(Miami, Florida)- The J/24 Florida State Championship Regatta is a
regatta that Miami's J/24 Fleet 10 started a bunch of years ago in the
summer to have a regional district type regatta to sail on the years
when we were not awarded the D10 District Championship.It has become a popular regatta for the D10 boats from around the state, with Davis Island YC's Fleet 86 usually showing up with the most out of town boats. Three of the 4 out of town boats were from DIYC again, one from St Pete YC and the 2 or 3 from Melbourne did not make it this year due to prior commitments.
We were looking at 17 boats originally, but ended up with 13 on the line Saturday with nice average 10-knot breezes out of the S/SE that were pretty much ideal sailing conditions for Biscayne Bay. Four races were planned for Saturday but a squall took the wind away after 3 races and we proceeded to the dock for the annual Florida States party at the Pincus J/24 Clubhouse.
Back
out on Sunday for hopefully 3- 4 races to complete the regatta ... But,
we experienced no sailable winds until almost 1pm. Lots of swimming,
music and joking around until then when the RC managed to get 2 nice
races in before the 2pm cut off and we were back at the docks by 2:45
for pack up and awards.As a result, the SCOUT’s HONOR team of Mark Pincus, DeLisser, Amaducci and Adylotte took first overall with 18 pts total. Behind them, it was an all-out dog fight for the balance of the top five positions. Just holding onto second place was Ben Givens’ crew on SABOTAGE (Richardson, Chaves, Rabbit and Capuano) with 21 pts. Only one point back in third was John Poulson’s team on LONG SHOT with 22 pts. After that, just one point separated next two boats with Patricio Sly’s MUY MUY taking 4th place and Patrick Frisch’s ZIA occupying 5th position.
This regatta was also the qualifier for the US Sailing Mallory Adult Championship being held at the Manhattan Yacht Club in October - with the team from USA 3416 "Scouts' Honor" making plans now to attend.
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