Winners 29th Annual Century Cup:(L-R) Cobley, Walter, Brawner, Ramos, Dudinsky
2010 29th Annual Century Cup Report
Elon University, Elon, NC
By: Cameron Hunt - RD
The 23 Captains attending the Twenty-nineth Annual Century Cup Regatta held by The Piedmont Model Yacht Club at Elon, NC on June 12-13, 2010 were blessed with weather in the mid 90's and enough wind, though light at times, to race 22 heats. The 2 fleet promotion relegation heat system was used. Each captain sailed in 2 seeding heats and at least 9 fleet heats. Their best finish in the seeding heats was carried forward and one additional throw out for the fleet heats was allowed.
Eight captains registered twelve bullets and eight scored second places. Gerry Cobley at the end of Saturday’s sailing maintained his lead on Sunday with Joe Walter advancing from being fourth to second. Finishing just out of the plaques was Eric Olson in sixth place.
We had light and variable wind from the South for most of the heats. The changing winds of Elon gave all points of sail as the boats traveled down the course.
Thanks to all the skippers, wives and girl friends for making this a fun event. Also a big thank you to Frank Angel for all his preliminary work, expertise, and acting as starter; to Linda Angel for being an excellent caterer, being in charge of lunch and putting up with “Uncle” Frank. Thanks to Paul Bowen and Alan Morris for being mark observers, George Morris and Steve Carpenter for helping with the finishes. I also want to thank Chris Kakavas for setting and removing the marks from the pond, thereby saving a trip to the hospital for Frank and me.
All in all, the fleet was very close with only 14 points separating the top 3 finishing positions as the scores below reflect.
| Finish | Captain | Score | State |
| 1. | Gerry Cobley | 24 | NC |
| 2. | Joe Walter | 29 | FL |
| 3. | David Brawner | 38 | NJ |
| 4. | David Ramos | 43 | MD |
| 5. | Robert Dudinsky | 48 | FL |
| 6. | Eric Olson | 56 | GA |
| 7. | Mark Rinehart | 59 | DE |
| 8. | Chris Kakavas | 62 | NC |
| 9. | Tony Shoaf | 63 | NC |
| 10. | Carl Olbrich | 69 | NC |
| 11. | Skip Allen | 80 | GA |
| 12. | Scott Vernon | 89 | GA |
| 13. | Rick West | 91 | CA |
| 14. | Bob Szczepanski | 116* | NC |
| 15. | Ernest Freeland | 116* | MD |
| 16. | Bob Mersereau | 116* | NC |
| 17. | Ronald Kellerman | 135 | NC |
| 18. | Mervin Jones | 139 | SC |
| 19. | Dick Gerry | 148 | SC |
| 20. | Tom Evens | 160 | GA |
| 21. | Robert Donnellan | 162 | NC |
| 22. | Jim Rutherford | 163 | GA |
| 23. | Jerry Fernald | 179** | NC |
| 24. | Danny Thomas | 000*** | MD |
* Tie Breaker Used
** Did not sail Sunday
*** Got hit in the head with a baseball and did not come to regatta
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