J/145 wins 2007 Around Long Island Race (with Morgan Buffum aboard)

From back in the day…  Morgan Buffum was just 13!…

We had a great time and crushed it!  Winning more silver than we could carry…

http://jboatnews.blogspot.com/2007/07/j145c-wins-around-long-island-race.html

From back in the day…  Morgan Buffum was just 13!…  We had a great time and crushed it!  Winning more silver than we could carry…

Here is the text from the J/Boats website archives:

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007
J/145c Wins Around Long Island Race

Mark Hansen’s J/145c Sweet Lorraine just recently won class as well as overall IRC and overall PHRF in the Around Long Island Race. They were slowest rated boat in the big boat fleet that included USMMA’s Andrew’s 77 Alchemy, USNA’s NM 66 Zarafa, NM 55 Rima 2, Santa Cruz 52 Magic and Steve Benjamin’s High Noon (ILC 40). Mark previously owned a J/120 (also Sweet Lorraine). Sweet Lorraine finished the 190 mile race in just under 31 hours and was the 4th of 66 boats to cross the finish line. Crew was an all-star J/Boat Owner group including Mark Hansen (skipper/owner), Kerry Klingler (tactician, owns J/80 Lifted), H.L. DeVore (navigator, owns J/44 Honahlee), John and Dan Fallon, Greg Davis, Jim Buffum, Morgan Buffum (age 13) and Rick Lyall (owns J/109 Storm). Impressive performance considering this was the second time Mark had raced the boat and the first time the crew had sailed together. Awards included:

– 1st Place PHRF Overall
– 1st Place IRC Overall
– 1st Place IRC Division 1
– 1st Place Div. 10
– Foredeck Award (to the foredeck captain on the winning boat)

You can’t buy memories like this one!… We’re all 10 years older now…and Morgan Buffum has graduated from college 0-:  Time flies!