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Alabama Sailors
Sweet Home Alabama is home to Mutineer Fleet 34. Come join us for some great southern sailing! Contact Fleet Captain Tate Beckham, tate.bechham@charter.net, to join up.
Southeastern Mutineer Championship By James Carr
Tuscaloosa Sailing Club held the last Southeastern Mutineer Championship
many years ago when the first national Mutt group was around. Funny
thing is that there were two Mutt groups in Tuscaloosa. One at the now
defunct Tuscaloosa Lake Yacht club (23 I think) and one at Tuscaloosa Sailing
Club (Fleet 34) both had about 10 mutts each. They competed against each
other and the Southeastern Mutineer Championship grew out of this. I
got into Mutt sailing in 2000 having down sized from a boat I kept at
the coast. I joined TSC and decided to resurrect Fleet 34. We ended up
with 5 mutts and started sailing against each other in the club
races. TSC soon started to attract Mutt sailors from other areas in
Alabama and from other States. I decided that it was time to bring back
the Southeastern Championship. I wanted it to be more than TSC and so
set up a system that would recognize any regatta where the Mutts
fleeted. This became the new Championship. I named the award the
Gordon Brookfield Cup, due to all he did to help TSC Mutts and others in
the area. We had the first championship in 2008 and Jim and Margaret
Davis won. They won again in 2009 by one point. In all, there were 14
people getting points in the championship in 2009. Fleet 34 decided to
continue with the multi regatta scoring system for the future.
Alabama Championship By James Carr
The Alabama Championship is much the same. I started it in 2003 for
Alabama sailors and opened it up in 2008 for any sailors competing in
the Mayor's Cup and Govenor's Cup at TSC. At the start, it was only
open to Mutt sailors from Alabama participating in regattas with the
winner being the Captain with the most wins. From 2002-2005 TSC had 4
regattas a year. In 2006 and 2007, I was too busy to organize the event
due to promotion of Mutt sailing at the club and around the State. It
was great at first but then lost some of the appeal due to not enough
competition. In 2006 we expanded Fleet 34 to cover the whole State of
Alabama. When the regattas expanded to include a steady number of boats
from other states it only made sence to allow these sailors to qualify
for the award.
Here are the past winners:
2003 James Carr
2004 James Carr
2005 James Carr
2006 No award
2007 No award
Opened the event to all mutt sailors:
2008 Tate Beckham and Kat Beckham
