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Report by Federico Calabrese, North Sails Argentina Here are the great results of this year's South Americans:
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Report by Chuck Allen
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One important aspect is finding a good crew that can commit to the program. It's best to sail with the same people over and over again, so everyone gets comfortable with each other for each maneuver. The more regattas you can do as a team the better. It is very important in the J24 to be at maximum crew weight 882 lbs. This should play into who you choose to sail with. What are some of the costs of running a campaign? Each campaign is different when it comes to costs. A lot depends on what you're willing to pay for as the owner. Sometimes it is easier to keep crew around if you pay for their food, transportation and lodging at regattas. Boat transport to and from regattas will be a cost, especially with gas prices so high. Other costs include regatta entry fees, new sails for big regattas and boat maintenance. What are the important factors in boat tune? Here are a few things I have found to be important, but you will still want to read both tuning guides on our website, because they go into more detail. The keel is a big factor in boat tune. You want to find a class rule book to find the allowable measurements and then make sure your keel is max forward and max thin. A fat keel will be slow and a keel that is too far back will give you unnecessary drag because the center of effort (CoE) in the sail won't be lined up with the CoE in the keel. You want the max headstay length and max J dimension. You want minimum length spreaders and minimum length mast. With your Uppers at tension 20 and Lowers at tension 15 you want a two and a half finger distance on the tuning gauge on the headstay. If your headstay is too tight, move your mast butt aft a fraction of an inch. Looking at your boat's measurement certificate you want a keel that is close to max weight. Is there anything that makes one sailor more successful than the rest? I think there are a few things that can make one sailor more successful than another. I've done a bunch of coaching over the years and I've noticed that some people instinctually have a feel for sailing. Some people don't. I also think that the people that aren't "born with it" can achieve the feel with a lot of time in the boat. I attribute much of my success to spending more time than the competition practicing and racing. Preparation was the key to us winning the world's this year. We spent more time than anyone else prepping the boat and going over it with a fine tooth comb. It paid off when we didn't have a single breakdown in the 30 knots of breeze.
What experience is necessary to be competitive? How can this be obtained? I kind of answered this one in the question above, but I do believe experience can be obtained. I'm a firm believer that hard work and sweat can overcome natural talent. It is tougher to spend the necessary time the older you get. Jobs and relationships start to get in the way, unless you work for North Sails. What factors are important in selecting/finding (or being selected/found by) crew? Besides weight (important to be max weight), it's best to find people you like to spend time with. My favorite regattas are the times I get to stack the boat with a bunch of friends. It makes sailing fun, when everyone gets along. It makes it less stressful when everyone on the boat is laughing and joking between races. I would say it's more important to sail with fun people and try to all improve each time you go out, than sailing with good people you don't get along with and being frustrated by your performance after the regatta. How does one maintain consistent crew? The easy answer is money. The other way is by just making it fun for everyone. People give up weekends, vacation time, time with significant others, money and you won't find anyone on this planet that will do that more than once if it isn't fun. Make the people on your boat feel like they are a part of something. Collectively come up with goals for the boat and have everyone be a part of trying to achieve those goals. Sailing J24s is a team sport and the owner/skipper needs to be a good leader/team captain to keep a consistent crew. What are reasonable expectations for a beginning racer? I would go out and sail a regatta with a crew of friends that have potential and are willing to commit to more than one regatta. I would take the results from that first regatta and then have a goal of trying to place 5 places higher at the next one. Come up with a plan of attack on how everyone on the boat can improve. Set up practice times. Get crewmembers to read articles on tactics, J24 tuning etc. anything that might help. Have crew dinners to discuss things. Take it one step at a time. Sailing is fun. Don't lose sight of that. The worst race you'll ever have will be better than sitting in a bunker in Iraq. Brian Bissell, North Sails One Design Chesapeke, has been competitively racing since 5 years old. He won numerous junior sailing championships including 3 ISSA (High School) National Championships. He was an All-American twice and Honorable Mention All-American once at Georgetown University. At Georgetown they finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the ICSA (College) North Americans. In the J/24 he has crewed in finishing 4th at the 2005 Easter Regatta, 2nd at the 2005 Annapolis NOOD, 6th at the 2005 Midwinters, 1st at the 2005 Worlds, and 1st at the 2005 North Americans. He has skippered in winning the 2005 Marblehead NOOD and 5th at the 2005 East Coast Championship. To contact Brian Bissel, click here.
Interview by Chuck Allen
Dan Borrer Sails the J/24 USA 2436 in District 10 and lives in St. Augustine, Florida. He recently won the 2005 District 10 Championship beating out some great sailors from the region. Congrats on winning District 10!!!! What boats did you sail growing up? Dan - I started sailing around 10 years old out in Colorado in Catalina 22’s and 25’s with my dad, both are popular classes on the lakes out there. As I got older I started to move into The Force 5 and eventually Lasers and just kept competing from there. How many years have you been sailing The J/24? Dan - I bought my first J/24 in 1998, but before that I was bouncing around The Texas Circuit while out in Colorado. In 1989 I took a shot at a Soling Campaign down in Punta Gorda, Fl, where we learned a ton about racing against good guys and how important little details are when campaigning any boat. From 1994-97 I attended Colorado St. and after college moved to Florida. It has been J/24 Sailing since. What do attribute to your recent success? Dan - The team that I sail with is great. We bought new San Diego sails and set the boat up following the North tuning guide and we are just simply fast and making some nice decisions out there on the race course. One thing that helped, was attending the Worlds in Newport, RI in 2000, checking out all the different boats and what they were doing. What is the deal with Borrer Yacht Racing, Inc.? Dan - I am hoping one day to land that big sponsor-you never know…
Dan - Nate Vilardebo-trimmer, Pat Wilson-tactics, Dave O’Riely-Middle and Keith VanLandingham is on the bow. This is the crew we try to assemble for most events, but you know how it can go trying to get everyone together. What are your boat preparations for regattas? Dan - We have an Art Anasov bottom, he is from Tampa/St. Pete, it came out pretty well. We are always tefloning the bottom and keeping her really clean. Using your tuning guide: Our mast is set up perfectly (I think anyway), we use the 20/15 base and keep it to four setting from there. We have played with the mast butt a bit but usually end up where the tuning guide is. Lots of people discuss mast butt locations at regattas. We have our spreaders at minimum, otherwise it is a J/24 and we go sailing. Why did you choose our San Diego Sails? Dan - The groups down here are using your San Diego Sails, so we figured we’ll start there, kind of on the same playing field as everyone else. I would love to try out some Newport Sails-maybe before The 2006 Nationals in Houston. Look at Peter Bream from District 10, he has your San Diego Sails and loves them for the light and sometimes shifty venues and he is the benchmark in our area, winning most regattas. What future J/24 events are on the horizon? Dan - The King’s Day is next then we’ll hit the St. Pete NOOD, The Midwinter’s in Davis Island, Tampa, The Miami Regatta, The Easter Regatta in South Carolina and of course The 2006 Nationals in Houston, Texas. Well Dan, it looks like you’ll be a busy guy. Thanks for taking the time to talk with me, congrats on winning The District 10 Championship and best of luck to you and your team in the future events.
Mike Ingham has won The 2005 J/24 ECC's in convincing fashion. He'll be packing up his boat in the next week to have it shipped to Australia for The Worlds in January. Brian Bissell, sailing in his first large J/24 regatta, showed great potential in placing 5th overall and winning a couple of races. He was clearly the fastest in light air, winning the day on Saturday with a 1, 3, 1. Mike was the fastest in breeze winning four of the eight races. North Sails won 6 out of the 8 races sailed. Top Five: Click here for complete results.
Report by Brian Bissell
Day 1 of the regatta eased some of my prerace anxiety when we came out of the gates hot with two bullets in two races. There was medium breeze and we just focused on conservative, clean starts and relied on our boat speed to get up front. Medium breeze on day 2 provided for some good racing and we ended the day with a 1,3,6. Yeah, we were leading but the competition was still very close and we had to put a few boats on our radar for day 3. On the third day of the regatta, we found out why Marblehead is nicknamed Marbledead. Three races were sailed and the breeze never climbed above 5 knots. The moral of the story was time in the boat. We felt we had a serious edge over the competition having spent 20 straight days in the J24. Our rig tuning was sharp, boat handling was good, brand-new North Sails were crisp and our tactics were sound. Some wise guy once said “practice makes perfect” and though we may not have been perfect, we sure were fast. Final results: North facts: Event website, click here.
Report by Chuck Allen . Photo FluidPhotos.com
For a second straight year a member of Fleet 50-Newport, RI has won the event. Last year Jens Hookensen won in Connecticut. They both used our North Newport Series sails to become champions. Anthony is a College All-American from St. Mary's and can be found on the pro sailing circuit these days. Chuck Norris can also be found on the professional sailing circuit, sailing on Numbers and other big boats, he has won The Etchells Worlds crewing for Ken Read. Chad Atkins works for Guck, Inc in Bristol, RI and is the brains behind their fast J/24 Hulls and one hell of a Laser sailor. Brian Bissell, as you all know, is a College All-American from Georgetown and works for NSOD in Annapolis. And Tim Ripley is from Ireland, who happens to own a wicked fast Italian J/24 that we chartered-do you think he is psyched? Congrats to their team! We have to give credit to Team Bruschetta from Brazil, who travel to most major J/24 Regattas-Worldwide. Both teams used North Sails to finish 1st and 2nd. Quote from Kotoun after getting thrown in the water today by Tim Hotchkiss "How do you like those candy apples?" Kotoun and his team are flying home and go straight to Marblehead, Ma. for The J/24 North Americans. North Sails were: 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th - 5 out of The Top Ten!!!!
Congratulations!
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Report by Chuck Allen
The "North Sails Most Improved Over Last Season Award" will most likely go to Bill Boatwright, who placed third overall. He and his wife purchased a set of Newports this season and really noticed a difference. He'll win a NS-J/24 Rudder Cover!!!! Here's the top 10:
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Report by Paul Bogataj There were only eight J/24s at the J/Fest regatta this weekend; probably a post-Nationals phenomenon. The wind was 8 - 10 knots. We won four races and were fourth in the fourth race (leading the fleet to the "favored" side and there was something better on the outside). We also were awarded the best overall performance trophy for the most dominant class winner (of eight classes). The two next boats were Mousetrap (Harry Brown) and Suspense (Eric Sanderson). We sailed with the 20-year old spinnaker, so that made it more interesting as we watched boats sail faster to leeward of us and we had to really work hard to maintain the inside overlap. That added to the degree of difficulty and we sort of enjoyed the extra challenge! It was fun to be racing again! For more information on North Sails for your J/24 don't hesitate to contact our J/24 Experts! To order our fast J/24 sails, click here.
Report by Chris Snow
The 2005 Edition of the J/24 U.S. Nationals was held May 20-22 on Puget Sound in Seattle Washington. The regatta was expertly run by Corintihian and Seattle Yacht Clubs with Carl Buchan as the principal race officer. The regatta management both on and off the water was nothing less that superb. Local J/24 sailors had been preparing for this event for the last year and it was obvious to all competitors that they had really done their homework. Thanks to Carl, Keith, Harry, Joy and all the Seattle J/24 gang for a great event. Seattle has probably an undeserved reputation as a light air venue and this long weekend did a little to dispel that reputation. We generally had decent wind for the whole regatta and at time there was a more more than decent wind. The weather for the event was quite unsettled and variable. At times we had less than 5 knot and at one point , during the last day, we had over 35 knots! Boats made it to Seattle from all over the US and many traveled from Canada to attend. Vancouver has a strong J/24 fleet and being only two hours drive away there were a good number of boats crossing the border to attend. Now on to the racing.
The best sailed boat award has to go the Mike Ingham and his crew on “Brain Cramp” Mike purchased his, new to him boat, right after the Midwinters in Florida and he has been on a tear ever since. He won the Easter regatta in April in South Carolina and was on fire in Seattle. As the furthest traveled boat, he showed the fleet that having a good crew and really being prepared works. His scores of 3,OCS, 3,1,4,2,1 clearly show that he had speed to burn. Had there been a throwout in the regatta Mike and his talented team would have walked away with the event. On our boat “Bogus” I decided before the regatta started to be very conservative in the beginning and make sure that we were contending for the lead on the last day of the event. With only 4 races sailed in the first two days (the second day was very light and variable) we went into the last day 9 points out of first with three races to sail. I was pleased that we were contending and thanked my crew for keeping us in the hunt. Arriving at the club in the morning we saw just what we wanted. A good solid breeze out of the south, for sure we would be having three races. Our goal in each race was to get in front of “Jaded” Deke Klatts boat that was in first off the line and try to get as many boat between us as possible. This worked wiell in the first two races and going into the last race we were tied on points. The left side upwind was generally favored and so we started a few boats to leeward of “Jaded” and slowly worked our way out on them as we proceeded to the left side of the course. It was windy but manageable. Halfway through the race we were in a safe second place with 3-4 boats between us. Life was good. Three quarters of the way down the final runwith just a beat to the finish coming up we were feeling pretty confident. Then all hell borke loose. Looking back to see where the competition was I could see that it was raining at the weather mark. The wind was filling very quickly and strongly from behind and all of sudden boats were getting knocked down left and right. The wind was quickly moving down the course and with a nice comfortable lead I had my crew take down the spinnaker just to insure that we would stay upright. I wanted to make sure we made it around the mark in one piece! With the wind filling in quickly from behind “Jaded” surfed up to be the next boat behind us, a number of the boats between us had gone to the mat with the squall and so now we were just one boat in front of “Jaded”. Covering them as we went left we kept our lead on them and crossed the line in front and won the 2005 Nationals. I would like to thank my crew of Mark Brink, Andrew Kerr, Graham Biehl and Willen Van Waay for a great job well done.
Photo courtesy Sean Trew North Sails were on 9 of the top 10 boats and won 6 of the 7 races sailed. Again thanks to the Seattle J/24 Fleet for a great event. Top 10:
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Report by Chuck Allen
The annual J/24 Easter Regatta was held this past weekend in Columbia, SC on Lake Murray. Races were scheduled for Friday through Sunday with good old fashion southern hospitality scheduled for the evenings. Forty boats participated in the event. Day 1 saw a postponement on land until about 2:00pm when the breeze filled in from the southwest at a brisk 6 knots (lots of breeze for this lake.) With the left end heavily favored some boats began to stack up. Getting launched immediately were Mike Inhgam on Brain Cramp and Robby Brown on Preparation J. Both boats led the way around the four legger, with the breeze shutting down on the last downwind. Ingham lost his lead, fishing third, Scott Nixon made a nice comeback to score a second and Robby Brown won. This would be it for day 1 racing. Much to our surprise a Budweiser truck had pulled in and set up camp for the weekend-everyone quickly forgot about light air sailing. An excellent pulled pork barbeque was served that night. Day 2 looked to be much more promising with the wind filling in from the east, known to locals down here as "the damn/smokestacks" direction. The race committee did a wonderful job by pulling off four great races, one after the other. Ingham picked up where he left off by leading the pack again with Nixon on his heals, the two boats never looked back finishing one and two with Team Tarheel close behind. Race two saw a new player arriving-Dan Borrer on Jesus Lizard coming into the mix. With the purchase of his brand new North San Diegos he had something no one else had on this day-speed to kill. Robby Brown would win this race followed by Borrer and Anderson on Dirty White Boat. Race three saw Borrer and Brown swapping positions followed in by Howard aboard Classic, also the winner of the North Sails Rudder Cover at the raffle this same day. The forth race this day, you could notice things lightening up from 6-9 range to 2-6 and possibly even lower. Borrer once again got launched winning the five legger with ease, Captain Consistent-Mike Ingham would roll in second with Nixon on his heels to nab a third. Only 11 boats would finish inside the time limit, scoring the remainder of the fleet : number of finishers plus two. You have to hand it to the RC-Four races in one day on Lake Murray can be challenging and they pulled it off-Great Job. Beer, Burgers and College Basketball would rule the night. Going into Day 3, with two races scheduled before haul out, Ingham found himself with a one point lead over Nixon and three over Borrer-the pressure was mounting. Race 1-we are not sure what Ingham had for breakfast but he got poked to have a three length lead at the top mark-never looking back he would go on to win by around a minute over the field. Classic would finish second with Nancy Zangerele aboard Ghetto-Booty (that’s right) taking a third. Now Ingham had a comfortable six point lead over a tied Borrer and Nixon. The last race would see a huge lefty kick in at the start, Ingham had won the pin and got to top mark with a lead of ten lengths or so. Borrer, Team Tarheel and Robby Brown would all be in the mix. All Ingham had to do was to finish in the top eight, he would go on to place forth in the race with Team Tarheel, Borrer and Robby Brown rounding the top three. Ingham would be The 2005 Easter Regatta Champ, followed by Dan Borrer, Scott Nixon, Robby Brown and Hobie Cadieux. The huge rented crane was on time, hauling forty boats in record time. The awards were handed out overlooking the beautiful lake and some nice speeches were made. When it was all said in done: North Sails customers littered the leaderbard. For complete scores, click here. North Facts: For more information on North Sails for your J/24 or tuning advice to help your team sail faster, don't hesitate to contact our J/24 Experts! To order our fast J/24 sails, click here.
A view from Anthony Kotoun, ISV 2329:
The 05 Midwinter's was our first major regatta. I had bought 2329 in the spring of last year and fixed her up by myself with the watchful eye of Karl Anderson. We sailed the summer series in Newport and were competitive but were not sure about the National scene or sailing in open water! We arrived many days early to sort out some "will do it later" items as well as to get a jump start on avoiding that nasty New England Weather. Figured it was much nicer to wet-sand in 70 degree weather than 35 degree water! We were able to go out for a couple of short sessions before the event started and lined up against Snow, Brazilians and Ingham. It was pretty shifty so we were not able to take too much away but we definitely weren't slow. Can't tell you what a relief that is... When you fare your keel "in house", you just don't know till you line up what you got. Man was it nice to hear the first words of, "Higher and faster". One step further from finishing last I thought in the back of my mind. Day one was a great day of sailing. Not much beats a day of "top of the genoa" and marginal chop. R/C did a great job of getting off four races. Since this was our first official regatta, we went for the standard North Set up knowing it was a great staring point and very simple to figure out. Our mast butt was set at 130 mm. In general however we found our boat like to have one more turn on everything. We would set up according to the North Guide and go and test. Perhaps it was our old boat folding in half but it just felt stiffer and felt like it had more top end speed capabilities if we did the extra turn. We have dyaform lowers and standard uppers and forestay. No hidden ideas there with the mismatch standing rigging other than that is what was lying around at Karl's Boats Shop! The following points I would say are what kept us going really fast. Upwind: - You must have someone calling the wind gusts. He must be loud, consistent and good. The 24 goes so slow when heeled over, you must do all possible to keep it on its feet. Having a good breeze caller allows the helm to have the traveler down and be a little pinched AS the gust hits the boat...NOT AFTER! The guys on the rail kept saying it felt like the gusts had no punch to them. However, it was proper use of Backstay, Vang, Traveler and tiller BEFORE the gust hit that allowed the boat to stay on its feet and keep trucking! - Keep it flatter than you think. In race three for the day, we were over early and were not called back for 45 seconds. However, we finished 11th. This trip through the fleet allowed us to observe most of the other boats. Many were usually heeled way too far over. In the back of the fleet there are usually not too many lanes of fresh air. By sailing much flatter than the boats in front and to leeward of us, we were able to create lanes for ourselves while shutting down lanes for others. Downwind The whole crew steers the boat. Luckily, my crew is composed of very excellent sailors who could helm just as well and they have a great since about how and when to use the weight to steer. Spin trimmer (Chuck Norris at 230 lbs) usually does the fine tuning by shifting weight from outside leg to inside leg. Every once in a while (maybe every 45 secs) he will take an extra step out or in accentuate the movement. However, the twing person is the key to making it happen. Our twing guy, Chad Atkins, weighed 190 and was not afraid to get aggressive. He was given the full go ahead to use his INSTINKES and not wait to be told when or where to go. His key signal was the communication from the trimmer to the helm. When the Twing guy, Chad heard the trimmer, Chuck yell to the helm that pressure was light, Chad would give a big slide to leeward to help head up and get some pressure in the kite. We all know that when the trimmer say it is getting light that we head up...so why not just have the weight shifted to leeward so the boat would head up on its own? When Chuck would say, "Pressure on" Chad would take big jump to the windward side and help force the boat down. Every one on the boat would do a minor shift to windward or leeward but it was the twing that took more than a step. Try it next time you are out and it feels like magic. If you crew is not ready for that level, let them drive for a few seconds and let the helm go up front and jump around. They will feel that tiller tugging them around and have a new understanding of how powerful weight movement can be. On the lighter days, we still found ourselves with a tighter rig than we thought but it seemed to be going fast so we didn't change it. We again were very conscience about weight and tried to get weight in BEFORE the lull came. If you screw it up and find your boat with too much windward weight in a lull, the boat wants to bear off. You then loose apparent wind and this massive spiral death grip gets a firm hold on you. It can take minutes to get the craft going again. Just pray you don't have to tack before you are going again. So a little "Pre Lull" weight movement to leeward can help you power though the lull to the other side with little disruption to the boat and its ever so delicate balance. For more information on North Sails for your J/24 or tuning advice to help your team sail faster, don't hesitate to contact our J/24 Experts! To order our fast J/24 sails, click here.
Interview by North Rep Robby Brown (SW Florida)
How many years have you been sailing J24s? Peter - Since 1984, but only locally in the PHRF events until1998 when we sailed in the Midwinters at Key West. This was our first travel regatta. Our traveling program started slowly after that, but shifted into high gear after winning our 2000 districts and attending the Worlds that year in Newport. How many times have you won the St. Petersburg NOOD Regatta? Peter - We have won the regatta each of the five times that I have sailed the event: five of the past seven years. Our team consists of Thistle sailors who have competed in St. Petersburg this time of the year for many years at the Thistle Midwinters. I feel this gives a “home away from home advantage here.” (Peter’s team also won the Southeast Regionals at this venue to qualify for the 2005 Worlds in England) Who sails on your team? Peter - Our team consists of Paul Abdullah-trimmer, Scott Griffin-tactician, Scott Smith-mast, Chris Smith-forward, and myself. Our team has been sailing together for many years and we all sail competitively in the Thistle class as well. Sailing as a team and individually in our Thistle programs keeps us at the top of our game. What are your boat preparations for regattas? We take extremely good care of our sails between regattas. The sails are cleaned and dried after each event. They are then stored in a climate-controlled environment. Our boat goes into storage between events and the shrouds are clipped so that they can be returned to the proper settings easily when the boat is rigged for the next event. It is important to insure the least amount of expenditure of time to get the boat ready at the regatta site for each event. What style of North sails do you use? Peter - We choose the San Diego cut. We felt that they fit our rig in the late 90’s as we had the old-style softer mast that had more bend characteristic. Since then we have stuck with them because have been very pleased with the performance of the sails and like working with Chris Snow. We feel he is very accessible for questions and assistance when we need it. What are your future sailing events in the J24? Peter - In the J24 we will be focusing on our fourth World Championships effort. We are planning to attend the Worlds in England in September. This will prevent us from sailing in the North Americans in Marblehead. We will be doing a warm-up regatta before the Worlds, but we will not be able to attend the Nationals in Seattle due to conflicts with our Thistle schedules. We will be staying busy with our Thistle sailing to keep our sailing skills sharp. Congratulations again to Peter and crew on their victory. We wish them luck at the Worlds. Peter, Paul and Scott also choose North for their sailmaker in the Thistle class. Good luck to them there too. For more information on North Sails for your J/24 please contact our J/24 Experts! To order our fast J/24 sails, click here. For more information on North Sails for your J/24 please contact our J/24 Experts!
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1st Dag Von Appen (Chile) 
The winner of 2005 North Sails-Fleet 50 "Most Improved" Award goes to USA 355,
Bill and Louisa Boatwright. The Boatwrights placed third overall, in probably the toughest
fleet in North America, Fleet 50-Newport, RI. "Consistency was the key", Bill claimed
after a couple of beers. Bill and Louisa sail with our Newport Upwind and San Diego
Downwind sails. The trophy was a North Sails J/24 Keel Cover, already in use.
What are some things that are necessary to run a successful sailing program?
Report by 
Promptly after a celebratory weekend in Newport, RI for winning the 2005 J24 Worlds in Weymouth, England, we were on our way to Marblehead with the Bomba Charger in tow for the J24 North Americans. Even though we were still reeling from the big victory abroad, we knew we had a job to do and got right down to business. Anthony Kotoun, Chuck Norris and myself remained from the team that went to worlds and two new faces were introduced, Morgan Paxhia and Steve Kelly. This meant that I was no longer the youngest crewmember and thus didn’t have to jump in the cold water to clean the bottom each morning. Sorry Steve. I can’t speak for the rest of the crew, but I was pretty nervous going into Day 1. Comfortable with the fact that we had just been sailing J24s for 20 days straight, I still didn’t know what to expect from the competition and felt that anything short of a 1st place finish would be disappointing.
2. Mark Hillman, 40
Anthony Kotoun and his team of Chuck Norris, Chad Atkins, Brian Bissell (North Sails One Design Chesapeake) and Tim Rippey have won The 2005 J/24 World Championships in Weymouth.
Congrats to Anthony Kotoun and his ISV 2329 Squad on winning J/24 Fleet 50 for
a second straight year!!!! Attached are the season results. North Sails were on 9 out
of the top 10 and improved to a 75% market share.
Kotoun is currently racing The Worlds in Weymouth.
Congratulations to Peter Bream and crew on their victory in the 2005 St. Petersburg NOOD regatta. Peter sailed well consistently and avoided penalties to finish with an impressive win including winning both races on the final day.
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