2019 J 105 North American Championship at Corinthian Yacht Club - Day 1
by Julie & Christopher Howell 7 Sep 2019 06:14 BST
6-8 September 2019
2019 J 105 North American Championship © Bruce Durkee
Eighteen teams gathered for excellent fall conditions in Massachusetts Bay on the initial day of the J/105 North American Championship hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA. Winds predictably started off from the Northeast and clocked East and Southeast as the day went on. CYC PRO Mark Toso got off three races for a action-filled first day of competition.
Taking the first race of the championship was Canadian boat The Usual Suspects, led by skipper Terry Michaelson, followed by Bruce Stone and his boat Good Trade in 2nd, and Texan Ken Horne on Final Final in 3rd. In the second race, Horne took 1st, Stone and crew were 2nd again, and fellow Californian Tim Russell and Ne*Ne came in 3rd. For the 3rd and last race of the day, a pair of local boats, Charlie Garrard's Merlin and Steven Goldberg's Air Express, were 3rd and 2nd respectively, while Good Trade took 1st, and moved into 1st overall after Day One. Ken Horne and Final Final was in 2nd, and local favorite Merlin, skippered by Charlie Garrard, 3rd.
While Good Trade has a healthy but by no means insurmountable lead, the battle for 2nd through 4th places continues to be tight and hard fought, like the previous warm-up regattas, the Ted Hood and prior to that, the Marblehead NOOD.
Results after Day 1:
| Pos | Bow No | Sail No | Yacht Name | Owner / Skipper | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | 10 | USA 96 | Good Trade | Bruce Stone / Nicole Breault | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | 9 | USA 396 | Final Final | Ken Horne | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 19 |
| 3 | 14 | USA 3 | Ne*Ne | Tim Russell | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 23 |
| 4 | 13 | USA 635 | Merlin | Charlie Garrard | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 23 |
| 5 | 18 | CAN 293 | The Usual Suspects | Terry Michaelson | 1 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 43 |
| 6 | 2 | USA 489 | Allora! | Alexander Clegg | 13 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 44 |
| 7 | 3 | USA 620 | Aqua Boogie | Brian Yanofsky | 11 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 51 |
| 8 | 5 | USA 398 | Blown Away | Jon Samel / Cheryl Harvey / Robert Mann | 4 | SCP | 5 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 60 |
| 9 | 12 | USA 579 | Knotless | Ken Bowden | 7 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 61 |
| 10 | 17 | USA 456 | Sterling | Mark Lindquist | 14 | SCP | 10 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 66 |
| 11 | 6 | USA 345 | Brouhaha | Ric Dexter | 9 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 67 |
| 12 | 4 | USA 51178 | Atalanta | Marty Galligan | 12 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 74 |
| 13 | 11 | USA 246 | JINX | Mark Taylor | 17 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 74 |
| 14 | 1 | USA 485 | Air Express | Steven Goldberg | 15 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 77 |
| 15 | 19 | USA 344 | Two Feathers | Mark Masur | 16 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 84 |
| 16 | 7 | USA 189 | Cerberus | Ken Dieselman | 10 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 84 |
| 17 | 15 | USA 444 | Phantom | Cynthia & Jim Best | 18 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 86 |
| 18 | 16 | USA 51459 | Sirocco | Steve Hollis | 5 | 17 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 87 |