News Drew Buttner Wins New England Regional #2 at Wequaquet

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Drew Buttner won the last race to re-take the lead and the New England Regional #2 this weekend (July 18-19) at Lake Wequaquet on Cape Cod.

Full results, when they become available, will be accessible from the New England Region site: http://www.sunfishclass.org/newengland/blog/

Notes from the top of my head without the scoresheet:

Top 3: 1) Drew Buttner, 2) Andy David, 3) Bill Brangiforte. Scott Greenbam (4th) was maybe the most consistent but broke his mast in a race on Saturday and had to take a DNF that hurt. It was very competitive at the top, with Drew, Andy and Bill all leading the regatta at some point on Sunday (and each finishing in the back half of the fleet once today to give up that lead).

Drew won the last race while Andy had his bad one to decide the championship. 30 boats, not including the sizeable, enthusiastic Junior fleet -- Wequaquet has 80 juniors in their sailing program now!

Weather was fantastic, with mostly WSW breezes that ranged between 5-20 (in puffs). The breeze built as the day went on both days. We sailed 9 races over the two days. The WLYC, as always, were great hosts.

Rapid Buttner gave a nice presentation before the Regatta where he went through the names of each of the 48(?) past winners of the Wequaquet Regattta. He's missing some names from the late '70s, so feel free to fill in the gaps here or contact him.
 

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