{"id":4717,"date":"2022-10-06T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T00:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest.jboats.com\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2022-10-11T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:30:18","slug":"le-tigre-wins-j-80-north-american-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/le-tigre-wins-j-80-north-american-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"LE TIGRE Wins J\/80 North American Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboats.com\/j80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/42fb9174-bcce-025d-8eb3-452ee26248bc.jpg\" alt=\"J\/80 sailing North Americans off Newport, RI\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.15rem;margin-bottom: 0.15rem\"><span style=\"color: #142d53;font-size: 1rem\">(Newport, RI)- From September 23rd to 25th, Sail Newport hosted thirty-one teams from five nations- the USA, Canada, Spain, Ireland, and Belgium. Virtually every single boat registered for the regatta is also sailing the J\/80 Worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboats.com\/j80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3b3f7403-4a23-1dfa-bb61-88d9df3b858e.jpg\" alt=\"J\/80s in Newport, RI\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\">As a &#8220;pre-worlds&#8221; event, the teams certainly found the regatta a great &#8220;practice race&#8221; to determine boathandling, boat tuning, and strategic optimization throughout the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboats.com\/j80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cc43d19d-deb5-977f-c8b3-176049ad573b.jpg\" alt=\"J\/80 sailing off Newport, RI\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\">In the end, a past J\/80 World Champion and J\/80 North American Champion, Glenn Darden from Fort Worth, Texas, led his talented team on LE TIGRE (below) to the 2022 J\/80 North American Championship win. It was clear after the first day of racing when LE TIGRE started with a 1-1-3 scoreline, they were not to be denied and ran off with the championship win with just 9 pts net. Darden&#8217;s crew consisted of a few all-star crew like Willem van Waay, Victor Diaz de Leon, and Rod &#8220;Caracas&#8221; Favela (two Venezuelans on the team).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboats.com\/j80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/d4a5b94c-d768-d193-0669-e08ad9946f94.jpg\" alt=\"J\/80 North American Le Tigre team\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\">Taking second was Per Roman Pepequin&#8217;s GP BULLHOUND from Sweden, closing the last two races with an emphatic 2-1. Third place went to Dan Wittig&#8217;s TURBO SLOTH with 22 pts net.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboats.com\/j80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ecb02252-37e4-7907-65a3-6022c66c7546.jpg\" alt=\"J\/80s sailing off Newport, RI\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5rem;margin-bottom: 1.5rem;color: #142d53\">Rounding out the top five was Irishman Pat O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s LEAD MINE in fourth place and Ryan Walsh&#8217;s PEARLY BAKER in fifth place.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><span style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #4d4d4d\">Sailing photo credits- Anna Suslova<\/span><\/em>.&nbsp; For&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yachtscoring.com\/emenu.cfm?eID=14929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"background-position: 0px 0px\">more J\/80 North American Championship sailing information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Newport, RI)- From September 23rd to 25th, Sail Newport hosted thirty-one teams from five nations-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-80"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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