{"id":75893,"date":"2023-07-28T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=75893"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:46:43","slug":"no-easy-wins-in-marblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/no-easy-wins-in-marblehead\/","title":{"rendered":"No Easy Wins in Marblehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\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 src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NsBiolkvSEU?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtscoring.com\/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=15509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Provisional Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musical artist Samual Jack\u2019s Instagram-viral song \u201cFeels Like Summer\u201d would be the ideal track to set the tone for Friday\u2019s racing at the <a href=\"\/regatta-series-marblehead\/\">Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead<\/a>. It was the second day of this New England summer tradition, and indeed, the sun was blazing, the sea breeze light and Massachusetts Bay as tame as can be. It all added up to one fine and smooth day of racing for sailors and race committees across three race circles and nine classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\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=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Marblehead race\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0765.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/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\">Bill Widnal\u2019s IOD <i>Javelin<\/i> (at left) positions itself for a leeward gate rounding that would eventually launch them into the lead and another race win.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Picking up the series where the Rhodes 19 class left off yesterday\u2014as one of only two classes that traditionally race on Thursday\u2014Matt Hooks and teammate Rob Pascal on <em>The Mighty Rhodes <\/em>got right back to business after winning two of three races on the opening day and then and padding their lead today in the 22-boat class to an impressive 19 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Shoreman and Dave Reynolds\u2019 <em>McLovin<\/em> were hot on their transom all day, looking to recover one race at a time from the pile of points they earned with a 12 in the series\u2019 third race, but with an 11<sup> <\/sup>in the day\u2019s final race, team <em>McLovin<\/em> gave Peter Frisch\u2019s Hall Pass the No. 2 spot on the scoresheet. With two days of races to come, there\u2019s plenty of opportunity for fortunes to change, but Hooks and Pascal are local champions for good reason: they know these waters well and they just keep getting faster every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-1024x649.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"2023 Sailing World Regatta Series \u2013 Marblehead\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-1536x974.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671-50x32.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1671.jpg 1703w\" \/>                <\/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\">Owen Moore, Emma Hawko and Ed Colman lead the Lightning fleet to a second-race win at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>The same is true for Bill Widnall and his teammates on <em>Javelin<\/em>, the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series Marblehead overall winner in 2022. Widnall, master of the classic International One-Design, has a 1-point lead over Carolyn Corbet and her teammates on <em>Elektra<\/em>, which got ahead of Widnall more than once, but was simply unable to outsmart or out-sail the wise man and his experienced crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is no surprise to locals either that top sailmaker and keelboat-racing specialist Tomas Hornos, helming Ed Moray\u2019s <em>Bob<\/em>, sits atop the Etchells fleet, which began its regatta series today with three races. Hornos and his teammates went 2-3-1 on the day to put them 1 point ahead of Chris Lanza\u2019s <em>Vertigo 2<\/em>, from Miami. A pair of race wins and a fourth for Hornos should be considered hard-fought finishes on a challenging day marked by wind shifts and meandering wind veins. Current, as always, was a factor across all three race circles, but the winning approach to the racing, several sailors noted, was finding and capitalizing on the slightly stronger wind bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-1024x697.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Tomas Hornos and his teammates\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0854.jpg 1586w\" \/>                <\/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\">Tomas Hornos and his teammates on &#8220;Bob&#8221; (bow No. 11). defend their lead going into a finish at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>With the International Lightning Class making its return to this regatta after nearly 40 years, it\u2019s fitting to have Charles Ritt, one of the fleet\u2019s original sailors from back in the day, out front in the standings after three light-air races on the regatta\u2019s busy \u201cTinkers Line\u201d racecourse. Ritt, with crew Shyah Miller and Charles Quigly, sailed a 1-2-1 to put themselves a mere point ahead of youngsters Owen Moore, Emma Hawko and Ed Coleman, beneficiaries of the Lightning Class\u2019s loaner-boat program and a well-practiced team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Rhodes 19 mark roundings\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-1252.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/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\">Rhodes 19 mark roundings were plenty busy on the second day of Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Three classes at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series are sailing for their New England Championship titles: The Town class, the Viper 640s and the J\/70s, and for the later, Brian Keane\u2019s <em>Savasana<\/em> continued to demonstrate why they\u2019re the top US team this year as they head into the upcoming J\/70 World Championship. <em>Savasana<\/em> put up a 2-3-1 keeper of a day to past world champion Jud Smith\u2019s 1-5-4. There\u2019s only 4 points between these two top-ranked teams, and both know the battle is early yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Viper 640s, it\u2019s Mike and Kai Deyett, and Jeffrey Hankins, of Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, tied on points with Henry Amthor\u2019s <em>Bob, Parker and Henry<\/em>. But only one point in arrears is past regatta champion Mark Zaleski\u2019s <em>Team Z<\/em>, winners of two races after finishing eighth in the tightly-bunched 22-boat fleet in the opening race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Viper 640 fleet in Marblehead\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230728_SWRS_Marblehead-0275.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/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\">The Viper 640 fleet lays claim to the regatta&#8217;s biggest fleet as they sail for their New England Championship. <\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>The Town class series has Nick Cann\u2019s <em>Tonic<\/em> out front. With crewmate Andrea Dodge, Cann won the first two races, handily, and then finished the day with a second to put 8 points between themselves and Bill Heffernan\u2019s <em>Sweep<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four race wins for Charlie Garrard\u2019s team on the J\/105 <em>Merlin<\/em>\u2014perennial winners of this regatta\u2014finds them in familiar territory and fighting a familiar battle with Ric Dexter\u2019s <em>Brouhaha<\/em>, which followed them across the line in three races, but claimed the series\u2019 first-race win. Here, too, only a single point is the difference as the regatta picks again on Saturday with the addition of ILCA and ILCA 6 fleets rounding out the regatta\u2019s 11 classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scan across the fleets at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead shows it&#8217;s tight at the top. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75930,"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":"The second day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series Marblehead finds the top local teams at the top of the standings for nine classes.","_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":[181,177,2859,178],"class_list":["post-75893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regatta-series","tag-helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-series","tag-racing","tag-regatta-series","tag-sailboat-racing"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75893","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=75893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}