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Everyone involved in the 2009 Castaways Cup received an award for their sportsmanship, racing prowess, skills, and cooperation.  Many were recognized with special awards for wacky hats, sportsmanship, and even for winning places in the race.

As usual, you can click on the photos to see a larger copy.

Sandy Smith and her staff of volunteers hosted a fine party.  The food, music, decorations and venue all helped each of us have a truly wonderful evening.  The racers, crew, and their many guests brought the party to about 110 lucky folks.

My favorite is always the food and decorations.  People enjoyed the food so much that the photographs only show empty places.  Catered by TwoJays, everything looked nice, smelled nice and tasted good.  My favorite was the Castaways Cake.  Accompanied by Jon Luscomb's birds, the decorations by Linda Chapman were creative.  They really brightened an already lovely venue.

Over the past year, the entire Castaways Cup committee met, worked, chose and decided as a venue was selected, a schedule of races and meetings set up, and the decisions made that evolved to make this year's event the biggest and I think the best of the races hosted by the Castaways Sailing Club. 

Sandy Smith, the Castaways Cup Committee Chairperson, and Gordon Rowse chaired many, many meetings, made hundreds of phone calls, and smiled for an entire year to produce this event.  Although Gordon fell down slightly on the weather Saturday, the excellent event was a tribute to everyone who served on their committees.

The photos below were contributed by Jon Luscomb, Laurie Schubert, Elizabeth Anne Hindman-Bell and Sandy Smith.  There is room for more if you have some you want to see published.

Wacky Hats

The wacky hats awards came before the "real" awards, an effort by their builders to gain the maximum handicap for the boats pictured on the hats.  The winners of the wacky hat contest were Neal Sorensen on Hot Tuna and Richard Dwyer on Tenacious.

	Raymond Tollman models Cliquot"	Richard Dwier has a happy face
		Neil Sorensen
Neil and Christine Sorensen model a happy hat		Bob Gebbia test new sails
	Marty Landeau	Jim Bloom of Valient Lady 2
Richard Dwier is the one smiling, maybe on top	Raymond and Richard compare hats

"Funny" Awards

No yacht race is complete without lots of special recognition for racers who did strange and wonderful things in the process of finishing, or nearly finishing, the race  This year's winners are:

1.               Dock Lines & Piling Award aka the Monkey Football Award – Altho a close call the award went to Lizika (Bruce Robinson).

2.               Hard Luck Award or I’ve been screwed again  - two years running suffered boat problems – Lounautics (Lou Daniello). 

3.               Good Grief Award – withdrew both days – Panasea (John McNally). 

4.               Safest Start Award – For not wanting to interfere with his class start, then misses the multihull start – Tenacious (Richard Dwyer). 

5.               North Pole Award – yacht from farthest point north – Latitudes – (John Bolduc from Port St. Lucie).

6.               South Pole Award – yacht from farthest point south – Glory Daze (Carl Wehe from Margate). 

7.               Persistence Award – Yacht taking the longest time to finish  DolPhino (Sea Scouts). 

8.               Best One Liner Award – another tough call but it goes to  Whistler II (Mark Thomas). 

9.               Navigation Award for following the directions precisely – arrow pointed to wrong river  Camira (David Grossart). 

10.            Why Am I Racing or the Viagra Award – great looking crew – Evelyn B  (Matt Woods).

 

		Travis Blane of Bagheera and his lovely daughter
	Judy Bloom and Merion Schwartz
Gordon Rowse makes the many awards	Lou Danello of Lounautics covits his Hard Luck Award.	John Bolduc of Lattitudes was awarded the Arctic Blast for the Northernmost boat
The South Beach award for the Southernmost boat was awarded to Carl Wehe on Glory Dazes.	Colleen Hartmen proudly displays the Persistance Award for DolPhino's longest time to finish. This was one of two Sea Scout boats.	Matt Woods of Evelyn B won the Viagra Cup award for a great looking all female crew. He hasn't been seen since the race.
Gordon, Bob and Cal discuss Cal's rescue of two kayak's that had blown off shore in the storm. Cal received a special award for his rescue efforts.

 

The Real winners were awarded serious trophies in their respective classes.

Brian Beaver of Norska holds his first overall trophy in the Catamaran Class.	Bill Contole
	Beth Gibbea	Bob Gibbea retrieves his first overall award
Martin Morgenroth proudly holds his award on behalf of the Sea Scouts.
Neil and Chris Sorensen enjoy the awards with friends.
		Martin Morgenroth

Great company, good food and most of all nice people: