J/80 World Championship day two dominated by Spanish

by Stuart Johnstone on 7 Oct 2010 While many expected the Spanish teams to sail well and put on a good show at the Newport J/80 Worlds, it's doubtful many expected them to be dominating in their second day of sailing in the strong, shifty northwesterly winds off Newport. After five races, the top three teams are all Spanish J/80 Champions of one form or another, with Carlos Martinez on PERALEJA GOLF winning, putting his mark on the fleet with a 1-2 today for a total of 16 points.

Jose Maria 'Pichu' Torcida lies second six points back after a 5-7. And, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Rayco Tabares Alvarez on HOTEL PRINCESA CANARIAS sailed to the second best record with a 2-3 for a total of 28 points. To illustrate how tight the competition is so far, four different boats in five races have won a race, the only double-winner being the American team of QUANTUM RACING sailed by Scott Young and Terry Flynn from Austin, TX.

The day started out slowly. At 0830 hours, in the middle of a torrential downpour, the prospects were dim for any kind of reasonable racing. Consulting with his brain trust of Brad Read of SailNewport and others, Tom Duggan elected to postpone until 1000 hours. After two more on-shore postponements, the Low that was developing SE off Cape Cod started to move, enabling the PRO and the RC team to mobilize the troops and issue a 'race on' at the 1200 hours announcement. Sure enough, the predicted WNW breeze behind the front started to pipe-in at 7-12 knots. By the time the fleet got to the race course, a combination of down pours, squalls, fog, mist, and locusts (just kidding) seemed to bedevil both the fleet and the PRO/ RC. After several tries, the fourth race started around 2 pm with some degree of clearing. It was a great race. In fact, with the wind settling in around 275 to 280 the fleet was treated to a classic WNW wind with large shifts and large channels of breeze in the 10-20 knots range. Carlos Martinez's team on PERALEJA GOLF sailed a strong race, coming back from a rounding of around 10th at the first windward mark to win the race. Sailing equally as well was Rayco on HOTEL PRINCESA CANARIAS, rounding in about the same position at the first weather mark, but battled back to get a second. John Storck on RUMOR got third. Fourth was Henry Brauer and Will Welles on RASCAL, just clipping Pichu Torcida on ECC VIVIENDAS in fifth in an all-out planing finish!

The fifth race was an abject lesson in trying to do the right thing for the fleet at the right time. PRO Tom Duggan hung in there despite all kinds of protestations from the sailors. The wind was shifting dramatically at the starts, first favoring the port end, then starboard end, then port end, forcing general recalls and an eventual postponement to reset. Undaunted, Tom got the last race off late in the day, we believe around 4pm or so. It was a gorgeous race, held in the twilight of a front passing by with a shelf of clouds forming a clear edge to blue skies in the distant west, all lit by impending sunset at 6:15 pm. No one was disappointed. It was a fun fast race, cut short to three legs so everyone could get home by nightfall. Taking the gun was QUANTUM RACING, Scott Young and Terry Flynn simply sailing a very strong race against perhaps the tightest fleet yet in the top ten. Second was Carlos Martinez on PERALEJA GOLF sailing up QUANTUM's exhaust-pipe very, very fast. Third was Rayco on HOTEL PRINCESA CANARIAS. Rounding out the top five were Jay Lutz/ Gary Kamins on FIRED UP finishing fourth and Christer Faith-Ell on HASSE from Sweden. The finish for the top ten at sunset was quite spectacular, with the carbon and kevlar sails blazing in a reddish-orange glow and seemingly a dozen boats all finishing about the same time behind the top three!

The stage is now set for the three Spanish teams to duel it out for world supremacy in the J/80 class. They've all been there before, it's only a question now of who's going to be the spoiler between Scott Young/ Terry Flynn's QUANTUM RACING, Jay Lutz/ Gary Kamin's FIRED UP, John Storck's RUMOR, or Glenn Darden's LE TIGRE.

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1.	26		ESP 977	Peraleja Golf	J 80	Carlos Martinez		2	2	9	1	2			16.0
		2.	14		ESP 859	ECC Viviendas	J 80	Jose Maria Torcida		5	3	2	5	7			22.0
		3.	37		ESP 783	Hotel Princesa Yaiza Islas Canarias	J 80	Rayco Tabares Álvarez		17	1	5	2	3			28.0
		4.	54		USA 655	Quantum Racing	J 80	Scott Young\Flynn\Morran\Williamson		8	5	1	15	1			30.0
		5.	31		USA 407	Fired Up Racing	J 80	Jay Lutz / Gary Kamins		6	6	6	11	4			33.0
		6.	57		USA 19	Rumor	J 80	John Storck Jr		11	4	4	3	14			36.0
		7.	41		USA 1152	Le Tigre	J 80	Glenn Darden/Hillard		3	8	10	9	9			39.0
		8.	44		USA 738	Lucky Frog	J 80	Benjamin Schwartz		1	13	13	14	10			51.0
		9.	43		USA 1173	Little Feat	J 80	Jeff Johnstone		4	10	18	6	13			51.0
		10.	35		DEN 1312	Guldfaxe	J 80	Thomas Klok		14	9	15	10	6			54.0
		11.	16		ESP 899	Nextel Engineering	J 80	Ignacio Camino		13	7	3	17	16			56.0
		12.	58		USA 1123	Savasana	J 80	Brian Keane		7	12	11	8	20			58.0
		13.	8		USA 702	Cavitica	J 80	Chip Johns		10	21	14	19	11			75.0
		14.	25		ESP 1149	Crocs	J 80	Javier Aguado Blanco		28	11	17	13	8			77.0
		15.	62		USA 221	USA 221	J 80	Allan Terhune, Jr.		19	16	19	7	21			82.0
		16.	42		USA 1001	Lifted	J 80	Kerry Klingler / Robert Miller		9	17	8	30	19			83.0
		17.	61		USA 554	Tiamo	J 80	Bruno Pasquinelli		26	14	7	20	17/RDG			84.0
		18.	23		FRA 1256	Coyote	J 80	Bruno Troublé		16	24	19	21	17			97.0
		19.	55		USA 1163	Rascal	J 80	Henry Brauer / Will Welles		31	15	33	4	24			107.0
		20.	15		SWE 621	Hasse	J 80	Christer Faith-Ell		33/ZFP	19	12	43	5			112.0
		21.	9		USA 739	Christe	J 80	Brian Simkins		25	29	16	16	31			117.0
		22.	24		ESP 774	JJ Palmensis	J 80	Gustavo Martinez Doreste		12	20	62/DNF	12	15			121.0
		23.	20		ESP 635	Sori	J 80	Fernando Morillo Nuñez		29	30	21	23	28			131.0
		24.	52		USA 49	Phantom	J 80	Nicole Breault / Bruce Stone		20	31	34	26	23			134.0
		25.	4		USA 284	Avet	J 80	Curt Johnson		22	18	23	33	40			136.0
		26.	22		ESP 1133	In Itinere	J 80	Fernandez Vasco Miguel		23	23	38	28	25			137.0
		27.	10		USA 59	Church Key	J 80	Chris Chadwick		40	38	28	38	12			156.0
		28.	48		USA 1153	More Gostosa	J 80	Kevin Hayes / Jeff Kirchhoff		18	42	42	18	37			157.0
		29.	40		USA 44	Kicks	J 80	Bill Rose / Forbes Durdin		62/BFD	22	22	22	30			158.0
		30.	32		USA 1151	FKA	J 80	Les Beckwith		37	37	29	29	26			158.0
		31.	34		USA 1172	Goose	J 80	Chris Bulger		30	54	30	25	32			171.0
		32.	28		USA 156	Emotional Rescue - Dead Flowers Racing	J 80	Kristen Berry		38	32	26	44	36			176.0
		33.	49		ESP 1041	Nautipaints	J 80	Pablo benjumeda Arrobas		24	36	31	49	38			178.0
		34.	50		ITA 1094	OLJ Spirit Hatamuri	J 80	Federico Rajola		33	27	39	24	62/DSQ			185.0
		35.	6		USA 176	Bob Dylan	J 80	Mike Sudofsky		62/BFD	35	27	27	34			185.0
		36.	1		USA 336	Andale	J 80	Al Poindexter		36	33	41	36	39			185.0
		37.	36		ESP 1188	Gunter	J 80	Javier Scherk		15	62/DNF	62/BFD	34	18			191.0
		38.	64		USA 808	Wired	J 80	Henry DeGroot		34	28	36	52	41			191.0
		39.	21		SWE 236	Hunden	J 80	Tom Whitmore		62/BFD	34	24	45	33			198.0
		40.	46		USA 286	Mango	J 80	Ken Mangano		42	40	32	42	43			199.0
		41.	33		USA 588	Gallant Fox	J 80	Ryan Dempsey		35	47	40	35	42			199.0
		42.	3		USA 485	ARGO III	J 80	Jesse Thompson		57	25	20	37	62/DNF			201.0
		43.	56		USA 381	Relentless	J 80	Al Minella		41	49	62/DNS	32	22			206.0
		44.	19		SWE 513	Heving & Hagglund	J 80	Mathias Steininger		44	50	44	41	29			208.0
		45.	38		USA 1002	Juggernaut	J 80	Michael Zupon		43	39	62/BFD	40	27			211.0
		46.	12		USA 285	Crush	J 80	Mark Gorman		32	44	37	50	49			212.0
		47.	29		CAN 148	Fast Company	J 80	Peter McBride		49	43	35	48	46			221.0
		48.	5		USA 546	Blue Jay	J 80	Robert Hayward		39	51	45/RDG	39	47			221.0
		49.	53		USA 667	Presssure	J 80	Guy Nickerson		46	45	25	46	62/DSQ			224.0
		50.	59		USA 256	Sleekit	J 80	Robert Caldwell		45	56	62/DNF	31	44			238.0
		51.	2		USA 255	Angry Chameleon	J 80	Kristen Robinson		27	26	62/DNF	62/DNS	62/DNS			239.0
		52.	7		USA 364	Born2run	J 80	Rick Hanson		50	48	45	51	51			245.0
		53.	60		USA 330	Wave Theory	J 80	Jason Blais		48	55	43	53	50			249.0
		54.	30		USA 127	Firebolt	J 80	Ken Corsig		52	46	62/DNF	47	48			255.0
		55.	27		USA 204	Eagle	J 80	Peter McCarthy		51	52	48	54	52			257.0
		56.	45		USA 443	Magic In Motion	J 80	Jeremy Reynolds		55	58	47	55	45			260.0
		57.	17		GER 507	Nuredduna Express	J 80	Dirk Euler		47	41	49	62/DNS	62/DNS			261.0
		58.	39		USA 444	KiaOra	J 80	Ansgar Chorhummel		62/DNS	53	46	62/DNS	62/DNS			285.0
		59.	11		USA 1313	Courageous	J 80	Gary Panariello		53	62/DNS	62/DNF	56	62/DNS			295.0
		60.	47		USA 174	Mjølner	J 80	W. Robb Graham		56	57	62/DNF	62/DNS	62/DNS			299.0
		61.	18		GER 1183	No Limits	J 80	Juergen Waldheim		54	62/DNF	62/DNF	62/DNS	62/DNS			302.0

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