Check out the highlight reels. A lot of the live stuff is junk.

This is one of my favorites:
http://www.justin.tv/onthewateranarchywest/b/265969250

And this:
http://www.justin.tv/onthewateranarchywest/b/265971679

I think the commentary of the video reveals all. Photo finish, 2 boats, rockstar sailors, where is 3rd place?

I have developed a pill that increases your ability to sail catamarans really fast, it is only $19.99, and if you call in the next 30 minutes we will send you 2 bottles for the price of 1.

If you have a winning streak of more than 4 races, consult a physician.

Outstanding job of fleet development.

Sounds like some of the key's were
1) Buy in from the racers that this championship had to be on your schedule and supported by the hot racers up and down the coast.

2) Killer Yacht Club with a reputation for great racing.

What other factors (behind the scenes leadership stuff, scheduling, etc. etc. went into making this a signature event and a keystone for building the F18 class on the west coast?

The west coast cat sailors have been leading the trends in the US for years... we need to crib their strategies ASAP!

By my accounting two big success stories ... They started the trend to join Yacht Clubs and race with rest of the world.. (On the Chesapeake... we noticed and copied)

They have the CISA clinics.... (Still a dream on this side. sigh)

We have a CISA equivalent clinic in the North East called the Brooke Gonzalez Advanced Racing Clinic. http://www.sailnewport.org/npt/cliniclanding.aspx

We also have a group of guys that have build a fantastic F18 fleet (virtually forcing me to buy one).
15 boats registered for the Newport Regatta right now. http://www.sailnewport.org/npt/m/_general/clnptregattaentries.asp
We had 17 boats at my first regatta with the new boat a few weekends ago. It's all happening. Finally people are gravitating towards a few good classes instead of 30 boats in 20 different classes.

As too alot of the letters in the finishes. The first two races I sailed the wrong cource. I miss red the sailing instructions.(I'm an idiot)
The third race I lost it at the gate and damaged my back and lost my jib sheet. One crew blew out his knee so my wife sailed in his place Sunday.
Alot of people did the port rounding instead of the proper Stbr rounding as per sailing instruction. Also when it piped up and the flood stacked it up it got nasty.

The winners with 5 bullets out of 6 races.

I thought I saw people rounding A-mark to startboard on the live coverage. I thought it was some special mono-hull regatta funny handshake deal. No protest about the port roundings then?

Chris.

A port rounding is your idea of a weird deal!?

flump, thanks for watching. Sorry it was so choppy. You'd figure that in one of the world's largest cities we would have been able to get decent internet; not so apparently.

Here's an explanation of why we rounded stbd.

http://www.justin.tv/onthewateranarchywest/b/265965857

"Showing some serious performance advantage, the Hobie Wild Cat sails to another impressive win."

Just plain funny! Those boys are good. Don't take it away from them. Check: Wassenar last weekend.................

It is funny, but not in a ha-ha way. When we beat Greg and Jacques at this event last year, nobody jumped up and down and said, "the Capricorn beats the Tiger! Oh, and there were some sailors involved..."

First rate event. Dennis and I sailed poorly, but we had a tremendous time. The real credit goes to Don Atchley, who invested serious time building the San Fran NOOD F18 presence. Way to go Don!

As ever with F18, it was a sincere pleasure to see all my Hobie, Nacra and AHPC friends at one event, racing heads-up. Congratulations to Greg and Jacques, and Pete and James. They put on a solid show of mastery in difficult conditions. I would love to see an event where we all show up and then draw to see who gets what boat... oh... maybe we already have that, and the two teams at the top of the event last weekend have both done pretty well under those circumstances, too.

Rum party - epic. Not one breath about who was on what boat. We were all F18s that night and the whole damn regatta knew it.

Number 2. kiss yeah!

Ole, ole, ole, ole.....ole ole!

kiss yeah!

No one is taking away from the awsome sailing Greg and Jacques did this weekend. They had it dialed! That is the performance advantage... you guys are too funny... and no...not in a ha, ha way. Way too uptight sometimes.

Largest NOOD regatta San Francisco 2010. Largest class F-18 at 21. 3 different manufactures represented. 4 different designs. 2 Different countries represented. 3 states represented. A great event for everyone. Several of the big boats said it was great to have us out there tearing it up. I spoke with the commodore and he said he was pleased to have us there.
One of the nicest clubs on the West Coast said we are welcome back anytime. Good on everyone whatever boat you were on.

Winning form.

boat porn at its best

And, to boot... You already know Pete Melvin is bad butt. Look at
this crossing. On the way to try and catch Greg and Jacques, who were utterly hauling butt.

Our DNF was because a jib sheet got sucked into the spinnaker block so tight we had to go to shore to fix it. After fixing it while sailing down to the start line we saw them start our fleet. I thought they were going to wait just a bit, but...

We did not go in, by the way, it was so nice out there we just sailed around for a while watching the race and ready if they were going to have another.

Jeremy thank you for the publicity support! It was a better event than I even thought it would be. I will put it on the calendar for next year, if all agree.

Later,
Dan

Nice sailing Dan!
http://www.justin.tv/onthewateranarchywest/b/266021207