The Lake Eustis Sailing Club’s three day Midwinter Championship races for C scows and Melges 17 scows was wet and exciting with rain on Friday and strong winds on Saturday and Sunday.
C scows had Tom Keenan of Michigan and Lee Sayler local sailing club member from Jupiter, Florida tied for first after the first day of racing. Still tied after the second day of racing, but then Keenan pulled away in the three races on Sunday to win the championship. Lee Sayler was second for the weekend and Don Fancher, local sailing club member, third.
The Melges 17 scow class was won by Peter Lane of California, second was Lesa Gutenhurst of Wisconsin with Jim Hilgard of Michigan third.
C scow winner Tom Keenan is son of Frank and Vera Kennan of Eustis who are long time pillars of the local sailing. Tom was sailing with his son and daughter crewing for him.
The C scow is a design that has been sailing for 102 years and the Melges 17 scow is a recent design with many modern changes.
Next week is the Annual MC scow Midwinter Championship which usually draws 80 to 90 boats.
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