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travel shop tv holiday channel J/Regatta travel shop tv holiday channel News The Sun Never Sets on J's Sailing Worldwide The August sailing season travel shop tv holiday channel has wound down to its closing moments. The European circuit travel shop tv holiday channel is taking a breather. And, the American events were highlighted by the J/105 and PHRF New England Championships. Read on! More importantly, if you have more J/Regatta News, please email it or upload onto our J/Boats Facebook page! Below are the summaries. Read on! More importantly, if you have more J Regatta News, please travel shop tv holiday channel email it or upload onto our J/Boats Facebook page ! Below are the summaries.
J/105/ PHRF New Englands SCIMITAR's Cutting Edge Team Wins J/105s (Marblehead, MA- August 27-29)- The remnants of Tropical Storm Danny, which brought 25-30 knots of breeze out of the northeast on Saturday, turned the PHRF New Englands into a two-day event. Despite no racing on Saturday, each Race Committee was able to complete five races, making for an excellent championship for 104 boats entered in this year's PHRF Championship.
"We were anticipating winds of 30 knots or greater combined with 8-foot seas for Saturday and we put together a contingency plan. At 6 p.m. Friday night we had to call it off for Saturday and I think everyone is glad we did," said Principal Race Office Ken Adam of the Corinthian travel shop tv holiday channel Yacht Club. "But, we got in six races over two days which the sailors travel shop tv holiday channel all seemed to be happy with. The three race committees from the Corinthian, Eastern and Boston yacht clubs really worked together as a team with the safety and welfare of the sailors coming first."
The most competitive of all the fleets at the New Englands was the 22-strong J105 fleet. Henry Brauer and Stewart Neff and their crew aboard SCIMITAR won the J/105s in the most impressive fashion - winning travel shop tv holiday channel four of five races and scoring just seven points in the competitive 22-boat J/105 fleet. Taking second in the J/105s was Peter Doug Morgan's travel shop tv holiday channel STEEL AWAY. Third was Ken Colburn's very well sailed travel shop tv holiday channel GHOST from Portland, ME with local hotshot Bob Slattery aboard.
Brauer and Neff sailed in a local one-design keelboat fleet in Marblehead for 15 years and just this past July started racing in the larger J/105s. Their results have been nothing short of remarkable. "We felt it was time for a change travel shop tv holiday channel so we sold our old boat and moved to a bigger boat," Neff said. "In our debut J/105 regatta, we were third overall at Marblehead Race Week and first place here today in the J/105 New Englands. It was fun to have a fellow Tufts Jumbo classmate, Stuart Johnstone, aboard to help on speed and tactics." The J/105 is one of the most dynamic racing fleets out of Marblehead today. "We have a lot more one design sailors coming into the New England J/105 fleet who really know how to work their way around a race course," said Fritz Koopman of Salem who raced with fifth-place finisher Mike Royer of Beverly. "I think the J/105 fleet has a lot more talent coming in and this has made the racing really interesting and far more challenging," Royer added.
On the PHRF handicap fleet front, in PHRF Class 2, Seamus Hourihan's J/120 RUFFIAN finished fifth and two J/130s battled travel shop tv holiday channel it out to finish seventh and eighth, respectively, Kris Kristiansens's SAGA and Jeff Eberle's CILISTA. In PHRF Class 3, Chris Zibailo's SUPERSTITION was third followed by Raymond Janney's J/35 DIE FLEDERMAUS to round out the top 5. In PHRF Class 4, Ward Blodgett's J/33 SIRROCO was fifth and one point back was Adam Saidla's J/100 MOOSE DROOL. In PHRF Class 7, John Caldwell and his renowned "merry makers" (a.k.a. party animals) aboard the J/24 BLUE FOX handily won with two firsts. Fellow J sailors Jon Lakcs on his J/30 VIVA and Bob Cunningham on the J/30 RUFFIAN were fourth and fifth. For more regatta info .
J/109 North Americans travel shop tv holiday channel Report STORM-tossed Conclusion travel shop tv holiday channel to Great Lakes Regatta (Chicago, IL- August 14-16)- The 2009 J1/09 North Americans were held at the Verve Cup Regatta hosted by Chicago Yacht Club. Fourteen teams competed for the championship including teams from the west (Team VALOR with Fleet Captain Tom Brott from Seal Beach Yacht Club), the south (Team SURPRISE/HAMBURG with Fleet Captain Albrecht Goethe from Lakeside YC in Houston), the north (Wisconsin Team ZEITGESIT with Rob Zerban froom Kenosha, WI) and the east (Team STORM with Rick Lyall from Cedar Point YC in Westport, CT). There were 10 other strong teams mostly from the Chicago area.
Pete Priede, Captain of the southern Lake Michigan Fleet (11), Kevin Saedi and Riccardo Navon did a remarkable job organizing the championship for the J/109 class, especially considering they had never run a championship event that required crew and sail registration and boat inspections prior to the event.
The class would also like to recognize the tremendous travel shop tv holiday channel effort put forth by the staff of the Chicago Yacht Club in running the Verve Cup. The event was very well organized and the racing and social events were top notch. We would also like to recognize the excellent race management offered to the class by Ms. Vickie Matthews, PRO of the B Fleet where the J/109 championship travel shop tv holiday channel took place.
The competition began on Thursday, August 13th in sunny but very light conditions with winds as low as 2-3kts during the first race. However they built slowly to the 5-8 knot range and the J/109 fleet was able to get in 3 races. We were the only fleet racing for four days so we had the B Circle all to ourselves. At the end of the first day, STORM led with 5 points followed by ZEITGESIT travel shop tv holiday channel with 9 points and SURPISE/TEAM HAMBURG in third with 10 points. A different boat won each race.
Friday brought more sunshine and winds of 5-10 kts along with the addition travel shop tv holiday channel of another 147 boats to the regatta. The big boats consisting of Great Lakes 70s, Farr 40s and 3 PHRF fleets travel shop tv holiday channel of 30-50 foot boats competed on Circle A. Circle B included the Beneteau 40.7s, also racing for their North American title, J/109s, Beneteau 36.7s, a PHRF fleet of 30-40 footers and the J105s.
Racing in the J/109 fleet was again tight with STORM winning the first race, David Gustman s NORTHSTAR the second and SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG the third. Friday travel shop tv holiday channel was also the practice day for the Chicago Air and Water Show so we were occasionally privileged to witness military aircraft racing travel shop tv holiday channel along the Chicago skyline or circling overhead. At the end of the day, STORM retained the lead, SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG moved up to second and NORTHSTAR moved into third.
Saturday dawned bright and sunny, with temperatures in the high 80 s. Winds were again expected to be in the 5-10kt range but actually ended up a bit stronger. SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG started off strong travel shop tv holiday channel winning the first race. REALT NA MARA, crewed by talented Star class sailors Joe and Tom Londrigan who had placed 7th overall in the Chicago-Mackinac race, took the bullet in the second race. Rob Zerban on ZEITGESIT got the gun in the third race. STORM posted a consistent 2-2-2 to remain in the overall lead, followed by SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG and ZEITGEIST.
Saturday was the first day of the Chicago Air and Water show and there was a huge turnout of spectators boats to the north of Dusable basin. The wave action from the power boats streaking back and forth and reverberating off the shore caused what could kindly be called a washing machine effect extending out a least a mile offshore. This made the ride into the dock quite an adventure.
travel shop tv holiday channel Sunday, travel shop tv holiday channel the last and final day of the regatta, came with the promise of strong breeze and a chance of thunderstorms. Early forecasts called for 10-15kts with the possibility of 20+ in the mid afternoon with approaching storms. We soon learned that would prove quite conservative! travel shop tv holiday channel The fleet saw 15-20kts on the 6 mile ride out to the racing area and he winds built to 20-25+ kts during the first race. STORM led around the course and took the gun followed by Jack Toliver s VANDA III and SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG. The second race was even more interesting as winds built to 25-30kts. NORTHSTAR sailed a great race and led the fleet around the course to take the bullet. SURPRISE/ TEAM HAMBURG also sailed a solid race but rounded up on the second downwind leg and managed to hold their position travel shop tv holiday channel after dropping their kite and finishing with main and jib. STORM broached on the first downwind leg and dropped from 3rd to 7th at the gate but climbed back to finish travel shop tv holiday channel 3rd.
Elsewhere on the course there was havoc, with a number of man overboards hailed over the VHF. The race committee hailed the fleet that their 20 foot pin boat had capsized. The Coast Guard sent a helicopter to rescue three crew who had fallen overboard from a Beneteau 40.7, one of whom had been struck by the boom and was unconscious in the water. travel shop tv holiday channel The three were airlifted to a local hospital for medical assistance. We understand all of them were fine the next day.
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