Model Yachting News • Week Ending October 11, 2025

Posted on by Paul McBride

Written by Mark Whitehead
Proofreading & Editing by Kathleen Whitehead
Photos by Paul McBride, B. B. Wright, Mark Whitehead, Karen Enos
Layout by Ken Gerber
Photo Captions by Paul McBride
Games by Dave Perry

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Steve Leker Gets His Trophy

It was a little slow in coming, but Steve Leker was presented with the Sasquatch Regatta trophy for first place.

Steve Leker belatedly received the perpetual trophy for winning this year's Sasquatch Footy Regatta.
A Beautiful Fall Day for Sailing
A Beautiful Fall Day for Sailing

Wrong-O! Again!

Meteorologists predicted southwest winds of nine mph, but that wasn’t even close. For the ten-race regatta on October 7, they varied from flat calm to maybe five mph, and it was luck of the draw if you had wind where you were located on the course. It was a beautiful fall day for the thirteen skippers who sailed, however. Sun was plentiful with a temperature sneaking into the eighties, but the dew point was low. The lake level also was very low, so it was a challenge to launch boats from the dock, the dingy resting comfortably on the bottom of the bay.

Due to the low water level, the dinghy is resting on the bottom of the bay.

On the Water

Tim Wright sailed his Laser for the first four races, taking a one-race break before launching his Soling. It didn’t matter; he took the day with five wins and a score of 1.38. Anthony Quinn was on fire, winning three races to score an impressive 2.56 for second place. Ted Monetta crossed the finish line first in two races, scoring 4.67 for third place.

The fleet heads to the first mark.
The Fleet at the Mark
The Fleet Rounding the Mark
Tim Wright sailing his R/C Laser heads to the finish line while the other boats are still rounding the marks.
October 7 Scores
 1 Tim Wright          1.38
 2 Anthony Quinn       2.56
 3 Ted Monetta         4.67
 4 Linwood Davis       5.44
 5 Bob Pacini          5.56
 6 Steve Leker         5.80
 7 Mark Whitehead      6.22
 8 Bruce Wilhelm       7.11
 9 Jim Opie            7.44
10 John Barstow        7.56
11 Kevin Bennett       8.22
12 Mark Bodenstab      8.60
13 Jeanne Butler      10.33

High Winds Anticipated

Because heavy wind gusts were anticipated for Thursday, sailing on October 9 was canceled.

Meet the Skippers
Team Wright:

Tim Wright, Vice Commodore

Tim grew up in Connecticut and spent summers sailing on the waters of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. He raced until he turned 16, when it got to be too cutthroat, so he stopped racing but not sailing. He taught sailing at a camp on Cape Cod, at a yacht club in Jamestown, and at a youth program in Jacksonville, Florida. After buying a 30-foot Chinese Junk there, he moved aboard and relocated it to Fort Lauderdale. During his time in South Florida, he married B.B., helped commission sailboats, and earned his U.S. Coast Guard Captain’s 100-ton license. Captaining deliveries up and down the East Coast from Florida to New England as well as charters to the Bahamas and the Florida Keys were part of his life for a while.

 

Vice Commodore Tim Wright

After living six years on the Junk, Tim and B.B. moved to dry land in Marlboro, Massachusetts, where Tim began his academic teaching career. After thirty years teaching at two different schools, he retired to New Hampshire and learned about the Back Bay Skippers. He bought two Soling 1-Meter kits for B.B. and him to build, and they enrolled in the BBS building class. Tim didn’t know that racing was part of the program. He discovered that remote-control sailing is right up his alley, and the growing competence of the fleet helps keep him on his toes.

Tim continues to hone his skills on Ossipee Lake with a Vanguard 15 and a small catboat.

B.B. Wright, Scorekeeper

Many people have asked B.B. how she got her name. Her given name is Brucie Beverly Tucker, and her mother also was named Brucie. Her father, Albert, gave her the nickname of “B.B.” Some of her friends still call her Brucie, since her schools used Brucie in their yearly records.

Born just south of Philadelphia in Darby, B.B. was raised in Bryn Mawr and Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is the oldest of three girls. Her two sisters live in Michigan and Minnesota. She also has two half-brothers who live in California and Nevada.

Scorekeeper B.B. Wright

B.B. attended school in Philly until high school, when she spent three years at a small Quaker School in southwestern New Hampshire. After college in Vermont, B.B. taught at an Independent school in Connecticut, then moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she married her best friend, Tim Wright. After six years of live-aboard life, they moved to Massachusetts, where they both taught at Independent schools on the north shore of Boston.

Moving to New Hampshire after years of vacationing on Ossipee Lake, B.B. and Tim have since built RC boats and raced with the fleet in Wolfeboro. They both enjoy the friendships they’ve formed with the other RC sailors and their families. After racing for four years, B.B. decided to become a scorekeeper and has worked in that position for the past ten years.

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Sailing on Back Bay

Only two weeks remain for model yacht sailing on Back Bay in Wolfeboro, so join us before the season ends. Any boat class is welcome from 1 PM to 3 PM on Tuesday or Thursday, weather permitting. Wednesday is used for an alternate day if needed. Come join the fun – perhaps try the controls.

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