Paul Cayard at the 2018 ISCYRA Western Hemisphere Championship

Paul Cayard at the 2018 ISCYRA Western Hemisphere Championship - Overall

by Paul Cayard 15 Apr 22:25 PDT 12-15 April 2018

2018 ISCYRA Western Hemisphere Championship - Day 4 © Paul Cayard

The two final races of the 2018 Star Western Hemisphere Championship were held on Sunday in 15-18 knots of wind from the southeast. Jorge Zarif of Brazil was on fire winning both races. It was very physical and the conditions suited the 25 year old Finn sailor perfectly.

Tutu and I had the second best scores with a 3, 2. Lars Grael had finishes of 2, 4 which was sufficient to protect his lead and win the Championship. At the last mark of the last race, Grael was 8th while we were second. Finishing in these positions would have given Tuto and I the Championship. But Lars and Samuel sailed very fast down the final run to pass 4 boats. I am happy with our performance considering it was our first time sailing together.

Jorge Zarif moved up to third for the series with his great finishes today and Augie Diaz with Bruno Prada crewing finished 4th. Tomas Hornos finished 5th.

The only sailor not from Brazil in the first three teams was myself. Brazil has always been a strong sailing country and they are producing more good young sailors like Tutu and Jorge Zarif.

This was the last event of the winter series here in Miami which started in November. The next Star Championship will be the Eastern Hemisphere Championship in two weeks time in Trieste, Italy. After that we will be racing on the west coast for several regattas including the North American Championship at Marina Del Rey in August.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Boat Name	Helm / Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	Pts
1	BRA 8474	Renata	Lars Grael / Samuel Goncalves	1	2	3	1	4	10	2	5	18
2	USA 8466	USA 8466	Paul Cayard / Arthur Lopes	9	3	1	2	12	1	3	2	21
3	BRA 8210	Tati Quebra Barraco	Jorge Zarif / Guilherme De almeida	3	1	5	10	17	8	1	1	29
4	USA 8509	Danilu	Augie Diaz / Bruno Prada	5	13	10	4	2	5	8	3	37
5	USA 8481	USA 8481	Tomas Hornos / Phil Toth	11	7	21	13	1	2	10	RDG	53.3
6	USA 8464	Pied Piper / National Marine	Jack Jennings / Frithjof Kleen	2	15	13	27	8	3	6	8	55
7	USA 8230	Back from the Dead	John Dane III / Tim Ray	12	12	11	9	7	4	5	RET	60
8	USA 8522	USA 8459	Peter Vessella / Phil Trinter	7	4	6	6	19	19	7	11	60
9	BRA 8510	Vida Bandida	Luca Modena / MARCELLO SANSONE	4	OCS	2	23	5	14	9	7	64
10	DEN 8532	African Queen	Jørgen Schönherr / Jan Eli Gravad	16	21	12	3	3	9	11	12	66
11	USA 8521	Stella	John MacCausland / Roger Cheer	10	14	15	12	21	6	12	6	75
12	BRA 8393	Capatosta	Marcelo Bellotti / Mauricio Bueno	13	6	25	RET	13	13	4	4	78
13	USA 8000	USA 8000	Aruthur Anosov / David Caesar	18	5	14	11	15	15	19	9	87
14	USA 8520	Rachel	Andy Macdonald / Brad Nichol	8	9	8	19	9	21	RET	13	87
15	CAN 8445	Remarc	Brian Cramer / Cam Lymburner	6	16	7	22	10	16	21	17	93
16	ARG 8498	Juanita	Alberto Zanetti / Payson Infelise	DNC	8	4	14	14	36	13	14	103
17	USA 8502	USA 8502	Mike Hecky / Guy Avellon	14	10	19	5	23	20	20	18	106
18	ARG 8285	Pichon Pichoni	Erich Mones / Diego Peisajovich	23	RET	9	15	22	7	18	21	115
19	USA 8504	Picnic	William Swigart / Brian Fatih	15	11	29	31	20	26	14	15	130
20	USA 8484	Barakablue	Larry Whipple / Antonio Tsotras	17	23	17	7	18	17	DNS	DNS	137
21	CAN 8272	Southern Star	Jerry Wendt / Bryan Milne	26	20	18	18	16	31	22	19	139
22	USA 8440	USA 8440	Jim Buckingham / Rick Peters	27	RET	30	21	11	28	17	10	144
23	GER 8361	Voodoo	Stefan Lehnert / Kilian Weise	OCS	18	16	17	6	12	RET	DNS	145
24	USA 8059	Re‑Pear	Robert Lippincott / Arnis Baltins	24	24	32	20	27	27	16	16	154
25	USA 8246	8246	Shane Zwingelberg / Charlie Koules	22	17	28	28	28	18	23	23	159
26	ARG 8008	Sarexpress	Fabian Mac Gowan / Ariel Simonet	20	22	26	8	25	22	RET	DNS	161
27	SUI 8499	Fram	Christoph Gautschi / Tina Gautschi	25	19	31	34	26	32	15	20	168
28	USA 8153	USA 8153	Nicolaus Pro / Chad Easley	34	RET	24	16	RET	11	24	27	174
29	SWE 7978	Fridolin	Ingvar Krook / Christoffer Lundgren	28	28	20	25	31	23	28	25	177
30	SWE 8358	Lobster	Lars Ahlström / Bo Selko	30	30	27	30	24	24	26	24	185
31	CAN 8271	USA 8271	Al Cullen / Dave Martin	31	OCS	22	35	29	25	25	22	189
32	USA 6320	Bingo X	Dwight Escalera / Elizabeth Escalera	19	31	33	24	33	33	30	28	198
33	USA 8439	USA 8439	Bob Teitge / Thad Brej	21	26	34	33	30	29	27	DNF	200
34	USA 8410	T2	Mike Phinney / Alex Baker	29	25	23	26	35	30	RET	DNS	206
35	CAN 7887	USA 7887	John Hokanson / Marcel Beltz	32	OCS	35	36	34	34	29	26	226
36	USA 8507	USA 8507	James Revkin / Richard Burgess	35	27	36	29	32	35	DNS	DNS	232
37	USA 8215	Sonya	John Chiarella / Bob Carlson	33	29	37	32	36	37	DNS	DNS	242