Really saddened to see this! Mike is a great guy and did a tremendous amount to bring beach cat sailing into the popular culture scene. While living in NC I made it a point every year to visit the races and then had the honor of serving as ground crew the last "open" year of the race. Mike loved that race and did a great job of committing himself to it. It was only 2 weeks ago while visiting a sailing buddy we watched all the videos I have of the Worrell and I was excited about it getting going again. The most impressive video was the one of the original format- the essentially non-stop (except to check in, maybe swap one of the 3 sailors from the chase vehicle to the boat, load up on supplies and take right back out!) race on Hobie 16's- NO spinnakers, NO GPSes, ~1/3 of the race at night hoping the chase crew beat you to the next checkpoint!
Mike- You'll always be one of those "Iron Men on a plastic boat" to me-
Kirt