Cavitica wins J/80 North American Championship
by J/Boats 16 Sep 2018 13:45 BST
Cavitica - J/80 North American Championship © Anne T. Converse
The Beverly YC and the local J/80 Buzzards Bay fleet hosted twenty-five teams for their 2018 J/80 North American Championship held on Buzzards Bay.
The fleet was challenged by a wide variety of wind and weather conditions over the three-day event that ran from Saturday to Sunday. In particular, Saturday and Sunday the fleet enjoyed ENE winds in the 15-25 kts range, making for fun, fast planing-mode rides downwind in most races.
In the end, thirteen races were held over the three days, making for exhausted, but happy crews dizzy from having 4+ races of double windward-leeward courses per day. It was hometown hero Chip Johns and his crew on Cavitica that was crowned 2018 J/80 North American Champion, winning by a convincing margin of 11 pts with five bullets.
Taking the silver was the duo of Kevin Hayes and Jeff Kirchhoff sailing More Gostosa and rounding out the podium in the bronze position was John White's USA 1162 from Annapolis, MD. The balance of the top five included J/80 class veteran Gary Panariello on Courageous from San Francisco Bay, California in fourth and Maine's Ken Colburn on Ghost in fifth position.
Event website: www.j80na.com
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Boat name | Owner/Skipper | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | Pts |
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| 1 | 702 | Cavitica | Chip Johns | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 26 |
| 2 | USA 1153 | More Gostosa | Kevin Hayes/ Jeff Kirchhoff | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 37 |
| 3 | USA 1162 | ‑ | John White | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | DSQ | RDG | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 44 |
| 4 | USA 1313 | Courageous | Gary Panariello | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | DSQ | 2 | 2 | 1 | SCP | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 48 |
| 5 | USA 1534 | GHO2T | Kenneth Colburn | 17 | 20 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 83 |
| 6 | USA 1151 | FKA | Les Beckwith | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | RET | 6 | 94 |
| 7 | USA 1150 | Cool J | Alexander Kraus | 4 | 15 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 113 |
| 8 | 1010 | American Prayer | Daniel Cooney | 6 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 114 |
| 9 | USA 151 | Crazy Ivan | Bryan Rhodes | 9 | 8 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 122 |
| 10 | 298 | Warrior | Nicholas Kotsatos | 14 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 122 |
| 11 | USA 364 | Lawyers Guns & $ | Dan Shanahan | 16 | 2 | 10 | 7 | DSQ | 3 | 10 | 7 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 133 |
| 12 | USA 487 | AEGIR | Jack Gierhart | 7 | 14 | 9 | 21 | 8 | RET | 6 | 15 | 4 | RET | 9 | 10 | 10 | 135 |
| 13 | USA 381 | Upsetter | Jason Viseltear | 15 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 136 |
| 14 | USA 11 | ELEVEN | Bert Carp | 13 | 10 | 20 | 22 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 148 |
| 15 | USA 485 | Argo III | Casey Nickerson | 12 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 17 | 151 |
| 16 | usa 270 | Silkie | Jeff Curtis | 10 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 167 |
| 17 | USA 1173 | Blondie | Jason Blais | 19 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 167 |
| 18 | USA 146 | Pearly Baker | Jamey Shachoy | 20 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 11 | RET | DNC | 167 |
| 19 | USA 1152 | Le Tigre | Peter d'Anjou | 11 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 177 |
| 20 | USA 3 | The Party Tree | Samuel Cushing | 21 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 20 | RET | DNC | 199 |
| 21 | USA 1001 | Thea | Peter Pappas | 18 | 16 | DSQ | 20 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 21 | RET | 20 | 21 | 17 | 18 | 227 |
| 22 | 679 | Seabiscuit | David Stowe | 22 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 21 | DNS | DNC | DNC | DNC | DNS | DNC | DNC | 260 |