F18 US Nats 2014, D4: Easton-Burd lead & ‘Hat trick’ for Arg Smith-Heuser
All Images jasper van Staveren. This is getting repetitive, but is what going on at Corpus Christi. ARG 1785 , Smith-Heuser scored 3 more bullets today out of four completed. But the US top team, Easton-Burd continue their consistency routine to kept a lead with 5pt gap. Casey-Page also on the low average positions for a 3rd but 9pts behind the Argentines.
Light weather today but Cruz & Mariano excelled the same. Here in BA beyond having tough chop with our Southeast bombs, we also have plenty of Eastern light winds racing. Scoring 3 bullets today was another high for the two teams that traveled from Buenos Aires, and having the 2014 World Champs (Larsen-van West) in the fleet, and currently in 4th position can speak a little on what these guys are achieving.
Hat Off to them!
Top ten below. Full Results at https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=8448&show_crew=1
| Pos | Sail | Boat | Skipper | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Total |
| 1 | USA 11 | Ronstan | Michael Easton/ | 1 | 1 | 3 | [4] | 3 | 3 | [6] | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
| Tripp Burd | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ARG1785 | Tuluka | Cruz Gonzalez Smith/ | [8] | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | [8] | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 28 |
| Mariano Heuser | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | USA 80 | Wet Yeti | John Casey/ | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | [15] | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | [7] | 6 | 1 | 6 | 37 |
| Colin Page | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | NED 1803 | Nacra Infusion | Gunnar Larsen/ | 3 | [7] | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | [8] | 3 | 3 | 43 |
| Ferdinand VonWest | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | ARG | Juan Faustin/ | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | [13] | 1 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 4 | [17] | 8/MEA* | 55 | |
| Nicolas Aragones | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | USA 7 | C2 Red Gear Racing | Robbie Daniel/ | 9 | [16] | [10] | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 59 |
| Karl Brogger | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | USA 315 | 2 Wire Sailing | John Tomko/ | 6 | [10] | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 5 | [11] | 3 | 7 | 5 | 62 |
| Jonathan Atwood | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | USA 111 | Waveyheaven | Charles Tomeo/ | [31] | 3 | 9 | [18] | 6 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 90 |
| Dalton Tebo | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | USA 192 | ShackAttack | Ken Marshack/ | 4 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | [41/DNF] | 8 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 14 | [27] | 19 | 117 |
| Eric Marshack | |||||||||||||||||
| 10 | USA 316 | Tradewind Aviation | Todd Riccardi/ | 7 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 12 | [26] | 24 | [28] | 129 |
| Matthew Keenan |
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