J/Crews Look Forward to San Diego Hot Rum Series II

(San Diego, CA)- The annual fall bacchanalian festival in San Diego known as the “Hot Rum Series”, hosted by the San Diego Yacht Club, will be hosting the second race this coming weekend.

A fleet of 122 boats is participating in the series of three-weekend races that take place on Saturdays. The race is a simple “pursuit style” event, where the slowest boats start first and the fastest boats start last; whoever crosses the finish line first boat-for-boat is declared the winner. As has been the case over time, the classic building seabreeze often benefits the bigger faster boats that start late.

There are thirty-five J/Teams (29.0%) in the fleet. Here is the current status for each division.

PHRF 2 Division
In this eleven-boat fleet, Rudy Hasl’s J/145 PALAEMON sits in third place. Fellow J/145 owner- Steven Ernest is in fifth place with AIMANT de FILLE.

PHRF 3 Division
In this large eighteen-boat fleet, Ed Sanford’s J/111 CREATIVE is in second place. Then, two J/122s are together- Erostino Dagfish’s DOUBLE HELIX in 5th and Mark Stratton’s CHEEKY in 6th place.

PHRF 4 Division
A family J/crew sits atop this nineteen-boat fleet, Chuck Nichol’s & Kyle Clark’s J/120 CC RIDER. Currently, in fourth place is Jeff Shew’s J/121 RAVEN.

PHRF 5 Division
In this eleven-boat fleet, Jim & Scott Barber’s J/109 FELEENA is in fifth place.

PHRF 6 Division
This huge twenty-three-boat fleet was dominated by top J/Teams on the first weekend. Leading is Jim Madden’s J/100 STARK RAVING MAD, followed by Dorsey’s J/105 J-AQUATIC in second, Hatch’s J/105 J-ALMIGHTY in third, and Bennet Greenwald & Dave Vieregg’s J/105 PERSEVERANCE in fourth place.

PHRF 7 Division
This seventeen-boat fleet has Chuck Bowers’s J/29 RHUMB RUNNER in fifth, while Scott Bennett’s J/92 FANDANGO is in sixth position.

PHRF 8
Finally, the “little boats” fleet of twenty-two teams has Tom Reilly’s SDYC J/22 JEZEBEL in fourth place!

For more San Diego Yacht Club Hot Rum Series sailing information
https://sdyc.org/calendar/event/hot-rum-series-1-24