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Raider Sailboat One Design Class Association              

Cats out of the bag. Two prototype Raider MarkII Turbo Sports were at the 2010 Mount Dora annual regatta and competed in the 12 boat Open/Portsmouth class. The Mount Dora Club claims their Regatta to be the oldest continuous sailboat race in the state of Florida.

After the start flag dropped for the first race Dave Ellis sailing solo in his Raider TS made his weekend dominance of the open class known at the first weather mark. In very shifty wind conditions with gusts and lulls ranging from 2 to 16 mph. Ellis led most of the five races on the two days from start to finish.  John Drawe and crew (Raider builder Mark Johannsen) finished in third place overall after stumbling through some spinnaker problems earlier in the regatta working their way back from 6th place. Drawe took the first over horn in the last race when Ellis missed a mark.

The new Raiders were very fast up wind and down, and passed many of the boats that started 5 minutes ahead in other classes in the two lap races.

RAIDER Mark II Turbo Sport