How would it feel to be in warm Pensacola Florida sailing with North America’s best sailors right now instead of putting our boats away for the winter?  The f-18 nationals just got underway back east and they will go all week.  I’m excited to follow the progress of these great sailors as they battle for the title of North America’s best f-18 sailor.  It’s great to see some of the guys that we sailed with in Long Beach out there racing in the championship.

I was surprised to see how much the Nacra Infusion is taking over in the F-18 scene!  This could just be an eastern U.S. thing for this particular race, who knows.  Of the 33 boats in the race, 21 are Nacra Infusions, 6 Capricorns, and 6 Tigers.  All the Tigers are pretty close to the back of the pack after the second day of racing except for Dan Delave, the NAF-18 Chair.  As was displayed at the F-18 Worlds this year in Spain, it looks like the reign of the Tiger is well over.  The Capricorns are doing quite well with one in the 1st and 3rd spots.  If you want to follow the results, the check out the NA F-18 association website for play by play posts.  Also, the Beachcats website has the official results and tons of great photos.      

As a side note, If any one is looking to step up to a Nacra F-18 Infusion, I am thinking about selling my ‘07 for a good price ($12.5 K) to pick up a newer one from a friend.  Brand new they are now $18 K.  I would prefer to keep it here in Utah to help build our fleet.  The F-18 is quickly becoming one of the biggest innovative cat fleets around.  If you are interested drop me an email.  

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Run! Run for your lives! It’s the LaBeau LeMans Grand Prix 20! sil’ vous play!

Ladies and Gentlemen! the Event we ALL have anxiously awaited! the Event of a lifetime! the Event of all Events! the Event by which all other Events are judged! (ok that’s quite enough of the event talk) And now without further adieu! the LaBeau will commence Saturday August 30th at High Noon 12:00pm. Registration and skippers meeting at 10:30am at the Willow #3 Pavilion.

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The Fremont Lake Regatta is over with for the year.  Check out the great photos by clicking here.  The turn out was amazing, with 27 boats competing.

Saturday had reasonable wind and we were able to run all 3 races on schedule, but Sunday left us drifting on the first race of the day, and the second race tested everyone’s ability to eek the most speed out of their boat with the lightest of breeze.

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So we went for it!  Coty and I hauled the Nacra F-18 Infusion out to Long Beach to compete in the Western Area Formula 18 Championship.  I figured that this is my last summer off before the hospital owns me for 80+ hours/week so I might as well do it while I can!  We had an awesome two days of racing with 7 races total.  We learned a lot about making out boat go faster especially on the spinnaker run.  The championship was hosted well by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club the North American Formula 18 Association Chairman Dan Delave.  We would like to extend a special thanks to Ian Sammis who let us crash at his pad while there in Long Beach.  Check out a few photos we took while there including pics of the custom Nacra Infusion that took 1st place.  Click on the link below to see our GPS tracks of the day 1 races.
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The fourth of July weekend at Bear Lake turned out fantastic!  We had hull-flyin wind all three days filled with good company and great food.  The first annual “Gumball Rally” was a fun two heats around a long course running from the east shore to the west shore of Bear Lake.  We were given bonus points for packing on as many of our family members as were willing.  Check out the results below.  Click here to see some photos.

Results of the Gumball Rally.

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Congratulations to members of the Utah Sailing Association who brought home the hardware!  Not to rub it in or anything; but if you missed the Utah Sailing Association’s presentation of the Utah Summer Games you missed out on a wonderfully fun event.

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We’re at T-minus 24 hours and counting for the deployment of the MOAB!
 
This bash will truly be………………. the Mother of All!   Duck and Cover!

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If you missed summer games then you missed out big time!!! it was a blast! I have never seen a race with such tight competition, we really had a fun time.  What a turn out, there were so many new boats with colorful sails filling the lake.  A great time was had by all.

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We are proud to announce that the 2008 Utah Summer Games Regatta will be hosted by the Utah Sailing Association. We had a great turn out at last year’s event and hope to do so again this summer. All levels of sailors are welcome, you are sure to learn something new!

 

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Windsurfers unite! in competition of the Utah Summer Games! The Utah Sailing Association is proud to host Utah Summer Games Sailing, at Deer Creek Reservoir, June 21st, 2008.

 

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