2001 C National Championship Regatta
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With Dad pulling hard in the straps, Team 45's Andy and Bob Burdick win the 2001 C-National Championship on Geneva Lake, June 14-16, besting 70 other competitors in conditions which ranged through raging blows, rain squalls and resplendent delight.
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JJ Hausmann (V-181) and Jim Flood (G-1) turn a leeward gate. Typically plenty of room for more boats and more spectator action.
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Lake Beulah's Kent Haeger with crew Mike Greeson sprint upwind. They were the only boat to win two races, claiming second overall.
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Even with 71 entries, there was abundant opportunity to find one's own lane to the front. Here Joe Bitter (B-101) and Matt Haeger (B-1) work to improve their positions.
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Dave Risch (E-33) and Mike Malosh lead the fleet down the first run of Race 3. In close pursuit is Beulah's Brian Brickler (B-18). Then came the rain with radical shifts on nearly every new front.
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Always a contender, Okauchee's Mark Prange and crew, Bob Stelter, push it hard upwind, winning the rain race by a comfortable margin.
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Left hanging and looking for a ride back to the parking lot.
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The terrible two's of Dan Klement squeeze off another one - this time as he slips past starboard guys John Wicks (M-3) and Mike Madden (LL-81), ducking IC-407 (John Cochran) in the process.
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Brian Sprinkman showing great form and speed during Friday afternoon's racing. Sure beats traffic on a drive home for the weekend.
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Geneva's Regatta Chairman Art Larson (I-26) demonstrates to John Cochran (obscured behind mast) that when boats meet like this, more than fingers can get bent.
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Three time Inland Class C Champ, "Boober" Schneider, shows winning style concentration as he and Buddy Melges lead the fleet in Race 4.
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