{"id":70126,"date":"2021-04-04T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=70126"},"modified":"2023-05-06T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:08:19","slug":"schwarting-and-co-earn-st-pete-nood-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/schwarting-and-co-earn-st-pete-nood-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwarting and Co. Earn St. Pete NOOD Overall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Gary Schwarting’s crew on the Melges 24 Obsession celebrates its Helly Hansen NOOD St. Petersburg class win.<\/span>\n Courtesy Sandy Thayer<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Long-time Melges 24 sailor Gary Schwarting believes he had some help from above this weekend to win the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta overall title today in St. Petersburg. Schwarting\u2019s Obsession<\/i> won the Melges 24 fleet and was selected among the regatta\u2019s other class winners to represent St. Petersburg at the Helly Hansen NOOD Caribbean Championship in the British Virgin Islands in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to dedicate this win to my friend George Haynie (longtime Melges 24 owner) who passed away Monday,\u201d Schwarting says. \u201cHe should have been sailing with us this weekend and I think he was watching after us and got our name picked out of the hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m in shock but it sounds like a ball and I can\u2019t wait. We had a great weekend racing here with all kinds of conditions; I sailed with a group of really good sailors and fun people, and it all just clicked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

For the first time in its 33-year history, the NOOD St. Pete moved from its traditional February slot, and the Sunshine City showed off its spring break charm for the 120 teams competing this weekend to deliver the full package of wind, waves and fun in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Coming into the last race today in the 10-boat Lightning fleet, it was a toss-up who would take top spot between Jenna Probst, Laura Jeffers and John Bauman. Probst, who sails for the University of Michigan sailing team, recently began skippering the family Lightning, named this event as Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner. <\/i>She raced this weekend with her mother, Deb, and brother Tanner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven how the first two races went today, we knew going into the last race that we had Jeffers and Bauman to contend with for the win,\u201d Probst says. \u201cThe starting line was very pin-end favored and all three of us pushed each other to try and get poked out in front. And \u2026 we all ended up over early; not our best move,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt definitely made for an interesting race. Thankfully we were able to recover and stayed dialed in, focusing on boat speed and somehow stayed ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Another collegiate sailor, Ian Hunter and his teammates Sam Baker and Telmo Basterra from Jacksonville University Sailing Team in north Florida, won the Thistle fleet, finishing today with three first-place finishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Final Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The teammates really enjoyed the young vibe of the Thistle fleet. \u201cBig thanks to Kevin [Bradley], who really pulled everybody together so we had a fleet for our first NOOD,\u201d Hunter says. \u201cIt was great to see how close the fleet was and always pushing each other. One mistake would definitely cost you a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

While it was a shifty weekend with many gains and losses to be had, depending how the teams played the wind, Baker says their weekend motto was to be in striking distance of the fleet. \u201cToday, we really focused more on the fleet than watching the wind. Our goal was to stay in touch, make little decisions to pick up boats and it ended up paying off well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

According to Hunter, there was a lot of discussion around the shifts on board their boat, but it\u2019s his job as skipper to focus on boatspeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Marlene Plumley and Scott Steele won the Melges 15 class in her new boat Bubbles<\/i>, with Kevin Meier\u2019s USA 147 <\/i>and crew Samantha Foulston moving to second place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

E.L.E.<\/i>, owned by Matt Braun and skippered by his son, 17-year-old Guthrie, won the J\/70 class today sailing with All-American collegiate sailors Patrick Shanahan calling tactics, and Hannah Steadman trimming main. The all-amateur team\u2019s attitude coming into the weekend was to \u201cJust do our best and sail our own races,\u201d Braun says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though this was a smaller fleet than typical for the J\/70s, it was a tight group of well sailed boats. This is a talent-laden fleet so it was a real thrill to sail against that kind of talent and do well. This is the last regatta for E.L.E. <\/i>before I put her on the market, so what a way to go out with a \u2018mic drop,\u2019 and the win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Eamonn Delisser\u2019s J\/24 Main Squeeze <\/i>kept its perfect scoreline of first-place finishes over the three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Ravi Parent flew away with the A Class Catamaran Foiling class win against the 13-boat foiling fleet, keeping a perfect scoreline of eight first-place finishes over the three days across the varying wind conditions. While this is his first official regatta in the A Cat since he jumped in one year ago, he\u2019s been training hard at his home base in Sarasota over the past year, and in true \u201cA Catter\u201d form, he\u2019s already into his second boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The 24-year-old is looking toward next year\u2019s A Class Catamaran World Championship, scheduled for St. Petersburg in April 2022, and this weekend proved valuable to test out new techniques he\u2019s been working on. Parent\u2019s ambitions stretch much further than next year\u2019s worlds, however. He says the boat is the perfect cross-training platform to help achieve his 2024 Olympics goal to qualify in the foiling Nacra 17 class. Cam Farrah, who also races an A Cat foiler and finished this weekend in eighth place, has the same ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe A Cat foiling class is undergoing a really rapid evolution,\u201d Parent says, which is one reason there\u2019s been a strong uptick of new sailors joining the fleet. \u201cAs the boats continue to evolve, they\u2019re getting more efficient, faster and even higher performance. It\u2019s driving the athleticism of the class and that\u2019s appealing to a lot of the younger sailors. I know that\u2019s a big draw for me. But, I also see myself in this class long term. I really like being on the frontline of development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

In the 24-boat A Cat Classics fleet, Woody Cope edged out Ben Hall with two race wins today to win the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The St. Pete-based Martin 243 TackTick<\/i>, owned by Michael Siedlecki and driven by Andrew Cheney earned top honors in PHRF 1. At 24 feet, TackTick<\/i> is the smallest boat in the nine-boat fleet consisting primarily of 30- to 40-foot boats, which Cheney said put a premium on them having good starts and getting to the windward mark in good position. \u201cOtherwise, there are a lot of wind shadows with the bigger boats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

He said yesterday\u2019s windier conditions helped the team to secure its overall first place, but Cheney admitted the team got lucky when the race committee abandoned the intended fourth race that day due to major wind shifts. \u201cThat was our one awful start,\u201d he said. \u201cWe jumped the gun and were over early, and then got caught on the wrong side of every wind shift. We dropped way back into the \u2018B fleet\u2019, so we got very lucky they called off that one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

In PHRF 2, the J\/105 Breezin Bayou <\/i>owned by Mitcham Stephen won the five-boat fleet; and in PHRF 3 Paul Latour\u2019s S2 7.9 Scratch<\/i> earned the win.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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