Time to pick your favorite.

This year's event is being held at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club in Long Beach, California on AHPC F16 Vipers. Many thanks to Greg Goodall and Jill Nickerson for supplying boats for the 4th year in a row. Youth event starts today with a clinic and practice. racing Saturday and Sunday. Adult racing starts Wednesday.

I was told by an Anonymous Weenie that it would be Struble followed by Casey in a very close one. I wouldn't be surprised to find Taylor Reiss, Pease Glaser, or the team of Dennis Key and John Williams in the medals either.
US Sailing's website will have daily press releases here: http://media.ussailing.org/Latest_News/2011/2011_Multihull_Preview.htm

1. John Casey, Dalton Tebo
2. Gary Chu, Norman Chu
3. Daniel DeLave, Eileen Haubl
4. John Giuliano, Peter Giuliano
5. Pease Glaser, Jay Glaser
6. Michael Hill, Daniel Hearn
7. John Hoag, Todd Christensen
8. Dennis Key, John Williams
9. Ken Marshack, Fabrice Trarieux
10. Scott Miller, Hailey Miller
11. Mark Modderman, Eric Raybon
12. Jason Moore, Jacob Sailer
13. Stephen Nelson, Geoffrey Nelson
14. Sarah Newberry, Taylor Palmer
15. Jeffrey Newsome, Jeffrey Fortuna
16. Nigel Pitt, Tammy Pitt
17. Taylor Reiss, Matthew Whitehead
18. Matt Struble, Damon Lacasella
19. Sandra Tartaglino, Glenn Holmes
20. Craig Yandow, Bill Westland

Looks to be a great week of sailing. I'll try to get some things up during the day as competition goes on.

JC has this one wrapped up.

who's the bookie for this event?

Taylor and Matthew.

Here's the list for the Youth event:

1. Abbott (Tucker) Atterbury, Jack Jorgensen
2. Reed Baldridge, Carson Crain
3. Ben Brown, Luc Lisi
4. Zack Downing, Andrew Cates
5. Jack Famiglietti, Brian Firth
6. Jeremy Herrin, Jason D'Agostino
7. Korbin Kirk, Trevor Hecht
8. Stephen Nelson, Geoffrey Nelson
9. Taylor Palmer, Raul Lopez
10. Ravi Parent, Sam Armington
11. Taylor Reiss, Matthew Whitehead
12. Maria Sinagra, Elizabeth Newberry
13. Scott Sinks, Chuck Eaton
14. Nevin Snow, Patrick Snow

Good luck to all,

I don't see a lot of mixed teams in those lists, should we expect to see more of them next year?

I'll take some of that action. As much as I'd like to see our local boys take the gold Struble is taking this one.

2012 is likely to be F18 so no I would not expect to see more mixed teams.

I would expect to see mixed teams only in the new Olympic class following a major recruitment effort by the MNA's for a specific Olympic Class multihull. Once that gets rolling you might see some of these teams in domestic events... Probably a couple of years away.

1. Struble
2. Casey
3. Pitt or Reiss depending on wind

1 - Matt Struble, Damon Lacasella
2 - Pease Glaser, Jay Glaser
3 - Gary Chu, Norman Chu
4 - John Casey, Dalton Tebo
5 - Dennis Key, John Williams
6 - Taylor Reiss, Matthew Whitehead
7 - Nigel Pitt, Tammy Pitt

Casey, Williams, or Pitt stand a real chance to be a spoiler in my prediction if they get their game full-on or the typical LB conditions get a shake up with a weather system. I don't know much about Chu at the helm...so making a wild guess there. Glasers are great sailors with local knowledge (for what that's worth off the beach at Long Beach where the saying is "even if it's wrong, go right"). I haven't seen anyone make Struble sweat in the US in a while.

I agree with Ding, it mostly depends on the boat being used (think of years when the H16 is provided).

I partially agree with Mark. I do think that the mixed-Olympic-thing will lead to a few additional mixed teams potentially submitting petitions (if they haven't already won a qualifier), as they will need these types of events for training and to put on the resume for the Big O. But, I don't think the boat would matter at all at that point (they will need the event regardless of the platform).

Mike

EDIT: Back on topic for this year... If it blows like stink, I'd expect to see Mark Modderman do well.

Struble
Glaser,
JC

Mudderman
Reiss
Newsome

Yandow
Pitt

What do I win?...
hope they have breeze!
Good luck to the Juniors

A boot in the nuts? Awe come on, you had to see that coming.

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Holy quick reply Batman! A new record.

I had in mind an entirely different outcome..

My brass balls... your bare foot...

always two sides of a debate...

Struble on the other hand.... no debate!

As much as I'm cheering for Reiss/Whitehead I don't see them in the top 3. They don't have the tactical discipline and experience (yet) especially mixed in with this fleet, but . . . I do expect them to finish high in their first race (bullet?)for several reasons: they spend alot of time on this boat and will have the youth week and confidence under their belt going on now, the fleet hasn't sorted A/B yet, as well as they will know the nuisances of the course. The rest of the fleet will take a race or two to get it dialed in. I do agree with Jake, only difference is I place more confidence in Pitt. Plus, Jake has over 9,000 posts. That's got to be worth something! Right?

1. Struble
2. Glaser
3. JC or Pitt
5. (here it gets muddy)Chu or Key or Reiss

I'm going with
1 - Struble
2 - Pitt
3 - Casey
4 - Glaser
.....

I'm also predicting that if the Pitt's get two OCS's, they'll sink the RC boat and head for the airport...

Do we need to be reminded of what took place last year?

http://championships.ussailing.org/Assets/Championships/USMHC/2010/results.pdf

The year before that..

http://championships.ussailing.org/Assets/Championships/USMHC/2009/2009+Results.pdf


That might help make the decision.

I'm open and I'm not a betting man.


Mike

Different boat this year eliminating some of the F18 teams from the competition due to weight.

Hope they will have good wind.