INTERNATIONAL J/22 CLASS ASSOCIATION Terry Flynn’s Tejas Goes Wire to Wire to Win J/22 North American Championship Fall 2015 • Volume 14 • Issue 4 Happy Holidays! Save 10% today. Order by 12/31/2015. #1 Worlds #1 East Coasts #1 NE Regionals #1 Mid-Atlantics #1 CAN Nationals #1 Raw Bar #1 Charleston RW #1 NOOD Anappolis #1 Cleveland RW #1 SSA Summer Mike Marshall 401-965-0057 [email protected] Skip Dieball 419-392-4411 [email protected] Geoff Becker 410-280-3617 [email protected] Jeff Todd 410-269-5662 [email protected] Benz Faget 504-831-1775 [email protected] onedesign.com Photo Chris Howell j22-201511-insideline-enewsletter.indd 1 11/23/15 1:17 PM Class President Letter from the President Mark Stuhlmiller Williamsville, NY 716-725-4664 Thanks to everyone for their past, present and future service to the US J/22 Class! As with any volunteer organization, we are nothing without the hard work and dedication of those who give their time to help keep this torch burning. I am honored and excited to take this leg of the Happy torch relay; and am looking forward to meeting many members along the way to help guide 1st Vice President Matt Dunbar and assist me during this journey. By the way, call me “Stu.” Pawtucket, RI 401-527-7268 Look, I don’t need to explain to you how great our Class is. If you’re reading this, you already get it. We have a tremendous one-design boat and a committed membership. Our challenge for Holidays! the next few years is a clear one –How do we position the US J/22 Class to be an enduringly viable fleet for generations to come? 2nd Vice President Boo Heausler Easy, just include future generations, right? Get the kids involved. Absolutely! Save 10% today. New Orleans, LA Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. We are not alone in this objective. There is a ton of Order by 12/31/2015. 504-481-2019 competition for the attention of the youth demographic. Attracting youth is one of the biggest challenges facing every one-design Class and every yacht club in the world. Hell, it’s one of the biggest challenges facing almost every sport worldwide. Couple this competition with the Secretary/Treasurer already limited attention span of most youth and you can understand why so many parents of Jennifer Princing school-age children are not exactly teetotalers. Hemlock, MI 989-213-3973 So what can we do to accomplish this challenging objective? As you sit in front of the fire with your eggnog this holiday season, please think it over and send me your thoughts (lucid or #1 Worlds otherwise…). I want to hear from everyone. #1 East Coasts Chief Measurer #1 NE Regionals U.S. Technical #1 Mid-Atlantics Committee Chairman J/22 Youth Scholarship Boat Program #1 CAN Nationals Terry Flynn League City, TX In the interim, I wanted to introduce you to a new program we are planning to offer in 2016: #1 Raw Bar 713-906-5497 the J/22 Youth Scholarship Boat Program. This program will award a fully outfitted J/22 sailboat (complete with trailer) to a promising youth team for the entire sailing season. The #1 Charleston RW award recipients will be expected to race the J/22 Scholarship Boat in several high profile, #1 NOOD Anappolis world-class J/22 regattas (including the 2016 J/22 World Championship in Kingston, Ontario) #1 Cleveland RW Executive Secretary and participate in various Scholarship Program promotional events. The Program is intended Christopher Howell to encourage talented youth sailors (skippers aged 19-29) to experience the J/22 and the #1 SSA Summer Cleveland, OH Class’ tremendous community of one-design sailors—at virtually no cost. It is our hope that 440-796-3100 recipients’ experience in the Program will escalate their level of competitiveness and inspire them to accomplish great things in the sailing world. And, of course, the Class gets to claim all participants as J/22 sailors (and we’ll have numerous photos to prove it!). Nomination To make the J/22 Scholarship Boat Program great, we need two things: (i) a pool of talented Committee Chairman applicants, and (ii) sponsorship contributions and donations. We are presently getting the word Sandy Adzick out through competitive college and high school sailing coaches. Please encourage anyone you Haverford, PA feel would be a good fit to apply. We are also in the process of actively soliciting corporate 610-642-2232 sponsorships and individual donations to fund this endeavor. If you can contribute a few bucks or know a company that might benefit from having their logo pasted all over the team’s J/22, please let us know. More information is available on our website (http://www.j22.com/index. php/the-boat/scholarship). Deadline for applications is March 15, 2016. I’m confident that, US and International with your help, we will get the next generation of J/22 sailors involved. Class Office 12900 Lake Ave., #2001 Happy holidays, Mike Marshall 401-965-0057 [email protected] Lakewood, OH 44107 440-796-3100 Mark “Stu” Stuhlmiller, USJ22CA President Skip Dieball 419-392-4411 [email protected] [email protected] Geoff Becker 410-280-3617 [email protected] Newsletter Editor [email protected] Jeff Todd 410-269-5662 [email protected] Julie Howell Cleveland, OH Benz Faget 504-831-1775 [email protected] onedesign.com Photo Chris Howell International J/22 Class Association 3 j22-201511-insideline-enewsletter.indd 1 11/23/15 1:17 PM Terry Flynn’s Tejas Goes Wire to Wire to Win J/22 North American Championship Terry Flynn’s Tejas won the opening race of the With a third in the last contest, Brad Julian’s Team J/22 North American Championship and didn’t ThreeDories.com from Annapolis, MD secured look back. A fourth the silver position in the final race with 16 points. Texan secured victory for Marvin Beckmann’s the local helmsman, The Martian who tallied just 10 net edged out Travis points in the six races, Odenbach’s Sea including three bullets Bags Sailing Team of on day one. Prior J/22 Rochester, NY for the World Champion bronze (22 points to Flynn thanked his 23). Newport-based crew of Mark Foster Michael Marshall’s and Matt Romberg, Bad News won the who “did all the hard final light air match- work this regatta.” up to claim the fifth This same team won spot overall with 29 the J/22 Midwinter points. Championship earlier this year. 4 International J/22 Class Association The Houston Yacht Club in Texas hosted the Despite a 10 in Saturday’s only race, Flynn three-day Championship for 39 teams from held the top spot heading into the final day of across the United States. Flynn summarized, competition. With five races scored, a discard “It was a great event, and while the weather didn’t came into play, allowing Tejas to drop the 10. completely cooperate, the Race Committee did Beckmann stood in second place with 12 points, great as well as all the volunteers at HYC.” just one ahead of Julian. Odenbach was also in the mix with 15 points. In the lone contest in The Championship got underway Friday, October breeze of 6-8 knots, Wiley Rogers’ Baby Doll 2 in gorgeous conditions, allowing four races took line honors. to be completed in winds fluctuating between 8-16 knots throughout the day. Flynn controlled Photos are available on the J/22 Class Facebook the leaderboard with tallies of 1,1,3,1 for only page, and complete results are available at 6 points. Chris Junge’s Corner of Sanity and www.j22na.com. Madness was the day’s other race winner. International J/22 Class Association 5 Chatting With North American Champion Terry Flynn The Inside Line: At the North American years. Mark Foster is from the Corpus Christi Championship in Houston, you had some home- area, and we’ve sailed together for 30 years. Both field advantage. What kind of local knowledge are accomplished in their own right, winning the helped you top the fleet? J/22 Worlds in Cleveland in 1999. Over the years, Terry Flynn: It was nice having a home game so we’ve all crewed for each other in different Classes we didn’t have to travel. That gave us more time to and been in every position. When we sailed set the boat up and work on it, so that was worth a together at the North Americans, Matt trimmed and few points. I think the biggest advantage, however, Mark did the bow. Once we come up with our pre- came from the weather. A northerly wind that early start game plan, they work together to get us where in the year, and for as long as it stayed around, was we need to be fleet-wise. They both make tactical different, but we handled it well. decisions, and most times they’re on the same page. I really don’t get too involved in the tactics IL: Your team also won the Midwinter after the start, but we’ve sailed together enough Championship this year. Tell us about your crew that we think the same way. and the role each person played. TF: Matt Romberg is a doctor from Austin. I’ve known him and sailed with him for almost 15 6 International J/22 Class Association IL: You kept up boat speed through light air.