Since there are eight fleet websites that contain results, I'll refer you directly to those:

• Fleet 1 Results
• Fleet 2 Results
• Fleet 3 Results
• Fleet 4 Results
• Fleet 5 Results
  
• Fleet 6 Results
• Fleet 8 Results
  
• Fleet 14 Results
  

This year, this page will be used mainly for "National" stature regattas, e.g. regattas that might draw boats from outside the local fleets. This would include, for example, Key West RW, SORC, Charleston RW, the NOOD regattas, SF Big Boats, et al. I'll gladly consider exceptions of note however.

Charleston J/105 Fall Championship
November, 2001

The Charleston J/105 Fall Championship was a sailor's paradise this past weekend: Balmy breezes; 72 degree shirtsleeve weather; the sun low enough not to be intense; a moderating water temperature of 62 degrees; good camaraderie; eight races over two days. The two birds came out on top. Bob Johnstone's TERN 7 and Fred Stone's PUFFIN finished 1-2 in the 9 boat fleet. And, the margin of victory was a half boat length in the 7th race.  This regatta (Nov 17-18) capped a four event J/105 one-design series in the Southeast. TERN 7 won the first two regattas, the Geechee Sailing Club's Savannah Octoberfest (Oct 6-7) and the Hilton Head Yacht Club's Calibogue Cup (Oct 20-21), both in class and overall PHRF. PUFFIN won the South Atlantic Yacht Racing Association's offshore championship (Oct 27-28).  The Charleston event featured a North Sails Racing Clinic hosted by local North loft’s George & Peter Durst with moderator Will Keyworth from Annapolis. Seminars were held both Friday and Saturday evenings with coaching from a whaler permitted throughout the two-day event. On Saturday, 2 short practice races were followed by a close reaching spinnaker sprint race up the Ashley with Jack King's MERRYTHOUGHT prevailing.  The J/105s then sailed one-design as Class 1 of the Charleston Yacht Club's 12.5 mile Big Boat race around government marks in the harbor in lots of current and winds varying all over the compass. TERN 7 pulled a rabbit out the hat to win, having been a deep 4th around the last windward mark. Sunday was a spectacular sailing day in a 10-15 knot Northerly with 30 degrees shifts. Three double WLs were run prior to a final sprint race, a beat up the Cooper River to the Charleston Harbor Marina for the awards presentation. For some indication of how all this sailing affected the quality of the fleet, 4 different boats won the last 4 races and 5 boats were rounding the weather mark within 6 feet of one another. At the awards ceremony on the dock, Fleet Captain and host Bob J., in breaking with the traditional 1, 2, 3 award routine, declared everyone to be winners, that this was the purpose of the weekend. He presented custom-made Wired & Fired 12" pottery J/105 Hors d'oerves platters in fall colors to the participants. Each platter was labeled "Winner". Everyone won something.... whether it was longest distance prize, being stuck in the mud the longest or having the best looking boat...not to mention a few handed out for placing well in the races.

There’s already talk of plans for the 2002 Fall J/105 Circuit combined with other established events and the good chance of outside boats participating. Here’s the preliminary proposal: QUICKSILVER CUP (CORA feeder race from Charleston to Savannah) OCT 5-6; OCTOBERFEST (Geechee Sailing Club Regatta in Savannah) OCT 12-13; CALIBOGUE CUP (Hilton Head Island) OCT 21-22; ALICE CUP (Feeder from Hilton Head to Bohicket Marina, Seabrook Island on Saturday, party, then to Charleston on Sunday) October 28-29; J/105 FALL CHAMPIONSHIP (and Charleston YC Big Boat Regatta) NOV 16-18.

J-Fest, San Diego
October 13 & 14, 2001

Commentary by Bill Johnson:

This past weekend, October 12-14, J/Fest 2001 was held at San Diego Yacht Club. This is an event began by Sail California, the local J-Boat dealer, for J-Boats only. Friday afternoon there was a charity race for San Diego Wellness Community, a cancer support organization. It was followed by a calypso party with an auction. In all, the event raised some $19,000. The actual racing was Saturday and Sunday. We had very pleasant weather - warm days and mostly good winds. The big problem racing off Point Loma is the kelp. It was as bad as I've seen it and you constantly saw crews flossing the keel or using a kelp stick on the rudder. The J-105 class was the largest with 19 entries. The Southern California fleet has grown dramatically in the last two years - in 1999 the event drew maybe 6 boats. In 2000, we had eleven. Now in 2001, nineteen. The winning crew was Javelin, hull # 394, owned by Doug and Pam Werner. They sailed a very consistent series, never winning an individual race but not finishing worse than 6th. Second was Legacy, #190, Brian Dougherty, also with a consistant series. Third place, and definitely hard luck boat of the regatta, was Fleet Captain Tom Carruthers' Incorrigible, #435. Tom was tied with Javelin going into the final race and finished 17th to Javelin's 3rd. The fleet looks set for more growth next year. Most of the growth has been in San Diego, but several boats are on order in the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor area.

North American Championship, Larchmont Yacht Club
September 21-23, 2001

*/ Received 40% penalty (12 points)

Galveston NOOD
September 21-22, 2001

                                             2001 NOOD REGATTA
                                             HOUSTON YACHT CLUB
                                           SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2001
Date: Sep 22, 2001
Time: 5:20pm                                        J105                                (c)HOUSTON YACHT CLUB
**************************************************************************************************************
Yacht Race Scoring Systems   |RACE 1|RACE 2|RACE 3|RACE 4|RACE 5|RACE 6|RACE 7|RACE 8||
                             |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------|| TOTALS THRU
                             |Finish|Finish|Finish|Finish|Finish|Finish|Finish|Finish||  RACE NO. 4 
                      SAIL   | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- ||--------------
SKIPPER, ETC.          NO    |Points|Points|Points|Points|Points|Points|Points|Points|| POINTS| POS
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||-------|----
BLUE MAX                     |  2   |  4   |  1   |  1   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
BARRY BROWN           51105  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 8     | 1
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX           |  2   |  4   |  1   |  1   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
CAYUSE                       |  1   |  3   |  3   |  2   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
HAL HALTOM              344  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 9     | 2
HOUSTON, TX                  |  1   |  3   |  3   |  2   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
NO NAME                      |  3   |  2   |  2   |  5   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
DOUGLAS A. HASS         376  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 12    | 3
DICKINSON, TX                |  3   |  2   |  2   |  5   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
BABE                         |  4   |  1   |  7   |  6   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
MALCOLM BREMER          294  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 18    | 4
HOUSTON, TX                  |  4   |  1   |  7   |  6   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
RARE BREED                   |  7   |  7   |  6   |  3   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
BOB WRIGHT              279  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 23    | 5
HOUSTON, TX                  |  7   |  7   |  6   |  3   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
THE GREAT ESCAPE             |  9   |  5   |  5   |  4   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
ROY L. CRAWFORD         430  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 23    | 6
WILLIS, TX                   |  9   |  5   |  5   |  4   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
RUMPS A BUMPIN               |  5   |  8   |  4   |  9   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
ROBERT SITTEL           436  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 26    | 7
DENTON, TX                   |  5   |  8   |  4   |  9   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
ADIOS                        |  6   |  6   |  8   |  7   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
MIKE MANILA             378  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 27    | 8
SOUTHLAKE, TX                |  6   |  6   |  8   |  7   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
MARIAN V                     |  8   |  9   |  11  |  8   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
SCOTT JACOBSON          291  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 36    | 9
KINGWOOD, TX                 |  8   |  9   |  11  |  8   |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
AFTERSHOCK                   |  10  |  10  |  9   |  10  |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
VIC FORSYTH             393  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 39    | 10
SEABROOK, TX                 |  10  |  10  |  9   |  10  |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
KAT'S MEOW                   |  DNS |  DNS |  10  |  11  |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
HAMISH NICOL          46337  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- || 45    | 11
HOUSTON, TX                  |  12  |  12  |  10  |  11  |  --  |  --  |  --  |  --  ||       |
-------------------- ------- |------|------|------|------|------|------|------|------||--------------
 

Larchmont NOOD
September 7-9, 2001

*/ Received 40% penalty (9 points)

San Francisco NOOD
September 1-2, 2001

Marblehead NOOD
July 28-29, 2001

Block Island Race Week
June 25-29, 2001

BLU CL3 J-105|                                                       
                                                         CLASS                               TOTALS THRU
|                                    |------------- FINISH POSITIONS ----------------|       RACE # 8 
|                               RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE T/O  -----------
| SAIL NO  YACHT NAME      SKIPPER     #1   #2   #3   #4   #5   #6   #7   #8   #9   #10  NO  POINTS  FIN
 -------- --------------- ----------  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------  ---
  315JPFM 2                HOURIHAN     1    1    DSQ  5    8    1    8    4   --   --    3     28     1 
  281 FLAME                DOANE        9    7    8    1    2    4    10   2   --   --    7     33     2 
   90 PLUM CRAZY           SKIBO        3    13   10   8    1    2    3    9   --   --    2     36     3 
   64 REVELATION           DOUGHERTY    4    11   9    2   *13   3    1    7   --   --    5     37     4 
  333 DRAGONFLY            YOUNG        7    9    4    4    4    13   15   3   --   --    7     44     5 
  324 KINCSEM              ESDORN       6    8    6    3    9    8    28   6   --   --    7     46     6 
  130 HEADHUNTER           LEAVER       2    5    1    6    6    15   21   21  --   --    7     56     7 
   50 ECLIPSE              EMERY        5    3    17   11   10   9   *8    13  --   --    3     59     8 
  307 WET LEOPARD          SORENSEN     10   4    12   13   17   10   5    11  --   --    5     65     9 
51458 IT WASN'T ME         TEDESCHI     14   2    16   9    5    5   *15   24  --   --    8     66     10
   17 MASQUERADE           COATES       16   16   3    10   15   7    19   5   --   --    7     72     11
44105 RIGADOON             RIGGS        18   19   7    16   3    12   18   8   --   --    2     82     12
  239 CYAN                 BALDWIN      8   *26   2    12   23   16  *13   16  --   --    2     90     13
   73 TERN                 COFFEY       12   10   21   7    21   19  *20   10  --   --    3     99     14
   39 SYNERGY              SPENCE       17   17   5    27   29   27   11   1   --   --    5    105     15
43937 ALL RIGHT            MCLEAN       20   12   13   19   20   17   12   14  --   --    1    107     16
  317 NORDIC EXPRESS       EIELSON      25   21   15   14   14   18   4    22  --   --    1    108     17
  413 PICANTE              SALK         11   15   25   20   22   23   6    23  --   --    3    120     18
51012 WET PAINT            PRIESTLY     15   20   14   17   13   DSQ  25   19  --   --    6    123     19
  240 PEEKABOO             POZEFSKY     OCS  27   11   18   25   6    26   15  --   --    1    128     20
  300JKIMA                 WEIDERMAN    OCS  6    27   15   18   14  *23   29  --   --    1    132     21
  399 DREAM MACHINE        VAN LEEUWE   21   18   20   26   11   21   27   18  --   --    7    135     22
  212 LAST TANGO           PETERSON     13   24   19   25   16   22  *22   26  --   --    8    141     23
  457 YIKES                SMALL        23   25   28   22   12   20  *19   30  --   --    8    149     24
51289 SUGAR - FREE         LAGES        27   28   26   28   19   25   22   12  --   --    2    159     25
  200 WITCH                COLBURN      22   23   18   21   28   28   24   25  --   --    5    161     26
  256 CAT CAME BACK        MOSSOP       24   RAF  22   30   24   11  *26   27  --   --    2    164     27
  354 40 WHACKS            PURDY        19   22   23   29   30   26  *31   20  --   --    7    169     28
50988 ANDIAMO              STRAUCH      28   29   24   23   27   24  *29   17  --   --    2    172     29
  165 IF ONLY              HOWALT       26   26   29   24   26   29   29   28  --   --    3    188     30

For daily reports and summaries, click here. For Photo Album: click here.

Knox Long Race
June 23, 2001

The Knox Long was not so long as the race committee chose the shortest course on a very windy day. The fleet enjoyed a couple of exhilarating downwind legs to compensate for the challenges of beating upwind in 25+ knots. Bella Rosa led everyone around the course to finish first, followed by Blackhawk and Sails Call. Check out the results on the YRA website. We are now officially half way through the season with 20 races and 5 throwouts.Good Timin's lead over Sails Call remains at seven points.; The only changes in the top ten are that Bella Rosa has moved up one place to sixth, and Natural Blonde has bumped Irrational Again to eleventh and is now in a tie for ninth with Advantage3.

-- David Owen Scorer

North Sails Race Week
June 22-24, 2001

 1 435    Thomas Carruthers        Incorrigible   1 1 1 1 1 5 
 2 275    Larry Harvey             Clousseau      7 2 2 5 2 18 
 3 USA100 Dale Byrne/Sam Merrell   No Compromise  2 6 3 4 4 19 
 4 46625  Abott Brown/K. Lindberg  J-Hawk         3 4 6 6 3 22 
 5 46928  William Johnson          Despicable     8 5 4 2 5 24 
 6 46958  Doug & Pam Werner        Javelin        6 3 5 8 7 29 
 7 46956  Dekker                   Airboss        4 7 12 3 6 32                                         32
 8 56434  Fields/JB Theders        Ancara         5 8 12 9 8 42 
 9 46929  Karl Graff               Agua Diablo    12 9 8 7 9 45 
10 46590  Brian & Betsy Dougherty  Legacy         9 10 7 10 10 46 
11 46866  Howard Lewis             Pendragon      12 12 12 12 12 60

While the East Coast was enjoying a 30 boat fleet at Block Island, the Southern California Fleet #8 had a 10 boat turnout June 22-24 for the North Sails Race Week in Long Beach, CA. There were about 160 entries, including Dennis Connor's new Stars and Stripes (ex-Morning Glory), one of the new Transpac 52's (Victoria) and an assortment of other boats, large and small. There were three separate course areas. The J-105's raced inside Long Beach Harbor on Friday for a 4:00 race, outside about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Alamitos Bay on Saturday and back inside on Sunday. All three days were warm and sunny with good winds. On Friday, the race started with winds around 13-15 kts. and faded as the evening came on. Tom Carruthers in Incorrigible set what became a pattern for him in winning the first race. He was followed by Dale Byrne/Sam Merrell in No Compromise and Abbot Brown/Ken Lemberger in J-Hawk. Saturday's first race was sailed in a nice 12-15 kt. breeze. Again Tom Carruthers topped the fleet, with Larry Harvey (trying out Clouseau) in second, followed by Doug and Pam Werner in Javelin. By the second race, the wind had picked up substantially - we saw apparent winds of up to 25 kts. We watched Tom Carruthers start prematurely, return and restart and proceed to sail through the entire fleet for another first. Clouseau picked up another second and No Compromise was third. By the way, Larry is not exactly a stranger to J-105's. He placed second in the Masters Regatta in J-105's last fall in San Francisco against some nobodies named Malin Burnham, Bob Johnstone, Paul Elvstrom, Lowell North and Pelle Petterson, among others.

Sunday, inside the harbor, we had lighter air - maybe 11-12 kts. In the first race, Tom was squeezed out at the Committee boat and had to make a complete circle to get in. Despite that, by the final downwind leg he had moved up to 3rd. Then, lady luck reared her beautiful head, when Bill Fields in Ancara who was leading by a good distance and Larry Harvey who had a solid second, for some reason forgot that it was a downwind finish and sailed on past the finish line. Only when Tom had the whistle for yet another first did they realize their mistake and head back upwind. In the final race, it started at about the same wind as the first race and built to about 16 before dying slightly. In a very close race with positions changing frequently, it was Tom Carruthers over No Compromise at the finish by 5 seconds. An amazing series for Tom with 5 bullets. He had the entire fleet scratching their heads. Larry Harvey sailed an excellent series (except for the course chart incident) for second, followed by No Compromise one point back and J-Hawk 4 points back. Full results are on the Fleet 8 website, found through the J-105 Association website.

Bill Johnson
"Despicable"

Chicago NOOD
June 15-17, 2001

Pacific Coast Championship
June 9-10, 2001

So here are the preliminary results, although I don't think there were any protests and the awards were handed out....

1. Good Timin (Chris & Phil Perkins & Dave Wilson) with a dominant 1, 1, 4, 1, 1 series = 8 points, Chris driving.
2. Sails Call (Ian Charles) 2, 6, 2, 2, 3 = 15 points
3. Wind Dance (Jeff Littfin & Steve Pugh) 4, 3, 3, 7, 4 = 21
4. Arbitrage (Bruce Stone) 5, 10, 1, 11, 2 = 29
5. Nantucket Sleighride (Peter Wagner) 3, 5, 10, 5, 7 = 30
6. Zuni Bear (Shawn Bennett & Rich Bergman) 41
7. Jitterbug (Chuck Eaton) 43
8. Bella Rosa (David Tambellini) 53
9. Irrational Again (Jaren Leet) 55
10. Advantage3 (Pat Benedict) 55

There were 33 starters. Weather was bright and sunny. All races were in a moderate flood (3 knots max). Winds were light for SF Bay. First day started in about 12 knots and built to about 20. Second day started in 10 knots and never got above 15 or so. Race Manager extraordinaire, Mat Jones, managed to set the finish of the final race in a big wind hole in the middle of the flood, making it a challenge to get across the line. Hospitality by the San Francisco Yacht Club was superb. Full results at SFYC site.

-- David Owen

Photos from Glenn Youngling (HAZARDOUS WASTE, #388): Album #1, Album #2, Album #3

California Race Week
June 2-3, 2001

Out here on the west coast, 6 J/105's competed this weekend in California Yacht Club's (Matina Del Rey) Cal Race Week. Dale Byrne and Sam Merrell's No Compromise had three bullets on Saturday with Tom Carruthers' Incorrigible next with 2-3-2 finishes. On Sunday, Tom won the first race with Dale and Sam in second - setting up a final race showdown. The start was interesting as Tom tried to match race Dale and Sam and keep them from the start line. Tom won with No Compromise in third. It was still enough for No Compromise to win the regatta by a point. The next stop on the Southern California high point circuit is North Sails Race Week in Long Beach, June 22-24. I understand the J/105 fleet currently has 13 entries. Results for Cal Rac Week can be found at www.Calyachtclub.com. I'll e-mail you a couple of photos as soon as I download them from the camera. Photo1: No Compromise. Photo2: J-Hawk.

-- Bill Johnson

Detroit NOOD
June 1-3, 2001

J105
|                                               FLEET               TOTALS THRU
|                                    |----- FINISH POSITIONS ----|  RACE # 6 
|                                    RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE  -----------
|SAIL NO  YACHT NAME      SKIPPER     #1   #2   #3   #4   #5   #6   POINTS  FIN
-------- --------------- ----------  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ------  ---
   51911 CREATIVE LTC    COX          4    11   1    3    8    1      28     1  
     469 BERNOULLI       ELLIOT       9    2    5    1    10   2      29     2  
     420 C-JEM           RUFFING      2    5    2    5    3    15     32     3  
     424 GIGI            WAGNER       5    8    3    8    1    8      33     4  
     396 PHANTOM         BEST         6    9    7    4    4    3      33     5  
   25605 TENACIOUS       LISTWAN      7    1    10   9    5    4      36     6  
     423 SORCERY         SMITH        8    4    6    2    7    9      36     7  
     447 NONE GIVEN      STORMES      3    3    11   15   9    5      46     8  
   25436 ATTITUDE        MOORE        10   6    9    10   2    11     48     9  
   50739 WISH            MALM         1    14   15   7    11   10     58     10 
     605 NONE GIVEN      HARTHORN     11   13   4    12   12   6      58     11 
   54301 HIGHLANDER      ELLIS        12   7    14   16   6    13     68     12 
   52000 UNBRIDLED       MOCK         14   17   13   6    13   7      70     13 
   25458 PERVERSION      DETTMER      13   10   12   13   14   16     78     14 
     384 JUNTO           MORIN/MARG   16   12   8    17   15   12     80     15 
   25418 VENOM           LIVERMORE    15   15   17   11   17   14     89     16 
     416 WINDSHADOW      MURPHY       17   16   16   14   16   DNF    98     17 
     448 EXCALIBUR       SOUTAR       DNS  DNS  DNS  DNS  DNS  17    112     18 

SAILING WORLD DETROIT NOOD MARKED BY STIFF BREEZE, HIGH SPIRITS ---Winners in 23 Classes Prevail After Three Days of Racing Detroit (Mich.) June 3, 2001 - The heavy downpours and gray skies that rolled over Lake St. Clair during the Sailing World Detroit NOOD (National Offshore One-Design) Regatta did little to shatter the enthusiasm of some 1,200 sailors competing in this first major sailing regatta of the season. Competitors' spirits ran counter to the gloomy weather--and for good reason: this NOOD regatta will stand out in sailors' memories as a career highlight for its large competitive fleet and an usual run of three consecutive days of stiff, teen-strength breeze.

One sailor who had good reason to celebrate was William "Billy Bob" Cox (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), winner of the first J/105 class to compete at the Detroit NOOD. Cox's crew on Creative LTC entered the final day of racing in a three-way tie for third, with the class leader a full 10 points ahead. Odds for a first-place trophy by day's end were slim in this 18-boat class, but Cox and his crew stayed in phase throughout the day: they passed six boats upwind in the final race to take the class win. Points calculations were so close that Cox and his crew did not know they had cinched the class title when they reached the docks. In second place, only one point behind Cox, was Mike Elliott (Linden, Mich.) and his crew on Bernoulli.

-- from the SW Press Release

SF Hospice Regatta
May 26-27

1 32 JITTERBUG Chuck Eaton 7 3 1 1 /12
2 35 GOOD TIMIN Wilson / Perkins 1 1 2 10 /14
3 375 WINDDANCE Pugh / Littfin 5 4 4 6 /19
4 112 SAILS CALL Ian Charles 8 5 3 4 /20
5 128 BELLAROSA David Tambellini 6 7 6 3 /22
6 414 NANTUCKET SLEIG Peter Wagner 3 8 9 5 /25
7 116 ABITRAGE Bruce Stone 2 6 15 12 /35
8 268 JUXTAPOSE Thayer / Watts 4 19 8 9 /40
9 405 BANDWIDTH Roland Van der Meer 12 12 13 7 /44
10 84 ADVANTAGE Pat Benedict 13 14 11 10 /48

It was a fantastic City Front regatta sailed in our normal heavy air sea breeze and a flood tide meaning close tacking up the City Front. If you haven't done that, you go into the beach on starboard, call for sea room, and come out on port. VERY EXCITING. and a LOT of hard work. San Francisco Bay racing at its best. Complete results at St. Francis YC.

-- Jaren Leet

Annapolis NOOD
May 5-6, 2001

J/105 Class Spring Championship
At Charleston Race Week, April 26-29

Tom Coates’ MASQUERADE (1,1,2,4,2) won a close series by 2 points over Glen Darden’s Fort Worth gunslinger crew on HOSS (2,2,3,2,3) and 3 points on defending champ, Bob Johnstone’s TERN V (3,7,1,1,1). Two other local boats filled out the top 5 with Mason Chrisman’s CORSAIR edging out Jack King’s MERRYTHOUGHT.

The Bay Area MASQUERADE crew of Danny Shea, Seadon Wisjen, Mark Chandler and Tracy Usher sailed a consistent series to extend their Midwinter streak after winning the National Hospice Regatta in Ft. Lauderdale, finishing second in the SORC and 6^th at Key West. HOSS with Reese Hillard, Tony Walden, Jay Lutz and Yandell Rogers aboard played the bridesmaid to both MASQUERADE and TERN V to take the runner-up slot…giving the guest out-of-towners the top spots. Not surprising as Charleston has the reputation of being America’s most hospitable city. Teddy Turner, Jr's new Charleston Boatworks along with J South provided free storage and crane services to the visiting boats.

Attendance at Charleston Race Week grew this year by 35% to 77 boats with one-design classes of J/24s and Melgess 24s as well as 4 PHRF divisions. Sailing conditions were outstanding with everything from 5-10 knot NW scenic racing around the historic Battery to a 17-22 knot NE planning breeze for the final race Sunday. Word at the Maritime Center after racing was that "everyone’s coming back" and that "Charleston is their favorite regatta city".

Ahmanson Cup, NHYC
April 21-22, 2001

The Southern California Fleet (#8) had it's second High Point Series event this past weekend - the Ahmanson Cup Regatta at Newport Harbor YC (Newport Beach, CA). The J/105's had seven entries - 2 from San Diego, 2 from Marina Del Rey/King Harbor, one from Newport Beach, one from Dana Point and one from Long Beach. The event was run one three separate courses and classes included PHRF A, B and C, Farr 40, 1D35, J/105, Schock 35, Olson 30, Santana 30/30 and Melges 24.

Saturday blew like stink. Two of our 105's didn't make it past the first race - seasick crew, under-crewed and equipment failures. Those of us who stuck it out were rewarded with incredible downwind runs and slogs upwind. Top speed on Despicable was 13.9 kts - couldn't quite get it to 14. Bill
Fields' Ancara from Dana Point was perfect in the wind with 1-1-1 finishes. The rest of us were bunched up with 8 and 9 and 11 points. Sunday was a very different day with lighter winds (10-12 max), warmer temps and much more pleasant sailing. Bryan Dougherty on Legacy from Newport Beach showed us how to do it with two bullets. Ancara fell to two 4ths, but held on to win. NHYC ran a very nice regatta. We had a lot of fun (especially on Saturday). The final results are available at www.NHYC.org.

-- Bill Johnson

San Diego NOOD, SDYC
March 16-18, 2001

The NOOD regatta at San Diego was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 16-18. The weather was perfect - clear and sunny. In fact, on Sunday it hit the low 80's ashore! There were about 140 boats in a variety of classes on three race courses. J/105's raced on the "far ocean" course, and boy they weren't kidding! What a long way out there. San Diego is the home of lightish winds, large swellls and kelp. There were 2 races Friday, 3 on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday. Friday, the top of the fleet were Stuart Cannon in J-OK with a 2-1 and Dale Byrne/Sharon Case in No Compromise with a 1-3. Tom Carruthers on Incorrigible was "kelp boy" for the day. I can attest personally, as I saw Tom emerge from the water between races with a large bunch of kelp. Apparently it was stuck on the prop shaft strut. He still had a 4-4 for the day. We on Despicable were notable for trying to impale the legendary Lowell North with our sprit at a mark rounding. Instead we just bent up Pholly's stern pulpit pretty good.

Saturday, Byrne and Case continued their ways with an impressive 1-1-3. Incorrigible came back with a 3-2-1. Phil Gausewitz's Pholly, with Lowell North steering, recovered from the impalement to a 2-5-2. We, on the other hand, discovered shrimping the spinnaker at the weather mark, when the halyard clutch wasn't closed as we approached the mark. Not catcthing enough shrimp for the whole crew, we did a catch and release. Sunday, the winds came up a little bit - into the low teens. Byrne/Case and Carruthers continued their battle, with Carruthers on top with a 2-3 to No Compromise's 3-4. However, it was not enough and No Compromise won the regatta by 3. Pholly came on strong with a 6-1 and moved into third overall. Stuart Cannon, who had started out so well, had an off day with a pair off 8's, but still brought home 4th overall. Jim Puplava on Jimmy-J had a consistent series until the final race and finished 5th overall. And, Despicable finally got it going and had a 1-5 to finish 6th overall. San Diego ran a great regatta and it was fun to see 12 105's on the line. By summer we should be seeing 15 or so.

-- Bill Johnson

Acura SORC
March 2-5, 2001

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