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Hobie
16 NAs Youth/Womens with One Day Left
The second day of the Hobie 16 Youth and Womens North
Americans had some welcomed breeze close to twenty knots late in the afternoon.
With one day remaining Jason and Charles Hess from Guatemala are dominating
the Youth fleet. After a slow start Annie Nelson (CA) and Kathy Kulkoski
(NJ) have taken the lead in the Women's fleet. Click
here for more...
Chicago
to Macinac Race Report
We got this great report from Steve Piche who participated on a Corsair
F31on his first attempt at this infamous race. Click
here for more...
*Pete
Melvin of USA Wins the A-Class Worlds in France
The regatta included 100 of the worlds’ best A Class Catamaran sailors
from 16 countries. The fleet was comprised of seven former A Class Catamaran
World Champions (including Melvin), and at least four Olympic medallists.
Glenn Ashby from Australia, winner of the last two World Championships,
ended up in second place. Steve Brewin, also from Australia and a past
World Champion, was third. Melvin completed the
event with very consistent scores, never falling below ninth place in
any of the eight races completed. “The A2 performed very well in
its first World Championship showing. My speed was consistently good,
especially downwind, allowing me to move up through the fleet and finish
near the top in all races sailed,” said Melvin. Click
Here for More Story!
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Dave Mimlitch/Ian Billings Win Great Texas Race
Team Texas Performing Racing sailed a great final leg and showed up on
the beach six minutes behind Team Tybee Island. Since Team TPR had a slower
rated boat (approximately 3 minutes per hour), it looked like Team TPR
had the race in the bag. However, Team TPR had used two pushers on the
beach start and the rules specify a 5 minute penalty on elapsed time for
using more than one pusher. The penalty was assessed. Team TPR was thus
11 minutes behind on elapsed time for the day and no one knew who had
won the race. The numbers were run by PRO Tom Meyer and Team TPR ended
up winning the race on less than five minutes corrected time.
Click
here for more stories and photos!
Dramatic
last day for the Tornado World Championships
Race 9 had nothing less than 19 boats black-flagged, including provisional
leaders ESP Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz, which, at that point, cost
them the title. The Spanish team entered the last day of the event with
11 points separating them from runner-up GBR Leigh McMillan and Will Howden.
The situation changed dramatically with his black-flag plus the second
place the British got in the race – McMillan and Howden were now
23 points ahead. ESP Echavarri and Paz put in a
protest for redress as soon as they arrived on-shore. They had evidence
that they were actually not over the line. After a long hearing the Jury
ruled them correct and they were granted the redress which put them back
in first place and World Champions.Click
here for more story and photo!
*Tybee
500 Coverage to be Televised on OLN Channel
For years Mike Worrell vainly tried to get some sort of TV coverage of
the Worrell 1000, but failed to do so. In just a couple of year the Tybee
500 has made that level of exposure. CDH Productions followed the race
from the beginning to the end and did a professional job of coverage.
They will air the show on June 21 at 3PM on the OLN Channel, or Channel
608 on DirecTV.
*Lovell/Ogletree
Make Huge Comeback to Capture the International Catamaran Challenge Trophy
(ICCT)
Historically known as the "Little America's Cup) the event was being
sailed in Italy on F18HTs by Bimare. Two-time defenders of the coveted
trophy, John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree, were down 2 to 3 against Italians,
Saragoni and Di Battista in the finals, but pulled it off the last to
capture the trophy for the 3rd straight time. Click
here for more story and pictures...
*Team
Tybee Hits the Beach 3rd, But Wins the Tybee 500 Overall
Lighter than expected winds delayed the finish of the last leg of the
Tybee 500 until 7:30 PM. Carla Schiefer and Clive Mayo of Cocnut Grove
Sails again finished with a horizon job on the fleet on their all-carbon,
lightweight Marstrom 20. This team has won three of the six legs but they
had to settle for 3rd place overall. Team Tybee Island was the 3rd across
the line, but won the title overall, with the best accumulated time. Click
here for more story and pictures!
*Lambert
and Livingston Drive the Tornado to Victory in Hogsbreath-Keys 100
In heavy reaching winds, 17 teams started the annual 100-mile
race from Key Largo to Key West in the fabulous Florida Keys. On the first
day Brian Lambert and Jamie Livingston had a huge lead on the fleet when
they arrived on the beach at Marthon. All they had to do on the s econd
day was hold on. They did. For the full story and pictures, click
here!
*Vectorworks
of Florida to Start Building Bimare A Class Catamarans
A press release from the two companies was just released. Matt MacDonald
of Vectorworks, a Florida company, has been building the Blade, an F16,
and now will take on the building of the A-Cat of Bimare. Bimare is an
Italian boat builder known best for its very light-weight F18HT.
More Story...
*NAMSA
NAs/Tradewinds has Great Winds and Awesome Sailing
A cold front moved throught he Florida Keys on Friday night, leaving cooller
temperatures and very good wind. It blew 12-15 mph on Saturday and 15-20
mph with gusts on Sunday. The largest class was the F18s. There were nine
classes in total with over 60 boats registered. The high-tech boats, i.e.,
Marstrom 20, CFR 20, ARC 21, Blade F16, were there, showing off their
sleek looks and high speeds. For more story and pictures, Click
Here!
*Lars
Guck and Hans Barth Win the 19th Annual Key Largo Steeplechase
And they also won the cherished Olde Lawn Chair, the perpetual trophy
awarded to the boat with the fastest time (Line Honors). On corrected
time they had to settle for 2nd place. The winds were excellent all weekend
as was the weather with 10-51 mph winds most of the time. The race is
a 110-mile trek around Key Largo, Florida that has the boats racing in
the backwaters of the Keys as well as the ocean. Click
here for more story!
*Kathy
Kulkoski Wins Wave National Championship in Key Largo
Kathy Kulkoski of Sandy Hook, New Jersey has won the Womens Class of the
Wave Nationals several times and has usually placed very well in the Open
Division, but this year she completely dominated the class and won the
grand title by 11 points. Husband Dan, last year's winner, had to settle
for 3rd place. Dave White of Key Largo took second spot.
Click here for more story and pictures!
*Harken
Buoy Series for Cats Announced
Harken has signed up as the primary sponsor for a new buoy racing series
for 2005! The Harken Buoy Series for the Harken Cup will consists of 6
major buoy regattas in the State of Florida. The Harken Series is open
to all one design and/or formula classes. Complete rules will be posted
in the next couple months, but for a fleet to qualify, it must have a
5 boat fleet at 4 of the 6 series races. There is no registration necessary
or no additional entry fee required other than the standard regatta entry
fees. Click
Here for More!
*Wave
Worlds won by 12-year-old, Zach Grant in Turks and Caicos
In varying winds and seas, youth sailor Zach Grant took the Open and Youth
First Place honors against 32 top sailors. And they say there are no youths
in cat sailing. Rick White won the Masters while his sister-in-law, Betty
Bliss, won the Women's Division. Catamaran Sailor Magazine's Publisher,
Mary Wells won the Silver Fleet. Stories and Pix in the next issue of
Catamaran Sailor Magazine. To Subscribe, Click
Here!
*Mexicans
Win the Hobie 16 North Americans
Mexicans Armando Noriega and Roderigo Achach are the new Hobie 16 North
American Champions. Noriega is a Pan-Am Games silver medallist in the
Hobie 16 but the title of North American Champion is a first for him and
for Achach. The team dominated the seventy-one boat fleet, on Lake Oneida
in Syracuse NY, finishing twenty two points ahead of the second place
team, and 2004 Alter Cup Champions, Mike Montague and Cathy Ward from
California Bob Merrick and Eliza Cleveland took 3rd, and Defending Champions
Paul and Mary Ann Hess finished fourth. Click
here for more!
*US
Tornado Sailors, Lovell and Ogletree, Bring Back the Silver Medal
In their third attempt in the Olympics, the team of John Lovell and Charlie
Ogletree went into the last race with a chance to capture gold. But, the
Austrian Team was just too hot and our USA guys had a little bit of bad
luck and won the Silver Medal. Only two medals were taken by our country's
sailors and the Silver is the second highest honor only to Paul Foerster/John
Burnham on the 470, who took Gold. For more story, click
here!
*New
Hobie Edict: No Other Cats Allowed in Hobie Regattas
In a sweeping directive from IHCA (Intl Hobie Cat Assn.) NAHCA has been
ordered to not allow any other types of catamarans to attend a Hobie Regatta.
Officials seemingly feel that in the past 10 years the allowance of other
classes has been a cancer that has been slowly killing off Hobie Classes.
For
the official Press Release, Click Here or on the Headline! Click
Here for Link to NAMSA
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