Verve Cup Offshore Regatta - Gets underway at the Chicago Yacht Club

2013 Verve Cup Offshore Regatta Michele and Steve Almeida, MISTE Photography

2013 Verve Cup Offshore Regatta © Michele and Steve Almeida, MISTE Photography

Competitors participate in multiple races, and boats sail either with a rating handicap or a one design so that boats of different size and character can compete against one another in one of the 18-plus racing sections. Overall prizes are awarded to the top finishers in each section, with one offshore boat winning the perpetual Verve Cup Trophy. The Verve Cup trophy dates from 1893 and is Chicago Yacht Club’s oldest trophy. Overall prizes are awarded for each class of boat.

2013 Verve Cup Offshore Regatta © Michele and Steve Almeida, MISTE Photography

Race Chair Martin Sandoval said 135 boats ranging in size from 25 feet to 60 feet and carrying crew from four to sixteen persons have registered to race this year. 'There will be 107 boats racing on two circles, with one circle just north of Navy Pier, and one due east just north of the four-mile pumping station,' Sandoval said. 'There are also 28 boats that will be doing the distance race. They're broken up into three sections, each section sailing a different course. Bigger boats get a longer course; the smaller boats might get a shorter course, depending on Mother Nature.'

New to the Verve Cup Offshore this year is the J/109 North American Championship, which started today (Thursday, August 8th) and goes through Sunday. After the first day of racing first place is held by Northstar, owned/skippered by Chicago Yacht Club member David Gustman of Wilmette, IL. Rick Lyall’s Storm is in second place. Lyall, of Wilton, CT, is a member of the New York Yacht Club and the Storm Trysail Club of Larchmont, NY. Kevin Saedi’s Momentus is currently third place in the J/109’s. Saedi is from Oak Park, IL and is a member of the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago.

2013 Verve Cup Offshore Regatta Preliminary Results Race 2

Select to view a specific Class results:

Bow   Sail Number Yacht Name Yacht Design Owner/Skipper Status Rating Finish Time Elapsed Time Corrected Time Class Fleet Verve Offshore_Circle A Racing One Design Division J 109 1 USA 246 Northstar J 109 David Gustman       1 2 USA 146 Storm J 109 Rick Lyall       2 3 USA 361 Momentus J 109 Kevin Saedi       3 4 USA 181 Hamburg J 109 Albrecht Goethe       4 5 USA 245 KIII J 109 Irv Kerbel       5 6 USA 249 Full Tilt J 109 Peter Priede       6 7 USA 336 Certainly J 109 Donald Meyer       7 8 USA 270 Vanda III J 109 Jack Toliver       8 9 USA 333 Time Out J 109 Doug Evans       9 10 USA 368 Callisto J 109 James Murray DNC       11