2023 IOM Region 2 Championship Regatta Report
by Dave Branning, Race Director
Twenty-two top level IOM skippers came to Lake Parsippany, NJ from the North East, the Midwest, the Southeast, Texas, Bahamas, Barbados, California as well as Paris, France. Quite the demographic among the class that loves to travel to compete with the best. This is a most pleasurable and talented skipper group I've ever had a chance to be part of and a joy to observe the best at top-level racing.

We used the IOM class ranking list to form two seeding heats and then launched two days of HMS racing on long courses efficiently set up and adjusted by Jon Elmaleh both days. These guys love long courses especially when the walking path allows full course view of "hot" mark roundings.

Both days we had a bit of a wait for wind but we were able to execute 10 full races on Saturday in fresh high-A breeze and 5 on Sunday in mid-A breeze. Tony Gonsalves, Steve Landeau, Peter Feldman, and Mark Golison established themselves at the top with Gonsalves holding a 15-point comfortable lead over Steve Landeau in second after day one. Day two, after a short delay, Tony Gonsalves opened with his two regatta throw-outs, but settled in again with a 3, 1, 4 to finish the regatta two points up on Peter Feldman. Peter chalked up three firsts on Sunday to move over Steve Landeau by 14-points to capture second place. Seven different skippers recorded at least one first place with Tony winning six and Peter winning four.

The highlight of the regatta was the Corinthian Award skipper, eleven-year-old, Eli Miller, Skip Miller's son. Eli sailed extremely well, stayed out of trouble, showed excellent boat handling and will be a force to reckon with in the future. Congratulations, Eli!

Link To Results:
https://www.iomusa.org/_files/ugd/6111bf_653d937903294197bf3634cd1facce93.pdf

Links to Mike Fabricante's pictures:
Day One: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t-wrvriGzvq_8mqq2-0WQdAW3Hnql5T_
Day Two: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yX_Odjvllo6NJSIug67jC2yUubWFuw5-

Summary of the 2023 IOM R2CR, Red Chevrons
Date: August 19-20, 2023
Location: Lake Parsippany, NJ
Host Club: Lake Parsippany MYC
Entries:22
Winds: Day one, NNW upper end of A Rig; Day two: NNW Mid A rig.
Races Completed: 15 Promotion/Relegation; HMS 4 up/down
Scoring: Low point w/ two throw outs
Race Committee: RD, Dave Branning; Finish Line/Scoring, Skip Hall, Maureen O'Mara, Marie Roure, Mary Brooks, Sandy Winton; Electronic Scores, Peter Feldman; Rescue, Michael Blum; Launching Dock & Photos, Mike Fabricante; LPPOA President, Pulkit Desai
2023 IOM R2CR Result
Place Skipper Sail Hull Region Points
1 Tony Gonsalves 51 Cheinz 2 Barbados 31.0
2 Peter Feldman 44 K2 Michigan 33.0
3. Steve Landaeu 12 Sedici Georgia 47.0
4. Mark Gollison 55 Sedici California 53.
5. Gary Boell 71 BritPop! California 61.0
6. Michel Roure 19 K2 New Jersey 79,0
7. Danny Thomas 16 BritPop! Maryland 100.0
8. Timothy Aubert 32 BritPop! New York 108.0
9. Will Van Cleef 76 Sedici So Carolina 118.0
10. Chuck LeMahieu 20 V11 Texas 128.0
11. Gary Winton 54 V11 Florida 131.0
12. Jon Luscomb 176 Venti Florida 135.0
13. Jon Elmaleh 02 Mad RabbitNew York 138.0
14. Bryn Clark 73 Sedici New York 141.0
15. Skip Miller 78 Venti Bahamas 150.0
16. Sean Bradley 46 Cheinz 2 New Jersey 169.0
17. Reichard Kahle 87 V11 So Carolina 192.0
18. Don Ouimette 36 BritPop! Connecticut 193.4
19. Chuck Millican 21 BritPop! Bermuda 220.8
20. Jason Brooks 06 BritPop! California 241.0
21. Eli Miller 178 K2 Florida 245.0