F18 Americas 2017 @ABYC: Charles Tomeo & Dalton Tebo Champs
Photo: USF18 fb . Charles Tomeo & Dalton Tebo (Nacra Infusion) , from the Sarasota Sailing Squadron (host of the 2018 Worlds in Florida) won yesterday the 2017 Americas Championships after 15 races held in the entire wind range conditions. Ken & Eric Marshack were a bit behind in light winds in race 12 & 13, putting them in second place overall. They are sailing a C2 with the new Decksweeper sail from Goodall Design and Ken is 66yrs old. Great performance by father & son scoring 6 bullets.
Tomeo & Tebo were super consistent thorugh the entire regatta weather conditions, worst score was a 9th , with seven 2nd and a bullet in the final race.
Third place for Robbie Daniel & Gary Chew, also on a C2.
40 boats racing at the 2012 Worlds venue. The US fleet will host in Sarasota next year Worlds.
Registration is already open , official web : regattanetwork.com/event/14553#_registration
More info at USF18 fb page.
Top ten below , full results here
| Pos | SailNo | HelmName | CrewName | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | R14 | R15 | Total | Nett |
| 1 | 1899 | Charles Tomeo | Dalton Tebo | 3 | 2 | 4 | -9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 33 |
| 2 | 192 | Ken Marshack | Eric Marshack | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 1 | -23 | -18 | 3 | 2 | 85 | 44 |
| 3 | 180 | Robbie Daniel | Gary Chew | 2 | 4 | -13 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | (ufd | 1 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 110 | 57 |
| 4 | 888 | Bill Hardesty | Mandi Hardesty | 9 | -19 | (dnc | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 127 | 68 |
| 5 | 7 | Todd Riccardi | Bryan Paine | 7 | (dnc | (dnc | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 152 | 72 |
| 6 | 1982 | Charles Froeb | Erwan Griziaux | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | -10 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 6 | (ocs | 10 | 128 | 78 |
| 7 | 1959 | Steve Stroebel | Matt Morris | -16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | -17 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 112 | 79 |
| 8 | 115 | Paul Galvez | Matthieu Marfaing | 6 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 9 | -16 | (dsq | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 155 | 99 |
| 9 | 1958 | Scott Miller | John Williams | 5 | -14 | -15 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 139 | 110 |
| 10 | 1495 | Sten Sorensen | Michaeil Risor | 28tle | (dnc | (dnc | 7 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 205 | 125 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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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