J/24 US National Championship - Tight at the top

by Julie and Christopher Howell on 24 May 2015 2015 J/24 US National Championship - Six races have been completed at the J/24 US National Championship, and only one point divides the top two in the standings: Chris Snow’s Bogus and David Klatt’s Jaded.

The Championship, hosted by the Berkeley Yacht Club in Berkeley, CA, will conclude on Sunday with three scheduled races. Snow, of San Diego, CA, dropped a six in Saturday’s middle race to keep scores of one, two, three, three, one for 10 points. Klatt, of Oxnard, CA, had to drop his last tally (a fifth), leaving a line of three, four, one, two, one for 11 points. Mark Laura’s Baba Louie stands in third place with 15 points.

Light winds between four - six knots greeted the 25 teams on Saturday morning on San Francisco Bay, when Pat Toole’s 3 Big Dogs of Santa Barbara, CA won the opening contest. Klatt and Snow then settled in the familiar top three. Klatt inched out Laura’s Baba Louie to claim the top spot in the next race in breeze between six - eight knots (Toole got the bronze position). The wind stepped up to 10-12 in Saturday’s final battle, and it was Snow who secured the victory, trailed by Scott Milne’s Tremendous Slouch and Laura.

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Results:

Sail	Boat	Skipper	Yacht Club		1	2	3	4	5	6		Total	Pos
5208	Bogus	Chris Snow	SDYC		1	2	3	3	[6]	1		10	1
1892	Jaded	David Klatt	Ventura YC		3	4	1	2	1	[5]		11	2
2365	Baba Louie	Mark Laura	SYC		2	[7]	4	4	2	3		15	3
USA 5253	3 Big Dogs	Pat Toole	Santa Barbara YC		5	5	6	1	3	[14]		20T	4
JPN5449	GEKKO	Tokuma Takesue	Japan Sailing Federation		[6]	1	5	6	4	4		20T	5
USA 4906	TMC Racing	Michael Whitfield	Berkeley Yacht Club		4	6	7	[11]	7	10		34	6
USA 5471	Tremendous Slouch	Scott Milne	CYC Seattle		16/SCP	3	[26/RET]	8	10	2		39	7
3421	Suspence	Carl Sheath	Corinthian Yacht Club, Seattle		12	9	7/SCP	7	9	[23/SCP]		44	8
5350	Feral Rooster	paul van ravenswaay	severn sailing association		7	8	[20/SCP]	18	5	8		46	9
126	GIGGLES	Natalie Penner	AYC		[18]	13	8	5	13	11		50	10
2394	Downtown Uproar	Darren Cumming	None		9	10	[23/SCP]	17/SCP	11	6		53	11
USA1898	Critter	James Baurley	SMWYC		10	11	9	17/SCP	16	[20]		63	12
USA4268	Little Wing	Luther Strayer	Barstable YC		[26/RET]	12	11	14	18	12		67	13
674	Garage Sail	Tim Sauer	North Flathead Yacht Club		14	14	14	13	14	[22/SCP]		69	14
2160	TBD	Steve Hendricks	Santa Barbara Sailing Club		13	15	[22/SCP]	21/SCP	15	7		71	15
2950	Joss	Noel Morgan	Seattle CYC		17	18	16	10	[20]	16		77	16
513	Shut up and drive	Val Lulevich	none		8	[22/SCP]	10	22	21	19		80	17
2176	Evil Octopus	JASPER VAN VLIET	RYC		15	16	[21]	20	19	13		83	18
2257	Bullet	Thomas Tunberg	SBYC		[26/SCP]	19	20	19	17	9		84	19
4339	R.Y.L.A.H.	John Mason	CYC/SYC		16	21	[23]	23	12	20/SCP		92	20
3839	Irrational	Chris Dukelow	Seattle Corinthian		[26/SCP]	26/SCP	19	21	8	21		95	21
3732	Djinn	Nojan Moshiri	CYC Seattle		20	20	13	[26/SCP]	22	24		99	22
USA 1036	Flight	Randall Rasicot	Richmond Yacht Club		23	[26/SCP]	12	17	24	26/SCP		102	23
2722	Thunder Cookie	Jorge Martin-de-Nicolas	Austin Yacht Club		22	24	[26/SCP]	15	23	23		107	24
3316	woof	wally whittier	none		24	[25]	24	25	25	25		123	25