David Gonzalez Wins 2013 North American Championship
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Official Newsletter of the International Sunfish® Class Association 2014 Championship Dates David Gonzalez wins 2013 North American Championship • International Masters Champion by Christopher Williams An Interview with David Gonzalez ship, Pensacola Yacht Club, The 2013 Sunfish North American Championship at by Gail M. Turluck March 23-25, 2014 Brant Beach Yacht Club on New Jersey's Long What was the hardest thing about the regatta? • US Team Race Championship, Beach Island was defined by wind, weeds and heat. -There were a lot of boats on the starting line and that Pensacola Yacht Club, The championship was contested on Thursday, Fri was hard for me to adjust to because in Venezuela March 26, 2014 day and Saturday, July 18-20. The first race of the we have 15 • US National Championship at day on Thursday and Friday featured winds of 8 or so Midwinters, Pensacola Yacht boat starts knots, but the wind turned on for the final three races and you can Club, of each day, topping out around 20 on Friday. The March 27-29, 2014 start the wind was from the south-southwest on all three days, race with • Youth/Junior North American which is the sea breeze direction, and the high heat Championship, Bay-Waveland more made the sea breeze very strong. With the mid-90s Yacht Club, space. July 28-29, 2014 temperatures and the need to clear the boat's dag • North American Championship, gerboard of eelgrass every minute or so upwind, it What did Bay-Waveland Yacht Club, was a physically challenging regatta. you do to July 30-August 2, 2014 prepare to All four of the first day's races were three leg wind sail the ward-leewards. Despite the fact the courses were regatta? Inside this issue: only three legs, they were long, with each race taking -A lot of more than 45 minutes. Amanda Callahan of Rhode 20 I 3 Youth World and 5 training . David Gonzalez at Brant Beach North American North American Champion- Island won the lighter air first race, with two other Three Championship. Photo by Beth Reitinger. ships women, Gail Heausler of Florida and Arriana Villena months of Ecuador also finishing in the top five. However, in before the championship I started intensive training 2013 International Masters 6 the heavier wind of the afternoon , Dan Hesse of New with Jose Vicente Gutierrez (past Youth World Cham York became the Day 1 leader. pion) and Pedro Espin. I started sailing Sunfish ISCA President's Corner 8 three months before the North American Champion Friday's races were a mix of three and five leggers, ship. I started sailing when I was 11 years old which with Tom Donahue, who only sailed in three races of is 5 years ago . International Results 9 the championship, winning the light air first race of the day. Once again , Amanda Callahan , Gail When you are not sailing , what do you do? Heausler and Arriana Villena finished in the top five. USSCA President's Corner 13 -Study, do sports for fun , and hang out with friends. Tom's decisive win made what was becoming appar used to do Karate but I had to made a choice and I 2013 US National Champion- 14 ent very obvious - current was playing a big role on kept sailing. ship at Midwinters the weather legs. What is your favorite thing about sailing Sunfish? 2013 US Masters Champion- 15 Brant Beach is my home club , and the current rarely ship -I don't know exactly what it is, I just love the way I seems to be a factor in the course area, but that was feel the boat when I'm sailing . United States Results 17 not the case for the North Americans. Unquestiona bly, when the tide was going out, the right paid off Besides the racing , what did you do at the Brant going upwind, and with the tide coming in , the left Sunfish Maintenance 23 Beach North American Championship for fun? was better. -1 made new friends there, I went to Long Beach, played cards, and played ball with the rest of the USSCA Annual Meeting 24 At the end of day two, David Gonzales of Venezuela team. Minutes had taken the lead, with Dan Hesse second and Doug Kaukeinen of New York third , and the three Class Leader Roster 27 Tell us what you would say to other Youth about why were separated by just six points. On Saturday, the they should sail and race Sunfish. first of the final three races was sailed in 12+ knots, -They should sail Sunfish to see how they feel the (Continued on page 16) 2013 North Americans Photo 28 (Complete Championship Scores on page 7) boat. I'm sure they will like it, they just need to try it. 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