2014 Snipe Western Hemisphere and Orient Championship - Day 1

by SDYC on 9 Sep 2014 A strong pack has emerged from the 43 teams that took to the water after day one of the Snipe Western Hemisphere and Orient Championship. Of the top six scoreboard leaders, no team has a double-digit finish in either of the races. The competition is tight with only a seven point spread across the top six teams.

Though wind conditions at the start of the first race were one or two knots lighter than the race organizers had been hoping, the winds started to pick up throughout the race and ultimately the regatta featured some incredible sailing. Those winds came just in time for skipper Doug Hart and crew Ryan Hopps, who finished in first place in Race One.

'Probably the best thing that happened was at the very end of the run. The wind went hard left and we were on the opposite side so we really came into the mark hot,' said Hart. 'It was really a one in a million race. I've never had a race like that before.' Hart and Hopps finished the day in second place after landing in fifth during the second race of the day.

Leader of the scoreboard Randy Lake had a different training tactic than the rest of the 42 teams. 'I had a baby, there wasn’t any preparation,' said Lake. Ready or not, the new dad of a six week old son combined a second place finish in Race One with a third place finish in Race Two to end in the first position at the end of the first racing day. What he lacked in preparation he certainly made up for in company, as his crew Kate Sheahan recently finished second in the SCIRA World Championship of Masters in Japan.

Two races are scheduled daily over the next four days, but with two different course locations in consideration, competitors are never sure which of the two courses the next day will bring. The Organizing Authority will announce each morning whether racing is set to take place inside the bay or on ocean waters. The next race is set to start at noon on Tuesday, September nine.

Complete Results:

 

Series Standing - Two races scored

Bow/Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club		1	2		Total	Pos
06 / USA28854		Randy Lake/ Kate Sheahan	SDYC/		2	3		5	1
30 / USA29941		Doug Hart/ Ryan Hopps	MBYC/		1	5		6	2
37 / BRA30997	Cachorrão	Breno Bianchi/ Flavio de Castro	Rio de Janeiro IC/		6	2		8	3
05 / PUR29841	PUR 29841	Raul Rios/ Fernando Monllor	FVPR/		9	1		10	4
15 / ARG28701	ARG28701	Luis Soubie/ Diego Mini Lipszyc	YCO/CNZ/		3	8		11	5
47 / USA30288	Danilu	Augie Diaz/ Aine McLean Fretwell	CRYC/CGSC/		5	7		12	6
42 / BRA31151		Alexandre Tinoco/ Alexandre Niederauer	RCRSR,CRG / ICSC/		12	4		16	7
39 / USA30860	Spidey	Carol Cronin/ Kim Couranz	Severn SA/		4	16		20	8
34 / USA30109		David Tillson/ Rebecca McElvain	MBYC/		8	14		22	9
22 / ECU31037		Jesus Bailon Reyes/ Iberth Constante	Manta YC/		10	18		28	10
43 / USA30759	30759	Brian Kamilar/ Enrique Quintero	Coral Reef YC/		23	6		29T	11
19 / CUB31038		Raúl Díaz Herrera/ Rafael García Granados	Cuba/		17	12		29T	12
45 / USA31188	Jibe Tech	Andrew Pimental/ Nikki Bruno	Sail Newport/		21	9		30	13
10 / JPN31134		Motoharu Nishii/ Tomohisa Nakamura	CYUBU/		11	20		31	14
14 / JPN30353		Kosuke Demichi/ Shun Yanagibayashi	DUYC/		18	15		33	15
32 / USA28687	C Cannibal BB-EE-JE	Chuck Sinks/ Robbie Dean	SDYC/		7	30		37	16
01 / JPN30924		Takuya Shimamoto/ Keisuke Kushida	Waseda U./		28	10		38T	17
27 / USA31130		Ernesto Rodriguez/ Eduardo Mintzias	NA/		16	22		38T	18
25 / JPN30722	JPN30722	Genya Ozaki/ Kawano Motomichi	Konan Univercity/		14	29		43	19
20 / BRA31066		Mateus Tavares/ Jonathan Lherke	YCe da Bahia/		25	19		44	20
03 / JPN28732	HITACHI Sailing Team	Ryohei Doi/ Keiichiro Itagaki	Japan SF/Hitachi/		32	13		45T	21
46 / USA30800	Green Flash	Rick Arneson/ Diana Waterbury	San Diego YC/		13	32		45T	22
23 / USA30337	Quantum Racing	Eric Heim/ Aimee Heim	San Diego YC/		22	23		45T	23
18 / JPN31054	Charter Boat	Koji Kamiya/ Tatsuya Yamauchi	NTT East YC/		15	31		46	24
33 / PER31086		Diego Figueroa/ Alonso Collantes	Club Regatas Lima/		33	17		50T	25
09 / USA28858	Seagle	Nicholas Kaschak/ Krystal Treiberg	San Diego YC/		26	24		50T	26
04 / USA29778	Batura	Roberto Guaragna/ Andre Guaragna	Miami/		40	11		51	27
07 / BRA31004	Guarda Patrimonial	Rafael Gagliotti/ Henrique Wisniewski	Iate clube de santos/		27	27		54	28
31 / ECU31027	El Desleal	Edgar Diminich/ Eduardo Viteri	CVL/FEY/MDD/SYC/		19	36		55	29
08 / CUB29517		Raúl Faura Nieto/ José Piña Nieto	Cuba/		36	21		57T	30
21 / JPN30844		Kento Hashimoto/ Kazuki Murayama	Ritsumeikan Univ/		24	33		57T	31
24 / BRA31113	LORD	Helio Lyra de Aquino Jr./ João Pedro Moreira	ICRJ/IC Rio de Janeiro/		29	28		57T	32
17 / BAH28811	Breaking Wind	Jimmie Lowe/ Don Bedford	Royal Nassau SC/		34	26		60	33
26 / BRA30996	La Maquina	Felipe Sabino/ Bernardo Sarzedas	rio yatch club/		37	25		62	34
28 / COL30718		Esteban Echavarria/ Juan Esteban Restrepo Vera	4 Vientos/		20	44/DSQ		64T	35
36 / USA29013		Chris Wright/ Lauren Wright	Mission Bay YC/		30	34		64T	36
41 / USA30903		Cameron Fraser/ Elizabeth Glivinski	Medford BC/		31	35		66	37
11 / BRA31159		Matheus Franca/ Daniel Seixas Claro	Rio YC/		39	37		76	38
44 / ARG31222	Quimera	Alejandro Triggiano/ Mariana Safar	CR Guemes Salta/		35	42		77	39
40 / MEX30330		Alfonso Garcia Bringas/ Javier Garcia Bringas Rivera	Porto Bravo/		38	41		79	40
35 / COL29651		Carolina Ponton/ Nicolas Hernandez	Club de V. Cartagena/		42	38		80T	41
38 / CAN29318	Mister Bear	Christopher Hains/ Barbara Mann	Guelph Comm. BC/		41	39		80T	42
02 / USA28470	Red Lady	Stephan Irgens/ Monica Irgens	CCSA/		43	40		83	43