With winds in the high teens and much higher velocity gusts, the Race Committee decided not to run any more races today. They reported that John Casey and Kenny Pierce won the last race, followed by John Tomko and Ian Billings. That makes 17 races with one throw-out for the 2006 North American Formula 18 Championships.

With these results, the championship is won by Mischa Heemskerke of the Netherlands with crew Carrie "Rock Star" Howe. In today's race, Kurt Korte broke a daggerboard 5 minutes prior to the start. Mischa gave one of his boards to Korte and sailed to the beach to get a replacement. Mischa and Carrie returned to the race course and started 3 minutes and 20 seconds late. Ya gotta love it!

Second Place is John Casey and Kenny Pierce of Team Tybee fame.


Les Gallagher