F18 North American 2010


Racine Yacht Club, Racine, Wisconsin. USA
Racing Days: August 8 – 13, 2010
Website www.crawsailing.net
Registered Sailors crawsailing.net/Racine2010/attending
56 boats registered, Last year North American champ was Gunnar Larsen, I’m not seeing Greg Thomas and Jackes Bernier or Pete Melvin on the list. Really good number of F18s for this 2010 event at Racine.
For the 2009 event coverage click the F18 North America label below.

2009 Photo: Surfcityracing Coen de Koning on a pin start over the entire fleet
2009 Results

1 Gunnar Larsen Van Leeuwen 4 (7) 4 6 3 3 1 2 5 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 39
2 Coen de Koning Visser 2 1 1 1 1 (13) 2 1 1 2 4 3 3 10 3 2 7 2 46
3 Greg Thomas Bernier 6 4 3 4 (10) 1 4 5 4 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 51
4 Pete Melvin Melvin 1 2 2 2 5 2 3 4 (11) 5 6 5 8 6 10 4 8 8 81
5 Mike Easton Tripp Burd 7 5 (10) 5 2 5 7 6 7 7 5 4 5 4 7 7 9 3 95

Argentina will send 2 crews… these guys went nuts with the class! So if you are organizing some event in your town…let me know I will send some Argies to compete… Cruz Gonzalez Smith, our current top F18 rated sailor with a huge 23rd overall at Erquy with several top ten finish will be there and also Martin Vari (kitesurf multiple World Champ), that with Juan Faustin were 1st Arg F18 Champs in 2008.
Some crews:
Mischa Heemskerk-Carrie Howe
Andrew Mc Pherson-Ferdinand Van West
Robbie Daniel-Hunter Stunzi
John Casey-Dalton Tebow
Pease and Jay Glaser
ARG Cruz Gonzalez Smtih-Mariano Heuser
ARG Sergio Mehl-Martin Vari
Bob Merrick Jonathan Farrar
Dennis Key-John Williams
Dan Delave-Eileen Haubl
John Tomko-Ian Billings
David Ingram (F18 NA Pres) – Kathy Ingram
56 crews registered.