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New Venue Selected for Performance Race Week 2004 - Tybee Island, Georgia
This year a new venue was selected for Performance Race Week, the Nacra
North American Championships. Tybee Island, Georgia was chosen for several
reasons, the most impressive being the success of the Tybee 500 this past
May. The organizers of the Tybee 500 have agreed to work with Performance
Catamarans to bring new energy into Performance Race Week to be held October
4th though 7th.
"We anticipate this new location being a favorite for future championships," said Jack Young of Performance Catamaran "We¹ve already gotten positive feedback with regards to the weather, accommodations and island activities."
The race site is just off the Host Hotel The Beachside Colony. It¹s a great place to watch from the beach or the balcony of your room. The course is a triangle course using the US Sailing Multihull Courses.
Womens Hobie Cat Sailing in Cancun Mexico, Womens Hobie Worlds Final Day.
Here's a report from the scene at the Hobie Worlds in Cancun Mexico written by Liza Cleveland, who is crewing in both womens and open races.
The day was going to be a challenging one. Arriving on the beach at 8:30 to help the Brazilian Grand Master team with whom we were switching off boats, the wind was alread blowing hard. It was cloudy, and the wind was still from the NE with a possibility of going more easterly as the day progressed.
The Masters and Grand Master teams left the beach, and I went back to the hotel to eat more food. Because Annie and I were only .7 kilos over minimum weight, there was still a possibility of another weigh-in. Which reminds me, at the end of our last race on Day 1, we hit the beach and immediately a gentleman from the Race Jury came up and asked that we please get weighed again. We had promised ourselves to be sure to drink a bottle of water each on the way back to the beach, but we forgot, and once you hit the beach, if they think you might be underweight, you get weighed immediately. If it turns out that you are underweight, all your races for that day are disqualified. So we went over to the high-tech scale, stripped down to our bathingsuits, and got weighed. Luckily we had gained a kilo...as I mentioned, we´ve been trying to eat as much as possible!
Race 1: After the somewhat chaotic exodus from the beach (due to the fact that they blow a horn and all of a sudden 60 boats want to leave out of a fairly small stretch of beach that is not near reefs), we headed out to the race course. Suddenly I was experiencing conditions heretofore never experienced by yours truly. The waves were massive. The wind was blowing about 17 knots which is a decent double-trapping breeze, but the waves made just staying on the boat difficult. At times when you are out on the trapeze, the boat would fly over a wave and both your feet would leave the boat!
The day was going to be a challenging one. Arriving on the beach at 8:30 to help the Brazilian Grand Master team with whom we were switching off boats, the wind was alread blowing hard. It was cloudy, and the wind was still from the NE with a possibility of going more easterly as the day progressed.
The Masters and Grand Master teams left the beach, and I went back to the hotel to eat more food. Because Annie and I were only .7 kilos over minimum weight, there was still a possibility of another weigh-in. Which reminds me, at the end of our last race on Day 1, we hit the beach and immediately a gentleman from the Race Jury came up and asked that we please get weighed again. We had promised ourselves to be sure to drink a bottle of water each on the way back to the beach, but we forgot, and once you hit the beach, if they think you might be underweight, you get weighed immediately. If it turns out that you are underweight, all your races for that day are disqualified. So we went over to the high-tech scale, stripped down to our bathingsuits, and got weighed. Luckily we had gained a kilo...as I mentioned, we´ve been trying to eat as much as possible!
Race 1: After the somewhat chaotic exodus from the beach (due to the fact that they blow a horn and all of a sudden 60 boats want to leave out of a fairly small stretch of beach that is not near reefs), we headed out to the race course. Suddenly I was experiencing conditions heretofore never experienced by yours truly. The waves were massive. The wind was blowing about 17 knots which is a decent double-trapping breeze, but the waves made just staying on the boat difficult. At times when you are out on the trapeze, the boat would fly over a wave and both your feet would leave the boat!
Hobie 16 Worlds getting underway in Cancun Mexico
The Hobie 16 Worlds: Racing starts on Wednesday for the Women's, Youth,
Master and Grand Masters World Championship.
The Forecast is for partly cloudy skies with a high of
87oF with winds from the East Northeast at 12 mph.
Who to watch: In the Women's the defending World Champions from France Lauren Pelen and Lea Jeandott will be on the starting line ready to defend their title. To do that they will have to hold off their French teammate and winner of the ISAF World in the Hobie 16 class Marie Duvignac sailing with Pauline Thevenot.
Bronze medallist from the ISAF Worlds Susan Korzeniewsi sailing with Kathleen Tracy (USA) will be looking for her first World Championship victory.
Annie Nelson, sailing with Eliza Cleveland, will be making her return to the Hobie 16 class after winning the Women's Worlds in 1995.
Hobie 16 World Championiships in Cancun Mexico Starts This Week
The Hobie 16 World Championship is only days away. Two
hundred and forty one teams, representing twenty-eight
countries, are registered for the event in Cancun,
Mexico. Five championships will be determined between
May 4th and May 14th sailed in sixty-four brand new
Hobie 16s provided by the Hobie Cat Company. Racing
for the Women, Master, Grand Master and Youth World
Championships will be contested on May 5, 6, and 7.
The Open World Championship will start on the 8th with
a two day qualifying round for the semi-finals. The
semi-finals will be sailed for three days followed by
two-day finals with the top 56 teams.
www.HobieWorlds.com
Enrique Figueroa takes both 1st and 2nd place in Beachcats Class at Rolex.
ST. THOMAS, USVI (March 28, 2004)--For winners in nine classes at the three-day International Rolex Regatta 2004, life was good today. "Real good," according to Chris Curreri of St. Thomas, who--like the other class leaders--claimed a Rolex watch for his efforts in the IC-24 class. The event, in its 31st year at the St. Thomas Yacht Club in the U.S. Virgin Islands, hosted 91 boats and hundreds of sailors who were tested by a variety of wind conditions on the racecourse and never a dull party moment ashore.
In Beach Cats, it came as no surprise that Puerto Rico's 2004 Olympic Tornado team of Enrique Figueroa and crew Jorge Fernandez aboard Movistar/Suzuki/Red Bull won its final race to clench a four-race series. This was the first year in recent history that the Beach Cats were not divided into spinnaker and non-spinnaker racing classes. Sailing to a Portsmouth handicap while other classes sailed to the Caribbean Sailing Association rating rule, the Beach Cats were dominated by Figueroa's Hobie Tiger, sailing with a spinnaker. Close on his heels in second was the Hobie 16 Exodus/Ensysa, sailing without a spinnaker and skippered by another, but unrelated, Enrique Figueroa, also from Puerto Rico.
Women Catamaran Sailors Scoring Well in the Virgin Islands
ST. THOMAS, USVI (March 27, 2004) --A fresh northeasterly breeze blew out yesterday's rain squalls, providing plenty of fuel for today's Middle Passage Race at the International Rolex Regatta 2004. The distance competition is a traditional second-day sweep through the beautiful islands and Cays north of St. Thomas, USVI, where the three-day event is being hosted for its 31st year by the Thomas Yacht Club. Sailing in eight classes, the fleet of 91 boats found relatively smooth conditions inside Pillsbury Sound where they were started in 15-18 knot breezes. After two legs, the boats followed a course into more open waters where 10-12 foot waves tested the fortitude of even the best sailors.
In the Beach Cats, skipper Rosarita Martinez (Carolina, PR) was particularly pleased at her performance aboard her Hobie 16 Yuisa. She considered the waves to be "huge" but held on for the challenge and a third-place finish today for a third in overall standings. Martinez, who has sailed this event for the past five years and won her class in 2001, is the 2003 Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion and is practicing for the Hobie 16 Worlds to be held in Cancun the first week of May. She is closely watching another woman skipper, Susan Korzeniewski of Liverpool, N.Y., who is also sailing a Hobie 16, named WOW, in preparation for the Worlds. "I was pleased she came to the regatta," said Martinez. "She had been the Women's Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion the year before me, so I won that title from her and now I feel I did very well against her here today." Korzeniewski, who finished ninth today and sits in ninth overall, is a first-time entrant in the regatta and a veteran of the grueling Worrell 1000 event for catamarans. Enrique Figueroa's Movistar/Suzuki/Red Bull still leads the Beach Cats after today.
In the Beach Cats, skipper Rosarita Martinez (Carolina, PR) was particularly pleased at her performance aboard her Hobie 16 Yuisa. She considered the waves to be "huge" but held on for the challenge and a third-place finish today for a third in overall standings. Martinez, who has sailed this event for the past five years and won her class in 2001, is the 2003 Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion and is practicing for the Hobie 16 Worlds to be held in Cancun the first week of May. She is closely watching another woman skipper, Susan Korzeniewski of Liverpool, N.Y., who is also sailing a Hobie 16, named WOW, in preparation for the Worlds. "I was pleased she came to the regatta," said Martinez. "She had been the Women's Hobie 16 Continental Women's Champion the year before me, so I won that title from her and now I feel I did very well against her here today." Korzeniewski, who finished ninth today and sits in ninth overall, is a first-time entrant in the regatta and a veteran of the grueling Worrell 1000 event for catamarans. Enrique Figueroa's Movistar/Suzuki/Red Bull still leads the Beach Cats after today.
2003 Hobie Wave Nationals, Catamaran Regatta Results.
Kulkoskis Dominate the 6th Annual Hobie Wave Nationals.
Dan and Kathy Kulkoski totally dominated the Hobie Wave Nationals in conditions
that were all over the place, light and fluky the first day, blowing dogs
of their chains the second day, and the final day of 15 mph and chilly.
Dan took bullets in 8 out of 15 races to finish 21 points ahead of the
second place sailor, Jim Glanden. Kathy Kulkoski took 3rd place, followed by Bob Bergstedt and Stan Woodruff.
A-Class North American Championship Catamaran Regatta Wrapup
A record 39 catamaran sailboats attended the A-Class North American Championship held November 11-14, 2003 in Mandeville, LA at the Pontchartrain Yacht Club. Catamaran sailors came from California, Texas, Canada, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and New Zealand! The catamaran regatta was won by Pease Glaser of Newport Beach, CA who showed excellent speed and sailing smarts by dominating the event on the last day in light and shifty winds.
Larsen/Pols Forumula 18 Team Win the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta (full results)
Aruba, November 14th 2003 - The Dutch Formula 18 team Gunnar Larsen and Xander Pols won the 13th Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta. On Friday November 14th, they beat the British Tornado sailors Sunnucks/Self in the last race with four minutes on rating. After the light conditions in the last couple of days, the wind was back and therefore the smiles on the faces of the competitors.
This morning the promised seabreeze at breakfast was there. The race committee put again an olympic course down. The competitors were excited to go on the water. It was their last chance to sail with stronger wind and they got it. Several catamarans capsized under spinnaker and there was also little damage to equipment, but everybody enjoyed sailing. Just like on the first racing day, it were again the Tornado's that dominated the race.
Complete scoring for the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta at the end of the full article.
Team Sunnucks/Self Wins Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta Long Distance Race
Holiday Inn, November 13th 2003 - On Thursday November 13th, the long distance race of the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta was thrilling. Tornado teams were fighting the Formula 18 sailors Gunnar Larsen and Xander Pols from the Netherlands. William Sunnucks and Mark Self from Great Britain took the lead on the reach and they won the race.
At 10:30 hours this morning, the coloured fleet of catamarans left the beach for today's first race. The wind force was about two to three, but it decreased later on. The small boats had to sail two laps instead of three, which made their competition more interesting. The Hobie 16 teams Rowen/Baring from England and Heilbron/Bogaards from the Netherlands, were fighting hard for the first position of the smaller catamarans. Meanwhile, it was team Sunnucks/Gummer that took the lead of the fleet. Until the finish, the competition remained close. Sunnucks: "Gunnar crossed the finish line in about four minutes behind us, which is enough to beat us". Both teams were now leading the overall ranking. Richard Allen got a third place and the gap with the numbers three, Graat and Koene, decreased to just one point. The pressure was on. The Dutch Hobie 16 team beat the English and moved into the 11th position overall.
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