Zhik F18 Americas Continental @Sarasota: Day 4
Images from Day 3 by Tim Wilkes www.timwilkes.com . Lead change with a tight fight for the 1st place between Easton-Burd and Larsen-van West. Taylor Reiss & Mattew Whitehead confirming they are already performing one on one against the best of the F18.
Another solid day for Argies Cruz Gonzalez Smith & Mariano Heuser for a 4th overall.
Racing ends tomorrow with two more races.
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The US fleet has its future secured with kids like Reiss&Whitehead and the new ‘Young Guns’: Ravi Parent & Sam Armington, currently in 5th place, nice video by Sam Greenfield
| P | Sail | Skipper | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| 1 | 11 | Mike Easton/Tripp Burd | 4 | [8] | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | [9] | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 39 |
| 2 | 1785 | Gunnar Larsen/ Ferdinand van West |
2 | 3 | 2 | [8] | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | [10] | 1 | 41 |
| 3 | 284 | Taylor Reiss/ Matthew Whitehead |
6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | [8] | 2 | 2 | [10] | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 58 |
| 4 | 1718 | Cruz Gonzalez Smith/ Mariano Heuser |
7 | 10 | [ocs] | [11] | 3 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 76 |
| 5 | 1523 | Ravi Parent/ Sam Armington |
8 | 1 | [ocs] | 2 | 11 | 3 | [14] | 13 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 79 |
| 6 | 281 | Bob Merrick/Tyler Burd | [19] | 4 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | [17] | 7 | 93 |
| 7 | USA 316 | Todd Riccardi/Dalton Tebo | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | [15] | [16] | 10 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 95 |
| 8 | USA7 | Robbie Daniel/ Enrique Rodriguez |
3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 9 | [DNF] | 8 | 8 | 7 | [12] | 101 |
| 9 | 100 | Luke Ramsay/John Casey | 9 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 9 | [20] | [17] | 4 | 2 | 109 |
| 10 | 326 | John Tomko/Drew Carlyle | 10 | 14 | [ocs] | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | [ocs] | 10 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 5 | 117 |
| 11 | 123 | Juan Faustin/ Nicolas Aragones |
25 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | [ocs] | 22 | 7 | [ocs] | 7 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 141 |
| 12 | 1719 | Sandra Tartaglino/ Alex Shafer |
5 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 10 | 7 | [ocs] | 12 | [ocs] | 22 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 165 |
| 13 | U2222 | Annie Gardner/Eric Witte | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 11 | [ocs] | 16 | 25 | 8 | [29] | 199 |
| 14 | USA507 | Dennis Key/Matt McDonald | 16 | [36] | 24 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 18 | 21 | 22 | [35] | 20 | 27 | 243 |
| 15 | USA753 | Brooks Reed/Jeff Dusek | 12 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 12 | [ocs] | 18 | [30] | 19 | 26 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 245 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16