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hirty-three boats competed in the 2008 Oriental Cup Regatta Saturday. Listed are the finishers in each class, and following are lots of photos from a great day on the water (and Sunday morning on land).

Joyride, 1st place in Spinnaker Class

Spinnaker Class
1. Joyride, Mike Evans
2. Orion, Margaret Alexander
3. Oriental Express, Mike Craig
4. The Edge, Mark Baldridge
5. Never Moore, Brian Brown

Out Of The Blue, 1st place in Non-spinnaker A

Non-spinnaker A
1. Out Of The Blue, Ed Bliss
2. Maggies Magic, Bill Arndt
3. Valkyrie, John Lindroth
4. Water Phantom, Charlie Nelson
5. Spirit, George Homme
6. Laura, Skip Fenner
7. Fidelis, Ray Morgan
8. Janel, Mike Trogdon
9. Barefoot, Bob Barefoot
10. Erin Brook, John Raxter
11. Casa Blanca, Erle Barnard
12. Cool Change, Chuck Gordon & Sharon Stephenson

Quixotic (left), 1st place in Non-spinnaker B

Non-spinnaker B
1. Quixotic, Art Tierney
2. Girl Friend, Leslie Evans
3. Capricious, Simon Whitehead
4. Sayuri, Jerry Fitzgerald
5. Il Gatto, Joe Valinoti
6. Turn It Up, Grady Bowers
7. Grace, Perry Cheatham
8. Godspeed, Patrick & Cheryl McFadden
9. Calculation, Doug Sligh
10. Second Star, Hamilton Sloan
11. Spindrift, Robert Miller
12. Dragonfly, Lawrence Suvak

Cruising Class
1. Valhalla, Russel Stamets
2. Aquapuncture, Roger Bates
3. Prelude, Mark and Lynn Senior
4. Light Wind, Chris Daniels

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Photos from the 2008 Oriental Cup:

A spinnaker drag race on the downward run, Mike Craig on “Oriental Express” (left) was neck and neck with “The Edge” skippered by Mark Baldridge.

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Perry Cheatham’s “Grace” at right

John Raxter’s “Erin Brook”

Fidelis, skippered by Ray Morgan

Skipper George Homme provides windward ballast onboard Spirit, while Sherri at the helm has eyes on the sail…

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Sayuri

Chris Daniels and crew Kim onboard Catalina 22 “Light Wind”

Joe Valinoti sailed Il Gatto’s big single sail to 5th in Non-spinnaker B. Joe’s crew included Town Manager Wyatt Cutler, shown here providing management advice from the aft.

Never Moore pops the chute and pursues the fleet

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Water Phantom deploys their rail ballast

Water Phantom just after the turn

Valkyrie

Bruce Goodman manned the Valkyrie foredeck

John Lindroth skippered Valkyrie, featuring crew Andy Polo in welding glasses (he says they’re ski goggles).

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Bill Jarvis runs the “race part of the race”, calculating the ratings and finish times. Some of that work is done after the race with Bill and his laptop at his nav station.

1st place finishers at the award ceremony, from San Juan 21 “Joyride” are Mark Weinheimer, skipper Mike Evans and Jon Chesson. Mike Evans won the Oriental Cup before – the first one back in 1989!

NSA provides the traditional Sunday morning Bloody Marys – here George Homme serves one up.

Will Flannery (left) provided his RIB Zodiac as the “press boat”. Will made it easy to get great photos, taking out reporters from Channel 9, the New Bern Sun Journal, TownDock.net and Carolina Currents magazine’s Jo Lucy (right).

Posted Monday June 30, 2008 by Keith N. Smith