After 16 races and one throw-out, Mischa Heemskerke and Carrie Howe continue to have a commanding lead in the F18 North Americans at Lake Carlyle, Illinois. John Casey and Kenny Pierce, winning two of the four races on Thursday, are in 2nd Place and trail the leaders by 42 points. Moving from 5th Place to 3rd Place on Thursday is Greg Goodall and Andy Humphries.

Robbie Daniels and Gary Chu scored 2 DNF's yesterday and dropped 4 places from 2nd to 6th. They start today 6 points out of 4th place and 24 points behind Goodall/Humphries in 3rd Place. Kurt Korte and Kevin Jewitt added their worst scores of the regatta in the last two races of the day (27th and DNF), now in a 4th Place tie with John Tomko and Ian Billings (Tomko ahead on tie break). Dropping out of the top 10 by adding their two worst races of the regatta, Woody Cope and Tina Pastoor lost 5 places to start Friday in 14th Place.

The largest move up the rankings on Thursday goes to the team of John Williams and Tom Paoli who advanced 5 positions on the day and currently hold 18th Place.

Biggest drop goes to Kirk Newkirk and Charles Harp who did not race on Thursday and moved down the ranking 9 places.

Weather for today is forecast as 60% chance of rain with winds expected to be 13 knots. Storms rolled through overnight and there is a chance of Thunderstorms today.