2011 San Juan 21 North American Championship Results Posted

[TomD]

Copied from the website at http://sj21class.org/events.html

2011 San Juan 21 North American Championship
Congratulations to Dan Bornarth (all sails) and Hans Lassen (working sales) - 2011 San Juan 21 North American Champions! See below for LuAnn Perins' race recap.
Regatta Results

Working Sails:
1. Hans Lassen, Road Runner
2. Doug Longhini, Kanga
3. Kyle Everly, Dat Dang Boat
4. Bill McClure, Thistledown
5. Mike Chesser, Scuba Cat

All Sails:
1. Dan Bornarth, Black Jack
2. Fisk Hayden, Ole Yeller
3. Branin Thorn, No Quarter
4. Mike Evans, Joyride
5. Jeff Thomas, Duct Tape

We had 21 boats compete in the 2011 North American Championships. Three boats came up from Fleet 54 in Florida, three boats came from Virginia, two boats from Lake Norman in Western NC, one boat (Dick Dommel) that came up from South Carolina, and one couple (Chris and Chris Popich) came in from Seattle and chartered a local boat. There were nine boats in All Sails and twelve in Working Sails.

We had big breeze on the first day. We started the first race in about 12 - 15, with gusts and shifts through 15 degrees. As the afternoon heated up the breeze built to about 18 with gusts to 20+. We got in 4 races; one triangle/W/L, one triple W/L, one double W/L, and one single W/L. The racing was tight, with no single boat completely dominating. There was a bit of gear busting and a lot of keel exposure in roll outs, but no minor injuries other than bruises. Even Judy on Don Juan survived a swim. The final downwind leg to the finish was quite exciting, with one Working Sails boat reporting over 9 knots of boatspeed as he surfed toward the finish. We had clean racing, with no protests in any of the races.

Saturday the breeze was in a more fickle mood. The race committee fired the first signal promptly at 11:00, but abandoned the race after a few minutes due to a huge shift. The breeze then died, and tried to fill alternately from pretty much every point of the compass. We drifted in postponement until almost 1:30, but it was obvious that we wouldn't get a settled breeze of any amount to set a course in, so racing was abandoned for the day.
- LuAnn Perins

[TomD]

Congrats to everyone who sailed! Please post pics and video if you have some.

[Carlton & Aggie]

Can someone post the entire results of each race?

[Capt. Woogy]

Tight racing at the weather mark during Saturdays racing.