American YC Spring Series Preview
(Rye, NY)- Spring sailing in the northeast of America is always a fickle thing; as the region is on the receiving end of the goofy, stormy weather patterns experienced over North America. Remarkably, the forecast for this weekend’s sailing in American Yacht Club’s annual Spring Series Regatta looks reasonably good for three solid days of sailing. The sixty-boat regatta is popular with J/Teams- 35 boats (58.0% of the regatta!). There are one-design fleets of J/99s, J/105s, J/100s, and J/44s along with a dozen other J/PHRF teams. J/44 Class J/105 Class PHRF Divisions In the dozen-boat PHRF 1 division, the Kings Point US Merchant Marine Academy is sailing the J/111 RED SKY IV and Ron Richman will be helming the J/133 ANTIDOTE. Joining them are Constantine Baris’s J/122 DIRE WOLF, Steve Brownline’s J/133 ASSARAIN IV, Len Sitar’s J/160 COUGAR, and last year’s winner- Erik Asgeirsson & Tom Stokes’s J/45 ACADIA. In the eight-boat PHRF 2 division, there are three J/Crews; Richard West’s J/120 CHARLOTTE, William Ingrham’s J/124 TENEBRAE, and Albrecht Goethe’s J/46 HAMBURG II. In the dozen-boat PHRF 3 Divison is mostly all J/Teams, including five J/99 teams that will also be competing for one-design class honors! Those teams include Ray Warner’s AGENT 99, Mike Kohler’s EVENTYR, Todd Aven’s THIN MAN, Kevin Marks’s VELOCITY 2, and Adam & Shannon Zakka’s WIZARD. Other J/Crew in the division include two J/109s (Bob Schwartz’s CAMINOS & John Greifzu’s GROWTH SPURT), Jason Viseltear’s J/80 UPSETTER, and Jim Townsend & JC Zucconi’s J/92 EASY RED. PHRF Non-spinnaker For more American YC Spring Series sailing information |