Any reports from the site??

I know the event is up at: [url=http://www.hobienorthamericans.com/[/url]

If you go to the webcam link, you can see boats on the water and weather info.

Is there a link to results? If there is I can't find it!

Daily Race Updates
Nothing posted yet.

Go Roger and Christina!!!

Results

Day 2 results and pics are up.
It would have been great to see all the guys from the Pan Am games there to see who could give Worrall a run.
H16 North Americans

Gorgeous photos. I still think the H-16 is one of the prettiest boats ever built.

Any news from the water?? I'll be calling to see who won in a couple of hours, but... waiting till then!!!

Time to start planning for next year.
2008 Hobie 16 Open, Youth, Women and 14 Open.
Clear Lake Iowa
September 5-12
Hobie 16 Women, Youth and 14 Open will be Sept 5,6 and 7.
Hobie 16 Open will be Sept 8-12.

What a great event!

We had varying conditions from 6kts and flat water to 23kts and brutal short chop. Div 3 really put on a good show for this one. And the sailing was second to none. Here's a short view of what I saw all week:
The Aussie team of Aaron Worrall and Brad Wilson
Puttin the smack down!
(Fiji)

Followed by Armando and Rodrigo (Mex)
Thomas and Fortuna (Hobie Team, Smoke #4)
and Team Puerto Rico (Green Sails)


Armando and Rodrigo flipped at A mark and lost a rudder pin. Aaron and Brad asked the race committee to hold the next race until they fixed the boat. Very Cool!!

Armando and Rodrigo showing us how it's done:


PU set some awesome courses, coupled with the conditions in the bay proved to be challenging the racers.



The 20's were just as exciting.
The young punks Jake and Vinnie had their moments and are fun to watch when they're doing trapeze head stands.


The Champs Jamie Livingston and Brian Lambert
[img]http://www.hobienorthamericans.com/photo/8.2/images/IMG_5002.jpg[/img]

Gordo, with mad skill and big cojones port tacked the fleet , first to A, first to gate, first to finish! Nice Gordo! (Sail 51)
[img]http://www.hobienorthamericans.com/photo/8.2/images/IMG_5045.jpg[/img]

Here's how it ended up... North American Results

Fun was had by all!
Photos by Jerry Veleske

Jeremy, Thanks for the GREAT pics! Way to go Armando! Is that my friend from SoCal. Gordo? Happy to see him kickin butt! Love this stuff!

When Gordo pulled that maneuver off, the whole fleet was hootin and hollerin for him. The race committee and chase boats down course were all cheering...it was pretty cool. The absolute domination (a few times by one leg, often by a tack!) of the aussies at this event being upset by this guy from Las Vegas was pretty cool to watch.
The competition was fierce in the 16 fleet. Aussies, Puerto ricans, Noriega, Thomas, Modderman, not to mention the local heavyweights Hess and Montegue. And a slew of other top notch sailors. I love chase boatin' at events like this. It's a front row seat to world class sailing.


It's all fun and games!

I love these guys!

Nice photo, Jeremy!

Now that's guts, Gordo!

Nice Matt. I didn't know Gordo's legendary race was captured. All of these photos were taken by Jerry Veleske who bobbed around on a chase boat all week.
I hadn't seen the first photo either. Between pulling anchors and plucking people out of the water we like to 'critique' the sailors. We have a good time.

By the way that guy Joel to my left, was the superstar of racecourse rescues. He jumped in the water probably 10 times over the course of the week to help right boats, and make sure people were OK. It takes volunteers like this to make a regatta run smoothly.

Those two photos were taken by Teri McKenna. She's got several hundred posted on the event site.

And the black/grey sails are fitting! What a start!

He was clean?...Looks like he had to have been OCS.

I'll say !

How can Gordo be so far in front of the pack at this level of racing; its was the NATIONALS right ?

If those boats at the port end of the line had hit the line right on time and at speed then they would have nailed any port tacker cold.

I too find it very hard to believe he was not OCS.

Wouter

We had just sneakily skewed the line before the sequence and he got it. There was also a 2kt current coming straight down course, which made it hard to hit the line right. He was so clean, It was beautiful. I was sitting behind the pin boat watching for over earlies and he skimmed my motor made it through a hole, got a lift and was gone! There was some good racing out there! Teri Mckenna is an awesome photogropher.

The lines are always set a bit port favored at the Nationals.
It was the last day and the Facio(PUR) and Armando(MEX) are still in a battle for North American Champion. Worrall way out of reach in the regatta.
Those guys are going to control the pin end of the line and were probably a bit conservative.
Then a perfectly timed wind shift,lots of luck and a brass set.
Gordo has done a lot for youth sailing in recent years.
Maybe a Karma thing.