TenSpeed Winter Edition Winter 2019 Inside this issue: 2019 T-10 NAC 2019 T-10 NAC 1, 3-7 Champions Review Champions Review Trey Sheehan, Hooligan: 2019 T-10 North American 7 Championship Results Flat Stanley Racing From Our President: Class 2 Review racing and pushed us to new W hat a fun season! What levels of Class and PHRF 2019 T-10 North American 8 Championship Review a great group of people in racing. When Chuck this fleet! What a terrific boat decided to focus more time 2020 T-10 North American 9 to sail! The final T-10 regatta in Key West and travel the Championship Dates of the year, the 2019 North boat was sold and now sits in Congratulations! Amy 9 American Championship, Winnipeg. Shortly after Cermak Racine YC proved to be a fabulous week Terry and I made the jump Pictures from 2019 North 10-11 for the Hooligan family. We into the Melges32 Flat American Championship were blessed with perfect Stanley and still enjoy sailing conditions a well prepared that boat. 2019 Great Lakes 12-13 boat and crew, a fabulously Intercollegiate Off-Shore planned and executed Regatta (with Results) We bought Hull 376 in 2012 regatta by the Mentor Harbor with the intention of “getting Pictures from GLIOR 14 folks. Above all, we also the band back received our fair share of T-10 Class Winter Meeting 15-17 together”. Unfortunately, the Notes lucky breaks. problem with owning two T-10 Class Financials 18 boats in different classes that History generally race the same Chicago T-10 Ladies 19 A little history might be weekends, in different cities, Takeover Pursuit Race helpful. Chuck Simon, Terry caused us to never really get McSweeney and I bought the everybody together at the 2019 Chicago Fleet 2 Awards 20 Black Boat (Hull 376) in 2012 same time. I think we also felt Chicago Fleet 2— 21-23 we named Hooligan for the buying a third of a boat 2019 Summer Report season. The three of us spent relieved us of having to years with Bill Buckles and admit same to our spouses. Supporting Sailmakers 24-25 the rest of the team racing The boat was sailed Supporting Suppliers 26-28 Liquor Box successfully all competitively by The 2019 Bayview One Design 29 over the country. Liquor Box Sheehan and McSweeney and its’ blender became kids, Bill Buckles with his 2019 Chicago NOOD Results 29 synonymous with Lake Erie (Continued on page 3) 2019 Cleveland Race Week 30 T-10 Class Officers 31 Page 2 From Our President—John Schellenbach | Mutiny During our summer his team on Proper Villain meeting, we discussed finished second. Scott Irwin updating the North with Team Iball rounded out American Championship the top three. Brian Kaczor Regatta Regulations to bring and team aboard Erica them in line with regulations finished first among the of similar one design Corinthian boats. classes. We also discussed the sail materials allowed in For next season, the 2020 the jib. Nick Ward North American volunteered to spearhead Championship returns to discussions with various Lake Michigan and will be sailmakers to make sure our hosted by the Racine Yacht new rule doesn’t favor any Club. Racing will take place T he weather in Chicago particular brand. August 20 – 23, and there made it clear that sailing will likely be a feeder race season is over in early October Twenty-Six boats raced in from Chicago the weekend by covering the ground with a the 2019 North American prior. white blanket of snow. As Championship. After ten another sailing season winds races, Trey Sheehan and I hope everyone has some down, we can reflect on the Hooligan: Flat Stanley fun activities planned for the past summer and look forward Racing were victorious. Last off season, and doesn’t have to next spring when we do it all year’s North American to spend too much time on over again! Champion, Nick Ward and boat work. A special thank you to Karen Sackett-Rampe who did an excellent job of running the 2019 T-10 North American Championship at Mentor Harbor Yacht Club. I was sorry that work prevented Mutiny from traveling to Cleveland. This was even more the case when I visited MHYC for the summer class meeting and saw how beautiful the club and harbor are. Page 3 2019 T-10 North American Champions Review (Continued from page 1) Pursue Trailer, (see?, this teams, and a women’s group fleet rocks!). every Tuesday night, but the We had every boat was not getting some of intention of the attention it needed. tearing the boat apart that In January of 2014 we started winter and making it to sail the J-70 (Hooligan as well) to work on boat ready for the handling and get more big 2019 season. In fleet experience for me. I had been a crew member for January of 2019 we started evaluating the quarters. It has been an most of my life and effectively had zero helm condition of the boat and exercise in patience for these decided the free swinging fellas. My legitimate Attention time in those 46 years. Brad Boston and I would set out to bulkheads and lack of any Deficit Disorder and the deliberately attend regattas attention down below would onshore and offshore antics with 60 plus boats to get be a hindrance to a serious that are part of Hooligan Life more comfortable with my run at a winning season. Our and a host of other decision was to gut the boat distractions that go along with driving. He has been working on getting me up to and rebuild it. Time was not it have created a chaotic, but our friend and the boat fun, Team Hooligan, for all speed while keeping everything fun at the same proved to have surprises for involved. So just mentioning us when we finally started to the addition of two more time. take it apart. similarly afflicted Sheehans into the boat raised the The Plan anxiety level for Brad and While sailing the J-70 in Miami The chance to sail the 2018 in January I mentioned to Brad Curtis for sure. Frankly, I wasn’t certain there was T-Ten season with a group of and Curtis Florence that I my regular Hooligan J-70 would like to bring not just enough room on the boat for all this “personality”. The crew and some of my kids one but possibly two of my was starting to take shape three children along for the seed was planted to sail with and we planned to make the Tartan Ten campaign the more family. trip to Port Huron. Life upcoming summer. Brad, eventually got in the way and Curtis, Terry and I have spent Back in the barn in early we could not attend. We put the last five years together in spring we decided to squeeze the T-10 away in the Fall of the J-70 and the Melges 32 2018 on a borrowed Team working hard to teach me how to handle a boat in close (Continued on page 4) Page 4 2019 T-10 North American Champions Review (Continued from page 3) on his upper body and core practice afternoon in Detroit I strength by sanding every remembered how much fun in a couple of regattas down chance he could get. It was the boat was. It all felt great, south in the J-70 and put off crunch time. and the first tack ever driving the boat work. This turned a Tartan Ten was ugly as hell! out to be a mistake as we But we got it sorted out and The season started off in started the work around April every tack got better. The Detroit with Bayview One 16th. Thirty five years of Design and of course two of regatta was a lot of fun, but we wear and tear, and wiring knew there was more work to my “rockstar” family that had been spliced and re- members could not attend at be done before Cleveland used, required replacing the last minute. Dad was not Race Week. everything inside the looking like a champion with boat. The panel, electronics, the remaining crew, but we We took Hooligan back to breakers, load distribution pulled the boat together and Cleveland and put it right and through hulls were got it ready and on the back into the shop at my ripped out and starting line in Detroit. It was office. We worked day and replaced. The boat was no not pretty and by no means night getting the boat finished longer identifiable down completed but we took the T- and when I wasn’t working in below. It really was a Ten Class load cell with us, my office I would come down disaster. Ziggy Beatty a weighed the boat and queried to the boat shop and interrupt longtime friend and Flat the owners there with the everyone’s flow. Stanley/Hooligan crew progress we had made and member came to Cleveland invited everyone aboard and Cleveland Race Week was at the third week of May to help to express any concerns they push the boat along. Griffin our home club so we were had with our work and the able to really dig in and fine Sheehan dug in and learned boats’ punchlist of work to be tune our speed and really how to lay glass and worked completed. We were able to work on tuning. Luckily we do very had the identical sail designs well at as the Proper Villain guys so Bayview we knew the tools were there One but just needed to see for Design ourselves how the boat set up and we in all ranges, up and knew the down.