By Gary Boell

Heartfelt congratulations to Peter Feldman for some incredibly consistent sailing over the weekend. Hats off to Mike Feldman and the team (so many volunteers) at Sarasota Model Yacht Club for hosting the rather “brisk” 2022 IOM Gator Round-Up. Under the watchful eye of Fred Rocha, we got off 14 races(42 heats) over this past weekend. Saturday saw mid A conditions on several courses, with Sunday being a little lighter (morning rain leading to sun at the end of the day). All three fleets had incredibly tight racing, as the shifts were the one constant in the course. Our race committee did a fantastic job of setting square course in these challenging conditions.

It was great to see so many newer IOM skippers at this event, as the talent pool within the class is clearly getting deeper ever second. In short, lot of different boats saw the front end of the fleet.

Podium and scoresheet:

LINK TO FULL HONOR ROLL

Michel Roure is taking over from Ted Flack as IOM Class Treasurer & Registrar. A committee is working on some updates to our processes and computerization. The first change is the addition of new e-mails.

All payments, registrations and certifications requests should be sent to:   registrarIOM.USA@gmail.com

A big thank you to Ted Flack!

Ted (USA 45), after 11 years as our IOM Class Treasurer and Registrar, is stepping down. Many thanks go to Ted for his dedication to the IOM class. Hopefully we will see Ted (and son Bobby) out on the water soon.

Ted & Bobby at 2017 Nationals

Ted’s USA 45 at Foster City

The IOM Class has confirmed an agreement with the Corpus Christi Yacht Club (AMYA #399)  to host the 2022 IOM National Championship – March 31 – April 3, 2022!

Check out Bob Wells’  2020 R5 Corpus Christi regatta report… link: http://iomusa.org/2020/03/r5-regatta-report-by-bob-wells/

Calendar Dates have been added for 8 regattas so far in 2022. There are still other pending regattas yet to be confirmed.

RANKINGS UPDATED 12/14/2021!