J/Crews eclipse fleet at San Diego Hot Rum Series I
by J/Boats 16 Nov 05:02 NZDT
The annual fall bacchanalian festival in San Diego known as the "Hot Rum Series" 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 "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.
PHRF Overall- Podium Sweep!
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.
PHRF 2 Division
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.
PHRF 3 Division
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.
PHRF 4 Division
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.
PHRF 5 Division
In this eleven-boat fleet, Jim & Scott Barber's J/109 FELEENA took fifth place.
PHRF 6 Division
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.
PHRF 7 Division
This seventeen-boat fleet saw Chuck Bowers's J/29 RHUMB RUNNER take fifth, while Scott Bennett's J/92 FANDANGO took fifth position.
PHRF 8 Division
Finally, the "litte boats" fleet of twenty-two teams saw Tom Reilly's SDYC J/22 JEZEBEL take fourth place!
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