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Star North Americans - Clarke and Bjorn and the P Star surf ahead

'Richard Clark - Star North American Championship'    Lynn Fitzpatrick
Star North American Championships day two report.

Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn (CAN) surfed their way to two bullets in an easterly that swept swells and saturated rain clouds down Long Island Sound.

Andy Horton and Stevie Erikson (USA) went down the run neck and neck with Clarke/Bjorn, during the first race and finished overlapped, yet a couple of feet behind the Canadians. The second race was a different story; Clarke pulled out all of the stops that he used to use in the Finn and crossed the finish line over a minute ahead of the George Szabo and Rick Peters and Horton/Erikson teams.

According to Bjorn, 'Richard is a magician downwind.'

According to Clarke, 'I owe it all to Tyler and the P Star. The P Star is an awesome platform. Tyler tells me what to pull, and there isn’t a lot for me to pull back there. The P Stars are fast downwind and we had a great time.'

Clarke sailed the Finn in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens for Canada and has been on Finn racecourses with Star World Champions, Xavier Rohart, Freddie Loof and Iain Percy, all too often. Bjorn persuaded Clarke to sail the Star in this year’s North Americans and made all of the arrangements for the team to participate. The pair sailed together for the first time in six years on Monday, the day before the Star North Americans began. Clarke has no idea what the tuning numbers are for the Star and left pulling the strings to Bjorn. 'What can I say, ignorance is bliss,' said Clarke.

Clarke and Bjorn are sticking to the party line, 'We’re on vacation and we’re just having fun,' but experience tells me that Star sailors will be seeing a lot more of that combination.'

Star Class President, Bill Allen, had quite a thrill. He survived three general recalls, a start under the black flag, big swells and rain to round the first weather mark of today’s second race in the lead. 'It was fun, but the professionals passed us on the first run and things went downhill from there. We even lost Brad overboard at one point.'

There were a number of casualties today. A handful of teams returned to shore shortly after peaking their bows outside of the cover of Saugatuck Island and the channel. Slam jibes and stressed parts took down masts and disabled boats. More than one crew went overboard.

A word of caution, wear your PFD’s, check the CO2 cartridges if you prefer wearing inflatable PFD’s and if you see anyone in distress, stand by to render assistance.

Results are Preliminary until all requests for redress and protests have been heard.

1 28 George Szabo & Rick Peters   SDB 2 4 4 2 12
2 64 Richard Clarke & Tyler Bjorn   ISO 16 3 1 1 21
3 52 Andy Horton & Steve Erickson   NB 5 13 2 3 23
4 48 John MacCausland & Kevin Murphy   CR 11 7 5 4 27
5 18 Peter McChesney & Shane Zwingelberg   A 12 1 3 17 33
6 63 Eivind Melleby & Petrus Eide   NOR 19 5 6 5 35
7 45 Jud Smith & Stuart Delisser   CA 1 17 10 10 38
8 43 Andre Mirsky & Marcelo Jordao   RJ 17 2 9 13 41
9 34 Brian Cramer & Matt Johnston M WLOC 7 10 17 11 45
10 44 Jim Buckingham & Austin Sperry M NH 15 21 8 7 51
11 46 John Bainton, Jr. & Will Christiansen   NB 18 14 21 6 59
12 57 Oskar Johansson & Jeffrey Imai   LO 8 18 14 23 63
13 56 Fotis Boliakis & Roman Gotsulyak   CLIS 10 23 22 12 67
14 22 Tomas Hornos & Luis Hornos J BH 6 42 16 9 73
15 23 Alberto Zanetti & Gustavo Warburg M OL 28 15 7 25 75
16 49 Jock Kohlhas & Witold Gessing M CLIS 13 28 20 15 76
17 25 William Watson & Roger Sharp GM CLIS 30 6 27 18 81
18 54 Derek DeCouteau & Stuart Frost M BI 9 20 31 22 82
19 19 Mark Passmore & Brad Anderson   WLOC 27 26 12 19 84
20 17 Jon VanderMolen & Geoff Ewenson   GL 25 34 15 16 90
21 13 Joe Zambella & Bill Gottling GM BH 26 19 28 21 94
22 15 Dave Watt & Mike Thompson   PS 4 40 34 20 98
23 33 Bill Allen & Brad Lichter GM WH 20 43 11 24 98
24 14 Larry Whipple & Mark Strube GM PS 36 44 13 8 101
25 24 Jack Rickard & Sam Eadie GM WH 41 12 25 26 104
26 26 Daniel Coughlin III & Brad Balmert   HB 14 22 24 48\BFD 108
27 51 John Finch & Ivan Bunner M WLOC 32 41 23 14 110
28 36 Peter Brzechffa, MD & Richard Burgess   LH 22 27 40 28 117
29 50 Richard Dhein & Clark Dhein M LG 23 11 37 48\DNS 119
30 41 Doug Folsetter & Larry Scott   WLOC 21 25 26 48\BFD 120
31 31 Kenneth Woods & Jim Pickering M CA 45 9 19 48\BFD 121
32 37 Arthur Anosov & Michael Nichol   SL 24 31 18 48\DNS 121
33 29 John Vanderhoff & Adam Dolezal GM NCB 3 24 48\DNS 48\DNS 123
34 47 Jack Button & Bud Converse EGM MID 38 29 29 27 123
35 53 David Cutler & Nelson Stephenson   CLIS 39 8 39 48\DNS 134
36 35 John Chiarella & Bob Carlston EGM SU 29 46 38 29 142
37 40 William Swigart & Carroll McCallum M CLIS 34 16 48\OCS 48\DNS 146
38 27 John O'Donnell & Huy Nguyen M LB 35 32 32 48\DNE 147
39 39 James Babel & T.C. Belco M GL 31 39 33 48\BFD 151
40 21 Jack Jennings & Brian Sharp   SU 42 33 30 48\BFD 153
41 38 Douglas Steele & Barton Jahncke EGM LH 33 36 36 48\DNE 153
42 60 Thorsten Cook & Mike Young EGM CLIS 37 35 35 48\DNF 155
43 12 Joe McCorkell & Brent Ostbye   A 43 37 48\DNS 30 158
44 11 Barbara B-Vosbury & Tom White M A 40 30 48\DNS 48\DNS 166
45 55 Stuart Miller & Jack Winthrop   LH 46 38 48\DNC 48\DNC 180
46 68 Lou Roberts & Kevin Elterman M MID 47 47 41 48\DNF 183
47 30 Vadim Panna & Neil Gibb   WLOC 44 45 48\DNC 48\DNC 185



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by Lynn Fitzpatrick - Worldregattas.com   8:05 AM Thu 17 Sep 2009 GMT


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