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Fresh, familiar prevail
By DORAN CUSHING © St. Petersburg Times, published January 11, 1999 For Lin Robson and Bill Beaver, the midwinter Flying Dutchman and International Canoe class championships in St. Petersburg have become a ritual of winning. With their performances over the weekend, St. Petersburg's Robson has won the one-design event three of the past four years in the Flying Dutchman class, and Annapolis sailor Beaver has won the International Canoe class twice in three years. For Virginia-based Barney Harris and Jesse Falsone, though, the St. Petersburg midwinter championship brought a first. They won the highly competitive 505 class, in which they have raced together for more than three years."We had a couple of lucky breaks, and we paid attention to who we had to beat in the points in the final two races," skipper Harris said. Harris and Falsone ensured victory by finishing second to the runner-up team of Macy Nelson and Peter Alarie in the closing race of the series. Harris and Falsone were two points ahead in the final standings. Ethan Bixby of St. Petersburg and crew Scott Ikle finished third overall, never placing lower than third in the two-day event. Robson, racing his Flying Dutchman with crew Serge Jorgensen of Sarasota, posted six wins in the seven-race series and finished nine points ahead of Paul Hemker and Gary Schwantz of New Paris, Ohio. Finishing two points behind Beaver, Ted Van Dusen of Carlisle, Mass., won the closing race and a tiebreaker for second place in International Canoe. Hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, the January racing venue on Tampa Bay has always attracted top Northern sailors in each class of lightweight dinghy. Even with temperatures in the 50s, warmer water and 10- to 18-knot winds provided fast, wet and challenging conditions, though Friday's opening day of races was canceled for lack of wind. All boats raced on a course just east of The Pier, with separate starts for each class. OFF ST. PETERSBURG YACHT CLUB WEEKEND RESULTSFINAL AFTER 7 RACE505 -- 1. B Harris/J Falsone 9; 2. Macy Nelson/P Alarie 11; 3. E Bixby/S Ikle 13; 4. A Meller/D Burroughs 31; 5. R de La Rie/A Freedmen 32; 6. L Montague/A Cheney 32; 7. M Wedge/S Lake 39; 8. D Chathsam/S Mariani 49; 9. D Breton 53; 10. C James/L Crane 55; 11. W Mason/E Wright 63; 12. D Weatherby/C Gorton 65; 13. J Breeder/A Breeder 69; 14. A Cole/A Brown 88; 15. FLiesegang/D Anderson 92 Flying Dutchman -- 1. L Robson/S Jorgensen 6; 2. P Hemker/G Schwantz 15; 3. J Wrenn/C Wrenn 16; 4. T Sayles/P Rucicka 24; 5. T Jacob/D Anderson 31; 6. D Fagen/G Griffin 35. International Canoe -- 1. B Beaver 10; 2. T Van Dusen 12; 3. J Kells 12; 4. T Llewellyn 25; 5. D Gilliland 26; 6. D Ellis 33; 7. G Saunders 53; 8. T Richardson 57; 9. P DeCausemaker. "We had a couple of lucky breaks, and we paid attention to who we had to beat in the points in the final two races."
Winning skipper in 505 class
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