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J24 North American Championship 2012 Final Results
J24 North American Championship 2012 Final Results
Updated Saturday, Nov 17, 17:44pm
Place |
Bow # |
Skipper |
Sail # |
Total |
Race 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| 1 | 19 | John Mollicone | 5235 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | (9) | 6 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | 32 | Rossi Milev | 5483 | 34 | 8 | 1 | (15) | 12 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | 21 | Travis Odenbach | 5432 | 40 | 5 | 6 | 8SCP | (10) | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 4 | Peter Bream | 5287 | 41 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | (30DNF) | 7 | 15SCP |
| 5 | 11 | Mike Ingham | 5443 | 43 | (12) | 4 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| 6 | 28 | Carter White | 2785 | 44 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | (12) | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| 7 | 20 | David Van Cleef | 5277 | 45 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | (11) | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | 37 | Greg Griffin | 3244 | 63 | (16) | 16 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | 15 | Robby Brown | 799 | 65 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 9 | (23SCP) | 8 |
| 10 | 1 | John Denman | 5430 | 74 | 7SCP | 8 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 13 | (30SCP) | 10 |
| 11 | 9 | Ron Medlin Jr. | 1829 | 91 | 7 | 19 | 8 | 15 | (22SCP) | 3 | 17 | 11 | 11 |
| 12 | 34 | Mark Pincus | 3416 | 107 | 15 | 11 | 12 | (25) | 14 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 14 |
| 13 | 25 | John Heaton | 592 | 108 | 22 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 6 | (25) | 15 | 15SCP | 18 |
| 14 | 18 | Clark Dennison | 2291 | 118 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 22 | (24) | 18SCP |
| 15 | 23 | Frank McNamara | 4202 | 130 | 6 | 20 | 22 | (29SCP) | 25 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 20 |
| 16 | 3 | Michael Pentaleri | 3895 | 134 | (26) | 22 | 16 | 24 | 12 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 13 |
| 17 | 5 | Bill Derr | 3740 | 134 | 13 | (24SCP) | 19 | 13 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 20SCP | 17 |
| 18 | 14 | Downing Nightingale III | 1915 | 137 | 14 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 21 | 21 | (30DSQ) |
| 19 | 24 | Rathbun/Promer | 4242 | 138 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 20 | (30DNS) |
| 20 | 7 | Rob Wetmore | 2573 | 140 | 23 | 10 | 25 | 21 | 24 | 11 | 16 | 10 | (30DNS) |
| 21 | 31 | Dick Tillman | 1451 | 147 | 19 | 25 | 23 | (27) | 13 | 26 | 12 | 13 | 16 |
| 22 | 6 | Robert Gibbs | 2827 | 156 | 20 | 15 | 26 | 18 | (30SCP) | 23 | 19 | 14 | 21SCP |
| 23 | 13 | Paul Anstey | 451 | 162 | (24) | 24 | 17 | 14 | 24SCP | 22 | 23 | 19 | 19 |
| 24 | 10 | Jim Farmer | 5206 | 178 | 21 | 23 | 21 | 28 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 27 | (30DNS) |
| 25 | 30 | Charles Bumgardner | 555 | 186 | (28) | 26 | 28 | 16 | 27 | 20 | 20 | 26 | 23 |
| 26 | 29 | Eric Gotwalt | 2739 | 187 | 17 | 28 | 27 | 23 | -29 | 26 | 22 | 21 | |
| 27 | 8 | Robert Ramsey | 4174 | 188 | 25 | 27 | 20 | 22 | (28) | 24 | 25 | 23 | 22 |
| 28 | 17 | Rick Jarchow | 216 | 190 | 27 | 9 | 24 | 17 | 26 | 27 | (30DNS) | 30DNS | 30DNS |
| 29 | 27 | Brad Cummings | 3733 | 234 | (30DNS) | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 30DNS | 30DNS | 30DNS |
Manto Strong: A Sailing Community Picks Itself Up After Sandy
By Airwaves Staff Writer Elizabeth Dudley
Mantoloking, New Jersey is a predominately sailing community built on a barrier island. For the past century, residents have added bulkheads to their properties and built dunes on the ocean to keep the island from naturally shifting so that houses and streets would stay intact.
This small community received a devastating blow from Superstorm Sandy. In the words of Annapolis resident and sailor Ashley Love whose parents have a house on the island, “[Today] Mantoloking is a post-apocalyptic war-zone. 200 out of 500 houses are damaged, 60 are completley gone. As in gone, not a splinter of them left.”
As a result of the storm, seven new inlets from Point Pleasant to Cap May cut their way through Long Beach Island as they would have naturally if not for dunes and bulkheads. Two of those new inlets are in Mantoloking and are the cause of the loss of 30 some homes.
Dunes are gone and beaches houses are suspended 15 feet in the air by their pilings. Love noted that one house “looked like a doll house” with one of its walls completely ripped off revealing the contents of an otherwise intact house.
Very few Mantoloking residents stayed during the storm. Once the winds and the rain subsided though, in an effort to get correct and timely information out to home owners, one boy who had stayed to brave the storm, ventured out in his wetsuit with a GoPro. Maneuvering around downed power lines and gas leaks, he took pictures to prove which houses still stood, which were damaged and which were no longer.
The day Sandy made landfall in Mantoloking, Love was out of the country for work. When she began receiving news of the devastation, she immediately reached out to her friends and neighbors, mainly sailors, for help in collecting supplies.
Love was overwhelmed by the response. She said her friends even went to Davis’, the local Eastport bar frequented by the sailing community, to collect money and canned food from the kitchen. Tarps, army bags, sheets of plastic, gas cans, batteries, screws, tape, extension cords and rope were all collected in her apartment building while Love’s neighbors kept watch over it and helped her load it into her car.
At Home Depot, Love and her sister were touched by yet another sailor who had recognized her laser dolly. He helped them use a piece of wood to make a cart out of the dolly so that they could quickly fill their car with plywood and begin the trek north.
Back in Mantoloking, a week after Sandy had hit land, the gas system was being flushed and houses were being assessed by the authorities. Those assessed received either a red or green tag. The Love family house received a red tag which meant, “Enter at your own risk”, which for the Love’s, added a sense of excitement.
Love writes, “We’re sailors! We are used to standing on uneven surfaces. We are used to putting ourselves at risk for the highest reward. Weather doesn’t hinder us; we go into it willingly for the thrill of adventure. You can’t be rewarded for sitting still.”
So, dressed in a ski helmet, drysuit, gloves, tool belt and GoPro head cam, Love prepared to enter her family’s home. She was accompanied by a fellow sailor and neighbor who had abandoned working on his own house to be the first to enter the Love’s house. The family was also soon joined by a former crew on the Love’s E-Scow, Matthew Sullivan, who drove all the way down from Boston to jump into the thick of it and help get the Love family back on their feet. The family says that because of his support, they were able to get through that first crucial week.
Excitement mounted as more and more family treasures were passed out of the house and another group of neighbors who had fared better in the storm, offered their house as storage. And so Love and her neighbor spent the day salvaging what they could and preparing the house for the snow storm that was still to come.
Compared to the damages others sustained in the storm, the Love family was lucky. But they also felt as though sailors and the sailing community are well equipped to deal with events of this nature. Love writes, “From keeping an eye on the weather, dressing for bad-weather and preparing boats for bad weather […] our tools are at an arm’s length away and if they’re not, the guy you sailed with last week or your neighbor has what you’ll need.”
“If a ship goes down, if a house goes down, we know we’ll all be there be build another one so we can keep getting back out there into the fray. A red label on the door is not going to prevent us from moving forward. Our sailing community just took a wrong shift and got into a major collision that cost us places in the race, but that just means we’re going to steer the boat down a new course, without wishing we’d done something differently. Shifts come, waves come, storms come, but the bottom line is the crew is alive and healthy. Everything else can be replaced because we know we have each other and we have the memories that will still live in everyone who we shared the good times with before.”
With the help of the Facebook group Mantoloking/Bay Head: Sandy Recovery started by Love and Sullivan, information is being shared quickly. People and their belongings are being brought back together like the woman who thought she had lost everything until a post in the group informed her otherwise. Names of plumbers, contractors and engineers have been circulating as well as information on rerouting mail and back on election day, how to vote. It is an open forum that is making a difficult situation just a little bit easier.
The community of Mantoloking has a long road ahead of itself but most are prepared and ready to move forward. The people of Mantoloking are “Manto Strong” because they’ve always lived by “whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”. They have come together as neighbors, as sailors, as a community, and they will only be stronger becaus
e of it.
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• Knife
• Pen
• Tape
*See chart to select the right fid length.
Measuring and Marking the Eye
A
- Mark the rope at one full fid length from the tail end (1).
B
- Form the eye to the desi
red size, laying the rope’s body alongside the tail. - Mark the rope’s body (2) adjacent to 1 and again (3) adjacent to the rope’s tail.
Closing the Eye
C
- Tape the rope’s tail to the fid’s angled end as smoothly as possible.
- If using a closed thimble or hardware, place it in the eye.
- Insert the fid into the rope’s body at 2, running the fid down the core.
D
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E
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- Mark the tail where it exits the rope’s body (4).
- Grasp the tail, and slide the rope’s body up the tail toward the eye about 3 inches.
- Cut the tail at 4 at a 45-degree angle.
Burying the Tail
F
- Grasp the eye, and smooth the splice down the rope’s body to draw the tail end back up into the rope’s body.
Whipping or Stitching
This splice is more than twice as strong as a knot — even before whipping or stitching!
A brummel or whipping will help to prevent no-load separation.
Eye Splice Instructions
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Feeling the Need for Speed?
An Overview of the North American Speed Sailing Championship Invitational and Q & A with the event’s Winner, Rob Douglas.
By: Maggie Lumkes
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This October, Martha’s Vineyard was host to thirteen of the world’s fastest sailors. No, not on sailboats, on kiteboards. The Black Dog and Lynch Associates sponsored this year’s North American Speed Sailing Championship Invitational. The two week-long event was held on 3 different courses around Martha’s Vineyard. I have the pleasure of working with the event’s PRO Brock Callen Sr. who would show me the courses and walk me through what it takes to make an event like this happen from the RC perspective.
Here is a short breakdown of how this kind of event works:
Over the two week event, the PRO and Timekeeper meet daily to go over forecasts and game plan for course location. If the wind is less than 20 knots sustained, they generally do not attempt a heat. Each “heat” is an hour long during which each “rider” is allowed to run the 250 meter course as many times as he or she possibly can. At the end of the hour a red flag is raised signaling to the riders that the course is closed. During that time, the course can be adjusted to the breeze, or picked up for the day. The course is either port or starboard, and it is set square, or at a slightly deeper angle off the wind for the riders. Each rider has at least two boards, one for port courses, and one for starboard courses.
The day I was lucky enough to be the safety boat, was the day before Hurricane Sandy hit – so we were able to get 3 heats in the big breeze. A heat only counts when there are two riders with average speeds over 35 knots! This process of running heats continues over the two weeks, to get in as many as possible. This year, 10 heats counted towards the final results.
When it was all said and done, one rider was consistently at the top off the pack. After the event, I got a chance to talk with the winner and current world speed record holder, Rob Douglas, and ask him about what it takes to be a competitive speedsailor. Here is what he had to say:
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Q) Can you describe what kind of training it takes to prepare for a 2 weeklong event, both mentally and physically?
A. The NASSCI happens in October, so I’ve been sailing regularly since April, 3 to 4 days a week and my physical sailing condition is at its annual peak. Mentally, the NASSCI is actually a nice break. We have 2 weeks to compete and this reduces the stress vs. a short event with light winds where anything can happen. The speeds are also usually below 50knots and this is not stressful compared to almost 60 knots in a 10 ft wide trench.
Q) What were some of the strengths you had going into this event over your competition?
A. Equipment! It’s a big advantage for me. Cabrinha kites are powerful, predictable and stable. Mike Zajicek is the best board builder in the world…….my boards are now in their 4th generation of development!
Q) How do you make your final board and kite decision’s going into each heat? Can you talk a little about the different types of boards you have and what they are designed for?
A. Wind speed, wind angle and wind quality usually determine my equipment choices. Sometimes other race factors go into the decision process. i.e. what are the top 5 riders doing and what is the current event standings. I use either a speed board or a slalom board……..speed board in winds over 25kts and slalom board in winds below 25kts.
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Q) How do you stay consistently at the top of your field?
A. Consistent gear development; physical conditioning and time on the water!
Q) What do you want people to know about speed sailing?
A. Speed sailing is the oldest discipline in sailboat racing. Who is the fastest from point A to point B? Whether it be from New York to San Fran……the Grand Banks to Gloucester!
Q) How many events a year do you compete in, and what is next for you?
A. I usually compete in 5 to 6 kitesurfing events per year. The next event: world speed sailing record attempt in France during Nov/Dec 2012
Q) Can you describe the different types of kite boarding competition? Obviously you are very involved in the speed sailing side of things but, now that course racing has been added to the Olympics, is that something you are considering?
Speed, Course, Slalom, Freestyle, Wave and Long distance are the disciplines within kitesurfing. The Olympics is something I am NOT considering. I want to sail and train in windy conditions…..the Olympics is a light wind event.
Q) How did you and your brothers get into kiting, do you push each other to get better, train in the cold, try new equipment, what is it like having your family to train with?
A. Its great having brothers to kite with………I wouldn’t be kiting if it wasn’t for them. Who else is going to catch and land the kite when it’s blowin’ 50kts!!!!! lol
Q) What do you recommend for people who want to get involved in speed sailing?
A. Do it! We need more sailors, more ideas and more innovation within the sport of speedsailing!
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