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The final day of race week saw for many divisions a decisive last race. Race Week's final race was sailed in 20 knot + south easterlies that brought along 4 foot seas.
Division 1 wrapped up some close and competitive racing. War Bride clinched the One Design 35 class title, by finishing 9th. 2nd place Windquest caught up some, by finishing 6th. In the end War Bride was 5 points clear of Windquest. with a 1st and a 5th. Taking the final One Design 35 podium spot was class newcomer Spot of Holland Michigan, with current national champion Roxanne 4th.
As Torresen Marine is the Lake Michigan One Design 35 dealer, we'd like to recognize all the Great Lakes based One Design 35's that competed at Race Week '99:
| Boat | Home Port | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Race 6 | Race 7 | Race 8 | Points | Place |
| Northern Bear | Milwaukee | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 55 | 5th |
| Windquest | Holland | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 42 | 2nd |
| Spot | Holland | 4 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 45 | 3rd |
| Heartbreaker | Holland | 18 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 75 | 8th |
| Hippy Chick | Muskegon | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 6 | DNF | 98 | 14th |
| Pronto | Holland | 15 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 96 | 10th |
| Detente | Chicago | 16 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 119 | 17th |
| White Knuckle | St. Clair | 19 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 134 | 20th |
If you have not seen the One Design 35, please stop and see Torresen Marine at Strictly Sail where we will have a brand new One Design 35 on display.
In the Farr 40's, John Thomson's Solution held her lead with a final race 3rd. Hissar continued her charge with a 2nd, but never could overcome a 1st race placing of 19th.
In PHRF 3 Muskegon's Lunatic Fringe finished up with a 5th. This was good enough to keep Lunatic Fringe in 3rd place.
Division 1 Class A was won by Highland Fling by 3 points over Beau Geste. In class B Brava took a 3rd, while Vim was 4th. The difference on corrected time was 17 seconds, so by this Margin Brava is the Class B winner.er
Class B which is composed of Viper 830's and is led by Guy de Boer sailing RE. RE took the class championship on a tie breaker basis as Extreme Measures also finished with 21 points.
Division 3 is composed of 3 one design fleets- Henderson 30, Mumm 30 and Melges 24.
The Henderson 30's are paced by Speedracer with 1sts in 6 of 8 races sailed.
In the Mumm 30's Sector's final race 9th did not hurt as she still took the class by 5 points.
The Melges 24 title was won by Brian Porter's Full Throttle. Going into the final race, Full Throttle and White Loaf were tied. Full Throttle's 2nd beat out White Loafs not good enough 6th.
A total of 18 boats were winners after Key West's final day. Here are those boats
IMS 1- Highland Fling
IMS 2- Brava
Farr 40 Solution
PHRF 1 Starlight
One Design 35 War Bride
PHRF 2 Letter of Marque
PHRF 3 Fitikiko
Divsion 2
PHRF 4 Snake Eyes
J 105 Pheonix
J 29 Wow
J 80 Hustle
PHRF 5 Claddagh
PHRF 6 Sazerac
PHRF 7 Fortune Cookie
Division 3
Henderson 30 Speedracer
Mumm 30 Sector
Melgest 24 Full Throttle