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Strong Fleet Comes to Annapolis for 2013 Farr 40 East Coast Championship |
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Skipper Jim Richardson and his crew aboard Barking Mad captured Quantum Key West 2013 in convincing fashion. Owner-driver Wolfgang Schaefer and the Struntje Light team went wire-to-wire to win the Miami Beach Invitational.
Those two programs will continue their battle for the 2013 Farr 40 International Circuit Championship this week in Annapolis, MD. Barking Mad and Struntje Light headline a strong fleet of eight entries competing for the Farr 40 East Coast Championship, which is third event on the circuit and will be contested on the Chesapeake Bay.
Struntje Light, the German boat so capably steered by Schaefer, leads the circuit with 66 points after placing third in Key West prior to the victory in Miami. Barking Mad, always well driven by Richardson, is just two points behind with three events remaining.
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Martin (Class president) and Lisa Hill's grand-son Hudson gets an early introduction to Farr 40 sailing at 11 months with Sarah coaching. |
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Farr 40 Class Honors Legendary Sailing Writer Bob Fisher |
World's foremost authority on yacht racing presented with Rolex watch
Jim Richardson Presents The Rolex To Fisher
Miami Beach, Florida, USA: The Farr 40 Class Association honored legendary British yachtsman and yachting journalist Bob Fisher for his many important contributions to the sport. The man affectionately known as "Fish" was presented a specially engraved (with the F40 logo) Rolex Submariner watch by the Class for his lifelong support and promotion of sailing around the world.
"Bob is the preeminent sailing writer in the world, a true treasure to our sport," Farr 40 class chairman Jim Richardson said in making the presentation during an owners and crews party at La Piaggia Beach Club during the Miami Beach Invitational Regatta. "Bob has probably forgotten more about sailing than any of us know. He is a walking encyclopedia of sailing history and has done so much to grow the sport through his writing."
Fisher grew up in the coastal town of Brightlingsea and won his first sailboat race at the tender age of two years and four months, when taken out on the Colne River by his father in a BS One-Design. He would later race a Truant 12-6, a Fireball and a Solent One-Design. To this day, Fisher remains proud of building himself a Hornet, a 16-foot hard chine one-design dinghy.
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