INTERNATIONAL J/22 CLASS ASSOCIATION

Mike Marshall’s Bad News Captures J/22 Midwinter Championship

Photo courtesy of Christopher Howell

Spring 2016 • Volume 15 • Issue 2

2016 Midwinters...1,3 Charleston Race Week...1,2,3,4 NOOD Annapolis...2,3,4,6,8,9 2015 Worlds...1,3,7,8,9,10 East Coasts...1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Northeast Regionals...1,2,3*,4,5* Canadian Nationals...1,2,4,5 Mid-Atlantics...1,3,4,5 Charleston Race Week...1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Cleveland Race Week...1,2,3,4,5 SSA Summer Series...1,3,4,5 Annapolis YC Annual...1 Raw Bar Regatta...1 NOOD Annapolis...1,2,3,4,5,6,7

THE POWER TO PERFORM Looking forward to seeing you on the water this summer as we travel on the road to the Worlds in Kingston! Our team is ready to help your team. Give us a call anytime!

MIKE MARSHALL ZEKE HOROWITZ JEFF TODD (401) 965-0057 (941) 232-3984 (410) 269-5662 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

onedesign.com * Partial inventory Class President Letter from the President Mark Stuhlmiller Williamsville, NY 716-725-4664 Congratulations to our first J/22 Youth Scholarship Boat recipient: Patrick Shanahan! Patrick is a member of the 1st Vice President Matt Dunbar Brown University Sailing Team and was selected from Pawtucket, RI a number of very highly qualified applicants—many of 401-527-7268 whom belong to the nation’s highest ranked university sailing teams. The boat will be campaigned this summer 2nd Vice President Boo Heausler with several of Patrick’s colleagues from Brown New Orleans, LA 504-481-2019 (Team SPHYNQS), the highlight of which will be the J/22 World Championship at CORK. Secretary/Treasurer TEAM SPHYNQS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT! Jennifer Princing Hemlock, MI Please, please, please take a moment to check out the 989-245-0270 team website and make a contribution at http://www. sphynqssailing.us. You can also make a contribution Chief Measurer U.S. Technical through the Class Office through your online membership Committee Chairman renewal or via check. A list of current donors is listed at Terry Flynn League City, TX http://www.j22.com/index.php/scholarship/donors. 713-906-5497

Remember, this scholarship initiative is designed to keep Executive Secretary Christopher Howell the J/22 a healthy and vibrant Class for years to come. Cleveland, OH 440-796-3100 Even though the Class Officers have volunteered much time and money in making this initiative possible, the ultimate success of the program hinges on funding from Nomination Committee Chairman its members. As such, any support you can provide is most Sandy Adzick Haverford, PA greatly appreciated. 610-642-2232 Enough talk and pleas for your hard-earned cash… let’s get out and sail! See you all at Worlds US and International Class Office in August! 12900 Lake Ave., #2001 Lakewood, OH 44107 440-796-3100 [email protected] Mark “Stu” Stuhlmiller, USJ22CA President Newsletter Editor Julie Howell Cleveland, OH [email protected]

International J/22 Class Association 3 Mike Marshall’s Bad News Excels in Big Breeze to Capture J/22 Midwinter Championship

Photos courtesy of Christopher Howell

conditions, despite being about 70 pounds under the Class crew weight limit. Terry Flynn’s Tejas earned second place with 22 points, and Jeff Todd’s Hot Toddy took third with 24. Fort Walton Yacht Club in Fort Walton Beach, FL hosted the three-day event March 18-20 with eight races. Bad News ran into a little bad luck on the opening day when a big shift at the end of the only race left them with a 10th place (Todd’s Hot Toddy from Annapolis, MD won in fluky winds averaging between 5-7 knots). The second day brought intermediate conditions where, Marshall said, “I When the winds piped up to 16-24 knots on the think the lightness of our boat hurt us, and we had last day of the J/22 Midwinter Championship, to fight for every point.” Then when several boats Mike Marshall’s Bad News rose to the top of struggled in the heavier air, Marshall said the the 26-boat fleet to capture the title. With crew team “took about half of the first upwind leg to Mike Nicoletti and Matt Schubert, the Newport, figure that we needed to ease the jib a little more RI-based helmsman sealed the victory with a than we thought.” He also credited tactician Matt 2,1,2 in the final blustery three races to total Schubert for making a few key calls on where to 20 net points. Three boats were within one point go. Recalling that most of the Sunday starts saw of first place heading into the day—Marshall them off the line in the top five boats, the team not one of them—but the team reveled in the still had to battle to pick off boats and make up the four-point deficit they started the day with.

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“By being a little forward off the start, we could choose our own destiny. Boats we didn’t pass upwind, we were able to catch up with downwind. The last race we played a covering game,” summarized Marshall. While accepting his trophy, he said, “I love this Class!” The standings couldn’t have been much tighter at the top of the heap after four races were completed on the middle day. Chris Doyle’s The Jug 4 1 and Flynn’s Tejas were tied on points at 11 heading, with Todd resting just one point behind. Marshall and Chris Wientjes were tied at 15 points each. That day began with light breeze around 4-6 knots, as Wientjes snared the first victory. It was another photo finish in the next battle as winds picked up to 8-12, when Flynn edged Todd by a nose. Chris Doyle handily collected the next win as winds lightened a bit to 6-8 knots, and in the final contest, Kurt Taken- Holtze’s Turn Down for What was DSQ after protest, leaving Marshall in the money. In addition to Bad News, Sunday’s other race winners were Flynn and Todd. THE TOP FIVE: Mike Marshall Bad News (20 points) Terry Flynn Tejas (22) Jeff Todd Hot Toddy (24) Chris Doyle The Jug 4 1 (24) Chris Wientjes (32) Photos are available on the J/22 Class Facebook page, and complete results are available at www.j22mw.com. The 2017 J/22 Midwinter Championship will be hosted by Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans, LA from March 24-26, 2017. International J/22 Class Association 5 Photo courtesy of Christopher Howell

The Inside Line: This year marked the first shifts pretty large. You had to get to a side and be J/22 Midwinter Championship at Fort Walton patient. You could spend half the race thinking Yacht Club. What did you think of the venue that your side wasn’t going to pay off, only to and racing conditions? have the shift suddenly come back your way. Mike Marshall: I think that Fort Walton Yacht The Inside Line: Help us get to know you and Club was a great venue, although it was a long your crew of Mike Nicoletti and Matt Schubert. drive to get there for me! The members were MM: incredibly hospitable, and the Race Committee I have to give a lot of the credit for the win and PRO did a great job, particularly given to my crew. They really stepped up to the plate in the sailing conditions they were dealt. Those some very challenging conditions with almost no conditions were far from optimal on the first practice together as a team. We had every possible day of the event as well as on the first half of the condition in the book thrown at us, and they were second day, but they made the best of them. I also able to adapt, making my job as a driver easy. really like venues like this one where the boat I had never sailed with my trimmer and tactician, dockage is very close to the evening activities. Matt Schubert, before the Midwinters, but I knew It makes it easy for everyone to get together after that he was very experienced in the J/22. He the racing. This is especially beneficial for a one- normally sails with Brad Julian, and the two of design Class like the J/22 in which people are so them have worked together very hard in the boat, friendly and willing to share what they’ve learned with many excellent results. So when I heard that each day. On the water, the Fort Walton Beach Brad wasn’t going to do the Midwinters this year, venue reminded me of the North Americans in I asked Matt to go with me. Between his constant Houston. The water was very flat and the wind work on boat speed and great tactical calls, I couldn’t have been more pleased with his top-

6 International J/22 Class Association Photo courtesy of Christopher Howell notch skills. As for my bowman Mike Nicoletti, with the breeze, before the next boat arrived. It I’ve sailed with him quite a bit over the past three was also very important to our Sunday strategy years, mostly in J/24s where he’s done bow work to know that we were closing on points, keeping as well as trimmed. This Midwinters was his first us in the fight. Although our finishes weren’t all major J/22 event. Luckily, he’s a quick study and that we had hoped for, we had managed to string did fantastic work in an often thankless job that together a series of top fives by fighting for every tolerates no mistakes, with every set and douse point on Saturday, and this gave us confidence that having to be perfect. Because all the halyards we could still pull off a win if all went right. lead to the cabin top on a J/22, it’s easy for things to get tangled, so you have to be very proactive. The Inside Line: Over the weekend, we saw Mike did this with ease. winds from probably 5-25 knots. How does the J/22 react in the different types of breeze? What The Inside Line: Going into Sunday, you were did your team do that helped you change gears tied for fourth place, four points back from the from race to race? top. What was your strategy throughout those final three races? MM: I really enjoy the J/22 in all conditions, and the Midwinters reinforced this for me. I think MM: We went into Sunday thinking that the points of this boat as a dinghy with a keel. It’s lively were close, so we just needed to sail our very in light air for a keelboat, and in big breeze it’s best. Because we had never sailed together in big still fun to sail without being out of control. Our breeze and Mike Nicoletti had never done bow on strategy for dealing with the varied conditions a J/22 in these conditions, we got out to the course was to concentrate on the basics of boat speed early for the extra practice. We were able to do because if you’re going fast, everything else gets an entire up and down wind, getting comfortable easier. To change gears from day to day, we tried

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to focus on the most important piece of the go-fast the last day’s big breeze, when everyone was puzzle for the particular set of conditions. On the very overpowered, technique tended to be more light air day, this was to make sure that the boat important than weight. Because even the heaviest was always powered up and going forward. Once teams were way overpowered, it came down to you’re going fast, pointing high isn’t hard. On day who could work the boat better. two, when the breeze was very puffy, our goal was to work on transitions. We could gain a great The Inside Line: At the awards ceremony, you amount of distance on other boats by seeing the ended by saying “I love this Class!” What is it puff or lull coming and being ready for it. On the that keeps the J/22 Class so strong after almost third day, in the big breeze, our goal was to keep 35 years? the boat flat, or as flat as possible. If you’re flatter MM: I really do love the J/22 Class. It’s pretty than everyone else, you’re sliding sideways less, special. It’s a tightknit group of people that, no so you can be faster and climb to windward. matter what happens on the race course, can The Inside Line: You mentioned your crew always come back ashore and share stories. If weight was about 70 pounds under the Class you ask a successful team what they were doing Rule, which was waived for this event. How did to go fast, they’ll willingly tell you exactly what your crew weight affect you? What are your they believe they did right. I think that attitude is thoughts on the Class crew weight Rule overall? incredibly important to the success of the Class. New people joining feel they can ask anyone for MM: Ideally, I’d sail right at the Class weight advice and therefore get up to speed quickly. In limit for every event. I don’t think that being my view, it’s that kind of friendly, helpful attitude under the limit gave us much of an advantage in that makes the Class so appealing and keeps it the light air of day one. On the second day, once going so strong. the boats were fully powered up, the heavier teams didn’t have to depower as much, making In closing, I’d like to once again thank the things a bit easier for them. I think our light Fort Walton Yacht Club, the PRO and Race crew weight on that day was part of the reason Committee, the rest of the competitors, and my why we had to fight for every point. Finally, in crew, Mike and Matt, for making it such a great event!

8 International J/22 Class Association Rig Tune Visuals – Advice from the J/22 Midwinters

By Terry Flynn, Quantum Sails Gulfcoast, [email protected], 281-474-4168

Photos courtesy of Christopher Howell

The Fort Walton Yacht Club hosted the J/22 Midwinters March 17-20. Twenty-six boats attended and experienced the entire range of weather and wind conditions. It was the first time the J/22 Class held an event at FWYC, but I hope it will not be the last. They have a great club and great people who made everyone feel welcome. After a great weekend of sailing, here are my tips from the event:

Set-up to the Guide At Quantum, we have put many hours into perfecting our tuning guide, but there are always visual signs to check to make sure you’re close to where you want to be. At most of the chalk talks and seminars we do, we focus on how to set the boat up in the lighter winds: set-up to the guide, but also watch for the leeward upper shrouds to go a little slack, with the lowers a bit looser and the mast straight side-to-side or with half of sag to leeward.

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What visuals should be used for the Another thing to look for once you set up the top of the wind ranges? boat and get on the water is the mainsail. Is it It’s harder to judge how much slack is really in the inverting or turning inside out too soon? If so, leeward shrouds when it gets windy because the you may need an extra turn on the lowers. When shrouds go slack quickly as you apply backstay, so you do this, the extra tension will straighten the this visual doesn’t work well. However, we don’t mast keeping the mast bend less. This has a few want to see the uppers too slack. When adjusting benefits: your mainsail will be easier to trim, but the shrouds, keep a ratio of upper-to-lowers at also the straighter rig will allow the backstay 2-to-1, meaning for every one turn I put on the tension to transfer more quickly to the headstay, uppers, I put a half turn on the lowers. On the last which keeps the jib flatter. Also remember that step, we tried to go to a 1-to-1 ratio. older masts get soft over the years, so lower tension may be needed.

10 International J/22 Class Association The J/22 World Championship CORK Sail Kingston August 19th-25th 2016

CORK is excited to host the J/22 Worlds! The Venue • Kingston is located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario and the head of the St Lawrence River. The combination of land mass, islands and thermal effects produce excellent wind and CORK wave conditions with very little current. Regatta • Portsmouth Olympic Harbour was the sailing venue for the Office: 1976 Olympics. 613-545-1322 • It is a short 10-15 minute sail out to the race course. • The shore facilities include a welcome desk, event offices, Email: boat moorage, internet cafe, snack bar and chandlery. [email protected]

International J/22 Class Association 11 After Racing The city dazzles with 19th century limestone architecture and the amenities of a major centre. You will have the opportunity to visit UNESCO World Heritage sites Fort Henry and The Rideau Canal or take a cruise around the 1000 Islands.

Kingston’s lively downtown will have something for everyone. Choose from a diverse selection of restaurants, live music, theatres, art galleries and museums.

CORK partners with downtown Kingston • Great discounts and activities planned • Movies in the square every Thursday night • Live bands play in Confederation Park

12 International J/22 Class Association To help plan your trip

• Our Volunteer team is ready to assist you ahead of time or when you get to Kingston at the Welcome desk and the Regatta office. • Check out www.cork.org for more details about what to explore when you get here. • CORK has discount accommodations available with Queens’s University, St Lawrence College and Downtown hotels. • Airfare discounts are available with Air Canada.

We know that the racing conditions will not disappoint • The CORK/Sail Kingston J/22 Worlds is held at the best time of the year for racing. • Kingston’s thermal wind arises most afternoons and usually reaches 10-12 knots. • Air temperature 25-35 degrees (77-95F) Water temperature 18-22 degrees (65F)

The CORK team is looking forward to making this Championship one to remember! See you all in August. The CORK team.

International J/22 Class Association 13 Contemplating Crossing to Canada?

By Chris Doyle

The J/22 World Championship will be in therefore aren’t required to have registration Kingston, Ontario Canada this year. This is the documents, you should bring a bill of first Continental or World J/22 Championship to sale and your insurance binder so you can be held in Canada, and I find that a bit surprising prove ownership. given the strength and enthusiasm of the Canadian fleets. Those American sailors, such as myself, Absolutely do not have any firearms, explosives who live close to the border have been sailing or fireworks either in the boat or in the car. in Canada for years. We have enjoyed the Regardless of how you interpret the Second camaraderie of our Canadian brother and sister Amendment, you need to remember that it does sailors, as well as the Canadian culture, one pint not apply in Canada. I have never had a problem at a time. But it is a sovereign country, and going with flares at the border. But if your boat doesn’t there requires one to cross an international border. have auxiliary power, it shouldn’t need flares. So, accommodations must be made. So leave them at home. For those who have not crossed the border Personal use of pot is punished like a traffic previously, it may seem a little daunting. It is not. violation in Ontario. However, they don’t like it And during the time of year we’ll be crossing, crossing the border and will likely confiscate it there will be many US boats heading to Canada and prohibit you from entering Canada if they for the Canadian Olympic Regatta in Kingston find it in your car or boat. If you’ve loaned them (“CORK”), particularly at the Thousand Islands to your teenage children lately, you may wish to Bridge. So it should be an easy crossing for you. give your car and boat thorough interior cleanings But here are some practical tips to make sure before attempting to cross the border. everything goes smoothly: Limits on alcohol apply. The following are Everyone in the car should have a passport, per-legal-age-person limits for importation of even young children. If you don’t have one alcohol into Canada: 2 @ 750 ml bottles of wine, now, get one. Have all the passports ready for OR 1 @ 1.0 litre of spirits, OR 1 @ case of beer. inspection when you reach the Customs and The “ors” are disjunctive, so you can only bring Immigration inspector. in one of the listed items per person. If you bring in more than what’s listed, you may need to pay Make sure you have proper paperwork in your duties, fill out forms, etc. car for boat and trailer. Registration documents are good. If you are from a state more enlightened Limits on tobacco products apply. The following than the People’s Republic of New York and are per-legal-age-person limits for importation

14 International J/22 Class Association CORK is pleased to announce of tobacco products: 1 @ special pricing with Air Canada. Canadian government website carton of cigarettes AND 50 If you are planning to fly to the event, that explains how you can get @ cigars AND 200 @ grams book a flight with this promotion code confirmation of your status of manufactured tobacco Q4QMFTR1. Details are available at before you reach the border. AND 200 @ tobacco sticks www.aircanada.com. (whatever the heck those are). And when you get to the Get to know CORK by inspection booths, absolutely The “ands” are conjunctive, checking out these videos: so you can bring in all of do mention that you are the listed items per person. From the Laser World Championship going to Kingston for a 2015 Opening Ceremonies: sailboat regatta. Canada likes If you bring in more than http://tinyurl.com/j7jdrsc what’s listed, you may need tourists, and I observe that the to pay duties, fill out forms, Drone footage of Portsmouth Olympic Canadian immigration folks etc., and I hope you’ll enjoy Harbour and the Kingston waterfront: seem to think most sailors http://tinyurl.com/jt2wuor chemotherapy. are pretty harmless (and I am Worlds website: confident that demographic I urge you to not push the www.cork.org/2016-j22-world-championship/ data would bear-out their limits on the amount of conclusion). I have crossed alcohol and tobacco products the border with a boat 50 or you bring. Also, I find that more times and they have having an inventory of what alcohol and never pulled me over for a secondary and more- tobacco products are in the car ready when you thorough inspection. But I see fishing boats pulled reach the inspection booths seems to keep things over all of the time. So we may be benefitting moving swiftly. from some form of “equipment profiling.” Whatever, as long as we don’t get hung up at the Avoid taking flowers, un-canned vegetables border, we’ll be happy. and fruits across the border. Citrus fruit, tomatoes and melons may get you into trouble. No matter what, there can be long lines at the borders. Waits can take an hour, but are rarely More information on what Canada permits across longer than that. So make sure you have plenty the border, as well as a bunch of other really of fuel in your car when you approach the border. helpful information may be found at http://www. Which reminds me: absolutely fill up your cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html, which is the tank before crossing into Canada. Gas is more website of the Canada Border Services Agency. expensive there. Any DWIs or other misdemeanors or felonies in And what about the money? As of right now, your days of misspent youth? Canadians don’t Canadians will gladly accept US dollars at par. like US ex-criminals in their country. But you But US competitors will find themselves on may still be able to get into Canada by doing the short end of that transaction. When I go some legwork before you leave. If the offense to Canada, I find the best approach is to buy was a minor one (like misdemeanor DWI) and it everything with a credit card. But you’ll also happened more than 10 years ago, you are likely find that ATMs will accept most US bank debit “deemed rehabilitated” (an Orwellian term if I cards, spit out Canadian money, and charge you have ever heard one) and should be able to cross a reasonable exchange rate and international the border freely. Given how long a walk it is transaction fee. You might want to check with from The Thousand Islands Bridge to Texas (or your bank and credit card issuer to make sure even Buffalo), if you have a prior criminal issue, you’ll avoid any bad surprises. probably you should make sure that it isn’t going to be a problem for you well before you leave for I look forward to seeing you all in Kingston Canada. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/ in August. inadmissibility/rehabilitation.asp is another

International J/22 Class Association 15 Young J/22 Sailor Profile Sam Bartel

Sam Bartel | Age, 16 that Holly and her crew would teach me all I Wayzata Community Sailing Center/Wayzata needed to know to sail, and that it would be a lot Yacht Club | Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota of fun. I could never pass up a great opportunity to sail a new type of boat, learn more about sailing Q Years of Sailing Experience? and make new friends. So I jumped right on A 10 board.

Q How did you get into sailing/racing? Q What was your most memorable A I began sailboat racing when I was about 9 or J/22 experience? 10 years old. I had been taking a few summer A My most memorable moment racing on J/22s camp classes from the Lake Minnetonka Sailing was with Holly and two of her regular crewmates. School and Wayzata Community Sailing Center, We were racing in pretty light wind, between 4 and had learned the basics of sailing in Prams and to 8 knots, and rounded the leeward mark in 5th Optimists. After I had started racing optimists out of 7 boats. We headed back upwind, going to for a year or two, I ran into trouble scheduling the right side of the course on a small lift while sailing on top of my busy baseball schedule. I the rest of the fleet began tacking back to the left loved baseball more than anything else, and had side for more breeze. There was basically no wind since I was very young. I was at first leaning on the right. But I suggested that we should keep towards quitting sailing for baseball. But after one heading right for the puff that was forming further crazy fun day sailing Optimist in heavy winds, up the course. They all probably thought that I I was hooked on sailing. I quit baseball the next was crazy, but we continued to sail away from the summer, joined the high school racing program fleet into what looked like a desert island of wind. the next fall, and have been racing ever since. A few minutes later, the wind built up on the right like I had expected it to, we caught a massive lift Q How did you start sailing/racing on a J/22? off of the shoreline, and were slingshot up the A I was asked by my friend Katie, whom I knew course into first place. Everybody on the boat from high school and summer racing programs, seemed to let out a big sigh of relief. And we were if I would be interested sailing with her on Holly all pretty happy to head downwind to the finish in Jo Anderson’s J/22 Moxxie on Sundays. She said the lead.

16 International J/22 Class Association Young J/22 Sailor Profile Sam Bartel

Q Describe an important J/22 sailing or Q What goal(s) do you have for future racing tip that you received. sailing/racing? A The most important J/22 racing tip that I have A I would like to take my sailing to the highest learned is to never stop the boat on the starting level possible in high school, college and beyond. line. Maintaining speed from the time the start Whether I show it or not, I am, and have always sequence begins to the time it ends is crucial. If been, an incredibly competitive person. No matter you just park the boat on the line like you can do how hard I try, I cannot settle for being the best. in dinghies, it could take an eternity to get up to There is always a new place to sail, a new type of full speed again. I have applied this knowledge to boat to race and a new challenge to beat. all aspects of my sailing, and it has significantly helped my starts in any boat that I sail. Q If you had a J/22, what would you name it? A If I had a J/22 I would name it El Cártel. A few Q What do you like best about sailing of my friends from both sailing and school call me the J/22? the “Bartel Cartel” (for reasons I am not entirely A I love how competitive the J/22 fleet is. I am sure of). Because of this, it seems crazy not to able to go out on almost any day of the week name a boat after this nickname. to my local yacht club and find world class competition in the J/22 fleet. This is a very unique Q What advice would you give someone factor to have in any class of boat, and I am very your age interested in sailing or racing? lucky that I can find it at my local yacht club. A Always give it your all. You could be in first place, mid-fleet, or dead last, but I have found that you can always come back. This sport rewards those who work the hardest, and if you want to be great bad enough, nothing is out of your reach.

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18 International J/22 Class Association Calendar

July 16-17, 2016 2016 Calendar 2016 Raw Bar Regatta at Buffalo Yacht Club, Buffalo, NY June 4-5, 2016 Contact: Douglas Bienko, [email protected] J/22 Canadian Championship, Hudson Yacht Club, Hudson Quebec July 23, 2016 Contact: Ron Harris, 514-206-3935, [email protected] AYC Summer One Design at Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD June 11, 2016 Contact: [email protected] AYC Annual Regatta at Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD July 28-31, 2016 Contact: [email protected] 2016 Marblehead NOOD at Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA June 11-12, 2016 Contact: Jennifer Davies, Billy Bowlegs at FWYC, Fort Walton Beach, FL [email protected]

June 11-12, 2016 August 6-7, 2016 2016 Wickford Regatta at Wickford Yacht Club, GYA J/22 One-Design Championship at PCYC, Wickford, RI Pass Christian, MS Contact: Neil McDermott, 401-338-2549, [email protected] August 13-14, 2016 2016 New England J/Fest at Bristol Yacht Club June 11-12, 2016 Bristol, RI 2016 Surfin’ Safari at Corpus Christi Yacht Club, Contact: Tim Kohl, 203-233-9709 Corpus Christi, TX Contact: Todd Hunter, 361-944-8930, August 19-26, 2016 [email protected] 2016 J/22 World Championship at Canadian Olympic Regatta - Kingston (CORK), June 17-19, 2016 Kingston, Ontario, Canada 2016 Cleveland Race Week at Edgewater Yacht Club, Contact: Trevor Collins, [email protected] Cleveland, OH Contact: EYC Office, 216-281-6470 September 2-4, 2016 Annapolis Labor Day Regatta at Annapolis Yacht June 17-19, 2016 Club, Annapolis, MD 2016 Chicago NOOD at Chicago Yacht Club, Contact: [email protected] Chicago, IL Contact: Jennifer Davies, September 4-5, 2016 [email protected] Mid States Regatta at IBYC, Springfield, IL June 25, 2016 September 9-11, 2016 EYC One Design Classic at Eastport Yacht Club, 2016 U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship for Annapolis, MD the Allegra Knapp Mertz Trophy (Invitational Entry) at Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD July 9-10, 2016 SSA Summer Series at Severn Sailing Association, September 17-18, 2016 Annapolis, MD 2016 Leukemia Cup at BSC, Vincent, AL Contact: [email protected]

International J/22 Class Association 19 Calendar

September 23-25, 2016 2016 Lake George Open at The Lake George Club, 2017 Calendar Diamond Point, NY February 17-19, 2017 Contact: Joe Favero, [email protected] 2017 St. Petersburg NOOD at St. Petersburg Yacht October 1-2, 2016 Club, St. Petersburg, FL 2016 Oktoberfest at PPYC, Nashville, TN Contact: Jennifer Davies

October 1-2, 2016 March 24-26, 2017 East Coast Championship at Annapolis Yacht Club, 2017 J/22 Midwinter Championship at the Southern Annapolis, MD Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA Contact: [email protected] Contact: Boo Heausler, [email protected]

October 7-9, 2016 April 20-23, 2017 2016 U.S. Match Racing Championship for the Prince 2017 Charleston Race Week at the Charleston Ocean of Wales Bowl (Invitational Entry) at San Diego Yacht Sailing Association, North Charleston, SC Club, San Diego, CA Contact: 843-628-5900, [email protected] October 12-15, 2016 2016 U.S. Adult Championship for the Clifford D. June 2-5, 2017 Mallory Trophy (Invitational Entry) at St. Francis 2017 J/22 World Championship at the North Sea Yacht Club, San Francisco Yacht Club, Regatta at Scheveningen, The Netherlands San Francisco, CA Contact: Rosemarijn Verdoorn, [email protected] , +31 (0) 6 30372709 October 15-16, 2016 2016 Equalizer at PPYC, Nashville, TN July 20-23, 2017 2017 J/22 North American Championship at Buffalo October 28-30, 2016 Yacht Club, Buffalo, NY J/Fest Southwest at Lakewood Yacht Club, Contact: Patrick Weisansal, 716-725-4953 Seabrook, TX Contact: [email protected] 2018 Calendar October 29-30, 2016 Mid-Atlantics at Severn Sailing Association, September 8-14, 2018 Annapolis, MD 2018 J/22 World Championship at Annapolis Yacht Contact:[email protected] Club, Annapolis, Maryland USA Contact: Linda Ambrose, [email protected] November 12, 2016 SSA Turkey Bowl/SSA Fall Series at Severn Sailing Association, Annapolis, MD Contact: [email protected]

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International J/22 Class Association 21 Patrick Shanahan Sam Alexander Nathan Housburg Sophie Hibben

US J/22 Class Association no cost. It is our hope that recipients’ experience in the program will escalate their level of Awards First Annual competitiveness and inspire them to accomplish Scholarship Boat to Patrick great things in the sailing world. We have received Shanahan of the Brown generous contributions from Helly Hansen® and members of the J/22 Class Association to make University Sailing Team this program possible. However, we are still in need of more contributions to help fund the team’s The United States J/22 Class Association proudly campaign. You can help Team SPHYNQS by announces that Patrick Shanahan, of the Brown making a donation with your Class membership University Sailing Team, has been awarded the renewal or by contacting the Class Office at first annual Scholarship Boat. Shanahan was [email protected]. selected from a number of very highly qualified applicants – many of whom belong to the nation’s Team SPHYNQS Biographies: highest ranked university sailing teams. Patrick Shanahan, from Saint Petersburg, Shanahan will be campaigning the scholarship FL, grew up sailing out of the Stamford Yacht boat over the upcoming summer months with his Club in the summer sailing program. It was not fellow Brown University Sailing teammates Sam until he moved to Florida at age 12 that his love Alexander, Nathan Housberg, Sophie Hibben, for sailing began. During high school, he spent Haley Carter and Quinn Andersen. Collectively six days a week on the water in all different referred to as “Team SPHYNQS,” they maintain types of dinghies. Throughout that time, he won a host of impressive performance records in a two national championships and one national variety of dinghy and keelboat designs. The team invitational, and hopes to continue this success plans to compete in several J/22 regattas – the with the aid of J/22 Scholarship Boat grant. His highlight of which will be the 2016 J/22 World goals and ambitions include winning the college Championships at CORK in August. You can learn nationals and one day representing the U.S. at the more about this exceptional group of students and Olympics. Patrick enjoys being out on the water, their progress throughout the season by visiting regardless of the boat he is sailing. This summer, www.j22.com. he hopes to become a better sailor by learning about big boats and match racing. The J/22 Youth Scholarship Boat Program was Sam Alexander is from Yarmouth, ME and designed to encourage talented youth sailors is a sophomore at Brown University studying to experience the J/22 Class’s tremendous computer science and economics. His interest in community of one-design sailors – at virtually sailing was first sparked when his family decided

22 International J/22 Class Association Sophie Hibben Haley Carter Quinn Andersen to spend the summer living on their J/120, and Haley Carter is a junior at Brown University he and his sister learned to sail an Optimist out enjoying her third year on the sailing team and of Sail Newport. Since then, Sam fell in love studying biology. She is from Milwaukee, WI with racing any dingy he could get his hands on. and grew up sailing on Lake Michigan, racing a He also continued to cruise and race his family’s variety of big boats and teaching at the Milwaukee J/120 in various events from the Monhegan Community Sailing Center. Haley aspires to Regatta offshore race – both fully crewed and compete in the Transpac race, Antigua Race double handed – to club PHRF racing in Portland, Week and the Rolex Fastnet Race during her ME. Sam loves sailing for all of its many variables sailing career. She is incredibly excited to have for success and is excited to expand these further the opportunity to compete in the J/22 Class this by learning and competing in another J Boat at the summer. She’s enthusiastic to learn a new boat highest level. He hopes that racing the J/22 circuit and meet new sailors. She is also delighted that this summer will be a step toward his goal of sailing keeps taking her new places. racing at the top of a keelboat fleet after college. Quinn Andersen grew up sailing Club 420s at Nathan Housberg lives in Jamestown, RI, Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport, MA until where he grew up and first learned to sail. he moved to Manchester-By-The-Sea where he His interest in sailing was first piqued by the sailed 420s at the Manchester Sailing Association independence and responsibility that came with for four years. Quinn has sailed Club 420s on sailing his own Opti. However, once he joined the national circuit for five years. He is level 1 the Brown University Sailing Team, what was certification and is first aid/CPR certified as well. once a summer hobby quickly became a year-long As an undergraduate student studying economics passion. Now a sophomore at Brown University, and business at Brown University, Quinn sails Nate studies applied mathematics and during the collegiately. He enjoys sailing J/70s, spearfishing, summers he coaches Optimist racing at Conanicut playing various sports and swimming in his Yacht Club in Jamestown, RI. free time. Sophie Hibben grew up sailing on Cape Cod, Check out the Team SPHYNQS video at MA. As soon as she was old enough, she raced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcR3zAkRro. Optimist around New England before switching You can support and follow the team at to C420s. After crewing on her mother’s Rhodes http://www.sphynqssailing.us. 18 for many years, including one National Championship win, she now skippers her own Rhodes 18. She is currently an Optimist race team coach at Wianno Yacht Club and a women’s team skipper on the Brown University Sailing Team.

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