ECA Associates: Sarah Cornwall, Carl Goodnow, Peggy Hooker, Frank Nelson, Nancy Sprague

Fleet 34 Stonington, Connecticut Fishers Island Sound, 1965

Commodore: John Brousseau Vice Commodore: Michael Macina Treasurer: Ted Parker Secretary: Gene Fiese

Newsletter Editor: Russ Carr

2004 Season Champions: 1st Ward and Louise Woodruff, NIGHTWIND - #458 97.5 pts

2nd George and Nancy Bates, BONANZA - #385 91.6 pts 3rd Robin Durrschmidt, MAGIC - #363 91.4 pts

The 2004 Ensign Racing Season for Fleet 34 consisted of 20 races in Fishers Island Sound and Long Island Sound. These races were hosted by the seven local yacht clubs. In addition, eleven local boats participated in the 2004 Ensign Regional Championship hosted by Fleet 57 at Thames Yacht Club in New London. Eleven of Fleet 34 Ensigns also participated in the Ensign National Regatta in Newport, Rhode Island. At season's end, the Hospice Regatta and the Round the Island Race for the Bill Jones Trophy were combined for the last race of the season on September 25th.

The Fleet 34 Early Series averaged 7.1 Ensig n's per race. The Early Series was won by Ward and Louise Woodruff in the restored Nightwind (88.5 pts) followed by Robin Durrschmidt in Magic (88.4 pts) and Bob Geary in Sagacious (82.7 pts). The Late Series averaged 8.1 boats for each race and was won by Team Bates in Bonanza (88.2 pts). Second place went to Sagacious (88.0) followed by Nightwind (85.4 pts).

Overall Fleet 34 averaged 7.6 Ensign's per race, an increase from 5.5 in 2003. A total of 14 different boats participated throughout the season, similar to the previous year. The Season Championship was won by Ward and Louise Woodruff in Nightwind (97.5 pts) followed by George and Nancy Bates in Bonanza (91.6 pts) and third place went to Robin Durrschmidt in Magic (91.4 pts). The Bill Leuze Trophy for most improved performance over the season was awarded to Rick Conley in Friendly Spirit. The Ayers Trophy, for best performance in June, was awarded to Ward Woodruff who was in the water and undefeated

Ward Woodruff (left) of Nightwind accepts the Fleet 34 Season Championship trophy from

Commodore John Brousseau. Photo by Gene Fiese.

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during the month of June. Other award/regatta winners this season were as follows: Robin Durrschmidt in

Magic won the Roberts S. Jones Trophy for the Memorial Day Race and the Niantic Jamboree. The Woodruffs in Nightwind won the Niantic Early Bird, Pine Island and Horton One Design regattas. Bob Geary in Sagacious won the Governors Regatta and the Fishers Island YC Regatta. George Bates and Crew won the Fuller/ Wadawanuck Invitational in Bonanza. Rich Foye in Hibernia won the Commodores Trophy race at Thames Yacht Club. The Macina family in Firebird won the HOSPICE Regatta/Bill Jones Round the Island Race at the end of the season. Firebird gets to host the 2005 version of this race.

Fleet 34 consists of 17 skippers and 10 associates spanning the shoreline from Russ Carr (left) Fleet 34 Niantic, CT, to Westerly, RI. Many of the Newsletter f:ditor members also belong to Fleet 57 at Thames and Commodore John Brousseau Yacht Club, New London, and Fleet 73 at compare beards in preparation

for a long New England winter. Niantic Bay Yacht Club. A majority of the Photo by Gene Fiese members also belong to the ECA, and are

listed in the Fleet 57 and Fleet 73 as ECA members if not listed here, and about a dozen belong to US Sailing. In summary, we had a very busy and enjoyable sailing season in 2004 and look forward to more exciting sailing in 2005.

Roster: 11 SWOOSE Russ Carr 301 FIREBIRD John Macina 319 TEAMWORK Walter & Jeanne Pratt

Eric & Lorena Jones 363 MAGIC Robin Durrschmidt 385 BONANZA George Bates 458 NIGHTWIND Ward Woodruff 473 AIRBORNE Mark Steinmetz 496 TAILGUNNER Gary Woodruff 549 T.T.F.N Mac Cooper 724 HIBERNIA Rich Foye 981 SAM Jim & Karen Anderson 1046 WHITE CLOUD Louis Fehrenbach 1070 INDESEAS Gene Fiese 1334 FEARLESS JOY Cristina Dominijanni 1534 WILLIWAW Ted Parker 1602 SAGACIOUS Bob Geary

EGA Members: Jim Anderson, George Bates, John Brousseau, Russ Carr, Rick Gonley, Mac Cooper, Cris Dominijanni, Robin Durrschmidt, Gene Fiese, Bob Geary, Tom Groark, Jr., Eric Jones, Greg Lukowski, John Macina, Michael Macina, Walt Pratt, Mark Steinmetz, Dick Taber, Gary Woodruff, Ward Woodruff

ECA Associates: Jerry Daly, Rick Diachenko, Kathy Fiese, Dick Fraser, Virginia Groark, Fun Jenkins, Tom Layton, Melissa Madaus, Jeanne Pratt, William Sabastyan, George Wiederman

Fleet 35 Marquette, Michigan Lake Superior, 1978

Fleet Captain: Donald C. Studt Sec./Treas.: Neil J. Lynch

What a Great Summer of Fun for Fleet 35!!!

The summer was full of many highlights with great competition on beautiful Lake Superior. Wednesday nights were full of racing on the Marquette Bay with two races cancelled due to too much wind and no races cancelled due to lack of wind. The com­petition was great with six different boats taking a first place during the Wednesday night races. Jim Knape and Eva Kipper sailed Lickety Split to take the overall honors for the season. The Bill Neumann Regatta was one of the highlights of the summer won by Eric "Zeb" Seaborg and crew. We would like to congratulate Jim Knape and crew for the first place at the regionals in Cleveland, Ohio.

Donald C Studt

Roster: 29 EH? Eric "Zeb " Seaborg 155 BUCCANEER Wim McDonald 255 TIBURON Richard Anderson 403 PO CO SOL Mike Polls, Bill O'Conner, and Steve Solinski 577 ALDEBARON Michael Sauer 650 FEELING GROOVY Julie Frazier 752 SCREAM'N ZONKER Collin Irish 786 ABOUT TIME Donald Studt 1090 DREADNOUGHT Ted Raymond 1128 PEGASUS Travis Van Neste 1205 HEELIN' LASSIE Allen Raymond 1468 LITTLE DIPPER Thomas Carollo 1576 L1CKETY SPLIT Jim Knape & Eva Kipper 1643 IRISH AYES Neil Lynch

ECA Members: Richard Anderson, Colin Irish, Eva Kipper, Jim Knape, Neil Lynch, Wim McDonald, AI Raymond, III, Zeb Seaborg, Don Studt, Travis Van Neste

ECA Associates: Jake Guter, Bill Jasko

Fleet 37

Roster: 926 987

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lake Michigan, 1966

SPRAY YOFY

Bills Kanin & Fetter

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