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Mohawk
Warrior 2nd at 2000 N/A's
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by Fritz Horton
This is a photo of "Mohawk
Warrior" going head to head, so to speak, with "Playstation"
Sunday off Newport, RI after the last race of the J-35 N/A's.
The good doctor and his loyal crew (Doc,
Don, Bill Shore, Phil Gorman, Rick Stevens, Mark Montour, Kurt Kling,
and Jack Wallace,lost first place by half a point to "Aunt Jean"
after a DSQ.
NYYC's commodore gave Doc a special award
for bringing the "Warrior" out of mothballs up in Vermont to a
near-win at one of the biggest regattas on this coast in just three
weeks. Full results at www.NYYC.org .
The campaign had the feel of "The
Blues Brothers", that great Belushi/Ackroyd movie about "gettin'
the old band back together for a gig..." The boat had been on jack
stands for three years, the sails had holes eaten through them by mice
in the sailbags, the venerable - but battered - "War Wagon"
needed a brake job; but when the challenge to show up came to Doc from
NYYC's commodore, suddenly the team was, indeed, on a 'mission from
God'. They filled up the 'War Wagon', grabbed a pack of cigarettes and
their sun glasses and were off to the races!
Great credit goes to David Gorman, Don
Brush and the whole crew for putting a great effort together for this
event.
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