2019 J/24 North American Championship at Club Nautico Valle de Bravo - Day 2
by Julie & Christopher Howell 4 Apr 2019 01:28 BST
30 March - 5 April 2019
Another gorgeous day in Valle de Bravo, another day atop the leaderboard for Will Welles Bruschetta at the J/24 North American Championship. With boat owner Aroldo de Rienzo aboard as well as Rich Bowen, John McCabe and PJ Schaffer, Bruschetta lodged scores of 1,5,1 on Wednesday. Now able to discard the fifth in race five, Welles has a net score of 7 points in six races of the planned 10-race series.
Tony Parkers Bangor Packet benefited from a solid day to jump into second place overall, after recording a 3,1,3 for 14 net points. Kenneth Porters S moved into third place with 19 points. Twenty-seven J/24s are competing at Club Nautico Valle de Bravo in Mexico through Friday.
Following a brief postponement while the breeze came in, racing got underway in winds of 8-10 knots, which increased to 10-14 with puffs in the high teens. Welles earned his third bullet of the Championship in Wednesdays initial contest, trailed by Porter and Parker. Then it was Parkers turn for line honors, his best finish of the series, while Laura and Ramon Benitezs De colores followed. Leading the fleet back to the docks were Welles, Porter and Parker.
Results after Day 2:
| Pos | Bow Now | Sail No | Yacht Name | Owner / Skipper | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | 1 | USA 5407 | Bruschetta | Will Welles | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 83 | USA 58 | Bangor Packet | Tony Parker | 5 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | 3 | MEX 1585 | S | Kenneth Porter | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| 4 | 42 | USA 2365 | Baba Louie | Mark Laura | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| 5 | 22 | MEX 2128 | Trinquete | Javier Velásquez | 7 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | 78 | MEX 286 | De colores | Ramón Benítez | 8 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 36 |
| 7 | 76 | MEX 4802 | Buenaventura | Erick Castillo Jimenez M | 16 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 42 |
| 8 | 29 | USA 126 | Giggles | Natalie Harden | 9 | 14 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 43 |
| 9 | 7 | MEX 4905 | Talento | Luis Alvarez | 6 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 44 |
| 10 | 21 | MEX 4864 | Mar‑02 | Tito Benitez | 13 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 51 |
| 11 | 86 | USA 2436 | Habanero | Denny Vaughan | 11 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 54 |
| 12 | 60 | MEX 1922 | Capitan Ala Triste | Manuel Romero Lopez | 4 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 14 | 56 |
| 13 | 23 | MEX 4163 | Jambo | ROBERT HIMMELBAUER | 17 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 21 | 66 |
| 14 | 41 | FRA 1810 | Hendaye 64 | Victor Maldonado | 20 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 66 |
| 15 | 39 | USA 2918 | Sea Bags Women's Sailing Team | Erica Beck Spencer | 14 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 19 | 68 |
| 16 | 85 | MEX 4102 | Marina | Teresa Schroeder | 10 | 17 | 25 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 71 |
| 17 | 84 | MEX 4527 | Jot Tub 2 | Jose Luis Rodriguez Pedraza | 24 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 16 | 74 |
| 18 | 8 | MEX 5265 | Caspian | Jorge Castillo | 15 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 21 | 13 | 75 |
| 19 | 2 | MEX 5140 | Matador | Pablo Carvajal Specia | 19 | SCP | 15 | 7 | 23 | 12 | 76 |
| 20 | 32 | MEX 5017 | X 4 | Christian Carranza Rodriguez | 18 | DPI | 24 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 77 |
| 21 | 31 | MEX 2988 (spin 5123) | Digger | Humberto Prtiz Pastor | 12 | 15 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 7 | 79 |
| 22 | 17 | USA 2176 | Evil Octopus | Jasper Van Vliet | 23 | 22 | 6 | 21 | 17 | 23 | 89 |
| 23 | 54 | MEX 2829 | Pegais | Hugo Martinez Rebollar | 26 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 27 | 97 |
| 24 | 59 | USA 1036 | Flight | Randall Rasicot | 22 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 20 | 108 |
| 25 | 27 | MEX 3788 | Asterix | Antonio Jacques | 21 | 26 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 113 |
| 26 | 69 | MEX 5139 | Chaneque | Juan Antonio Uroz Mateu | 25 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 126 |
| 27 | 82 | MEX 4152 | K‑tacho 24 | Esteban de Icaza | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 134 |