(San Francisco, CA)- NOT! This weekend’s SF Challenge provided a pretty epic photo shoot of Johnny Heineken- the World Champion Kiteboarder from San Francisco, CA.When your kids get their kite fouled up in a tree, you climb up and untangle it, right? But when former Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Johnny Heineken gets his kite fouled in the rigging of the J/105 BLACKHAWK, the retrieval process is a whole lot more dramatic.
Johnny got tangled with Scooter and Ryan Simmons' J/105 BLACKHAWK on the Berkley Circle while heading back up to the St. Francis Yacht Club in the SF Bay Challenge Regatta. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries minus some bruises to Johnny and the destruction of the anemometer. Apparently, BLACKHAWK was awarded average points for the races they had to miss! Can’t blame them, the right thing to do for sure by the StFYC jury!
