J/105 Sailor Ken Colburn Wins Swan 42s!

* Congratulations to long-time J/105 sailor Ken Colburn for winning the Swan 42 US Nationals.  As a result, his team qualify to represent the New York YC in the upcoming NYYC Invitational Cup!  And, thanks also to ED's friends Jack and Bob Slattery for helping Ken get across the finish line as his tacticians in grand fashion, themselves accomplished J/22, J/24 and J/105 champion sailors.

Noteworthy was that dominating the leader board in the Swan 42 Nationals were J/105 and J/80 sailors who've cut their teeth on tough one-design competition sailing various J's.  Second was Phil Lotz from Newport sailing ARETHUSA who learned one-design racing in offshore boats on J/105s, winning a number of regattas over time.  Fourth was J/80 World Champion and J/105 North American Champion Glenn Darden from Ft Worth, Texas sailing HOSS.  Fifth was Jim Madden's STARK RAVING MAD IV who's won class in the Bermuda Race on his J/65 and also numerous Key West and West Coast events sailing his J/125 STARK RAVING MAD III.

The NYYC's Harbour Court will host 22 yacht club teams - representing 16 nations from six different continents - with racing on NYYC Swan 42s September 10-17.  As has been demonstrated for the American NYYC representative, there are several foreign teams that have champion J/22, J/24 and J/80 teams on-board as tacticians and skippers-- should be an interesting fireworks display of top corinthian skippers and tacticians in September!