In the 2007 North American Hobie Cat Association ratings, Will Nelson and Dan Tarleton are tied for 1st place, Wave Class. Our youth are the future of multihull racing.

(need to redirect our energy back to what is important)

Yes! Please tell us more!

Mike

Ya Caleb, we need more details and a fuller report! Don't tease us like that! Are us 448 guys the only interested parties?

OK, no big deal, just trying to divert some of the rage over the 2012 decision.
Will and Dan are both graduates of many of the classes at Sail Sand Point in Seattle. www.sailsandpoint.org. They are both veteran Wave sailors, and currently are tied for first in the NAHCA National points listing. see http://www.hcana.hobieclass.com/default.asp?Page=7220&MenuID=Rankings/10818/0/ If you do race a Hobie Cat, you can check where you stand in the National standings.

Peter Nelson, Will's dad is 9th out of 379 on the H-16. He was also 10th out of 38 in the H-16 Worlds, Masters Division, plus scored a bullet in this event. Will is also 63rd in the ratings, crewing with Jay Rosebach on a H-16. Son Tom is 31 out of 75 on the H-17, would be higher, but could only get to two regattas, working overtime at Boeing on the 787. And grandpaw has a lot of room to improve, 23 of 75 on the H-17.

But the point is, that Will and Dan are the future of Multihull sailing. They may never go to the Olympics, but then how many of us do aspire to that goal?

Caleb Tarleton

In advance of the Hobie Div. 4 (NW) AGM, I thought it would be interesting to put together how the local sailors fared in their respective class. Not all the results are complete, but it was still a fun exercise.

So here are how the NW sailors are doing (please excuse the lack of tab spacing!)....


Div. 4 National Rankings

Skipper Crew
Tiger (37 entries)
4 Mark Jones Ingrid Gutzmann
6 Jerry Valeske Laney Gale
9 Don Atchley Shane Atchley

Hobie 18 (76 entries)
4 Bryan Colwell Mark Snyder
6 Paul Evenden Megan Dorwin
8 Ben Colwell Luke Summers
12 Tyler Barton Jen Loewen
15 Paul VonStubbe Lynch
20 Gillian Thomson Mark Williamson
25 Jim Wood Patsy Aplin
26 Jon Nilan
33 Randy Newton Seamus Woodward
38 Mark Sele Heather Sele

Hobie 17 (76 entries)
10 Scott Ruggles Daffy Duck
14 Dan Carpenter Monica Lewinski
15 Dave Wilder Babba Ram Das
22 Lonnie Byers Paris Hilton
23 Caleb Tarleton Mahatma Ghandi
30 Kelly Havig The Pope
31 Tom Tarleton Christine Gregoire
34 Paul Carter Howard Cosell
41 Jan Kristiansen Gummy Bear
50 Jonathan Cook
51 Mark Sele Howard Stern
54 Mike Collier Twiggy
56 Graham McGlashan Prince Charles
Hugh Barraclough The Mask
Eric Waissi

Hobie FX-1 (3 entries)
1 Mike Hensel

Hobie 16 (380 entries)
9 Peter Nelson Laura Sullivan
15 Todd Christensen Miki Ray
44 Kipp Silver Andrea Silver
47 Brian Hunt Clara Lum
52 Scot Chapman Karen Price
61 Jeremy Sexton Amy Sexton
63 J Rosenbach Will Nelson
68 Rich Arneson Miguel Arneson
83 Tim Post Monica Fetzer
112 Jeff Swanson Ling Zhang
126 Philip Carmichael J. Carmichael
129 Don Davey Laura Davey
163 Jim Pappin Jack Pappin
178 Tim Webb Ryan Damron
192 Gillian Thomson Martine Schlagenweit

Hobie Wave (9 entries)
1 Will Nelson
1 Daniel Tarleton
Max Robinson