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Ramrod Wins the 2009 Melges 32 Gold Cup
Rod Jabin’s Ramrod with Gavin Brady as tactician and crew of Mike Beasley, Joe Gibson, Ray Wulff, Ted Kaczmarski, Kate Torgerson won the Melges 32 Gold Cup 2009. This is the team’s first one-design regatta after Rod took delivery of his new boat in June. The team is all made up of local sailors from Annapolis, Maryland. Much of the team comes from Rod’s Farr 40 Ramrod team and they are all having a blast figuring out the Melges 32.
Joe Wood’s Red from Torquay, UK was a very close second overall and Andy Lovell’s New Orleans based Rougarou was third. John Taylor’s Ninkasi was one point behind Rougarou and Kip Meadow’s RoXanne finished fifth overall.
The final day of racing started with a light first race, which quickly shifted at the first leeward mark rounding and the breeze built to 15-20 knots. The breeze stayed up through the next two races of the day. Dalton DeVoss’s Delta won the first race of the day, RoXanne won the second race and Jeff Ecklund’s Star scored the third race of the day.
Our entire photo gallery can be seen on Sail22Photography.com. Full results are posted on YachtScoring.com and full press releases from the class can be viewed on the Melges 32 Class website.
Melges 32 Gold Cup Day 2 Report
Kip Meadow’s RoXanne is the new leader after two more races on Day 2 of the Melges 32 Gold Cup. Ramrod was granted redress for race 1 of the day after a collision with Dark ‘N Stormy. Johnny Lovell’s Rougarou slid to third place overall and John Taylor’s Ninkasi is in fourth. Jason’s Carroll and his team on Argo moved into fifth. Racing was called for the day after two races as the breeze was shifty and a tornado warning was in effect.
Melges 32 Gold Cup: Rougarou Leads Day 1
Andy Lovell’s Rougarou leads after 3 races on Day 1 of the 2009 Melges 32 Gold Cup hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club. The day started off slowly with the fleet being under postponement until a nice breeze of 6-10 knots filled in later in the afternoon. Rod Jabin’s Ramrod lead the first race of the day and finished third overall, while John Taylor’s Ninkasi was second overall for the day with consistent sailing in all of the races.
We are out on the water giving real time updates at www.sailingupdates.com and photos from Day 1 of the Melges 32 Gold Cup can be found at here. Full results can be seen here.
November Already?!?!?
Can it really be November already?? What a busy year this has been and how the time has flown by! We are gearing up for the next several weeks which include heading the the Melges 24 Atlantic Coast Championships this coming weekend, Thanksgiving with our families in Culver, several meetings in Atlanta and then the Melges 32 Gold Cup or Etchells Jaguar Cup. We haven’t decided which event we’ll be at yet, but either way, we’ll be updating from SailingUpdates.com. We’ll also be in Key West again this year. Let us know if you need help with housing, team chefs, lunches, crew gear or anything else.
Check out out our photo galleries from all of the past events this year here.
Here are a few quotes from some of our teams and sponsors we’ve received recently about Sail22:
“Thanks for all your help u made the regatta easier and more fun for us.” -Alexis Michas, Zetiana
“Thanks for all your help. We will absolutely use Sail22 again.” -Kristen Lane, Team Brickhouse
“Thank you once again for always providing outstanding service to all.” -Ron Rosenberg, McLube
Sail22 M24 Tuning Regatta Day 1 Report
It was a beautiful day for day one of the Sail22 Melges 24 Worlds Tuning Regatta in Annapolis. Teams were able to get in four races with thirteen starts in total in a nice southerly sea breeze of 12-15 knots with puffs up to 20 knots. Throughout the day 18 teams participated and were coached by Dave Ullman throughout the racing. Check out today’s photo gallery here. This evening was a great local weather talk from North Sail’s Allan Terhune which was well received by the teams.
The Sail22 Melges 24 Worlds Tuning Regatta is very grateful to our wonderful sponsors: Henri Lloyd, Annapolis Sailing School, Velocitek, West System Epoxy, Kaenon Polarized, Rite in the Rain, Heineken,Atlantic Rigging, Sebago, North Sails, Quantum Sails, Ullman Sails, Astral Buoyancy, McLube, WRI Weatherand Sail22gear.com.
