3rd Annual Vintage Gold Cup Regatta on Gull Lake, Michigan - Overall

by Vintage Gold Cup 5 Oct 2019 22:19 BST 3-5 October 2019

After an eight-race series with very challenging conditions, Eivind Melleby from Norway and Joshua Revkin from Boston, are the 2019 Vintage Gold Cup winners with an impressive four bullets in the score sheet.

A beautiful brisk and sunny morning welcomed the 26 teams competing at the Gull Lake Yacht Club. The wind was blowing from the southeast at about 12 knots and soon the fleet was on the water very eager to get going with the final three races scheduled on the last day.

Eivind Melleby (NOR) and Joshua Revkin (USA) were leading the series by a mere three point advantage over Lars Grael (BRA) and Arnis Baltins (USA), and the competition between the two on the race course was palpable. On the first of today's three races, the Norwegian team got the their third bullet and the Brazilian team was right behind them in second. In the second race, Olympic medalist Lars Grael was the first across the finish line. Evind Melleby scored the highest number of the series, a 10th, which was then was dropped after the last race. The playing field remained open between the two for the final race. The Norwegian/American duo did not miss their opportunity to win the race and the series, while Grael/Baltins scored a fifth that brought them into second overall at the 2019 Vintage Gold Cup regatta. Arthur Anosov and Dave Caesar (USA) are third overall, with just seven points from the winners. They were very consistent on the last two days of the regatta, winning two races and claiming two seconds out of today's three races.

"It was good that we pulled the longer straw in the last race to seal the deal." Commented Star World Champion Eivind Melleby. "We had some troubles in today's second race and we were back in the pack, but we luckily sorted that out. It's been great racing here at the Vintage Gold Cup, with the lake very shifty conditions, we even had a couple of auto-tacks today and it is always fun. We had a good week, it's fantastic to sail on these beautiful wooden boats and seeing 26 of them on the line is just a great sight."

"Dilly Dilly is a fantastic boat the Jon VanderMolen gave us." Added crew Josh Revkin, he continued, "We loved it, everything was working very well and we are very happy to have won it for him."

The perpetual "Robert M. Boudeman Family Trophy" will pass tonight from the hands of the two time Vintage Gold Cup, Paul Cayard, to Eivind and Josh, at the official awards ceremony at the impressive Gilmore Car Museum.

Co-chair of the event Don Parfet, will also receive the prize for winning the Classic category, reserved to wooden Star boats that have a wooden mast and boom.

"It was a fabulous event, I am biased of course!" Said Don Parfet, "but we have four classic rigs and I have the privilege of winning that category with the oldest boat in the fleet, it was a lot of fun. We had tight racing among the Classic and super tight among the Performance wooden boats, so I couldn't be happier about the turnout and the conditions... maybe just a little cold but we are sailors, we love it like that! In a few months we will begin to think about the 2020 edition, there'll be a lot more to come, we're going to have to find more wooden boats because more sailors want to join this event!"

Overall Results:

Pos	Bow No	Sail No	Boat Name	Skipper / Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R	R8	Pts
1	17	NOR 5177	Dilly Dilly	Eivind Melleby / Joshua Revkin	4	1	1	3	2	1	10	1	13
2	5	BRA 5805	Star of the Sea	Lars Grael / Arnis Baltins	1	5	2	2	4	2	1	5	17
3	8	USA 4985	Magic	Arthur Anosov / Dave Caesar	12	4	3	1	1	7	2	2	20
4	11	USA 4648	Flapper	Tomas Hornos / Jon Klerk	3	2	6	6	9	5	3	10	34
5	1	USA 4789	Scimitar	Paul Cayard / Danny Cayard	2	7	4	5	11	4	8	4	34
6	20	USA 4736	Mya	Larry Whipple / Austin Sperry	7	12	10	11	5	8	5	DNF	58
7	4	USA 4504	Quantum	Mark Reynolds / Hal Haenel	5	6	11	8	16	6	17	8	60
8	12	USA 4583	Pink Lady	Luke Lawrence / Bryan Milne	DNF	3	9	18	8	13	4	6	61
9	6	USA 4876	Chips	Bobby Lippincott / Chad Easley	11	8	13	12	3	14	13	3	63
10	9	BAH 5093	Pearl II	Myles Pritchard / TC Belco	13	13	20	13	14	3	7	7	70
11	7	USA 4837	Whim	Gregory Smith DDS / Kelly Belco	9	10	12	19	10	12	6	11	70
12	14	USA 4125	Hope	Mike Hecky / Michael Brundage	10	14	7	16	6	17	11	9	73
13	21	USA 4621	Zig Zag	John MacCausland / Rick Burgess	6	19	17	10	19	11	9	13	85
14	26	USA 4748	Fantastic	Andy Ivey / Roger Cheer	16	21	8	7	7	16	15	DNS	90
15	18	Usa 4187	Cautious	Joe Londrigan / John Wysockey	8	9	5	4	13	DNF	DNS	DNS	93
16	24	SWE 4724	Mari	Leif Carlsson / Thomas Gross	17	11	14	17	12	9	14	16	93
17	2	USA 4554	Shirttail Too	Jon VanderMolen / Mac Waldorf	15	16	16	9	OCS	10	16	12	94
18	29	USA 4650	Baboon	Jack Rickard / Gil Cole	14	15	15	15	15	15	12	15	101
19	10	USA 1010	Mahero	Don Parfet / Craig Lockerbie	DNF	22	19	24	18	19	18	17	137
20	19	USA 4663	Bottoms Up	Terry Gibney / Bill Hawk	DNF	18	18	14	17	18	DNS	DNS	139
21	25	USA 5225	Djinn	John Chiarella / Don Eberly	21	24	21	23	22	20	19	DNS	150
22	3	USA 3779	Sashay	Elliott Oldak / Andy Noel	20	17	22	20	21	DNS	DNS	DNS	154
23	23	ARG 5235	Esrline	Luis Bustelo / Ariel Simonet	19	23	23	RET	DNS	DNS	DNS	14	160
24	50	USA 5050	Toss‑Up	Malin Burnham / John Burnham	18	20	OCS	21	20	DNS	DNS	DNS	160
25	0	usa 4100	Conflict	Tom Price / Saidee Price	DNF	26	24	22	23	DNS	DNS	DNS	176
26	22	USA 3855	Siren	Jim Revkin / David Bolles	DNF	25	25	RET	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	185

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