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##Keith Mayes’s winning Jubilee team in action. On-water photos by Al Schreitmueller
Leukemia Cup Results J/30 (4 Boats) 1. Avenger, David Johnson 2. Shamrock, Bruce Irvin 3. Avita, Dan Watson J/105 (8 Boats) 1. Tenacious, Carl Gitchell 2. Crescendo, Angelo Guarino 3. Chessie, John Kircher ORC Racer (6 Boats) 1. Jubilee, Keith Mayes 2. Abientôt, Roger Lant 3. ZUUL, Benedict Capuco PHRF B/C (PHRF 3 Boats) 1. Committed, Warren Richter/ Tracey Martin 2. ROO, William Davenport
Fun and Fundraising at the Maryland Leukemia Cup Regatta
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hen it comes to summer sailing conditions on the Chesapeake Bay, few words lift a racing sailor’s spirit more than “better than expected.” That’s what competitors got in Annapolis for the Maryland Leukemia Cup June 4 out of Eastport Yacht Club (EYC). Seventy-six competing teams were on the racecourse for the charity event to benefit the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC). Following a two-hour postponement, a light southeasterly at four to six knots built to a south-southeasterly at six to eight knots for the second race. Playing the shifts, pressure changes, and ebb current were the challenges, according to Keith Mayes, skipper of the winning Beneteau 36.7 Jubilee. As for the competition in his fleet, Mayes said it was a “really good lineup in ORC Racer; although only six boats. We enjoyed really tight racing with the two J/35s (Abientôt and Aunt Jean), the J/120 70 July 2022 SpinSheet.com
(Skadi), and the Aerodyne 38 (ZUUL).” Emily Manders, Aaron Seligson, Mike Bowley, Ben Louttit, Gary Tisdale, Mischelle Wilbricht, and Rob McAfee rounded out the Jubilee crew. Mayes adds, “They were fabulous! We had never sailed together before.” The Maryland Leukemia Cup is the first of the three charity regattas that make up the Triple Crown of Charity Sailing Award—so it was fitting that former Triple Crown winner John Heintz topped the biggest fleet of the regatta, the 21-boat Harbor 20 fleet. It was even more fitting that his crew was former National Leukemia Cup chair, Gary Jobson. To be clear, the organizational structure and beneficiary for this regatta has changed from years past. As reported earlier in the year in SpinSheet, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society pivoted its fundraising focus for 2022, so EYC took the ball and ran with it. As EYC race chair Bill Levatino put it, “Regatta organizers decided to redirect
ORC Cruiser (3 Boats) 1. Cloud Nine, Paul Kaladas 2. Miles To Go, Erik Halverson 3. Celerity, Rick Lober PHRF N (13 Boats) 1. Muskrat, Nicholas Iliff, Jr. 2. Mojo, Julian Bigden 3. Phoenix, Barrett Adams Leukemia Cruising Class (5 Boats) 1. Ingenuity, Joe Lombardo 2. Cricket, Matt White 3. Pleiades, Vicki Saporta PHRF Cruiser (Pursuit - 10 Boats) 1. Zephyr, David Hoyt 2. Flagfest, Daniel Flagler 3. Reverie, Christopher Rogers Harbor 20 (21 Boats) 1. Endurance, John Heintz 2. Riptide, Ed Freitag 3. Sugar, Garth Hichens
the sailing community’s strong support for blood cancer research to a local institution, UMGCCC.” Back to our Harbor 20 winners: your friendly SpinSheet editor overheard some chatter at the Rock the Dock after-party at EYC about Heintz and Jobson doing a horizon job on the fleet in their final race. Heintz said that with a fleet as competitive