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9-10 November 2002

Santana wins the 2002 Soverel 33 Intergalactics - Carolina Keelboat One Design Regatta
1^st Santana, Paul Jeka, 2^nd Outrageous, Richard Jones, 3^rd Whacko, Todd McKenzie, 4^th Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 5^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, 6^th Jezebel, Vern Heiler. see Report, Results, and Photos

Saturday: Winds 10-12 gust to 20 with gust as high as 24 knots. Three races were held on Saturday under cloudy skies. Sunday: Wind was a more constant 8-12 knots. Two races were held with light sprinkles. - Richard Jones, Outrageous.

I sail with Chuck Lineberry on Pearl of Great Price. Great weekend at Lake Norman, much stronger winds than I am used to. I have only been sailing since March, so it was a great learning experience. - Brad Craig, Pearl of Great Price

8 September 2002

Outrageous & Team Lake Norman win Soverel 33 Nationals - 2002 Larchmont NOOD
1^st Outrageous, Team Lake Norman, 2^nd Bushwacker, Erik Will, 3^rd Yankee, Jerry Dodge, 4^th Deviation, Iris Vogel, 5^th Whacko, Norm Dean, 6^th 2-Thirsty, John Coughlin, 7^th Santana, Paul Jeka, 8^th Slàinte, Mark McCarthy, 9^th Saucy Girl, Bill Adikes, 10^th Adrenaline, Patrick Croke - Results - Rig Measurements - Report - Photos

22 August 2002

Assassin, Robert "Sam" Sansome, walks away with 2002 Chicago Verve Cup.

Day 1 - A highly competitive day of racing in 10 - 15 knots and a light swell.
We took two bullets beating our nearest competition (a well sailed NY36) by 14 and 25 seconds.

Day 2 - A HEAVY weather day. 20 - 35 knots and quite a chop.
Race 1 - On the first upwind leg of the first race of Day 2 we were caught in a tacking dual with the NY36 when it blew one of it's intermediate shrouds and had to retire from the day's racing. After blowing an old 1/2 oz spinnaker on the first downwind leg we believed we had the race won and did not hoist a chute in the 2nd downwind leg, unfortunately after taking the bullet we were corrected over by less than 5 seconds by 2 boats so came away with a 3rd. (Next time we won't be so conservative!!)
Race 2 - Unfortunately the second race of the day was abandoned after we had completed 75% of the 2nd upwind leg when the race committee chase boats could not reset the windward mark (one of the boats was sinking and the other caught the mark's line in it's prop!!) - too bad because we were half a leg ahead of the rest of the section and this would have wrapped up the regatta for us.

Day 3 - Light wind racing in 7 - 12 knots and a light swell.
Only one race was held and knowing that only one boat (an Olson 30) could beat us we covered them and the majority of the fleet. The NY36 was back after "borrowing" an intermediate shroud from a non-racing sister ship (big hand for their effort here). Anyway after slamming out the NY36 at the committee boat on the start we let them have the favored right side of the course while we kept our eye on the Olson and the rest of the fleet. We took a comfortable 2nd place behind the NY36 and so took the honors for the regatta.

11 August 2002

• 2-Thirsty wins at Soverel 33 Long Island Sound Championships - 2002 Duck Island One Design Regatta
  1^st 2-Thirsty, John Coughlin, 2^nd Deviation, Iris Vogel, 3^rd Slàinte, Mark McCarthy, 4^th Paladin, Dennis Carriere, 5^th Adrenaline, Patrick Croke, results-photos-report

18 July 2002

• Splif takes home silver in Widby Island Race Week - PHRF
  3^rd Splif, William & Bonnie Putnam, Scott Hallquist

15 July 2002

• Ixo takes home silver in Plattsburg Mayor's Cup - PHRF Racing Class A
  2^nd iXo, Walter Timmerman, 32^nd Wild Thing, Yves Lahaie

7 July 2002

• Outrageous wins at Lake Norman July 4th Regatta - Spin A - PHRF 1
  1^st Outrageous, Richard Jones, 4^th Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 5^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry

16 June 2002

• Yankee wins at Chicago NOOD - 33 Foot Class - PHRF
  1^st Yankee, Jerry Dodge, 4^th Zot, Jerry Kedziora, 6^th Assassin, Robert "Sam"Sansome, 8^th Rock On, Vic Warren & Steve Costell

9 June, 2002

• 2002 Mayor's Cup Race -The Halloween Yacht Club and The City of Stamford - Divison 3 PHRF
  3^rd Black & Blue, Dave Schmidt, 8^th Adrenaline, Patrick Croke

26 May 2002

• Sun Chaser wins in South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club - Corinthian Cup - Cuiser Divison (over 30 ft)
  1^st Sun Chaser , Mark Spector
  

5 May 2002

• Outrageous takes home silver in Lake Norman Pursuit of Sailing Regatta
  2^ndOutrageous, Richard Jones, 7^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, 8^th Jezebel, John Heiler
  

21 April 2002

• Wild Thang wins at Lake Norman Hospice Regatta - Keelboats 1
  1^st Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 3^rd Outrageous, Richard Jones, 4^th Jezebel, John Heiler

24 March 2002

• Wild Thang wins at Soverel 33 Mid-Winters - 2001 Carolina Keelboat Mid-Winter Regatta
  1^st Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 2^nd Santana, Paul Jeka , 3^rd Outrageous, Richard Jones, 4^th Whacko, Norm Dean, 5^th Warthog, Tim Stokes, 6^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, 7^th Jezebel, Vern Heiler, Results-photos

11 January 2002

Mark Williams Soverel, 52, of Palm City, died peacefully in his home on January 3, 2002.
[see Mark Soverel page].

30 November 2001

• Manhattan Magic (x-Magic, hull #4 ) is delivered to new home in Biloxi, MS
  

22 November 2001

• YACHT CLUB CHAMP...Paul Jeka at the helm of his award-winning Soverel 33, Santana squirts out front at the start of one of the 24 club races conducted by Keyport Yacht Club on Raritan Bay. This boat and crew took the club championship for 2001 in the spinnaker (A) division. Paul grew up in Mountainside and now resides in Keyport.

  The Westfield Leader and THE TIMES of Scotch Plains – Fanwood, p.12, 22 Nov 2001, Watchung Communications, Inc. ATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION

  
  Mountainside Resident Wins Top Sailing Club Award

  MOUNTAINSIDE – Paul Jeka, former Mountainside resident, took the club championship trophy for the spinnaker division of the 2001 season of racing awarded by Keyport Yacht Club. Paul is the son of local Mountainside residents, Yvonne and Don Jeka.

  Sailing the white-hulled Soverel 33, Santana, Captain Jeka and his crew gained lowest total points for the season’s 24 major club races. Jeka, a member of the New York Yacht Club as well as Keyport Yacht Club, is helmsman and owner of Santana. He also crews as a mastman on Bright Star, a 75-ft. R/P 75 ‘turbosled.’ This maxi-boat took a second place in the NYYC-Royal Yacht Squadron America’s Cup Jubilee regatta, in Cowes, England in August, with Jeka aboard.

  Paul’s crew on the Soverel 33 for the season included his father Don Jeka, Bruce Van Meter, Tim Siegfried, John Miller, Victor Saap, Bill and Kevin Wright, and Greg Van Der Moore.

  The ambitious racing program at Keyport Yacht Club included 34 boats that actively participated in the PHRF (performance handicap rating formula) A, B and Cruising divisions. The A division permits flying spinnakers, the big, colorful head sails. This type of sail is not permitted in either the B or C divisions. Jeka’s boat is rated for PHRF racing and also races one-design. He took a second place in the Soverel Nationals’ (a one-design race where all boats are rated equally), on Lake Norman in North Carolina in November 2000, losing first place in a tiebreaker to America’s Cup contender Dennis Conner.

  Jeka grew up in Mountainside. He was active in the local swim team at the municipal pool and still holds records that stand to this day. He attended Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield and Franklin Pierce College, N.H., where he was a member of the sailing team.

19 November 2001

• Outrageous wins Soverel 33 Intergalactics - 2001 Carolina Keelboat One Design Regatta
  1^st Outrageous, Richard Jones, 2^nd Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 3^rd Yankee, Jerry Dodge, 4^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, 5^th Warthog, Tim Stokes, 6^th Jezebel, Vern Heiler, Results

14 November 2001

• Flexi-flyer Gets Married.
  A formal announcement for posting seems appropriate . . .
  
  Debra Anne Barnes and Paul Shinoff of Flexi-flyer   were married in a ceremony that mixed sailing and a traditional Jewish ritual at the Richmond Yacht Club in Pt. Richmond, California, on October 20. It was the first marriage for Ms. Barnes and she says the last, so the ceremony was a full-on affair.
  
  Wearing her formal bridal dress, Ms. Barnes was ferried to the main dock of the club on their Soverel 33, Flexi-flyer, decorated with flags and flowers. Having been kicked out of their home the night before, the groom had slept on the boat and said he had plenty to clean it up for the ceremony. He was joined in the decorating by Jeff McCord and Leslie Norris of Mischief.
  
  The afternoon found me in the men's head where I was putting on a tux while other guys were shucking off sailing gear," Mr. Shinoff said. "It was a nice touch."
  
  Ms. Barnes was helped ashore by sailors from Flexi  and Mischief. Led by a traditional klesmer band, her party was led to an overlooking deck where the guests had gathered. Accompanied by his son and best man, Joshua Shinoff of Johns Hopkins University, and the couples' German shepherd, Sweetpea, the groom waited under a traditional wedding canopy draped with very untraditional blue and white spinnaker cloth sewn by sail maker Dave Howie of the Quantum Pacific loft. The couple was married in a sunset ceremony conducted by Rabbi Ferenc Raj and Cantor Brian Reich of Congregation Beth El of Berkeley.
  
  Ms. Barnes is the Director of Development at Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. A former journalist, Mr. Shinoff is head of the Shinoff Group, a San Francisco-based public relations agency.
  
  The couple spent the next days in Yosemite and came back to sail Flexi, still decorated with flowers, in a Bay Area racing favorite, the two-day Great Pumpkin Regatta, the following weekend.
  

31 October 2001

• Splif - wins at the Puget Sound Sailing Championships, which is Corinthian Yacht Club's fall regatta. Splif, William Putnam & Scott Hallquist, was not only first in class, but compiled the best overall record in 8 races among some 80-odd boats.
  Splif after rounding a leeward mark at the Puget Sound Sailing Championships. Photo is courtesy of Kelly O'Neill Photography. That's right, that is a bowman's foot in the water, which is known to be slow.

10 September 2001

• Bushwacker wins 17^th Soverel 33 Nationals - 2001 Larchmont NOOD
  1^st Bushwacker, Erik Will, 2^nd Outrageous, Lake Norman Fleet, 3^rd 2-Thirsty, John Coughlin & Mark McCarthy, Results, Report

4 September 2001

• Soverel 33's win in Mount Gay Rum CBYRA Annapolis Race Week 2001 - Fleet 1 PHRF Class A2: 1^st Black Watch, Tom and Robin French, 2^nd Stalker, Al Holt, 20^th Waterway, Joan Crowley, Results
  
  
• Soverel 33's win in Lake Norman 2001 Labor Day Regatta - PHRF Spin: (13 boats) 1^st Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 3^rd Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, 7^th Jezebel, John Heiler

7 July 2001

• Soverel 33's take home silver in Whidbey Island Race Week - PHRF Class 6: 2^nd Grafix, Tom Gilbert, 6^th Lottie Dottie Dee, Wendell Gregory, 7^th Splif, William Putnam & Scott Hallquist, Results

22 July 2001

• Soverel 33's win in Larchmont Race Week - PHRF Class 3:
  1^st Deviation, Iris Vogel, 4^th Whacko, Norm Dean, 12^th Saucy Girl, Bill Adikes

21 July 2001

• Soverel 33's compete in SOLOMONS ISLAND REGATTA - PHRF Class A2: (23 boats)
  5^th Stalker, Al Holt, 7^th Black Watch, Tom and Robin French, 19^th Waterway, Joan Crowley

19 July 2001

• Soverel 33's compete in Chicago to Mackinac Race - PHRF 6:(26 boats) 6^th Assassin, Robert Sansome, 18^th Rock On, Vic Warren

14 July 2001

• Soverel 33's win in Plattsburg Mayor's Cup - PHRF Racing Class A: 1^st iXo, Walter Timmerman, 6^th Wild Thing, Yves Lahaie

4 July 2001

• Soverel 33's win in LNYC July 4^th Regatta - PHRF Keelboat Spin A: 1^st Wild Thang, Johnny Smith, 6^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry Results

29 June 2001

• Soverel 33's take home silver in Block Island Race Week - Blue Class 1 PHRF 81 - 99: 2^nd Deviation, Iris Vogel 3^rd Celeritas, James Gallacher, 8^th 2-Thirsty, John Coughlin & Mark McCarthy, Results

22 June 2001

• Soverel 33 takes home silver in Summer Vashon Island Race - Blue Class D: 2^nd Flim Flam, Fred Creitz, Results

17 June 2001

• Soverel 33's take home silver in Chicago NOOD - PHRF 33 foot: 2^nd Assassin, Robert Sansome, 7^th Rampage, Bill Richardson, Results

• Soverel 33's dominate at ECSA Duck Island Spring Regatta - PHRF A CLASS 1: 1^st 2-Thirsty, John Coughlin & Mark McCarthy, 2^nd Gryphon, Peter d'Anjou, Results

11 June 2001

• Soverel 33 wins in EBYRA City Island Cup - Div.1 - Spinnaker: 1^st Deviation, Iris Vogel, Results

9 June 2001

• Soverel 33 takes home silver in Blakely Rock Race - PHRF Class J: 2^nd Splif, William Putnam & Scott Hallquist, Results

8 June 2001

• Soverel 33's take home silver in Mills Trophy Race PHRF B: 3^rd Moisture Missile, Chris Merkle, PHRF B: 7^th Natural High, Bill Phillips, JAM-A : 1^st Foghorn, Kent and Sandy Gardam Results

5 June 2001

• Fleet 1 Newsletter from Mark McCarthy, Soverel 33 Fleet 1 Captain
• Soverel 33 News from Peter d'Anjou, Class Secretary - Treasurer

1 June 2001

• Prospective Owner looking for a Soverel 33 with Inboard on the West Coast - see Buy/Sell page.

31 May 2001

• J-35 Trailer available for sale in Detroit MI area - see Buys/Sell page.

6 May 2001

• Soverel 33's take home silver in Pursuit of Sailing Regatta - PHRF Spinnaker A: 2^nd Outrageous, Richard Jones, 6^th Pearl of Great Price, Chuck Lineberry, Results

29 April 2001

• Soverel 33 takes home silver in Smith Island Race - PHRF Class J: 3^rd Pegasus, Al Johnson, Results

21 April 2001

• Congratulations to Richard Jones and the crew of Outrageous for being the overall PHRF winner of Lake Norman's first annual Hospice Regatta, and placing first place in Spin A. By winning overall in the PHRF division, Richard now has the ability to race in the National Hospice Regatta to be raced some time next year.

25 March 2001

• Soverel 33 takes home silver in Southwest Florida Regatta - PHRF Spinnaker I: 2^nd Maria Joe Bonness

13 March 2001

• Class Association Newsletter from Bill Adikes, Class President and Peter d'Anjou, Class Secretary - Treasurer