Saturday, September 19, 2015

J/105 North Americans Preview

J/105 sailing San Francisco By (San Francisco, CA)- The St Francis YC is hosting this year’s J/105 North American Championships on the famous sailing venue of San Francisco Bay.  Renowned for their blustery sailing conditions and strong currents, the twenty-seven teams that have assembled from across the USA also includes a Chilean 105 team.

The event takes place from September 17th to 20th and is taking place concurrently with StFYC’s other very famous fall regatta, the Rolex Big Boat Series.  Top teams that are participating in the event include former J/105 NA’s winner Bruce Stone on ARBITRAGE, the recent San Francisco YC regatta winner Steve Kent on PERSEVERANCE, and several top Rolex Big Boat Series podium finishers like Shannon Ryan & Rolf Kaiser’s DONKEY JACK, Phil Laby’s GODOT, Ryan Simmon’s BLACKHAWK, Adam Spiegel’s JAM SESSION, Jeff Litfin’s MOJO and Jason Woodley & Scott Whitney’s RISK. 

Spoilers in this fleet could be the Chilean visitors, Martin Baeza on YUNONA by UTOPIA SAILING TEAM from Santiago, Chile; Shawn Bennet’s JOSE CUERVO; Team New York sailing MELILANI; and Mark & Jolene Masur’s TWO FEATHERS from Ft Worth Boat Club in Texas.  For more J/105 North American Championship sailing information