{"id":69922,"date":"2021-06-14T01:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=69922"},"modified":"2023-05-06T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:04:10","slug":"one-final-race-at-the-chicago-nood-and-team-mojo-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/one-final-race-at-the-chicago-nood-and-team-mojo-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"One Final Race at the Chicago NOOD and Team Mojo Wins Big"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NOODChi_D3_Win3936-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Helly Hansen NOOD Chicago Overall Winners, the crew of the Beneteau First 40.7, Mojo.\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NOODChi_D3_Win3936-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NOODChi_D3_Win3936-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NOODChi_D3_Win3936-768x511.jpg 768w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Helly Hansen NOOD Chicago Overall Winners, the crew of the Beneteau First 40.7, Mojo.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Mark Albertazi<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtscoring.com\/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=13227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>FINAL RESULTS<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Team Mojo, the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta Chicago\u2019s overall winning team, took its lumps early in the regatta but ultimately won the seven-boat Beneteau First 40.7 class and the overall title. The Chicago NOOD is the largest regatta hosted on Lake Michigan since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Team Mojo, a Chicago-based raceboat owned by Gary Powell and Scot Ruhlander, moved into first place on Saturday and never looked back to win the one-design 40.7 class by one point over Thomas Weber\u2019s La Tempete. The 12-member team is already making their plans to attend the Helly Hansen NOOD Caribbean Championship in October in the British Virgin Islands, representing Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe sailed our best races yesterday,\u201d the co-owners said, acknowledging the first day of the regatta presented challenges for the team. \u201cThe crew work was spectacular, and that\u2019s what makes it fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday\u2019s fading breeze allowed for one race to be completed on the final day of the regatta, but it was enough for three teams to capitalize on the conditions and move into winning positions in their classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Eagles Wings, the Grand Soleil 44 owned by John Gottwald, won today and earned the overall win in the ORC division. The boat has been in storage for five years, but it took little time for the crew to get up to speed. \u201cGetting it back out on the water has been awesome,\u201d he says. The ORC division had close racing all weekend, but today\u2019s light air was tough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style><div class='embed-container'><iframe frameborder='0' width='480' height='270' src='\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x81y9jy?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1' allowfullscreen allow='autoplay'><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel fortunate to come out with a win,\u201d says Gottwald, who came into today\u2019s racing sandwiched between yesterday\u2019s leader, Shawn and Jerry O\u2019Neill\u2019s Sydney 38 Eagle, and third-placed Philip Dowd\u2019s Farr 40 Inferno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s conditions were particularly challenging,\u201d says Gottwald. \u201cOur strategy was to get clear of everybody and stay out of trouble. We knew Inferno would be ahead of us given their boat rating [boats are scored using a corrected-time formula], so we just had to stay in contact with them and stay far enough ahead of Eagle, who we had to beat by almost four minutes to correct out on time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In another mixed-boat class, PHRF 1, Jeff Janicek\u2019s Dire Wolf won its class, and its first major regatta, since beginning their sailing program not long ago. Like Gottwald, he also launched the boat after an extended absence. \u201cHow cool is it that the two boats named after Grateful Dead songs battled it out for the win,\u201d says Janicek. His team overtook yesterday\u2019s leader Scarlet Begonias and Janicek says, \u201cAs the \u2018Dire Wolf\u2019 lyrics go, we collected our dues in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The third team to clinch their class win today was Erizo de Mar in the nine-boat Beneteau First 36.7 class. Arek Szawlowski, the team\u2019s main trimmer, says despite a poor start today, thanks to good boatspeed they were able to finish in third place. \u201cIt was enough to recover from yesterday\u2019s mistakes when we had a bad race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Other teams that maintained or extended their leads included the J\/70s, J\/88, Tartan 10, Great Lakes 52, J\/105, J\/109 and J\/111, as well as overall winner, Mojo. Richard Witzel\u2019s Rowdy won the six-boat J\/111 fleet, and says he\u2019s happy to be racing again. \u201cIt\u2019s been great to be back sailing at a major regatta,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s obvious people are super excited to be back on the water, and part of the fun is having a mix of conditions. Chicago delivered over the three days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Next for the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta series is Marblehead, Mass., the final stop for the nation\u2019s largest regatta series before each city\u2019s winning team heads to the British Virgin Islands for the Helly Hansen NOOD Caribbean Championship presented by Sunsail.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The on-water action at the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta concluded with a some slow-motion battle for points, and for overall winner Team Mojo, the new crew worked its magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Laura Muma","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20210614","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"157","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"The on-water action at the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta concluded with a some slow-motion battle for points, and for overall winner Team Mojo, the new crew worked its magic.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"DXCJ5VZWNND47IFFH3MU2QCNLY","arc_website_url":"story\/nood-regattas\/one-race-and-done-at-the-chicago-nood-and-mojo-wins-big\/","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":0,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[181,202],"class_list":["post-69922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regatta-series","tag-helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-series","tag-helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-series-chicago"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}