{"id":74326,"date":"2022-07-31T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=74326"},"modified":"2023-05-07T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T04:02:41","slug":"helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-marblehead-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-marblehead-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylors and Team Widnalls Tops at Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Marblehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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\n Nat and Jim Taylor, winners of the Cressy Trophy at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week.<\/span>\n Paul Todd\/Outside Images<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

The Helly Hansen Sailing World<\/em> Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week, it\u2019s been said, is a regatta of mental endurance. With four days of races and no discards, every race and every point counts. There can be no quit until the final leg is sailed, especially in the waters off Marblehead Harbor where the local sailors know that the wind and weather conditions are never the same from one day to the next. And no lead is ever safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt can be a marathon, and when you finish four days you do feel like you\u2019ve done a lot,\u201d said Jim Taylor, of Marblehead. With his son Nat on the helm of their Rhodes 19 Jabberwok<\/em>, the Taylors won the highly competitive 21-boat fleet and the coveted Cressy Trophy, awarded to the winner of the regatta\u2019s most competitive fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The father and son team on Jabberwock<\/em> started their regatta on Thursday with respectable finishes of 5-11-5, and that 11th, said Jim Taylor, was their worst result over 11 races. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had to recover from an OCS (over the starting line early) and that was our one double-digit result,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe probably sailed the best on Friday, which was a wild day with big windshifts and dramatic changes in the wind speed. We sailed those conditions really, really well. That was about as well as I have ever sailed in those conditions, which are usually really frustrating for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, the wind piped up, which favored Taylor and his son, which are on the heavier side weightwise. \u201cPeak winds were in the high teens and we were just plain faster,\u201d he said. \u201cWith two Taylor butts over the rail we were fast and were able to just sail away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The father and son duo have been sailing the Rhodes 19 together for nearly 10 years, but the elder Taylor won Marblehead Race Week in the 1980s. \u201cIt was a completely different thing back then, and the talent level is nowhere near where it is right now,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very high with college sailors joining the fleet and the one thing we like about the boats is that they are all pretty much equally slow, which keeps the racing close. If you do it right you gain a few lengths here and there, but that\u2019s about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Chris Howes and Bart Snow on the Town Class “Believe it or Knot”<\/i> winners at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n Paul Todd\/Outside Images<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

On the same racecourse, the local Town Class, which continues to grow in numbers every year to an impressive 20 entries at the Helly Hansen Sailing World<\/em> Regatta, was equally competitive over three days of racing, and in the end, local sailmaker Chris Howes with Town Class stalwart Bart Snow topped the fleet on the final day\u2014by only 1 point over the crew of Bill Heffernan and Larry Brown, of Needham, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis fleet has gotten so much more competitive over the past few years,\u201d said Howes, the 2021 Town Class National Champion who only joined the class five years ago. \u201cEveryone\u2019s coming along and there are better sailors, so it\u2019s getting harder and harder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howes, a sailmaker, says his new sails helped him in the weekend’s windy conditions, and his goal going into the regatta was to be relaxed, have fun, and be consistent. This approach was working until the first race on the final day when he realized after the start that his boat\u2019s centerboard was in the wrong position. \u201cWe lost four boats immediately,\u201d he said, \u201cand we went from being first with an 8-point lead to being down by 1 point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final race, however, Howes and Snow maintained their focus, kept tabs on the boats they needed to beat and finished second, which was just enough to secure the win and the class\u2019s perpetual trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With nearly 140 entries across 10 classes, there were plenty more close battles across the fleet, and especially so in the J\/70 division, which had two 2023 J\/70 World Championship qualifying berths to play for: one for a pro team and one for an all-amateur squad. The latter was bagged by locals Charlie Pendleton, Jim Raisides, Abi Borggaard and Wade Waddell on Bad Hombres<\/em> after a roller coaster of a regatta. They struggled on Friday, recorded their best results on Saturday, and then almost lost it all on the final day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n John Heaton’s J\/70 Empeiria<\/i>, winner of the J\/70 fleet at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta in Marblehead.<\/span>\n Paul Todd\/Outside Images<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

\u201cOn Friday, we had our worst ever day at Race Week,\u201d Raisides said, \u201cbut it speaks to the resiliency of the team that we went out and there on Saturday and had three top-10 finishes and were the third boat overall for the day\u2014that shows a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foursome on Bad Hombres<\/em> were OCS in the first race of the final day, had to return to the start and managed to climb back to score a 20 in the 30-boat fleet. With only one race remaining, they put their disappointment behind them and focused on getting back the points they\u2019d given up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur whole thing was to just keep playing forward and working for points,\u201d Raisides said. Scoring an impressive 11th in the final race was enough to win the berth by a slim 2 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other world-championship berth went to John Heaton\u2019s team on Empeiria<\/em>, the top J\/70 of the weekend, which stunned the fleet on Saturday by winning all three races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Charlie Garrard’s J\/105 Merlin rounds the leeward mark en route to a win in the J\/105 class at the 2022 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n Paul Todd\/Outside Images<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a beautiful regatta, with epic conditions for Marblehead,\u201d said Heaton, whose team of Zeke Horowitz, Zach Mason and Will Felder mastered the changing winds that spanned from south to west, to light and strong, especially on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of it is due to the guys, and that the boat is set up so I can drive it without intervention,\u201d Heaton said. \u201cI was just driving and the whole time the crew was talking about where the wind was, the clouds and the shifts. We had good starts and good speed, but these guys were banging the shifts perfectly. It was a proud day for me to watch the team click so well together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Bill Widnall (second from right) and members of his crew on the IOD Javelin, Challengers for the Helly Hansen Sailing World Caribbean Championship. <\/span>\n Paul Todd\/Outside Images<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

Other class winners were: Ege \u00d6zg\u00fcl in the ILCA 7, Max Dressel in the ILCA 6, Tomas Hornos\u2019 Destiny<\/em> in the Etchells, Charlie Garrard\u2019s Merlin<\/em> in the J\/105, Marek Zaleski\u2019s Team Z<\/em> in the Viper 640, Diane Reid\u2019s Ellementary<\/em> in the L30s, and Bill Widnall\u2019s Javelin <\/em>in the IOD class. Widnall and crew, which won all but one of its seven races, also earned the regatta\u2019s overall title and a berth at the Helly Hansen Sailing World<\/em> Regatta Series Championship with Sunsail in the British Virgin Islands in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Helly Hansen Sailing World<\/i> Regatta Series scores a perfect weekend to pile on some scores for the season ending regatta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":74324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Dave Reed","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"157","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Four days of racing at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series Marblehead produced champions, including one father and son duo.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"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":true,"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":"","ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[157],"tags":[181,285],"class_list":["post-74326","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-marblehead"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74326","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}