Team Groovederci

Deneen Demourkas from Santa Barbra, California led her team on USA 706 Groovederci, to a strong class win at this year’s Key West Race Week against a field of 15 M/30’s. 2008 Key West Race Week was a challenging week this year due to two fast moving cold fronts that brought big breeze at the very beginning of the week and on the last day of racing.

Monday’s racing was canceled due to too much wind with gust in the upper 30’s.  In between the two fronts Key West was stuck under a high pressure system where there was not enough wind to sail on Wednesday where the breeze was way too light and unstable to get quality racing in. Peter Craig and his Premier Racing team put in a great effort to get in eight high quality races.

final results

Fifteen M 30s competed at Acura Key West 2008.  After an exciting week of sailing and unusaul Key West Weather, Deneen Demourkas' Groovederci emerged as the champion over Bodo and Nick von der Wense's Turbo Duck, who were done in by a double digit finish on the first day.  The winners' report can be found here.  Final results from the regatta can be found here.

event website:

A great way to watch the races is by logging in to the Kattack race player, which replays the races at Key West using GPS technology.  This year, the M 30 owners decided to chip in to make this resourse free for all of the M 30 races.  Click on the Kattack link below and download the free player to view the races from Key West.