2007 Doug Sydor Regatta Results
Arrowhead YC, Lake Winnebago, MO
September 15 - 16, 2007

(Report by Mark Long - results submitted by Gunter Stein on Sep 17, 2007)


21 boats registered for this years Doug Sydor Regatta. This event is held every year in mid September at Arrowhead yacht club, Lake Winnebago, Missouri. We had teams registered from Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. We always appreciate the support form our dear friends at Lake Lotawana as they brought several boats again this year.

We have a 400 acre lake just south of Kansas City. Our Regatta headquarters is the beautiful Arrowhead Yacht Club. We start the event on Friday night with a buffet dinner and a live band. A keg is always flowing.

PRO was Howard Chamberlain with help from Greg Long and Dean Martin. They did an excellent job all weekend.

Saturday brought challenging winds SSE at 3 to 8 mph. The morning race was tough. Pat Flood managed to slip away and win this and begin his dominant performance of the weekend.

We stopped for a lunch break at AYC and went out after lunch to winds that were a bit higher. 3 short courses after lunch with Pat Flood from Okoboji in the lead at the end of the day. He was chased by Larry Jensen from Okoboji and Jeff Serles of Lotawana.

At the end of the first day of racing, we have a traditional Beer and Ribs gathering at the yacht club point. KC has a tradition of Barbeque and we like to share plenty of smoked ribs after racing with a keg of beer.

Day 2 brought a nice SSE breeze 10-15 mph. We had a nice long beat as this is a perfect wind direction for this small lake. Sailing on Winnebago is perfect when the breeze is up as there are never any waves to deal with. This was a great day of racing Pat flood won race #5 and Larry Jensen won race #6.

Thanks to all of our guest for joining us to make this another wonderful event. We hope to see you all again next year. Thanks to regatta Chairman, Dave Brown for organizing the event and to our Fleet Commodore Aimee Long for making everything happen.

Mark Long


Pl Skipper Div Club/ST Sail R 1R 2R 3R 4R 5R 6 Total
1 Flood Pat   OYC/IA 1963 1 6 1 1 1 8 18
2 Jensen Larry M OYC/IA 1866 2 5 2 4 4 1 18
3 Sartels Jeff   MYC/MO 1995 4 1 3 8 3 3 21
4 Long Mark   AYC/MO 1942 11 7 4 6 2 2 32
5 Drake Harry M MYC/MO 2389 9 2 6 9 7 5 38
6 Brust Jim GM LMSC/IA 2322 5 10 9 3 10 4 41
7 Silvey George M AYC/MO 1693 3 13 12 2 6 6 42
8 Schroeder Gary   MYC/MO 2116 7 12 7 5 5 7 43
9 Brown David GM AYC/MO 1944 12 3 5 11 9 13 53
10 Smith Bruce GM JLYC/NE 1924 10 9 17 7 8 9 60
11 Martin Paulla W MYC/MO 2318 15 4 8 14 12 12 65
12 Goetz Jim GM MYC/MO 884 6 8 14 16 15 11 70
13 Tillema David MM MYC/MO 2420 8 11 18 18 16 10 81
14 Stein Gunter GM AYC/MO 2184 17 14 16 10 13 16 86
15 Fletcher Doug   AYC/MO 1276 13 15 13 17 11 17 86
16 Nitz Tom GM AYC/MO 2005 14 16 10 12 DNS DNS 96
17 Johnson Eric M MYC/MO 1315 18 18 15 19 DNS DNS 96
18 Karnell Michael M LMSC/IA 2253 16 17 19 13 17 15 97
19 Estes Paul M AYC/MO 1645 DNS DNS 11 15 14 14 98
20 Mariotti Aldo MM AYC/MO 937 19 19 20 20 18 18 114
21 Partin Craig M AYC/MO 1191 20 20 DNS DNS 19 19 122