{"id":23342,"date":"2024-11-13T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest.jboats.com\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:12:24","slug":"j-crews-eclipse-fleet-san-diego-hot-rum-series-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/j-crews-eclipse-fleet-san-diego-hot-rum-series-i\/","title":{"rendered":"J\/Crews Eclipse Fleet @ San Diego Hot Rum Series I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(San Diego, CA)- The annual fall bacchanalian festival in San Diego known as the \u201cHot Rum Series\u201d began this past weekend, hosted by the San Diego Yacht Club. A fleet of 122 boats is participating in the series of three-weekend races that take place on Saturdays. The race is a simple \u201cpursuit style\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
There are thirty-five J\/Teams (29.0%) in the fleet.<\/p>\n
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PHRF Overall- Podium Sweep!<\/strong> PHRF 2 Division<\/strong> PHRF 3 Division<\/strong> PHRF 4 Division<\/strong> PHRF 5 Division<\/strong> PHRF 6 Division<\/strong> PHRF 7 Division<\/strong>
A trio of J\/teams led home the entire fleet to sweep the podium! Winning was Jim Madden’s J\/100 STARK RAVING MAD, followed by Jim Dorsey’s J\/105 J-AQUATIC in second place and Mike Hatch’s J\/105 J-ALMIGHTY! Seventh went to Ed Sanford’s CREATIVE.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In this eleven-boat fleet, Rudy Hasl’s J\/145 PALAEMON took third place. Fellow J\/145 owner- Steven Ernest- took fifth place with AIMANT de FILLE.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Winning this large eighteen-boat fleet was Ed Sanford’s J\/111 CREATIVE. Then, two J\/122s finished together; Erostino Dagfish’s DOUBLE HELIX was 5th and Mark Stratton’s CHEEKY was 6th place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A family J\/crew was atop this nineteen-boat fleet, Chuck Nichol’s & Kyle Clark’s J\/120 CC RIDER. Taking fourth place was Jeff Shew’s J\/121 RAVEN.<\/p>\n
In this eleven-boat fleet, Jim & Scott Barber’s J\/109 FELEENA took fifth place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This huge twenty-three boat fleet was dominated by top J\/Teams. Winning was 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 iin fourth place.<\/p>\n
This seventeen-boat fleet saw Chuck Bowers’s J\/29 RHUMB RUNNER take fifth, while Scott Bennett’s J\/92 FANDANGO took fifth position.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n