By: Marcus Rogers
The Highlander class many years ago had a Hoosier Challenge cup. It was created by Tim Hollingsworth at Eagle Creek Sailing Club and Tom Kling at Indianapolis Sailing Club(ISC). It was a cup that named an overall club as winner, and a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for individual boats. It also used existing regattas and was intended to promote travel between clubs. It only succeeded because both clubs had boats that traveled to the other club for each other’s regatta’s. The communication was there so that both clubs didn’t have conflicting schedules. In the day, this was a very successful venture. Now, we do the same thing, but we use the J 24 and it has been beneficial to both clubs…
For 2017, there were four regatta’s in which these clubs competed. The Mayor’s Cup (May 20/21 at ECSC), the Geist Guzzler (June 10/11 at ISC), Governor’s Cup (Sept 16-17 at ECSC), and the Keelover (Sept 30/Oct. 1 at ISC)
The winner for this year’s Champion belongs to Jason Hubbard and for the second year in a row, Eagle Creek was the overall winner. The amazing thing about Jason’s victory is that he did it in 3 different boats and with three different crews. Jason took first in the Mayor’s Cup, First at the Geist Guzzler, Second in the Govenor’s Cup and Second in the Keelover. Nicely done Jason!!!
The other results are as follows:
| 1. Jason Hubbard | 2. Rick Graef | 3. Nannette Schulze |
| 4. Pete McGinity | 5. Bob Hickoff | 6. Hunter Dyer |
| 7. Marcus Rogers | 8. John O’Brien | 9. Adam Ondrejack |
| 10. Scott Douglas | 11. Bill Townsend | 12. Jim Jordan |
| 13. Jess Lawhead | 14. Gabe Varga |