Patrick Blake, a multiple Merlin champion described the Merlin Rockets championships organised by Looe Sailing Club as the best since the 1970's and class official Judith Massey praised Looe's organisation.
The championships which started on Sunday August 11th finished on Thursday 17th, one day early due to lack of wind on Friday.
Graham Williamson who with John Bell crewed the leading boat, Time Zulu, both from the Hampton sailing club near Hampton Court Palace said it had been a superb week with a good range of winds testing not only the crews' handling of their boats but also the boats' actual speed.
Runners up were Phil King and Kevin Driver (Bowmoor) with Weymouth's Mike Calvert and Liam Dempsey, third.
Richard and Jenny King (Whitstable) came fourth, ahead of Julian Parry and Paul Gilbert and 65 year old Alan Warren (Shoreham) - an Olympic silver medallist in the Tempest class way back in the 1960's - was sixth with Mike Fenwick as crew.
The races ranged in length from one hour and a quarter to two and a half hours.
He said " Looe Sailing Club has done us proud, It is very efficient and has given us exactly what we wanted. Not only for the racing but also the social side for the families has been a great success too.
"It has been the largest entry with 72 boats in the few years, entirely to do with the fact that this year the venue was Looe so that the families can have a good time too."
There were 144 competitions with about 700 people in total, all of who were either in B&B or in self-catering and using the restaurants, pubs and the rest of the town's facilities.
Everyone likes the area and want to return at some time in the future although Looe Sailing Club probably can't accept a booking from them for several years as other classes of boat will already be booked in in the near future years.
Race officer Roger Hocking, assisted by Steve Sargent, the commodore, and Peter Pascoe, accommodated seven races in the bay with six to count - and lost just one, the final day, to light winds.
Highlighted was the work of beach master Bill Tambling; beach manager Hilary Godbolt and the Sargent and Jaycock families and club volunteers too numerous to mention, for running the social side.