2001 IDNIYRA North American Championshipby Paul Goodwin - US 46 The North American Championship was held immediately after the World Championship on Saginaw Bay, MI. There was a large pan of ice on the bay, allowing for courses close to one mile long for all of the races. There was a little bit of pressure on the Race Committee because the Coast Guard informed us that an ice breaker would come through the bay on Sunday, and all boats were required to be off the ice. That only allowed for two days of racing. The Race Committee did a fine job, and got in four races for each fleet on Friday, and three more on Saturday. The area for the first day of racing was 5 miles offshore from the launch site, and the day started with fog and no wind. Around noon the wind started to pick up, and we left downwind for the course in light but sailable winds and some fog. Well, the wind wasn't really light, but it felt like it when you were carrying 50 lbs. of gear in your cockpit! We were told the course was located close to where we sailed the last day of the Worlds, so we had an idea of where to go. About 3 miles offshore the location was still not visible, and the shoreline at the launch was disappearing too, so I stopped to get my bearings. Mike Rehe also stopped, and luckily had the previous day's location stored on a GPS. Only another 1-1/2 miles to go! The racing got underway quickly, and the first four races were sailed in moderate wind. A 1/2" layer of crusty snow on the surface of the ice made for slow going at times, although you couldn't tell by watching Karol sail the course. Karol lead the Gold Fleet's first race, and set the tone for the rest of the regatta. The wind picked up significantly for the third Gold Fleet race, putting smiles on most faces (isn't it fun to go fast!). Ron Sherry and Meade Gougeon put some pressure on Karol during the first day of racing, but Karol was always ahead where it counts - at the finish line. Greg Smith and John Harper were also sailing strong consistent races, making for some exciting racing. In the Silver Fleet, Jim Grogan and Andre Baby sailed a really close race (after an initial deep-in-the-fleet finish by Andre in the first race). Duane McDaniels and Guy Lovejoy were also showing some strong finishes on the first day. The second day had clear blue skies and 17+mph winds in the morning. Getting out to the course was no challenge at all, and my little GPS recorded 35mph boatspeed on the downwind run out to the course. The top six boats in Gold Fleet were really mixing it up (with the exception of Karol, who finished with all bullets), and places changed frequently during the laps. Matt Struble and Paul Goodwin came on strong after the wind had picked up, insuring a couple spots in the trophy presentation. Silver Fleet was dominated on Saturday by Jim Grogan, but Andre Baby never let up on the pressure. It was fun watching the rest of the fleet race because the competition was so close. Duane McDaniels, Pete Johns and Guy Lovejoy battled hard on the course, and Scott Root, Mark Isabell, and Bill Coberly rounded out a very competitive group at the top of Silver Fleet. With two days of great racing on the biggest piece of ice I've ever sailed on, it just doesn't get much better. Hats off to the Race Committee, who were working late at night, and on the ice every day before most sailors were eating breakfast, trying to provide the best racing experience possible. Hot food was available on the ice after racing, and the friendly atmosphere brought 11 countries together to share a truly enjoyable regatta.
Gold fleet
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Points ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 P 36 JABLONSKI, KAROL 1 1 1 1 1 1 (DNS) 6.00 2 US 44 SHERRY, RON 2 4 4 3 ( 8) 6 3 22.00 3 US 3662 SMITH, GREGORY 4 5 6 2 5 2 (DNS) 24.00 4 US 4379 HARPER, JOHN ( 9) 6 3 7 3 3 4 26.00 5 G 107 ZEIGER, BERND 3 7 8 ( 23) 2 7 1 28.00 6 US 882 GOUGEON(M), MEADE 7 2 2 4 11 4 ( 17) 30.00 7 US 183 STRUBLE, MATT 11 3 ( 11) 5 4 8 5 36.00 8 US 1183 GOUGEON(S), JAN 10 8 5 6 6 ( 16) 6 41.00 9 US 46 GOODWIN, PAUL ( 17) 14 7 10 7 12 2 52.00 10 US 4175 BRIEDEN, II, BRYAN 5 13 9 8 ( 13) 11 11 57.00 11 US 3456 O'BRIEN, MIKE 6 12 10 13 (DNF) 10 10 61.00 12 US 118 CARTWRIGHT, CLIFF 14 11 13 12 ( 20) 14 8 72.00 13 H 580 TOLSMA, JOHAN 15 9 12 17 9 19 ( 23) 81.00 14 US 4975 EVANS, ROB 13 19 14 ( 20) 19 9 9 83.00 15 US 406 WOODRUFF, PETER 18 15 17 14 10 ( 23) 16 90.00 16 G 551 SEEGERS(S), CHRISTIAN ( 24) 17 15 11 18 15 20 96.00 17 US 5116 CLAPP, DAVE 16 ( 35) 21 19 29 5 7 97.00 18 US 3283 WILLIAMS(S), J. BRUCE 23 10 ( 23) 15 21 20 12 101.00 19 US 4055 STRUBLE(S), BOB ( 38) 20 19 18 12 25 13 107.00 20 H 313 VANDENBRINK(S), HENNIE 12 18 18 21 23 ( 38) 21 113.00 21 US 30 LEBEAU, LEON 22 27 ( 27) 9 16 26 14 114.00 22 US 4192 ROGOSKI(RR), RANDY 21 26 22 22 ( 31) 22 26 139.00 23 US 4009 BRUSH(S), DON 19 ( 42) 31 40 15 18 18 141.00 24 US 3406 HADLEY, JAMES 26 45 29 16 (DNF) 13 15 144.00 25 US 294 LOENNEKE(S), LOUIS ( 34) 30 20 26 26 24 19 145.00 26 R 151 KAPUSTIN, KIRIL 29 24 16 29 24 ( 34) 29 151.00 27 US 610 JONES(M), DONALD 20 21 24 (DNS) 17 33 38 153.00 28 KC 4190 WOLFF, MARK 25 ( 40) 25 24 22 21 37 154.00 29 US 4961 DAVENPORT, JOHN 30 ( 41) 26 27 25 17 30 155.00 30 US 4926 Orlebeke, Steve 28 39 32 ( 39) 14 28 22 163.00 31 H 148 REEDIJK(M), BART 40 23 ( 40) 33 27 27 24 174.00 32 US 4032 SCHUMACHER(S), ROBERT 31 29 30 ( 36) 30 31 25 176.00 33 US 1196 MANCINI SR, ANTHONY 33 25 28 30 ( 35) 30 32 178.00 34 US 4738 PARKER, DICK ( 35) 31 33 28 34 32 27 185.00 35 US 45 SHERRY(S), WENDELL 32 ( 38) 35 31 28 29 33 188.00 36 US 4974 JONES(M), STAN ( 44) 33 34 32 33 35 31 198.00 37 US 4962 LABOZZETTA, VINCE ( 42) 28 36 37 37 36 35 209.00 38 US 4695 KIEFER, MARK 39 32 DNF (DNS) 32 37 28 216.00 39 US 3535 KENT, JEFF 8 16 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 216.00 40 US 4155 LEMBERG(S), RICHARD 37 22 37 25 (DNS) DNS DNS 217.00 41 US 88 BABCOCK(M), BUTCH ( 43) 34 42 35 38 40 34 223.00 42 US 1202 HARVEY(M), DOUGLAS 27 37 41 38 36 (DNF) DNS 227.00 43 US 1854 THIESEN(M), ROBERT 45 ( 46) 43 41 39 39 36 243.00 44 US 4249 KAISER(S), RICHARD 41 36 38 34 (DNS) DNS DNS 245.00 45 US 4626 GERVAIS, PAUL 36 43 39 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS 262.00 46 US 4315 MCDOWELL(S), SCOTT 46 44 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 282.00 47 US 4137 SMITH JR., KEN DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 288.00 Silver
fleet
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pos Sail# Name Race> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 US 3 GROGAN, JIM 1 ( 2) 1 1 1 1 2 7.00 2 KC 4360 BABY(S), ANDRE ( 33) 1 2 2 2 3 3 13.00 3 US 3379 MCDANIELS(M), DUANE 8 ( 15) 3 3 7 8 6 35.00 4 US 4638 LOVEJOY, GUY 3 3 13 4 ( 16) 11 1 35.00 5 US 2360 JOHNS(M), PETE 2 ( 20) 5 6 4 6 14 37.00 6 US 738 ROOT, R. SCOTT 5 5 9 5 8 ( 25) 8 40.00 7 US 5014 ISABELL, MARK 6 9 4 ( 11) 10 4 7 40.00 8 US 472 COBERLY(S), J. WILLIAM 11 7 6 ( 15) 5 2 9 40.00 9 US 5048 PARKER, BRYAN 7 4 ( 15) 7 13 9 4 44.00 10 US 3433 CUMMINS(S), ROBERT 4 11 16 ( 19) 6 7 5 49.00 11 US 5118 Mitchell, Ken 10 24 7 ( 24) 17 5 11 74.00 12 US 4730 LEONARD, DAVE ( 22) 8 12 12 12 19 13 76.00 13 US 3705 HOLMAN, ROBERT 14 ( 19) 17 9 11 15 16 82.00 14 US 1985 Teal, Chris 12 16 11 10 ( 20) 16 17 82.00 15 US 805 PEGEL(M), JANE 9 17 14 21 15 23 (DNS) 99.00 16 US 5144 Rehe(J), Michael ( 36) 23 8 16 14 20 19 100.00 17 US 5143 Abbott, Dave 19 ( 25) 19 17 19 14 12 100.00 18 US 5132 Nevedal(S), Dan 26 13 21 ( 27) 9 12 22 103.00 19 US 4923 Loomis(S), John 20 26 18 ( 26) 23 10 15 112.00 20 H 368 MARONIER(M), HARRY 15 22 (DNF) 13 24 18 23 115.00 21 KC 5001 MORIN, CLAUDE 21 12 25 14 ( 25) 22 25 119.00 22 US 4916 CRUCET(S), RICHARD 24 21 22 28 (DNS) 17 18 130.00 23 US 4911 ZOLL, DAVID 17 ( 29) 20 23 26 26 21 133.00 24 US 5053 REIS, GEORGE 23 18 26 ( 31) 18 24 27 136.00 25 US 1277 Bowman(M), Hal 30 ( 34) 28 25 21 13 20 137.00 26 US 4775 WHITCOMB, EBEN 28 ( 30) 27 22 22 21 24 144.00 27 US 4099 CONDON, WILLIAM 18 14 10 8 (DNS) DNS DNS 150.00 28 US 4065 HAMILL(S), THOMAS 13 6 24 18 (DNS) DNS DNS 161.00 29 US 3590 FIRMBACH, CATHERINE 27 31 31 29 (DNS) 27 26 171.00 30 K 1 WILLIAMS(M), CHRIS 25 10 23 20 (DNS) DNS DNS 178.00 31 US 2237 Dakin(M), Herb 32 32 ( 33) 32 27 32 29 184.00 32 US 3181 BURDA(M), CHARLES ( 38) 36 36 34 29 29 30 194.00 33 US 2138 LONG(M), GEORGE DNS DNS (DNS) DNF 3 31 10 194.00 34 KC 5113 BURTICK(S), THEO (DNS) 37 35 35 30 30 31 198.00 35 US 2 MOTE(M), HARRY 29 28 30 30 (DNS) DNS DNS 217.00 36 US 4643 ZUHLKE JR(M), MARKUS 37 DNS DNS (DNS) 28 28 28 221.00 37 US 4066 HAMILL, ROSEMARY 16 27 29 DNF (DNS) DNS DNS 222.00 38 US 5155 KREMER, GREG 35 35 34 36 (DNS) DNS DNS 240.00 39 US 5172 Betzoldt(S), Glenn 31 DNS 32 33 (DNS) DNS DNS 246.00 40 H 55 EINDHOVEN(M), JAN DNS 33 DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 283.00 41 US 3865 BOWEN(S), TED 34 DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS 284.00 42T US 4762 MCCAULEY, MATT DNS DNS (DNS) DNF DNS DNS DNS 300.00 43T US 5084 MACK, GEORGE DNS DNS (DNS) DNF DNS DNS DNS 300.00 44T US 2183 LONG, GEORGE DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00 45T US 4000 JOHNSON(S), RANDY DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00 46T US 1873 CROASDALE(M), RAYMOND DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00 47T US 4826 CROASDALE, CHRIS DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00 48T US 4915 COOK(S), BOB DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00 49T KC 4992 CHARBONNEAU(S), JACQUES DNS DNS (DNS) DNS DNS DNS DNS 300.00Updated February 19, 2001 |