* J One-Design Expertise Helps! Past J/24 World Champion John Kostecki (right) led the Farr 40 Worlds fleet home sailing on TRANSFUSION. Another former J/24 Champion Chris Larson
(left) was doing the same further down the ladder. Great story,
consistency is King, as they say in tight, college-style fleets.In race nine Transfusion's crew were coughing dust for the first upwind leg and appeared to lack boat speed while defending champion Nerone was sailing hotter angles out in front on the first downwind run. Transfusion's US tactician, John Kostecki, now a three-time
winner
in the Farr 40 Worlds, lived up to his reputation as one of the world's
best as the local boat clawed its way back to finish second behind
Nerone, and win the title! While five different boats won races during
the series, Transfusion won only once, but never dipped below a seven.
Consistency pays.Start sailing any one of the large International J/One-Design classes- J/22 (http://www.j22.org), J/24 (http://www.j24class.org), J/80 (http://www.j80.org)- and you'll learn darn fast! Or, why do you think top women sailors have a hard time winning the Rolex Women's Worlds sailed in J/22s or many of the top USA skipper/ tacticians and European or Australian skipper/ tacticians often started in the middle of the pack of J/22, J/24, or J/80 fleets at some point in their life learning how to sail better, faster, smarter? Takes practice to get good, lots of it.
