross 46 53 4 1 8 5 4 4 3 5 2 5 2 9 6 3 2 4 2 2 2 3
5 Bob Piper 465 56 1 1 1 2 2 1 9 3 3 2 5 7 3 3 7 1 10 7 8 7
6 Mark Cooper 50 60 2 2 10 2 3 3 4 2 8 10 3 12 2 5 1 9 12 1 2 1
7 Bruce Garcia 60 63 6 10 7 3 3 5 2 3 1 1 7 4 3 1 8 2 8 5 11 2
7 John Kuc 38 63 3 8 8 1 5 10 2 4 1 4 2 4 7 4 5 7 3 2 1 9
9 Shawn Cina 11 78 8 9 3 10 6 3 5 7 5 5 3 8 4 2 9 5 1 5 6 2
10 Mark Hogan 234 84 12 7 6 3 9 6 4 1 6 3 6 1 1 9 9 6 1 9 6 10
11 Chuck Porth 222 88 10 6 6 4 7 7 11 6 3 5 4 3 4 6 7 11 9 3 3 5
12 Ray Seta 88 103 3 6 4 8 8 6 7 14 7 9 10 10 9 14 3 2 6 6 3 6
13 Don Keeney 185 105 8 11 12 7 11 4 6 6 7 8 6 8 6 8 6 1 2 8 9 5
13 Ray Wright 12 105 6 8 9 8 9 8 8 9 11 3 8 5 5 6 4 5 6 4 4 8
15 C. J. Brustowicz 691 107 7 3 7 11 10 9 7 8 5 7 11 9 8 4 2 8 3 7 5 8
16 Eric Meyn 881 108 10 5 9 6 10 5 6 5 8 7 5 3 9 7 10 3 4 11 9 7
17 Marvin Burrows 08 109 5 7 4 10 5 14 1 10 6 6 10 6 8 7 4 9 11 10 8 3
18 Phil Geren 67 111 5 4 1 9 6 2 10 8 9 11 9 11 7 8 10 7 7 6 7 6
19 Thomas Swann 43 134 9 10 5 4 4 8 11 11 12 8 9 6 10 10 8 6 9 8 11 9
20 Bob Harmon 00 139 9 11 11 7 7 9 8 7 9 12 7 5 10 9 6 11 8 9 7 11
21 Tom Kern 151 145 11 5 5 5 12 10 5 9 13 10 8 7 12 11 12 10 5 11 10 11
22 Dale Whillite  42 190 11 13 11 12 12 11 12 11 10 11 12 11 11 11 11 10 11 12 12 12
23 Aaron Roush 77 192 7 12 12 13 11 11 10 10 11 6 11 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13
24 Charlie Shelden 612 193 14 13 14 14 14 14 14 12 10 9 13 10 11 10 11 12 10 10 10 10
25 Andy Rust 100 211 14 9 10 9 8 13 13 13 13 13 13 14 13 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

 


3:06PM, Sunday, April 7th, Phone Update from Ray Seta - 1st place AJ Moritz, 2nd place Charles Sudduth, 3rd place Chris Macaluso, 4th place Albert Ross, 5th place Bob Piper, 6th place Mark Cooper, tied for 7th place Bud Garcia and 8th place John Kuc, 9th place Shawn Cina,  10th place  Mark Hogan,  11th place Chuck Porth, 12th place Ray Seta.   25 boats total, 0-3 mph all morning till 1pm then the wind filled into 5 mph.  Ray Seta with his heavy sails finally started to get some decent races but it was too late since there were to be no races later than 2pm.  Mark Hogan got 2 bullets in the first two races and was really smoking today. 

The temperature was cool last night almost cold.  We had a great dinner at a Cajun restaurant with an  all you can eat buffet and live entertainment!  The Sooners had a big raffle with lots of cool High Tech products.  Anything won by the Pirates will be donated to the upcoming Alamo Classic raffle.  Tom Kern actually won the donated Victoria kit.  He stuffed the boat in his suitcase and then sold the empty box to Mark Cooper...What a Pirate...actually Mark knew the box was empty!  The pirates marked up and donated a t-shirt with Pirate graffiti to the raffle.  We also prepared a special t-shirt for our most excellent host Eric Meyn of the Sooner State Model Yacht Club.   

Note from The Webmaster: Ray all of us want-to-be's back at the clubhouse really appreciate your great phone updates!!!!   Don't let the fact that we all  yelled in unison, "You Suck" over the speaker phone get you down....  Just know that you've got Tuesday night at Woodlawn ahead of you and we all want to hear a final recap of your trip.....   We might even let you win a race for a change...."NOT".....lol...!!!!


7:15PM, Saturday, April 6th, Phone Update from Ray Seta – We’re at dinner and I have the update on the scores.  In first place is AJ with 15 points, Bob Piper is second with 21 points, Charles Sudduth is in third with 26 points.  For our pirates: Bud Garcia in 6th with 38 points, JK in 7th with 38 points, Mark Hogan in 9th place with 51 points, Ray Seta hacking it with 68 points in 15th place and Tom Kern is in 20th with 80 points.  25 boats total listed on the scoring sheet.


4:30PM, Saturday, April 6th, Phone Update from Ray Seta – OK Dude, Bob Piper is kicking tail…his first 4 races were three bullets and a second, he’s getting great port starts, everything is going great for him!  He’s probably sitting up there in the top 3 with AJ and maybe JK.  Hogan is sitting in the middle of the pack and I’m in the back of the pack.  Tom Kern actually beat JK and me once today…it was so cool, he was ready to pack up and go home right there!  Budman has had some good races and is probably sitting in the top 10 for sure.  

The current course is set where the wind comes down off the trees vertical and its quite common for boats right next to each other to be on opposite tacks.  Real swirly!  They’re thinking of moving the course out away from the trees tomorrow but there were no changes made today.  The weather has thankfully held out through the day and all we’ve gotten weather-wise is a light mist.  

Hey Hey, King Bob just walked in the door!  Everyone is asking why we made Bob a Pirate and the answer is that he keeps buying us good stuff…lol…!!!   The pirates are taking a vote to fire me from the head pirate position and replace me with Bob Piper.  Apparently I’m bringing the pirate average down with my poor performance. All they want me to do is event organization and appearance coordination.    

Dinner tonight at 7:30pm at Clint’s Bar and Grill.   If we get in early enough we’ll send out another update, else we’ll update ya tomorrow morning.


11:20AM, Saturday, April 6th, Phone Update from Ray Seta – Ok here we go, just starting the 4th race and our newest pirate Bob Piper is sitting with 3 bullets, he is smoking!  JK and I are sitting with 2’s, 4’s, and 5’s. Tom Kern actually beat us one race.  He actually had a moment of glory and got a 2 bagger, it was hilarious!   There are a total of 24 boats up here.  The winds are crappy…light, puffy, and shifty out of the NE and its cold at 65 degrees.   It’s rainy and its misty…they have a tent but its just overall a lousy day.   The 4th race is starting in 15 seconds, Bob Piper is set up for a port start, the wind shifted and he port tacked the entire fleet, he’s really smoking!  Mark had a break down on two races and has only completed one race.  In a previous race Budman and AJ had an incident which was fun to watch.  AJ was on port and Budman was on starboard.  AJ was leading the pack and had to do a 360 degree turn.  OK, Bob Piper just made it to the weather mark with no one around him.   I’ll call back with more information later today.


10:30PM, Friday, April 5th, Phone Update from a Slightly Intoxicated Ray Seta -  Dude, were back from dinner and in the room watching Cinco de Mayo singers on the Spanish Channel, drinking rum, and dancing with JK…lol….(In the background JK yells ”Yahoooo!!!!”)  12 of us ate at Big Lew’s Sports Bar and Grill including Mark Cooper, Don Kenny and all the regulars.  It’s pouring rain up here with rain forecast for all day tomorrow.  The sailing venue looks really good but oh’ that reddish brown water color is ugly.  There were around 18 sailors at the lake when we got there but they were all beginning to pack up and leave.  JK and I were plenty fast today but Mark Hogan was still struggling with his garbage can sails…We sailed on till 7:30pm before returning to the hotel to get ready for dinner.   I’ll call again tomorrow morning with another report.


8PM, Friday, April 5th, Phone Update from Ray Seta - Dude, we’re on the way to dinner now with all the other Pirates: Piper, Kern, Mark, JK, Bud and me…and we’re going to hook up with the Houston guys.  We got here about 5:30pm to sail.  This venue is really nice and in a city park but the water is dirt ugly red and we have a really challenging wind direction…JK and I were blazing fast!  Bob Piper brought a bunch of really neat Pirate stuff like head bands, neck straps and the like…the forecast tomorrow is for a 60% chance of rain but we're prepared.   I’ll send out another message after dinner…

 

 

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