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2019 J 105 North American Championship at Corinthian Yacht Club - Day 1

by Julie & Christopher Howell 6 Sep 2019 22:14 PDT 6-8 September 2019
2019 J 105 North American Championship © Bruce Durkee

Eighteen teams gathered for excellent fall conditions in Massachusetts Bay on the initial day of the J/105 North American Championship hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA. Winds predictably started off from the Northeast and clocked East and Southeast as the day went on. CYC PRO Mark Toso got off three races for a action-filled first day of competition.

Taking the first race of the championship was Canadian boat The Usual Suspects, led by skipper Terry Michaelson, followed by Bruce Stone and his boat Good Trade in 2nd, and Texan Ken Horne on Final Final in 3rd. In the second race, Horne took 1st, Stone and crew were 2nd again, and fellow Californian Tim Russell and Ne*Ne came in 3rd. For the 3rd and last race of the day, a pair of local boats, Charlie Garrard's Merlin and Steven Goldberg's Air Express, were 3rd and 2nd respectively, while Good Trade took 1st, and moved into 1st overall after Day One. Ken Horne and Final Final was in 2nd, and local favorite Merlin, skippered by Charlie Garrard, 3rd.

While Good Trade has a healthy but by no means insurmountable lead, the battle for 2nd through 4th places continues to be tight and hard fought, like the previous warm-up regattas, the Ted Hood and prior to that, the Marblehead NOOD.

Results after Day 1:

PosBow NoSail NoYacht NameOwner / SkipperR1R2R3R4R5R6Pts
110  USA 96Good TradeBruce Stone / Nicole Breault22141212
29  USA 396Final FinalKen Horne31622519
314  USA 3Ne*NeTim Russell83416123
413  USA 635MerlinCharlie Garrard64334323
518  CAN 293The Usual SuspectsTerry Michaelson188153843
62  USA 489Allora!Alexander Clegg136795444
73  USA 620Aqua BoogieBrian Yanofsky1151189751
85  USA 398Blown AwayJon Samel / Cheryl Harvey / Robert Mann4SCP51481060
912  USA 579KnotlessKen Bowden79135151261
1017  USA 456SterlingMark Lindquist14SCP10117666
116  USA 345BrouhahaRic Dexter971212121567
124  USA 51178AtalantaMarty Galligan1211176101874
1311  USA 246JINXMark Taylor1710910141474
141  USA 485Air ExpressSteven Goldberg1514218171177
1519  USA 344Two FeathersMark Masur1615181313984
167  USA 189CerberusKen Dieselman10131416181384
1715  USA 444PhantomCynthia & Jim Best1818167111686
1816  USA 51459SiroccoSteve Hollis5171517161787

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