It was breeze on at the St Maarten Heineken Regatta ’09, with 40 knot puffs on day 1, settling down to the lower 20s out of the northeast for the rest of the weekend. The conditions gave owner Robert Armstrong and his experienced crew yet another opportunity to prove that J/100 Bad Girl can win against pretty much any boat in any conditions. Conceived as a daysailor, this tricked up J/100 proved her pedigree against a group of single purpose sportboats in the heavy wind and sea conditions. The competition included a Melges 32, some Melges 24s, Mumm 36, and other sportboats, the Bad Girl team scored a 1,2,1,2 to handily win the spinnaker class 6.In Spinnaker 4, it was the forty foot J/s dominating the standings with James Dobbs’ J/122 Lost Horizons defending his 2008 crown scoring straight bullets over four races and Rick Wesslund & Mike Caldwell’s J/120 El Ocaso scoring straight seconds. The J/109 Pocket Rocket finished forth. http://www.heinekenregatta.com/
