Chris Giovacchini on "Santa Maria" is the overall 2011 winner of the YRA Santana 22 one design white sails series! Last year, Chris put a lot of hard work in "Santa Maria", which now looks amazing and has great boat speed. On at least two occasions, he managed to sneak past the leading boat in the last 50 yards of the race to take the gun. Although we had a small fleet this year, racing was tight with overlap between the top boats on the finish line in several races. Bobby Renz bought "Tchoupitoulas", renamed it "Oreo" and kicked ass throughout the season. We (Thijs and Anna) bought "Byte Size" and had a lot of fun campaigning our own boat. Tom Montoya on "Meliki" won the first half of the season, but unfortunately had to pull out halfway the season for health reasons. We hope he'll be back next year. Shirley Bates on "Inshallah" and Derek Meyer on "Aquila" joined the fun for some of the races.<br>
<br>We hope to see you out racing next year!<br><br>Anna Alderkamp<br>S22 #801 "Byte Size"<br>