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Great News from the 2010 Mercedes J/22 North Americans hosted by the Buffalo Yacht Club this past week: Boats powered by North sails finished 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12,13,14,15! 51 boats sailed in the widest range of conditions possible this past week on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Niagara River. The practice race was cancelled due to lack of wind on Wednesday but the fleet was greeted to 15-20+ mph winds from the southwest on Thursday. The waves were refrigerator size and provided some of the most exciting surfing ever...4 races were sailed in those trying conditions! Friday the breeze was much lighter, shiftier and only one race was sailed as a result. Saturday, light winds and again a huge swell greeted the fleet as well as a lengthy postponement. PRO Hank Stewart (PRO for the Worlds in 2008 and the upcoming Worlds in New Orleans in 2011) made a tough but well accepted call to cancel racing for the day at 1:30pm. When the smoke cleared our team, of Greg Fisher, my wife Jo Ann Fisher, my daughter Martha Fisher and Jeff Eiber, won by five points over Jimmy Barnash (also one of our better Thistle drivers!) and J/22 past President Chris Doyle in third. John Loe (with Charlie Enright) finished 4th, Todd Hiller from Annapolis was 5th and Travis Odenbach was 6th. Full results at http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=2443 For complete information on our North fast J/22 sails, please contact our J22 experts.
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Strong and shifty winds were prevalent at 2010 Stephen Taylor J-22 Circuit Regatta in Oklahoma City. Ten boats participated coming as far as San Antonio, TX. Oklahoma City Boat Club and regatta organizers Ty and Letty Eby were wonderful hosts providing great food and margaritas. Winds on Saturday were out of the south from 15 to 25 mph. With the flat water on Lake Hefner, we pulled the jib cars back behind the screw hole and used plenty of backstay to depower the boat without having to worry about powering through chop. With the very puffy conditions and 20 degree shifts, we found downwind that in the marginal planning conditions that having the three crew sitting on the leeward side of the boat downwind allowed you to sail a bit deeper when the puff hit and the boat did not want to round up. Sunday's winds were a bit lighter gusting to about 18 mph. The winds were less which made finding the next big breeze that much more important. On Saturday it seemed if you just stayed in phase you would do well, however on Sunday, lanes from both side were working and you had to spend more time looking outside the boat. Thanks to the Lil' Hoss team members for the weekend Erin Progelhof and Crawford Milling for doing a great job. Final Results 1st - Jeff Progelhof 1,3,1,1,3 - 9 - powered by North Sails!
2nd - Kevin McConnell 2,2,6,4,7 - 21
3rd - Scott Greenwalt 5,7,5,2,2 - 21
4th - Keith Zars 3,6,2,6,4 - 21
5th - Scott Law 7,1,4,3,8 - 23
6th - Davind Smedley 4,5,3,7,6 - 25
7th - Shawn Cina 6,4,7,5,5 - 27
8th - Kenny Baggett 8,8,8,8,1 - 33
9th - David Bass 9,10,9,9,10 - 47
10th - Letty Eby 10,9,11,10,9 - 49
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Report by Greg Fisher / Will Harris
Great news from one the prettiest Finger Lakes in upstate New York this past weekend. 25 boats sailed in the Jack Rabbit regatta in varied conditions. North Sails performed great and we're especially proud of the performance of one of new customers, Travis Odenbach and his team. Travis switched to North Sails just this winter and made the top ten at the Midwinters (his first event with the sails), was 3rd at the Annapolis NOOD and now takes his first victory over long time North supporters Jimmy Barnash and Kevin Doyle!
Report from North Rep Will Harris:
The inaugural Waterline Systems Great Lakes J/22 Circuit event was the Jackrabbit Rabbit Regatta, hosted by the Canandaigua Yacht Club, May 15-16. The weather was great; sunny with breeze ranging from really light, to pretty $%&? windy. Typical for a Finger Lake, the wind direction varied from really shifty to psychotically shifty. http://www.windwhisper.org/j-22/ For complete information on our North fast J/22 sails, please contact our J22 experts.
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Report by Lars Hansen Dave Cool was one of the early J22 sailors, sailing J22 #20 (#20 still sails on Lake Minnetonka!). Dave was one of those people that got other people involved and excited about sailing J22’s. This was the 12th edition and even though there was no ice to be broken we managed to break a lot of stuff. All the good teams were there: Peterson, George, Steve-O, Bowers, Terry, Miller, Judy, Jappa, Kurt, MB+Nicolle, Roger, Rich and 20 boats total.
The forecast was for winds 25-35mph out of the south southwest and we got every bit of that. My Team of Jon Noller and Rod Komis (sailing on Rod’s boat!) were looking forward to using the new sails that we got for midwinters but with that forecast we chose to use some older sails just in case. I’ve always been impressed with the durability of the North’s and this was no exception. We used some 3-4 year old sails and they worked great! The first race on Saturday was a WL 2, winds around 25, I was so focused on driving, keeping the boat moving fast and not wiping out that I saw very little of the races. We were set up well: shrouds were up 5 half turns from base, the boom had the banana shape going from the massive vang, backstay was in that sweat spot where 2 inches more inverts the sail. Playing the main like a Laser we were fast. We led all the way.
The next race it got windier and it was crazy. We were the only boat to carry the kite and not wipe out.
As such the race was not so much of a race as a survival contest. We had some great moments of speed and won by a lot. We surveyed the carnage around the fleet: several kites and a jib were shredded, a couple of spinnaker poles pretzeled and numerous other bits were broken or bent. After that racing was abandoned for the rest of the day. Great day! Sunday the wind moderated to 15-20 and we had some much closer racing. We had looked at the course before the start and felt the right side by the point was favored. Leading the regatta we had a good conservative start a third of the way down from the boat. Off the line we felt fast but we could not tack for quite a while. John Peterson started near the boat and tacked right away. We went right when we could, then one of those silly inland lake things happened, The boats on the left had great pressure and angle. What to do? As we got out to the right side and saw that Peterson was ahead coming back on starboard we chose to tack to leeward of him and all that did was send us back into the middle while both sides of the race course lifted over us. Ugh We were deep. We spent the next couple of legs trying to get back and salvaged a 4th. The last race we let the other boats dictate our tactics and got a third place finish covering Peterson who wound up second overall.
North Sails won every race and were on board the top five boats. Results http://www.wyc.org/RacingResults/ResultsRaceSeries/tabid/266/Default.aspx For complete information on our North fast J/22 sails, please contact our J22 experts.
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Report by Greg Fisher We are proud to report that 2008 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year, Anna Tunnicliffe, with teammates Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer, Liz Bower, and Debbie Capozzi won the 2009 Women's Rolex held in Rochester. Anna, using North Sails for the first time, won the last 3 races and the championship with a race to spare. Cory Sertl from Rochester was second, Carol Cronin from Jamestown, RI was third and Jen Provan from Toronto was 5th...all sailing full North inventories. There will be numerous accounts of the series that was abbreviated to 2 days of racing first by 40knt breezes and then a flat calm. But the 6 races sailed provided a bit of every condition that could possibly be sailed in October on Lake Ontario! Don't miss the story from US Sailing and then Anna's report on the last day. Here are some pictures...you can certainly get the feeling of the frigid temps!
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Report Charlie Enright North powered boats finished 1,2 at the 2009 J22 East Coasts. Jeff Todd sailed fast and conservatively to win 5 of 6 races! I was sailing with John Loe, we finished 2nd. Jeff showed great speed on Saturday in puffy, flat water conditions, and on Sunday in lighter, lumpier conditions proving that the North J22 designs are true all-purpose that will deliver speed in all conditions! Top 3:
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Report Greg Fisher 39 boats sailed the 2009 NOOD in Annapolis this past weekend...in a mix of tricky sailing conditions. Friday we experienced some beautiful medium 8-12MPH breeze while Sunday the fleet drifted in wind barely above 3-4. Each day the current was ripping and played a major factor in the racing. When it was all over Chris Doyle with team mates Will Harris and Adams Burns from Rochester finished ahead of our own Jeff Todd, the service manager of North Sails Chesapeake. Lee Sacket from Cleveland was third with Jim Barnash from Rochester and Steve Lowery of Chicago rounding out the top five. We were pleased that North Sails were 1,2,3,4,5,7 (Kevin Doyle), 8 (Gene Peters) and 10 (Alon Finklestein). Doyle sailed our standard NB1 main, our Big Foot jib and our FR1 Airx Radial spinnaker. We are impressed on how well Jeff Todd is sailing lately... At Midwinters, where there was a throw out he was second (would have won without one) and at the NOOD he was second without a throw out (would have won with one!). Go figure! One thing's for sure- Jeff is speedy and we appreciate all his help! For complete information on our North fast J/22 sails, please contact our J22 experts. J/22 Sails
Report Greg Fisher | Photos Christopher Howell
Great results from the J/22 Midwinters last week in Tampa. The 28 boat fleet sailed in a variety of conditions with the last race ending in a drifter and the first race taking place in a 20-25 mph blow. We were psyched that the North sails performed super all across the board...winning 5 of the 7 races! Our team of Jeff Eiber and Todd Hiller were fortunate enough to win, North Sails Chesapeake's Jeff Todd with Chip Carr and John Meisner were a close second (would have won without a throwout!) and past class president Chris Doyle from Rochester with brother Pete and Will Harris were third. Chris truly romped in the big breeze and was handily winning going into the last day. North Sails were 1,2,3,6,8,9. Here's a write up on the class web.
3rd place - Chris Doyle, Pete Doyle and Will Harris
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