This year's Corsair Nationals held in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, did not have the largest fleet, but the top competitors were all present.
The UK-Halsey Calvert loft, designed and built their first set of prototype sails for the new Corsair 31 One Design, CONDOR, which sailed the regatta. The 31 One Design is the hottest class in the Corsair fleet. With a PHRF rating of-51, the speed potential is obvious. There have been three top boats in this class; they�re ROCKETEER 3, skippered by multihull champion Randy Smyth; LEILOE, with a full set of North Sails, a team from North, and a professional skipper, and the third contender was CONDOR, skippered by Todd Hudgins and Peter Frendenberg. CONDOR replaced their inventory of Ullman sails UK-Halseys. CONDOR, the only non-profession team, had the speed to finish the eight-race series tied with Randy Smyth and his ROCKETEER team. Unfortunately they came out on the short end of the tie-breaker.
Todd Hudgins said, �We are much happier with our new UK-Halsey sails compared to our last sails. I feel we have better speed on all points of sail than Randy Smyth on ROCKETEER."
The three 31 One-Designs sailed with the F31s and F31Rs. The top three regular F31s to finish all had UK-Halsey sails: Glenn Howell's ADIOS, Rex Bristo's WINGED IMPULSE, and Sam Showalter's TRILOBYTE.
The new Corsair Sprint 750 class, raced with the older F24 MK2 boats. UK-Halsey Calvert sails were on the second placing Sprint 750, TRI ME. Bob Gleason�s TRI ME corrected out to third overall in the 33 boat fleet.
The first Corsair 24 MK2 FARFALLA, skippered by Bruce Kuerten, was sailing with UK-Halsey Calvert sails as well.
In the Open Class there was a tight battle for first between Tony Hammer on PANTHER from Canada, and Richard Stevens on TREVELYAN from New York. Richard Stevens, with UK-Halsey Calvert sails, ended up second.
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