{"id":66635,"date":"2018-03-26T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T03:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=66635"},"modified":"2023-05-26T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:47:31","slug":"profile-jackson-benvenutti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/profile-jackson-benvenutti\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Jackson Benvenutti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n As a sailmaker with North Sails and a young pro sailor, Mississippi native Jackson Benvenutti maintains a healthy balance of sailing, selling, and jamming.<\/span>\n Jaqueline Marque<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

Tactician In Tune<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jackson Benvenutti is on a roll. In 2017, he won the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup with a talent-rich squad from Southern YC. As a tactician, he followed up by winning the Viper North American Championship, and before that won the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta in Annapolis<\/a>, Maryland, as a Viper skipper. Earlier in the year, Benvenutti won the St. Petersburg NOOD on the J\/70<\/a> Tea Dance Snake as tactician, and as a trimmer and helmsman on board Warrior, a Volvo 70 campaigned by New Orleans’ Stephen Murray Jr., Benvenutti helped notch two course records: the Annapolis to Bermuda Race and the new Antigua to Bermuda Race. With an ever-expanding trophy haul, Benvenutti, a two-time All American at College of Charleston, brings a little New Orleans to every team on which he sails, with his recognizable Southern lilt and laid-back but excitable personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a sailmaker, what are your primary responsibilities at the loft?<\/strong>
\nI’m in sail sales! I focus mostly on one-design classes, but because I’m in New Orleans, the market is pretty diverse, so I do a bit of everything \u2014 from Vipers to J\/111s and the Volvo 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were a dance move, which one would you be?<\/strong>
\nA disco one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you could swap places with any sailor in history, whom would you choose?<\/strong>
\nPaul Elvstr\u00f6m. He’s amazing in what he was able to accomplish and has such a respectful vision of his competitors. “You haven’t won anything if you’ve lost the respect of your competitors.” He invented hiking too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the Rock-Paper-Scissors World Championship, and you’re in the final against Peter Burling. Who wins and why?<\/strong>
\nI’m a professional rock-paper-scissors player, so obviously, me. My winning move depends on what he has played; it’s strategic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You and your friends at the loft start a cover band. What’s the band’s name and what are you covering?<\/strong>
\nIn San Francisco, I actually was in a cover band called the Tin Whiskers. I played guitar and was the lead singer. We listened to local radio, so we had a lot influences from the area. A Southern rock\/funk\/jazz band, I would say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Tactician In Tune<\/span>\n Jaqueline Marque<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

What song describes your work ethic?<\/strong>
\nIt would probably be something by the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A penguin walks through the door right now wearing a sombrero. What does he say and why is he here?<\/strong>
\nHe’s probably hot because the weather is changing, and he’s like, “What the heck, mate?” Because he’s wearing a sombrero. Get it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ve got your team over for dinner during a regatta weekend. What are you cooking?<\/strong>
\nIt could be boiled shrimp, a spicy Cajun meatloaf, chargrilled oysters \u2014 I’d probably stick with the NOLA fare, so good seafood or something gamey like duck or dove gumbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best tactical advice you’ve ever given?<\/strong>\nKeep it simple, stupid. It’s more of a mental thing than one specific piece of information. “Get to the right at the top” is one I’ve used recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How lazy is the wind?<\/strong>
\nIt’s as lazy as you are. It likes to go over and around things, not through things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you actually the coolest?<\/strong>
\nI was the coolest out of the people we were hanging out with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’re the editor. What’s on the cover?<\/strong>
\nI’d be cheering on Vestas 11th Hour Racing to kick some ass, all the shore workers and everyone \u2014 they don’t get enough credit and they contribute a lot. The headline is “Vestas the Bestest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tack, duck or send it?<\/strong>
\nI’m going to get grief for this but, send it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mast abeam?<\/strong>
\nNo. Unless you want to have boats smash into each other. I’m curious how many people from my generation actually know that rule once existed. No, that’s not a good rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best beverage to drink from a sailing boot?<\/strong>\nThe only thing I’ve ever drunk out of is a sailing boot, I certainly don’t have a clue what it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story was originally published in the March\/April 2018 issue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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