2009 F18 North Americans: Day 1
Current F18 World Champions, Coen de Koning and Thijs Visser leads the fleet with only one point over Nacra Infusion designer Pete Melvin and son James (with F18 small rig) 28 boats racing:
| Rank | SailNo | HelmName | CrewName | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 3 | Coen de Koning | Thijs Visser | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 2nd | 1143 | Pete Melvin | James Melvin | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 3rd | 91 | Greg Thomas | Jacques Bernier | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 13 |
| 4th | 1202 | Gunnar Larsen | Jeroen van Leeuwen | 4 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 15 |
| 5th | 1134 | Ian Sammis | Bobby Klenschmidt | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 18 |
| 6th | 1042 | Mike Easton | Tripp Burd | 7 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 22 |
| 7th | 28 | Pease Glaser | Jay Glaser | 10 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 24 |
| 8th | 80 | Oliver Pilon | Maxime Loiselle | 5 | 11 | 11 | 27 | 27 |
| 9th | 89 | John Tomko | Aaron McCulley | 11 | 12 | 7 | 30 | 30 |
| 10th | 651 | Dan DeLave | Eileen Haubl | 9 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 31 |
| 11th | 70 | Dennis Key | John Williams | 12 | 3 | 17 | 32 | 32 |
| 12th | 628 | Brandon Wallace | Damon Lacasella | 14 | 13 | 6 | 33 | 33 |
| 13th | 84 | Jeff Newsome | Bill Westland | 8 | 15 | 15 | 38 | 38 |
| 14th | 1135 | Sandra Tartaglino | Mark Modderman | 16 | 10 | 12 | 38 | 38 |
| 15th | 1132 | Johann Keller Punti | Paulo Gabella | 15 | 14 | 13 | 42 | 42 |
...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
Hi Martin. Sorry! Its up to you. Personally I don't like this growing fleet of big Yachts and Superyachts, even…