The Lake Eustis Sailing Club’s MC Scow group got in four races Wednesday evening before the big thunder storms with David Moring leading the way followed by Dennis Oldham and David Helmick.   Charlie Jensen led the Laser group. 

 The Weekend Laser races were won by David Chapin with Rob Krentel second and Sam Chapin third.

The Lake Eustis Youth foundation high school sailing team practiced this past Saturday morning and afternoon in preparation for the upcoming high school Florida South Points Race series sailing 420 class boats around the state.

The regular racing season begins in September.

LAKE EUSTIS SAILING CLUB

The Lake Eustis Sailing Club’s MC scow fleet held Wednesday evening races this past week with the Winner David Helmick followed by David Moring and John Houck.    The Laser group sailed over the weekend with David Chapin winning eight of the nine races.  Sam Chapin and Jerry Beck were tied for second and Sam Chapin was awarded second on the tie breaker.

The MC scows will continue to race Wednesday evenings and the Laser fleet every other weekend. Regular club racing and regattas will return in September.

Lake Eustis Sailing Club

At the Lake Eustis Sailing Club brisk winds both Saturday and Sunday led to close and exciting sailing in the Laser races.   Alejandro Illera returned after being gone for several months and led Rob Krentel by one point after twelve races of the weekend.  Patrick Daniel was third. David Moring led the Saturday racing and David Chapin the Sunday races, but neither sailed both days and loose out for weekend. Laser races will continue every two weeks until September when the regular racing season starts.  

The Youth Foundation is holding an evening learn to sail camp this week and next.  The regular Saturday  “learn to sail” classes for ages 8 to 18 will resume in September.

The Lake Eustis Sailing Club had its regular Laser races over the week end with Sam Chapin first followed by Vince Renzoni and Craig Yates. 

While this was going on, the Club celebrated the “International Sailstice”, an activity started in California to get sailors all out on the water someplace in the Northern Hemisphere on the Saturday nearest the Summer Solstice or the longest day of the year.  This year the Lake Eustis Club invited the Mount Dora Yacht Club, the Ocala Sailing Club, the Central Florida Yacht Club, the Central Florida Trailer Sailors and the West Coast Trailer Sailors to come and join them.  Entertainment on Saturday was a Barbeque, live music, Poker run, and moon light sail.   Ann Ireland and Sherry Magno won the poker run in a Flying scot, while a large variety of sail boats cruised the Lake.

Laser racing will return in two weeks.  A learn to sail camp for youth ages 8 to 18 will start July 8^th.  Regular youth sailing on Saturday will start in September.

Rob Krentel mastered the light winds of Saturday and gusty ones of Sunday to win eight of the nine races the Laser fleet had over the weekend at the Lake Eustis Sailing Club.  Jerry Beck was second with Vince Renzoni third in the group of eight boats sailing. Chris Nagy of Orlando was the first youth. The other classes of sail boats take a summer vacation from racing. The Laser group continues a regular every other weekend racing schedule.

The Lake Eustis Sailing Club Youth Foundation will hold an evening learn to sail camp for youth ages 8 to 18 starting July 8^th.   The youth Saturday “learn to sail” classes will start again in September.

The Lake Eustis Sailing Club’s 43rd Annual George Washington Birthday Regatta a week ago was the coldest windiest regatta of the year with Jeff Linton winning the Flying Scot fleet followed by Steve Shaw and Zeke Harowitz.  Andrew Clark was the first Club 420 and Cameron Smith was the second.  The Laser full rig fleet was led by Joel Hurley. Steve Caron was second and Rob Krentel third.  Luke Yates was the first Laser radial followed by Jordan Wiggins second and Joshua Mysicka third. The Laser 4.7 winner was Chris Nagy.  Arden Haley and Michael Gapuz were second and third.   The overall winner in the Optimist Pram group was Wes Myler followed by Tyler Baker and Matthew Smith.

In Club racing this past weekend David Hepting lead the Wayfarers followed by Chip Cunningham and Nick Seraphinoff.  Gus Chennells was the first Flying Scot. Dean Grimes and Joe Lobato were second with Larry Kick third.  First MC scow was Jeff Nicholas, with David Moring second and Dave Helmick third.  The Laser fleet was led by Jerry Back, Rob Krentel second and Tom Jennings third.

Instruction for youth continues every Saturday.         

 The Lake Eustis sailing Club enjoyed the warm weather and the light winds of the weekend with David Moring leading the MC scow group followed by Tim Fredman and David Johnson.  The first Flying Scot was Larry Klick, Dean Grimes and Joe Lobato second and François Simon third.  Jim Lingeman won both wayfarer races while Ted Benedict was second and Izak Kielmovitch was third.  Rob Krentel was the first Laser, Marc Solal second and David Chapin third.  Luke Yates won the Club 420 races followed by Craig Yates second and Donny Harper the third place. 

Instruction for Youth continues every Saturday.  Cub racing returns in two weeks.  The winter regatta season starts in February.