J/24 World Championship at Annapolis Yacht Club - Day 2
by J/24 worlds media 6 May 2009 09:26 BST
30 April - 8 May 2009
No wind, no racing
Light air out of the north and a wicked tidal current conspired today to prevent racing in the 2009 J/24 World Championship, being sailed by a fleet of 79 teams out of Annapolis Yacht Club on the Chesapeake Bay.
"We never put a mark in the water today," said Principal Race Officer Sandy Grosvenor. "The wind got up near where it needed to be a couple of times, but there was no comfort factor, given we had a raging ebb tide. It was just a day to be patient and wait."
Grosvenor said early forecasts for tomorrow are so widely varied it was hard to predict what Day 3 of the five-day regatta will bring.
"We'll try for three [races] again tomorrow, and hope for the best," she said.
Results after Day 2: (two races)
Pos | Bow / Sail No | Boat Name | Skipper | Nat | R1 | R2 | Pts |
1 | 37/ BRA 37 | Bruschetta | Mauricio Santa Cruz | Brazil | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2 | 55/ ISV 5239 | Bomba Charger | Anthony Kotoun | USVI | 7 | 2 | 9 |
3 | 16/ JPN 5289 | Three Bond | Tetsuya Matsunaga | Japan | 12 | 3 | 15 |
4 | 68/ USA 5078 | Paraloc | Will Welles | USA | 14 | 7 | 21 |
5 | 21/ ARG 5194 | Carrera | Matias Pereira | Argentina | 8 | 14 | 22 |
6 | 91/ USA 5362 | National Sailing Hall of Fame | Chris Larson | USA | 2 | 22/ZFP | 24 |
7 | 30/ USA 5237 | Hedgehog | Ian Southworth | England | 1 | 24/ZFP | 25 |
8 | 40/ MEX 5324 | Glaceau Vitaminwater | Jorge Xavier Murireta | Mexico | 16 | 10 | 26 |
9 | 58/ USA 58 | Bangor Packet | Anthony Parker | USA | 5 | 22 | 27 |
10 | 17/ URU 5226 | Mojo | Santiago Silveira | Uruguay | 15 | 12 | 27 |
11 | 70/ CAN 2827 | Clear Air | Rossi Milev | Canada | 23 | 5 | 28 |
12 | 73/ USA 5277 | Pop Rocks | Tim Healy | USA | 3 | 27/ZFP | 30 |
13 | 28/ ITA 434 | Fiamma Gialla | Andrea Casale | Italia | 21 | 9 | 30 |
14 | 20/ ARG 5398 | U2 | Joaquin Doval | Argentina | 28 | 4 | 32 |
15 | 65/ USA 2934 | Mookie | Peter Levesque | USA | 10 | 31 | 41 |
16 | 43/ PUR 4583 | Orion | Fraito Lugo | Puerto Rico | 22 | 21 | 43 |
17 | 66/ USA 5419 | Talking Heads | Charles Enright | USA | 24 | 20 | 44 |
18 | 61/ USA 5357 | Beauty | Bill Fastiggi | USA | 20 | 26 | 46 |
19 | 71/ CAN 4865 | Rex | Scott Weakley | Canada | 4 | 50 | 54 |
20 | 77/ USA 5259 | Twins | Chris Zaleski | USA | 17 | 42 | 59 |
21 | 83/ USA 2274 | WIP | Mark Hillman | USA | 26 | 35/20% | 61 |
22 | 29/ SWE 5330 | Sailing Planet | Anna Gunnarsson | Sweden | 29 | 33 | 62 |
23 | 92/ USA 1132 | Spoilsport | Stuart Challoner | USA | 31 | 32/ZFP | 63 |
24 | 80/ USA 4182 | Rabbit Season Duck Season | Paul Scalisi | USA | 42 | 25 | 67 |
25 | 36/ USA 4000 | Mouse Trap | Harry Brown | USA | 50/20% | 18 | 68 |
26 | 79/ USA 3775 | Blitz | Al Constants | USA | 25 | 46/20% | 71 |
27 | 15/ JPN 5317 | Gekko | Tomomi Hatakeyama | Japan | 55 | 17 | 72 |
28 | 45/ USA 5319 | Mr Happy | Bob Harden | USA | 33 | 39 | 72 |
29 | 47/ USA 3577 | Oz | Bill Allen | USA | 37 | 37 | 74 |
30 | 88/ USA 2350 | Tribal Pleasures | David Bonney | USA | 46 | 29 | 75 |
31 | 75/ USA 4041 | Pee Wee | Kirsten Werner | USA | 13 | 63/ZFP | 76 |
32 | 23/ CHI 5225 | EFT Group | Raul del Castillo | Chile | 45 | 31/20% | 76 |
33 | 48/ USA 4047 | Zoom | Chad Olness | USA | 35 | 43 | 78 |
34 | 56/ CAN 4260 | Navtech.ca | Thomas Etienne Barbeau | Canada | 36 | 44/ZFP | 80 |
35 | 10/ AUS 186 | Code Violation | Doug Mc Gain | Australia | 34/20% | 53 | 87 |
36 | 69/ CAN 4013 | Drivers Wanted | Tadeusz Bartlewski | Canada | 54 | 34 | 88 |
37 | 33/ USA 2160 | 3 Big Dogs | Pat Toole | USA | 9 | 80/ZFP | 89 |
38 | 22/ ARG 5403 | | Alejandro Rossi | Argentina | 11 | 78/ZFP | 89 |
39 | 90/ USA 4006 | | Peter Rich | USA | 43/20% | 48/ZFP | 91 |
40 | 24/ CHI 5224 | Mancilla | Per von Appen | Chile | 52 | 40/ZFP | 92 |
41 | 13/ JPN 5179 | Siesta | Wataru Sakamoto | Japan | 80/OCS | 13 | 93 |
42 | 53/ CAN 2113 | Airborne | Erik Koppernaes | Canada | 32 | 61 | 93 |
43 | 32/ USA 4906 | TMC Racing | Michael Whitfield | USA | 55/20% | 38 | 93 |
44 | 19/ ARG 5229 | Akvinta | Francisco van Avermaete | Argentina | 38 | 55 | 93 |
45 | 18/ HUN 18 | Sagem | Farkas Litkey | Hungary | 53 | 43/20% | 96 |
46 | 49/ USA 2920 | Team Rental | Mark Liebel | USA | 47 | 49 | 96 |
47 | 52/ USA 5173 | | John Enwright | USA | 57 | 40 | 97 |
48 | 85/ USA 5350 | Millennium Falcon | Paul van Ravenswaay | USA | 19 | 80/ZFP | 99 |
49 | 87/ USA 556 | Sane Asylum | Brent Ellwood | USA | 30 | 69 | 99 |
50 | 89/ USA 4187 | Meltimi | Mike Hobson | USA | 61 | 39/ZFP | 100 |
51 | 78/ USA 5257 | Mental Floss | Aidan Glackin | USA | 40 | 60 | 100 |
52 | 82/ USA 5296 | Red Dawn | John Wilsey | USA | 49 | 52 | 101 |
53 | 86/ USA 3479 | Rush Hour | Patrick FitzGerald | USA | 48 | 54 | 102 |
54 | 51/ BER 3942 | No Skirt Required | Trevor Boyce | Bermuda | 67 | 36 | 103 |
55 | 54/ CAN 4331 | Adrenaline Rush | Gregory Blunden | Canada | 56 | 48 | 104 |
56 | 44/ PUR 2928 | Urayo | Gilberto Rivera | Puerto Rico | 41 | 65 | 106 |
57 | 74/ USA 374 | Cougar Treat | Brian Smith | USA | 44 | 62/ZFP | 106 |
58 | 63/ CAN 5275 | Whiplash | Brandon Lambert | Canada | 65 | 45 | 110 |
59 | 35/ CAN 182 | Now | Nigel Tunnacliffe | Canada | 59 | 51 | 110 |
60 | 31/ GBR 4064 | Magpie | Nick McDonald | England | 72 | 41 | 113 |
61 | 34/ CAN 1876 | Recidivist | Mike Bond | Canada | 80/40% | 35 | 115 |
62 | 14/ JPN 5260 | Tempus | Masayoshi Hashimoto | Japan | 58 | 60/20% | 118 |
63 | 25/ USA 5079 | Cashflow | Richard Osborne | USA | 63 | 57 | 120 |
64 | 12/ JPN 5271 | Stella No Ko | Sueaki Murayama | Japan | 51 | 70 | 121 |
65 | 84/ USA 3004 | Classic | James Howard | USA | 43 | 80/BFD | 123 |
66 | 26/ USA 3421 | Suspence | Eric Sanderson | USA | 62 | 63 | 125 |
67 | 64/ CAN 1252 | Syrena | Irek Zubko | Canada | 64 | 64 | 128 |
68 | 50/ USA 2917 | Long Shot | John Poulson | USA | 50 | 80/40% | 130 |
69 | 39/ BAR 3380 | Maximum | Colin Symes | Barbados | 74 | 59 | 133 |
70 | 41/ ISV 275 | Island Sol | Thomas Kozyn | USVI | 71 | 68 | 139 |
71 | 46/ USA 267 | Bad Moon | Kelly Holmes | USA | 70 | 75 | 145 |
72 | 11/ USA 2575 | Haywire | Robert Hagan | Australia | 66 | 80/ZFP,40% | 146 |
73 | 81/ BAR 3145 | Hawkeye | Robert Povey | Barbados | 68 | 80/BFD | 148 |
74 | 27/ ARG 5423 | Libertad | Pedro Riquelme | Argentina | 69 | 80/ZFP | 149 |
75 | 60/ FRA 1947 | Bay Gull | Nicolas Mabboux | Canada | 76 | 73 | 149 |
76 | 57/ CAN 3374 | The PeaceMaker | Lee Grant | Canada | 73 | 80/ZFP | 153 |
77 | 62/ USA 2393 | Fugue State | Kevin O'Brien | USA | 75 | 80/ZFP,40% | 155 |
78 | 59/ CAN 2767 | High Strung | David Cobbett | Canada | 80/DNF | 76 | 156 |
79 | 42/ CAN 42 | Jamming | Nicholas Hamblin | Canada | 80/DSQ | 80/BFD | 160 |
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