F18 Americas Continental @Sarasota: Mike Easton & Tripp Burd Champs

by Editor · Published October 28, 2013 · Updated May 24, 2019

All Images Tim Wilkes www.timwilkes.com Full gallery at CSN FB | Great first Continental event to define who is the best sailor of the Americas (North & South). US top crew, Mike Easton & Trip Burd managed to grab the title over Gunnar Larsen & Ferdinand van West and US top youth Taylor Reiss & Matthew Whitehead.
Good work on Gunnar attending events all over the World, being a top sailor and CEO of Nacra it is a nice double function made by a brand company man. But the experienced dutch sailors couldn´t take the American crown home this time. Mike & Tripp racing onboard the Ronstan F18 Flagship put their speed on the table and responded the pressure for the Europeans to close a perfect American end.

Excellent work done by the US F18 Assoc and the Sarasota Sailing Squadron putting this event together with a total of 17 races! The major Regatta for the Formula 18 in this side of the World. The Continental label had more sense after two of our best Argentine crews were able to attend and as plus perform at the highest level.

Cruz Gonzalez Smith & Mariano Heuser ended 5th overall, and Juan Faustín & Nico Aragonés 11th (two OCS in one day reduced their chances). Cruz & Mariano establishing themselves again as one of the best 20 crews in the F18 World Wide.
The other key aspect as reported over the week was the level of the US Youth. It is great to have the new generation already fighting for the title in major events.

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Top 15 below and full results at regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=6320&show_crew=1

Pos	Sail	Skipper	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Total
1	11	Mike Easton/ Tripp Burd	4	[8]	3	4	2	7	1	[9]	1	2	2	3	4	1	2	3	2	41
2	1785	Gunnar Larsen/ Ferdinand van West	2	3	2	[8]	4	6	2	1	4	4	1	4	5	2	[10]	1	4	45
3	284	Taylor Reiss/ Matthew Whitehead	6	5	6	7	1	1	8	2	2	[10]	8	6	1	4	1	8	[9]	66
4	1523	Ravi Parent/ Sam Armington	8	1	[ocs]	2	11	3	[14]	13	5	6	5	8	3	5	5	4	1	80
5	1718	Cruz Gonzalez Smith/ Mariano Heuser	7	10	[ocs]	[11]	3	9	3	8	7	5	3	1	2	6	3	9	5	81
6	281	Bob Merrick/ Tyler Burd	[19]	4	11	3	8	2	12	5	6	8	4	7	9	7	[16]	7	3	96
7	USA 316	Todd Riccardi/ Dalton Tebo	1	2	1	6	10	[15]	[16]	10	3	11	6	5	15	3	11	10	6	100
8	USA7	Robbie Daniel/ Enrique Rodriguez	3	7	10	10	6	8	10	4	10	1	9	[dnf]	8	8	7	12	[ocs]	113
9	100	Luke Ramsay/ John Casey	9	6	9	12	7	12	4	7	9	3	16	9	[20]	17	4	2	[30]	126
10	326	John Tomko/ Drew Carlyle	10	14	[ocs]	1	14	4	6	6	8	[ocs]	10	2	6	9	21	5	13	129
11	123	Juan Faustin/ Nicolas Aragones	25	9	7	14	5	5	5	3	[ocs]	22	7	[ocs]	7	10	9	13	16	157
12	1719	Sandra Tartaglino/ Alex Shafer	5	16	5	9	28	10	7	[ocs]	12	[ocs]	22	10	11	18	6	6	7	172
13	USA 2222	Annie Gardner/ Eric Witte	13	12	13	13	19	19	13	11	17	9	11	[ocs]	16	25	8	[29]	8	207
14	1612	scott miller/ hailey miller	30	24	19	19	20	11	[32]	[ocs]	28	7	17	20	10	11	14	15	11	256T
15	USA753	Brooks Reed/ Jeff Dusek	12	19	21	18	22	18	20	12	[ocs]	18	[30]	19	26	13	15	11	12	256T