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Lewes’ Delgato wins another Cape-to-Cape Challenge Cup

The crew of Delgato, skippered by Nick Carter, prepares for the start of the first buoy race Aug. 3. The Lewes boat won the non-spinnaker class Cape-to-Cape Challenge X Cup. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Ron MacArthur
August 14, 2018
The crew of Sante with skipper Steve Nieblas is ready for the start of a race.
Corinthian boats Goofyfoot (28), skippered by John Wilsey, and BULA (647), skippered by Michael Mandell, are neck and neck at the start. Goofyfoot went on to win the J 70 class cup.
Two Lewes boats, Mahal, left, skippered by John Nelson, and Delgato, skippered by Nick Carter, jockey for position at the start of the first race. Delgato finished second and Mahal was third.
Lewes boat Balance, skippered by Richard Beebe, won the first race of three during the Cape-to-Cape Challenge and ended up in fourth place overall in the spinnaker class.
Corinthian’s Jersey Girl, skippered by John Groskoph, flies its bright-red spinnaker. The boat finished in second place in the spinnaker class.
With spinnakers taking in the wind, racers compete in the 10th annual Cape-to-Cape Challenge Aug. 3 along the Lewes Beach shoreline.
Lewes boat Calaloo, skippered by Tim Douglas, finished in fifth place overall in the non-spinnaker class.
With a dramatic, cloud-filled sky in the background, Lewes boat Pearl, with Dave Cerney at the helm, takes on a leg of one of two buoy races.
Corinthian’s Max Power, skippered by Gerritt Schulze, uses the wind to fill its spinnaker. The crew finished first in the spinnaker class.
The crew of Lewes boat Balance sails by the Cape May-Lewes Ferry.
With the Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse in the background, Corinthian’s J 70 Carlos, skippered by Tom Lord, works to maintain its lead.

Lewes boat Delgato, skippered by Nick Carter, brought home the non-spinnaker class Cape-to-Cape Challenge X Cup in the annual race between Lewes and Cape May, N.J.

This year’s two Aug. 3 buoy races were hosted by Lewes Yacht Club along the shore of Lewes Beach. The following day, the LYC race committee started the Cape-to-Cape race which finished in Cape May, home of the other event host, Corinthian Yacht Club, where an awards dinner and ceremony took place.

Delgato, a Catalina MkII, won the first and then finished second in the Aug. 3 races. The crew finished first in its class in the Aug. 4 race across Delaware Bay with a time of 2:24.59.

Two Corinthian Yacht Club boats won the other two classes. Max Power, skippered by Gerritt Schulze, won the spinnaker class, and Goofyfoot, skippered by John Wisley, won the J 70 class.

Other Lewes boats finishing places were: Spinnaker class: Balance, skippered by Richard Beebe, fourth. Non-spinnaker class: Mahal, skippered by John Nelson, third; Calaloo, skippered by Tim Douglas, fifth; Pearl, skippered by Dave Cerney, sixth; and Sante, skippered by Steve Nieblas, seventh.

Two buoy races Aug. 3 and the traditional Cape-to-Cape race Aug. 4 were used to compute final results.

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