We have a celebrity on the boat, below is an article that I found in The Chicago Tribune that mentions Joe's domination of the T-35 Class in the 1989 NOOD Regatta.
Visitors Dominate Sailing Regatta
June 19, 1989|By William Recktenwald.
Out-of-town sailors took top honors at the Audi-Sailing World National Offshore One Design regatta off, which concluded Saturday off Chicago`s lakeshore. The five-race series pitted nine types of identical craft in Lake Michigan.
Harry Melges III of Zenda, Wis., in Space Ranger topped the fleet of 27 J-24s with four first-place finishes and a fourth; Ralph Fisher of Hickory Hills in Night Hawk placed second with Chicago J-24 Champion Chuck Lamphere in Banana Republic third.
Twenty-four S2 7.9 boats competed for their North American championship, with Minnesotan Don Pemberton in Jayhawk the winner, followed by Canadian Paul Derrig`s Kamikaze and North Sail`s Perry Lewis of Wisconsin in Peregrine.
The regatta uses a low-point scoring system with first place getting three-quarters of a point, second place picking up two points and so on.
Lewis took two firsts, a second and a third. But in the first race, he crossed the starting line seconds early and was penalized from second to 24th place.
Tom Knorr of Wilmette won in his 33-foot Tartan-10 Meracious, followed by Chicagoan Jeff Asperger in Bombshell. Dan Darrow of Libertyville in Salacious was the winner of the J-30s. Oak Park`s John Lynch in Esprit sailed to victory in the over-40-foot class.
Al Rose`s one-ton class Saucy took top honors, and a Traverse City boat, Double Digits, was the winner among the J-35s.
Kentuckian Joe Levanowicz, sailing his new T-35 Primary Recovery, won that class.
In Hobie 33s, Ron Nolan of Kansas in Johnathan Swift tied with Holy Toledo, an Ohio boat.
A total of 93 craft sailed in a variety of weather conditions during the regatta, which began Thursday and was sponsored by the Chicago Yacht Club.
Harry Melges III of Zenda, Wis., in Space Ranger topped the fleet of 27 J-24s with four first-place finishes and a fourth; Ralph Fisher of Hickory Hills in Night Hawk placed second with Chicago J-24 Champion Chuck Lamphere in Banana Republic third.
Twenty-four S2 7.9 boats competed for their North American championship, with Minnesotan Don Pemberton in Jayhawk the winner, followed by Canadian Paul Derrig`s Kamikaze and North Sail`s Perry Lewis of Wisconsin in Peregrine.
The regatta uses a low-point scoring system with first place getting three-quarters of a point, second place picking up two points and so on.
Lewis took two firsts, a second and a third. But in the first race, he crossed the starting line seconds early and was penalized from second to 24th place.
Tom Knorr of Wilmette won in his 33-foot Tartan-10 Meracious, followed by Chicagoan Jeff Asperger in Bombshell. Dan Darrow of Libertyville in Salacious was the winner of the J-30s. Oak Park`s John Lynch in Esprit sailed to victory in the over-40-foot class.
Al Rose`s one-ton class Saucy took top honors, and a Traverse City boat, Double Digits, was the winner among the J-35s.
Kentuckian Joe Levanowicz, sailing his new T-35 Primary Recovery, won that class.
In Hobie 33s, Ron Nolan of Kansas in Johnathan Swift tied with Holy Toledo, an Ohio boat.
A total of 93 craft sailed in a variety of weather conditions during the regatta, which began Thursday and was sponsored by the Chicago Yacht Club.
