Following their bullet to start Saturday, long-time J/24 sailor Whittemore placed eighth in the final contest, five notches better than his closest challenger Rossi Milev's Clear Air. Although 2017 J/24 World Champion Milev placed second behind Whittemore in Saturday's first match, Furio was able to cover in race 10 to officially clinch victory with 41 points to Milev's 57. Chris Stone's Velocidad assembled an impressive Championship for third place (66 points).
Whittemore's highest finish in prior World Championships was third, and he has been a bridesmaid at more than one major Championship. Five J/24 World Champion helmsmen were among this fleet, and Whittemore smiled, saying, "Being able to beat those guys feels really, really, really good!" He added, "Today was scary. When we drove down, we said we really need to win the first race, so the second race isn't a complete mess." The plan worked perfectly when Furio started at the pin, and got a header. "We could cross everybody. We were frankly gone at that point and extended our lead. We'd struggled up every first beat of every race. That was the first time where something happened, and we said this is going to be really good!"
Seventy-nine teams from 19 nations (Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Grenada, Hungary, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States) completed 10 races from October 22-26.
Pos | Bow No | Sail No | Yacht Name | Skipper / Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | Pts |
1 | 78 | USA 5325 | Furio | Keith Whittemore / Shelby Milne / Willem Van Waay / Mark Rodgerd / Brian Thomas | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 41 |
2 | 62 | CAN 5362 | Clear Air | Rossi Milev / Mark Goodyear / Victor Diaz de Leon / Vince Somoza / Jeremy Edwards | 1 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 57 |
3 | 76 | USA 5476 | Velocidad | Christopher Stone / Mike Marshall / Pat O'Connor / Billy Perkins / Brian Kamilar | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 66 |
4 | 53 | USA 5443 | Nautalytics | Mike Ingham / Quin Schwenker / Justin Coplan / Max Holzer / Marianna Schoke | 2 | 14 | 39 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 68 |
5 | 51 | USA 5237 | Honeybadger | Travis Odenbach / Patrick Wilson / Scott Nixon / Collin Kurby / Chad Atkins | 22 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 78 |
6 | 25 | CAN 4025 | Lifted | Evan Petley‑Jones / Peter Soosalu / Matt Soosalu / Ben Maloney / Shawn Kaiser | 12 | 16 | 29 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 93 |
7 | 10 | BRA 37 | Bruschetta | Mauricio Santa Cruz / Daniel Santiago / Fernando Tovar Gioia / Alex Saldanha / Fernando Costa De Souza | 27 | UFD | 11 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 95 |
8 | 99 | USA 799 | Angel of Harlem | Robby Brown / Mark Liebel / Martin Koleman / Steve Liebel / Ron Hyatt | 7 | 12 | 3 | 29 | RET | 23 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 97 |
9 | 35 | USA 5235 | Buckaroo | Will Welles / Jeff Linton / Erik Rexsford / Chris Morgan / Monica Morgan | 13 | 24 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 105 |
10 | 58 | USA 58 | bangor packet | Tony Parker / William Bomar / James Niblock / Zeke Horowitz / Ross Dierdorff | 15 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 117 |
11 | 23 | USA 3223 | Spoony Tactics | Todd Fedyszyn / Chris Stocke / Jackson Benvenutti / Catherine Hamman / Genoa Fedyszyn | 3 | 33 | 22 | 11 | 13 | 42 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 136 |
12 | 26 | JPN 4085 | Fox | Keiji Kondo / Wataru Kondo / Kazuhiro Kahara / Shiraishi Junichiro / Takeshi Koga | 6 | 43 | 1 | 15 | 29 | BFD | 7 | 29 | 24 | 14 | 168 |
13 | 50 | JPN 5450 | Gekko Diana | Kohei Ichikawa / Shunsube Mori / Hirohisa Kojima / Tushiki Imai / Keisuke Tomamoto / Mika Yamashita | 70 | 45 | 16 | 43 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 33 | 185 |
14 | 1 | GER 5316 | Hungriger Wolf | Fabian Damm / Thorsten Paech / Jonas Lyssewski / Moritz Boeoek / Jannik Duehren | 11 | 65 | 23 | 4 | 36 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 23 | 31 | 187 |
15 | 3 | ARG 5499 | Elvis | Nicolas Cubria / Mario Cubria / Hernan Cubria / Fernando Bertrand / Martha Parker | 31 | 11 | 21 | 47 | 20 | 26 | 19 | 26 | 18 | 18 | 190 |
16 | 39 | GER 5475 | JJONE | Daniel Frost / Timo Chorrosch / Felix Leupold / Jeronimo Landauer / Daniel Schwarze | 17 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 16 | BFD | BFD | 3 | 29 | 16 | 195 |
17 | 49 | JPN 5449 | Gekko | Tokuma Takesue / yudai ishiyama / takafumi miyamoto / chieko saito / masunobu matsushita / hiroaki matsuyama | 60 | 28 | 44 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 20 | 36 | 206 |
18 | 38 | JPN 5185 | Siesta | Nobuyuki Imai / Daichi Wada / Yasuhiro Okamoto / Kiseki Yoshii / Fumia Kato | 24 | SCP | BFD | 27 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 206 |
19 | 37 | HUN 37 | Orange Blossom | Balazs Tomai / gabor nagy / robert sarina / marton munka / balazs goldi | 76 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 38 | 4 | 37 | 23 | 15 | 28 | 209 |
20 | 30 | USA 1530 | Mr. Hankey | Andrew Carey / Steph Helms / James Barnash / Spencer Howe / John Enwright | 18 | 30 | 2 | 13 | UFD | 33 | 38 | 27 | 31 | 19 | 211 |
21 | 69 | JPN 4886 | Lull | Sumiyo Kaneko / haruhito yamazaki / urara fujii / fumihiro machiyama/kouhei kudo / hideyuki kitagawa / hiroshi murakami | 33 | 7 | 56 | 44 | 35 | 9 | 28 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 213 |
22 | 87 | USA 5287 | Helly Hansen | John Mollicone / Paul Abdullah / Tim Healy / Matt Coughlin / Dan Rabin | 34 | 42 | 40 | 38 | UFD | 13 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 30 | 223 |
23 | 65 | USA 2365 | Baba Louie | Mark Laura / Lance McDonough / Kurt Danmeier / Nick Turney / Melanie Edwards | 8 | 21 | 34 | 45 | 27 | 17 | 43 | 20 | 27 | 27 | 224 |
24 | 57 | USA 5257 | Mental Floss | Aidan Glackin / Kris Werner / Bruce Nash / Stave Jackson / Eemon Glackon | 57 | 13 | 62 | 54 | 11 | 29 | 10 | 21 | 10 | 26 | 231 |
25 | 71 | GBR 4271 | Wind Monkey | David Cooper / Paul Williams / Izzy Savage / Dave Hale / Ian Parkinson | 21 | 27 | 26 | 9 | 14 | SCP | 42 | 28 | 35 | RDG | 233.3 |
26 | 75 | USA 3775 | Blitz | Al Constants / Steve Constants / Michael Constants / Dave Hemman / David Constants | 19 | UFD | 15 | 36 | 22 | 28 | 41 | 31 | 12 | 34 | 238 |
27 | 96 | JAM 3696 | Main Squeeze | Eamonn Delisser / Patty Amaducci / Tim Banks / Danielle September / Ed Cabassa | 44 | 70 | 35 | 8 | 39 | 18 | 25 | 19 | 45 | 22 | 255 |
28 | 11 | USA 3750 | SISU | Jay Greenfield / Max Lopez / John Goldberry / Patrick Murphy / TBD | 37 | 53 | 12 | 59 | 32 | 11 | 12 | 30 | 26 | 42 | 255 |
29 | 83 | USA 5183 | Evita | Steve Shaw / Tim Porter / Geoffrey Becker / Evan West / Danny Lawless | 26 | 15 | 32 | 16 | 52 | 31 | 15 | 32 | 48 | RET | 267 |
30 | 45 | GBR 4265 | Madeleine | Duncan McCarthy / Steve Phelphs / Rob Clarke / ANdrew Taylor / Hanna McCarthy | 50 | 41 | 57 | 57 | 24 | 20 | 29 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 268 |
31 | 27 | MEX 4029 | Monster Fish | Kenneth Porter / Gerrit Neil Vandermerch / Daniel Banos / Francis Hawley / Camila Stepehnson | 36 | 73 | 27 | 25 | UFD | 15 | 27 | 36 | 32 | 11 | 282 |
32 | 47 | CAN 3935 | Terrapin | Michael Howarth / Julian Howarth / Olliver Hanley / Spencer Obrian / Benjamin Gravelle | 28 | 58 | 18 | 35 | 12 | 25 | 44 | RET | 42 | 23 | 285 |
33 | 22 | USA 5471 | Tremendous Slouch | Scott Milne / Thomas Niccoli / Jim Barrett / Harry Durseh / Rob Green | 16 | 29 | 33 | 37 | 37 | 32 | 30 | 41 | 39 | 37 | 290 |
34 | 46 | USA 4202 | Redline | Mike Stasko / Austin Zauner / Gavin Smith / Dean Grandcelli / Kile McGraw | 30 | 18 | 20 | 63 | 15 | DNC | 21 | 45 | 56 | 46 | 314 |
35 | 32 | USA 1132 | SpoilSport | Stuart Challoner / Brian Taborda / Barbara Gold / Steve Lopez / Ben McAndrews | 59 | 59 | 31 | 65 | 17 | 43 | 45 | 18 | 22 | 20 | 314 |
36 | 68 | USA 2785 | YouRegatta | Carter White / Molly WHite / Ted Widele / Michael McCallister / Chris Lombardo | 9 | 8 | RET | 24 | 47 | 22 | 32 | 17 | RET | DNC | 319 |
37 | 72 | SWE 4896 | Front Runner | Per‑Håkan Persson / Peter Nielsen / Monica Persson / Ellie Harding / Per Andersson | 64 | 74 | 17 | 51 | 21 | 38 | 33 | RDG | 28 | 35 | 327.1 |
38 | 56 | USA 5356 | Jackwagon | Peter Sauer / Alex Simanis / Joe Wernan / Elishia Vanluven | 40 | 10 | 9 | 68 | 44 | 52 | 52 | 35 | 40 | 47 | 329 |
39 | 81 | GER 5208 | Bogus | Stefan Karsunke / Brad Braddon / Hauke Kruss / Carsten Kerschies / Jens Tschentscher | 58 | 37 | 66 | 75 | 43 | 37 | 20 | 14 | 49 | 12 | 336 |
40 | 36 | USA 2736 | Boreas | Finn Hadlock / Eliza Price / Emmet Todd / Anna Parker / Griffin Primeau | 39 | 31 | 54 | 62 | 25 | 19 | 47 | 49 | 30 | 44 | 338 |
41 | 84 | USA 5484 | 2 | Dan Busch / Corine Sachett / Rob Rauf / Rick Pokerny / Eric Wiedeae | 54 | 40 | 48 | 23 | 28 | 47 | 51 | 39 | 44 | 21 | 341 |
42 | 21 | GRN 4167 | Die Hard | Robbie Yearwood / Matt Venotte / Neil Hutchinson / Augustus Reader / Holly Trew | 38 | 68 | 52 | 56 | 26 | 41 | 40 | 42 | 43 | 24 | 362 |
43 | 41 | USA 4242 | Motorhome | Mark Soya / Rob Evans / Mimi Evans / Bernard Soya / Ian Solum | 71 | 34 | 38 | 66 | 54 | 45 | 23 | BFD | 17 | 29 | 377 |
44 | 93 | CAN 3729 | A‑salt | Edmond Rees / Rakesh Patel / Paul Chouinard / Eliot Rees / Daniel Sheedy | 20 | 4 | 49 | 19 | 49 | 67 | BFD | 55 | 38 | RET | 381 |
45 | 85 | USA 2185 | The Dumpster | Frank Keesling / Jereme Mase / Mike Earl / Eric Fause / Vivian Keesling | 53 | 39 | 30 | 48 | 30 | 44 | 48 | 50 | 51 | 45 | 385 |
46 | 73 | USA 1208 | Rumming On Empty | Ryan Lashaway / Olivia Lashaway / Pete Danulewich / Beth Shnioke / Jim Herold | 32 | 47 | 28 | 42 | 65 | 62 | 56 | 46 | 37 | 40 | 390 |
47 | 59 | BAR 2420 | Bunga Bunga | Charles Gloumeau / Cyril Lecrenay / Jason Tindale / Roderick Mascoll / Allan Jason Trotter | 72 | 72 | 68 | 72 | 40 | 10 | 24 | 33 | 36 | 51 | 406 |
48 | 34 | USA 3734 | Miss Conduct | James Freedman / Chris Corley / Angel Shellenberger / Mike Lefebure / Tyler Bullard | 45 | 52 | 37 | 77 | 34 | 46 | 54 | 56 | 34 | 48 | 406 |
49 | 40 | CAN 4140 | Taz | Nick Jako / Tom Oliver / Samantha Webster / Mike Masnsfield / Amy Abraise | 47 | 35 | 59 | 40 | 31 | 51 | BFD | 48 | 52 | 49 | 412 |
50 | 28 | PUR 2928 | Urayo | Gilberto Rivera / Marco Teixidor / Francisco Velez / Pablo Beale / Jaime Balzac | 10 | 49 | 36 | 34 | 41 | 61 | 46 | BFD | BFD | 57 | 414 |
51 | 20 | GER 5420 | Rotopfau | Lars Haeger / Maike Hass / Magnus Joensson / Anders Berg / Martin Peterson | 67 | 64 | 70 | 22 | 46 | 55 | 34 | 38 | 53 | 39 | 418 |
52 | 77 | GBR 4177 | Chaotic | Nick Phillips / Tom Monty / Annie Lush / Cara Phillips / Matt Hardy / Sandra Hardy | 43 | 50 | 73 | 70 | 7 | 21 | 36 | DSQ | 46 | RET | 426 |
53 | 18 | USA 2918 | Sea Bags Women's Sailing Team | Erica Spencer / Joy Martin / Hilary Noble / Katie Drake / Emily Carville / Karen Fallon | 23 | 46 | 53 | 58 | 59 | 56 | 57 | 44 | 57 | 32 | 426 |
54 | 15 | MEX 5265 | Caspian | Jorge Castillo / Guillermo Parodi / German Silbermann / Luiz Alvarez / Tomas Rosenseld | 56 | 61 | 46 | 33 | 45 | 39 | 35 | 60 | 61 | DSQ | 436 |
55 | 55 | USA 5008 | Usual Suspects | David Breitner / dougan Buffinton / John Gray / Paul Jacobs | 35 | 32 | RET | 50 | 18 | 40 | 63 | 59 | 60 | DNC | 437 |
56 | 43 | USA 423 | Grant Boat | Matthew Miranda / Eric Johnson / John Brendel / Joe Plisic / Sophia Henn | 66 | 17 | 51 | 52 | 62 | 49 | 58 | 54 | 47 | 52 | 442 |
57 | 2 | USA 240 | Shake n Bake | Daniel Cameron / Steve Thomas / Bryan Cameron / Kevin Morgan / Ted Plendge | 46 | 5 | 10 | 28 | UFD | 36 | RET | DNS | DNC | DNC | 445 |
58 | 24 | GBR 4248 | Majic | James Torr / George Watson / Hamish Mcilwee / Harry Willett / James Randall | 52 | 48 | 42 | 55 | 67 | 48 | 31 | BFD | 64 | 38 | 445 |
59 | 52 | USA 5277 | Evil Octopus | Jasper Van Vliet / John Pytlak / Steve Meyers / Jessica Ludy | 48 | 38 | 69 | 41 | 51 | 57 | 62 | 53 | 41 | 55 | 446 |
60 | 82 | USA 3215 | Carpe Diem | Christopher Fischer / Brian Simkins / Casey Firth / Will Harris / Larry Murphy | 14 | 26 | 43 | 30 | 56 | 53 | RET | DNS | 65 | RET | 447 |
61 | 61 | CAN 1964 | Drivers Wanted | Ted Bartlewski / Irek Zubko / RObert Burek / Macheck Sadowski | 41 | 44 | 5 | 32 | 61 | RET | 61 | 57 | 68 | DNC | 449 |
62 | 29 | USA 1829 | CCS Water Women | Amy Woodard / Gina Shan / Katie Johnson / Margaux Bacro‑Duverger / Wendy McKenzie / Mary Corbett | 42 | 71 | 47 | 39 | 48 | 24 | RET | DNS | 59 | 53 | 463 |
63 | 48 | TTO 1948 | AmBush Too | Stephen Bushe / Matthew Mungal / Andrew Affoo / William Bushe / Philipp Archie | 75 | 51 | 64 | 74 | 58 | 34 | 39 | SCP | 33 | 60 | 469 |
64 | 5 | USA 2260 | Level Pelican | Crisp McDonald / Catherine Bost / Ervin Grove / Megan Place / James Howard | 49 | 20 | 45 | 67 | DNS | RET | 59 | 47 | 66 | 43 | 476 |
65 | 60 | GBR 4245 | Unity lets | Matthew Conyers / jackie Hayle / Joe Cross / Simon Dinger / Carole Dinger | 77 | 25 | 63 | 61 | 53 | 50 | 64 | 51 | 58 | 54 | 479 |
66 | 67 | USA 267 | BadMoon | Christopher Holmes / David Hayslip / Johanna Holmes / Dave Lornet / Victoria Hielscher | 29 | 55 | 41 | 49 | 63 | 68 | 68 | DNS | 69 | 56 | 498 |
67 | 80 | HUN 5280 | Jinge | Norbert Farago / Imre Scholtz / Laszlo Gyorgy Kiska / Mate Szabo / Norbert Farago | 68 | UFD | 25 | 12 | 57 | DNF | BFD | 37 | 62 | BFD | 501 |
68 | 12 | USA 1858 | Sabotage | Seth Rosenthal / Ben Givens / Stephan Antworth / Chris Jackson / Beau Pelayouyade | 62 | 60 | 50 | 76 | 68 | 60 | 53 | 52 | 50 | 58 | 513 |
69 | 66 | GBR 4266 | Flying Colours | William Pollock / Bruce Voss / Tilo Pape / Viv Allen / Lorna Graham | 51 | 54 | 67 | 31 | 42 | 63 | 60 | BFD | 71 | RET | 519 |
70 | 4 | JPN 4459 | Hangover | Masato Iizuka / Hiroshi Higashi / Yoshiyuki Katsura / Hiroyuki Kinoshita / Satoshi Morikawa | 25 | 62 | 65 | 53 | 71 | 64 | 66 | BFD | 70 | 63 | 539 |
71 | 44 | AUS 5058 | Wildfire | Ron Thomson / Doug McGregor / Jo Barnes / Rory Groves / Jordan Sunkel‑Lozell | 65 | 23 | 71 | 79 | 50 | DSQ | 50 | 43 | RET | DNC | 541 |
72 | 63 | AUS 4464 | Two Dogs | Jack Fullerton / Ramzey El Hila / Megan Aulich / Anssi Paatero / Anthony Moore | 78 | 75 | 61 | 78 | 60 | 58 | 49 | 58 | 55 | 61 | 555 |
73 | 54 | CAN 5254 | CAN 5254 | Nathan Bresett / Lisa Bresett / Tom Nelson / Richard West | 55 | 69 | RET | 60 | 69 | 69 | 67 | 62 | 67 | 50 | 568 |
74 | 17 | KOR 7777 | Summer Santa | Gyeongwon Jo / Changsoo Ryu / Jinho‑Lee / Kidong Park / Donghee Lee | DSQ | UFD | 58 | 46 | 66 | 65 | 55 | BFD | 63 | 59 | 572 |
75 | 31 | JPN 5317 | Jellyfish | Yoichi Matsumoto / Satoshi Watanabo / Shohei Koide / Shuichi Iida / Takeshi Kasuga | 73 | 66 | 60 | 69 | 64 | 71 | 65 | 61 | 54 | 62 | 572 |
76 | 14 | USA 2314 | Zia | Patrick Frisch / Lori Dillard / David Rech / Ernesto Mendoza / Zach Segal | 61 | 57 | 55 | 64 | 55 | 59 | BFD | 63 | DNC | DNC | 574 |
77 | 16 | AUS 5333 | J Force | Warren Campbell / James Campbell / Paul Field / David Bailey / Maddie Linton | 63 | 63 | 74 | 26 | RET | DNC | DNC | DNC | DNC | DNC | 626 |
78 | 64 | CHI 5464 | Team Valdivieso | Miguel Salinas / Fernando Gonzalez / Felipe Molinas / Estevan Ruiz / Patty Bryan | 74 | 36 | 72 | 73 | 70 | 70 | BFD | RET | 72 | DNC | 627 |
79 | 42 | FRA 1742 | Le Lion | Lionel Nicolai / DANIEL ROCHA / AMY BENNETT / PAUL NICOLAI / VALERIE BACHOTTZ | 69 | 67 | BFD | 71 | UFD | 66 | 69 | RET | 73 | 64 | 639 |