Phone call from the beach...

Greg Thomas & Jaques Bernier wrap it up NAF18 North American Champs

Olli & Kelli Jason 2nd

Susan Korz & Kevin Smith 3rd

Great sailing and congrats to all!!!!

Congrats to the lady driver taking third!! Congrats and great sailing Susie! It's great to see the small sails really are competitive. I call dibs on crewing next year if I don't have my own boat haha.

What a spectacular event coordinated by a ton of dedicated and talented people. It's only going to get bigger and better in the future!

Anyone have results with boat types?

All numbers under 976 were Nacra. 976 and above were Hobie's. There were no other types of cats at this event.

Mike Hill

Not quite right... 930 was the latest Nacra Number. 964 and 939 were Hobie Tigers. There were 12 Nacras and 26 Hobie Tigers.

Place Skipper Crew Sail Boat
1 Thomas Bernier 1815 Hobie Tiger
2 Jason Jason 1461 Hobie Tiger
3 Korzeniewski Smith 1253 Hobie Tiger
4 Carignan Nadeau 1675 Hobie Tiger
5 DeLave Haubl 1727 Hobie Tiger
6 Lennard Krantz 930 Nacra F18
7 Borg Maguire 1681 Hobie Tiger
8 Casey Williams 325 Nacra F18
9 Tartaglino Remmers 1073 Hobie Tiger
10 Leo McQuilken 1622 Hobie Tiger
11 Sullivan Pierret 1558 Hobie Tiger
12 Hill Conklin 1453 Hobie Tiger
13 Kohl Mosley 347 Nacra F18
14 Ethier Gagne 560 Nacra F18
15 Ingram Ingram 573 Nacra F18
16 Paoli Paoli 1453 Hobie Tiger
17 Lindsay Gray 1670 Hobie Tiger
18 Shafer Pitt 533 Nacra F18
19 Murray Herendeen 964 Hobie Tiger
20 Gillespie Gillespie 563 Nacra F18
21 Mustafa Xavier 1112 Hobie Tiger
22 Blanchette Cromer 1649 Hobie Tiger
23 Batchelor Batchelor 1462 Hobie Tiger
24 Pierret Sullivan 1575 Hobie Tiger
25 Heroux Kong 976 Hobie Tiger
26 Pilon Paradis 1410 Hobie Tiger
27 Klocke Klocke 1783 Hobie Tiger
28 Kennedy Burns 315 Nacra F18
29 Setili Setili 1145 Hobie Tiger
30 Ferrara Zeller 336 Nacra F18
31 Mergl Durocher 1686 Hobie Tiger
32 Stern Isco 351 Nacra F18
33 Palmer Cooley 939 Hobie Tiger
34 Baum Basnight 569 Nacra F18
35 Croughwell Ayscue 1075 Hobie Tiger
36 Vaillancourt Vallancourt 1065 Hobie Tiger
37 Struble Domonique 558 Nacra F18
38 Hawks Van Houten 1525 Hobie Tiger

Matt

I think that the Nacra 569 was the newest at the event. My boat Nacra 930 had Ullman sails and the old style rudders. I recieved it in March 2005.

I can assure you that Murray on 964 was on a Nacra F18. I'm not sure about Palmer on 939 but I thought he was on a Nacra but I could be wrong.

I think it's great that both groups supported the event fully and that we got to really measure the boats against eachother. I sailed right next to Nacra's all week and I couldn't tell any advantage or disadvantage between the two boats. They seem to be very equal on all points of sail. It's an impressive formula. I did notice that the teams with the small sails tended to do better in the light air races. I have no idea if that was related to skipper ability or weight. My guess would be skipper ability.

Mike Hill

Mike,

Mark Murray (964) was on a Tiger. Mark Harendeen chartered it from Scott Hubel who is a Tiger dealer.

Palmer is on a Tiger as well - he's one of our local S.C. guys.

Shows what I know. Ok I stand corrected.