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Florida State Snipe Championships

by Lynn Fitzpatrick, US Editor, Sail-World.com on 21 Nov 2007
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Saint Petersburg Yacht Club hosted the Snipe class State Championships November 17th and 18th. As often happens at this time of year, absent a cold front, the winds were light but steady in direction. Only four races were sailed and the Augie Diaz and Michelle sniffed out the pressure better than the rest.

The depth of great sailors in Snipe District 7, which encompasses the south-eastern United States, is never in question. For the past several years, the district has been home to National, North American, Western Hemisphere and World Champion Snipe Sailors. Some of those sailors have won major championships in Lightnings, Windmills, Stars and Optimists; that doesn't even take into account Ethan Bixby's recent big boat campaigns. Many of those sailors hail from the Miami Snipe Fleet. This year alone sailors from the fleet laid claim to the US Championship, North American Championship and World Championship - and they were won by different individuals. You can imagine that the annual Florida State Snipe Championship is a very competitive regatta.

Saint Petersburg Yacht Club hosted the Snipe class State Championships November 17th and 18th. Some of the local talent was missing, probably preoccupied with other upcoming regattas or perhaps looked at the weather forecast and decided to opt out.

In any case, North American Snipe Champion, Augie Diaz steered his way to yet another Florida State Snipe Championship, this time with Michelle Sumpton in the bow. The Diaz, Voss, Bixby, Klotz, Park, Jeffers, Lynde and Kroetsch families were well represented with husbands and wives and siblings sailing together and against one another. There were three Diaz skippers. The top husband and wife team - Chris and Antoinette Klotz. The top junior team - siblings Nick and Kara Voss.

Snipe States Final Results

St. Petersburg Yacht Club
Snipe State Championships 2007
November 17-18,2007
Series Summary

Pl Sail # Crew From 1 2 3 4 T
1 30288 Augie Diaz & Michelle Sumpton CRYC Miami 1 1 1 5 8
2 29324 Chris Klotz & Antoinette Klotz SPSC St. Pete 2 2 4 3 11
3 28814 Nick Voss & Kara Voss CGSC Miami 3 4 3 6 16
4 28810 Enrique Quintero & Alex Sachs Miami 5 3 8 2 18
5 30362 Rogelio Padron & Carolina Palacios CRYC Miami 4 7 2 7 20
6 29550 Colin Park & Karen Park SPYC St. Pete 6 11 5 1 23
7 30336 Gonzalo Diaz, Sr & Andrew Jones CGSC Miami 11 5 7 4 27
8 30236 Ken Voss & Kay Voss CGSC Miami 9 12 10 8 39
9 27027 John Hagman & Reguli Granger SPYC St. Pete 8 10 11 10 39
10 29995 Gonzo Diaz & Adrienne Korkosz CRYC Miami 7 8 16 9 40
11 28702 Laura Jeffers & Will Jeffers SPYC Tarpon Springs 14 14 6 14 48
12 29681 Tito Vargas & Susan Wallace SPYC St. Pete 13 13 9 13 48
13 25721 Brian Lynde & Kira Lynde SPYC St. Pete 16 9 14 12 51
14 29750 Ethan Bixby & Trudy Bixby SPYC St. Pete 10 6 18\DNC 18\DNC 52
15 995 Jeff Irvine & Susan Irvine SPSC St. Pete 17 16 12 11 56
16 26397 Bob Foster & Clint Arlington SPSC St. Pete 12 17 15 15 59
17 2955 Bob Kroetsch & LeeAnn Kroetsch Tampa 15 15 13 16 59
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