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Scuttlebutt Offshore Championships . . . courtesy Tom Leweck, 'The Curmudgeon,' and Scuttlebutt Sailing News
Keith Musto showed both his small boat skills and his tenacity to win
the Annual Scuttlebutt Offshore Championship held this week in
conjunction with the Bitter End Yacht Club’s Pro-Am Regatta.
Sailing an IC 24, the former British Olympic medalist corrected to 4-1
on the two-legged race from Virgin Gorda’s North Sound to The Baths and
back to take the championship. Interestingly, second place was taken by
the Youth Sailing Team from the Royal BVI Yacht Club, who gave the
invited pro skippers sailing in the event an impressive lesson in local
knowledge. Another local, pro sailor Peter Holmberg, placed third
overall.
The Curmudgeon, aka Tom Leweck, surprised almost everyone, including
himself, by winning the cruising boat division of the championship. In
a charter boat fleet of identical Beneteau 39s, Leweck and his
energetic crew of small boat sailors won both legs of the series for an
overall win over Ed Baird, with Bruce Kirby taking third place.
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