Benz Faget leads J/22 Midwinter Championship after four races

by Christopher Howell on 15 Feb 2014 Local Benz Faget snagged the lead on day one of the J/22 Midwinter Championship with all top-four finishes in the day’s four races. Hosted by the Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans, LA, 25 teams took to the waters of Lake Pontchartrain in puffy breezes that began around 10 knots and increased throughout the day to 18. Competitors experienced 10 degree shifts, ratcheting to the right. Faget’s team Fats recorded a line of three, two, four, one for 10 points. Terry Flynn’s Tejas also kept their scores in the top four (two, four, two, four) for 12 points, and Chris Doyle’s The Jug 4 1 is just one point behind in third place with 13 points.

The top three in the day’s races were constantly shifting among the same few boats. Chris Doyle started the regatta with a win, followed by Flynn and Faget. Chris Doyle took another bullet in race two, with Faget in second and Kevin Doyle in third. It was Chris Doyle again winning race three with Flynn in second and Chris Wientjes in third. Faget moved to the top spot in the day’s final contest, trailed by Canada’s Ron Harris and Kevin Doyle.

Racing continues through Sunday.

J/22 (25 boats) (top)
Series Standing - 4 races scored

 

Bow/Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club		1	2	3	4		Total	Pos
26 / 954	Fats	Benz Faget	NOYC/SYC		3	2	4	1		10	1
14 / 707	Tejas	Terry Flynn	fwbc/ gbca		2	4	2	4		12	2
21 / 1649	The Jug 4 1	Chris Doyle	Youngstown		1	1	1	10		13	3
18 / 754		Chris Wientjes	NOYC		4	6	3	5		18	4
3 / 489	Mo' Money	Kevin Doyle	Youngstown Yacht Club		5	3	14	3		25	5
1 / 870	Wild Tchoupitoulas	Zak Fanberg	SYC		6	7	8	7		28	6
2 / 1043	Fast Company	Richard Heausler	BWYC		10	5	6	8		29	7
11 / 307	Blackburn Marine Racing	Casey Lambert	Lakewood Yacht Club		8	8	5	9		30	8
24 / 1024	N/A	Tommy Meric	SYC		7	10	7	11		35	9
17 / 1610	Jazz	Ron Harris	Hudson		18	9	10	2		39T	10
25 / 1085	Supper Club	Dale Currie	Jackson Yacht Club		13	11	9	6		39T	11
5 / 1646	Baby Lips	Keith Zars	LCYC		16	12	13	12		53	12
20 / 638	Fresh Aire	Joe Gibbs, Jr.	Jackson YC		15	13	15	13		56	13
10 / 814	Stampede	Britt Feik	FWBC		11	16	18	14		59	14
27 / 1028	Dynamo Humm	Willem (Mart) Lamar	Jackson Yacht Club		9	21	11	20		61T	15
13 / 320	BAD DOG	Macho Slavich	NOYC		12	17	16	16		61T	16
19 / 203	diesel snack	doug slater	Island bay yacht club		19	15	12	19		65	17
15 / 752	Blew by You	Chris Wilke	SYC		24	14	17	17		72	18
8 / 1650	La Jolie Vie	David Loeb	New Olreans Yacht Club		17	19	24	15		75	19
16 / 1081	Cayenne	Deborah Grimm	Southern		21	22	19	18		80	20
28 / 539	dliii	Dwight Leblanc	SYC		14	20	21	26/DNF		81	21
23 / 59	Jabberwocky	Karen Jacobi	Tampa Sailing Squadron		23	18	22	21		84	22
9 / 711	PAINKILLER	Russell McCarty	JYC		20	24	20	22		86	23
4 / 663	Wizard	albert carpenter	Southern Yacht Club		22	25	23	23		93	24
7 / 8	Whistling Wind III	Billy Marchal	Southern Yacht Club		25	23	26/DNF	26/DNC		100	25