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2006 North American Championships

Fort DeSoto

A big

 Thank You

 to the people who made it happen

In addition to the people pictured below, the Swift Solo Class wants to thank our generous sponsors who, in addition to providing great parts and services, sponsored barbecues and prizes for our competitors and builders.

Ronstan and Ben Moon

Fisheries Supply and Carl Suttor 

Banks Sails--Portland and Dale

Forte Spars and Tony Dilema

West System Epoxies --Meade and Jan Gougeon    


First, to Dave Ellis--our Race Official
To Kris Henderson--our coach
To Captain Don--most of the great photography was taken from his beautiful boat
To Robert for the superb barbeques
to Roxanne and Peggy for excellant photography
To Ed Holloway (left) for his RC work
to everyone for all of your help and especially to Jane for your endless support
Close racing between Kris and Bram (a Peggy Watt photo)
Our 2006 Champion Kris Henderson (a Ken Bradon photo)
our new North American Champion
"Unfortunate Events"
Several days of clinics
getting ready for the first day of racing
"Kris--git your ass back here"
3 minutes to go
Kris and Bram going at it
Mark in Dances with Wind
Warm water, good fun
with this small upgrade
at the end of the day
a final shot before packing it in
the sunsets were hard to leave
talking it over
it was fun sailing with the Mustos
This was going on just in front of the Skippers Meeting
Those dammed sharks were lurking everywhere
Rob and his "just launched" Swift
the most dreaded part of the day
Robert, Kris, Keith, Mark, and Bram
Ron Watt in "Felicity Made Bad"