J80 North Americans - 2009

[Keith]

Thanks for pointing out my shortcomings alan   I will make sure I do not mention BSailing after I charter out WT for the icicle series.

[Kaos]

   The 2009 J/80 North American Championships proved to be the perfect ending to a great season of J/80 racing.  The best of the best came to Texas to give it their all in a fight for the championship.   Six past North American Champions joined the fleet of 27 boats, in what proved to be almost perfect conditions on Galveston Bay.  The regatta went down to the wire of the final race of the 8 race series, with Kerry Klingler and crew aboard Lifted edging Terry Flynn by 1 point, to win the 2009 North American Championships.  In third place was another past champion, Glenn Darden, followed by Jay Lutz in fourth.  The current Midwinter Champions, The Storck Family, rounded out the top 5.  We went back to our 7th place finisher, Bill Rose and the crew of Kicks to win the Corinthian Trophy.  Congratulations to all the competitors, the fleet was mixed every race through out the regatta, making it the most competitive J/80 regatta I have seen.
   I want to thank this year?s host venue, Lakewood Yacht Club for having us. Terry Chapman, the club General Manager, and his staff did a fantastic job.  A lot work was put in by our race committee, Marc Holdaway, Principal Race Officer, and Dwight Bengston, Race Committee Chairman, did a great job in putting together a very organized group of individual to run all the races.  There were 29 different people helping on race committee on either mark set boats or committee boats, thank you all.  Andrea Todaro served as our Head Judge and Protest Chair person. Thankfully to all the J80 racers, we handled our business professionally on the water and the protest room was never used.  Finally, I want thank Kristen Robinson and the J80 Class for their support and for the party on Friday Night.  Thank you guys the sailors and members of the J80 class, you make events like this fun to put on. Practice up all winter if you can, the 2010 Season is just around the corner, and Marion is hosting the North Americans, followed by the Worlds in Newport.  It is a great time to be in the J80 class.

Thank you to Chris K and all the GBCA members and supporters for you help as well, it definetly was a big team effort.

Robert McMahan
Kaos USA 703

Regatta results are in the archived tab of regatta network and below.



   
1     01 / 1001     Lifted     Kerry Klingler             1     4     1     5     [13]     1     4     5        21 
2     03 / 655          Terry/ David Flynn/ Whalen             3     1     [8]     7     1     5     3     2        22 
3     04 / 1152     Le Tigre     glenn/reese Darden/Hillard             4     2     6     [10]     5     4     2     3        26 
4     13 / usa 803     Painkiller Jane     Jay Lutz             6     [9]     4     4     3     3     7     1        28 
5     21 / 19     Rumor     John Storck Jr             2     3     10     11     9     2     1     [11]        38T 
6     09 / 1173     Lickety Split     Jeff/Greg/Bob Johnstone/Buck/Leonard             5     5     [14]     3     4     6     5     10        38T 
7     18 / USA 44     KICKS     William Rose             16     14     5     [21]     7     11     8     4        65 
8     02 / 122     Infinity     Uzi Ozeri / David Hinrichsen             11     8     2     9     10     [21]     9     18        67 
9     15 / 554     Tiamo     Bruno Pasquinelli             7     10     3     [22]     17     9     10     13        69 
10     12 / 528     YoKo     Michael Lattimore             8     11     9     13     [22]     10     12     9        72 
11     14 / 590     Parsons Project     Paul Parsons             12     7     17     6     11     [18]     11     12        76 
12     25 / 490     Yankee Girl     Claude Welles             13     17     20     2     12     [22]     6     7        77 
13     08 / USA 77     Hammertime     Steven Hammerman             18     12     11     [18]     8     8     16     8        81 
14     05 / 678     Mojito     Forbes Durdin             9     15     12     12     2     [20]     17     15        82 
15     17 / 703     Kaos     Robert McMahan             17     18     7     20     16     [24]     15     6        99 
16     19 / 738     Lucky Frog     Benjamin Schwartz             15     [23]     13     19     6     16     14     19        102 
17     10 / 285     Crush     Mark Gorman             22     [22]     18     1     21     7     18     17        104 
18     24 / 252     80 Proof     Ramon Torres             20     6     15     14     20     13     27/DNF     [27/DNC]        115 
19     07 / 0537     Cluster     Terri Gale             10     16     16     16     [26]     17     24     20        119T 
20     11 / 814     Fired Up     Gary Kamins             14     13     19     [27/OCS]     18     19     22     14        119T 
21     06 / 287     Whiskey Tango     Robert Callahan             19     20     22     8     15     23     20     [24]        127 
22     22 / 176     Bob Dylan     Michael Sudofsky             [27/DNS]     21     25     17     14     12     19     22        130 
23     23 / 828     Ditto     Frank Taylor             21     19     21     15     23     [26]     21     16        136 
24     16 / 336     Andale     Al Poindexter             [27/RAF]     24     24     23     19     14     13     21        138 
25     26 / 586     Harmattan     Dave Leavenworth             23     [26]     23     25     24     15     23     23        156 
26     27 / 368     Hendrix     Kurt VanderWall             24     25     [27/DNS]     24     25     25     25     25        173 


Notes
- Scoring System is ISAF Low Point 2009-2012
- Finishes in [brackets] denote throwouts
- Click on race number to view detailed race information.
Information is final.