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Peter, congratulations on winning the prestigious E Scow National Championship. There are some really famous names on that championship trophy and now your name is front and center. The Melges Team really congratulates you. We also want to thank you for using North Sails. These designs powered you to a championship level. The North E Scow sails have been FAST for many years but most of all they are easy to tune. Any secrets you want to share in regards to set up on the North Sails?
If there were to list 3 keys to you winning this regatta what would you write down? Peter: 1. I’ve got to say the real key was my crew Glen Dickson and Park Benjamin. The dynamic we had on the boat during the regatta was something I hadn’t experienced on the E in the past. We had only sailed together once before earlier in the summer where we finished 2nd at the Up Bay regatta. We had planned on sailing that event with 4, but one of my crew overslept. Park had never done the boards and didn’t feel comfortable going out and doing both positions. Fortunately, he didn’t have a choice and acclimated to it right away. I felt great with 3 on the boat and decided to go with it for Nationals. However, I couldn’t get all three of us back together again for the rest of the summer and Glen couldn’t commit to Little Egg until a few weeks prior to the event. I think our finishes in the first two races boosted our confidence after rounding the first windward mark deep both races, and that carried through the regatta. 2. Not sailing the last day! I think if the drop had kicked in and the wind had been light that day anything could’ve happened. It was definitely the most stressful morning of my life. When the power went out at the club and we couldn’t get boats in the water I thought someone’s looking out for me. It was memorable to say the least. 3. Boatspeed would have to be #3 for me. I felt like we had jets all around the course, but especially downwind. I’ve never had my A-sail trimmed better than the way Park does it and the boat just felt like it was moving well the entire time. He likes a huge curl and I was able to dive a bit lower with speed most runs. Again, I think it goes back to confidence: knowing you are fast in a 70 boat fleet is a great feeling. And you look a lot smarter than you are if the boatspeed is there.
Peter: The first day downwind was just mayhem. There were big shifts, and we tried to concentrate on puffs and getting away from the pack. We were deep at both windward marks and our downwind speed that day made the difference for us in the regatta. We rounded the first mark of the first race in the low 20’s and finished 7th and the second race we rounded around 30th and finished 6th. Like I said before, there is something about being in sync with the way Park was trimming that made the boat just take off and Glen and I were able to concentrate on looking around and keeping track of our angle. That day was the most tactical downwind with the wind oscillating quite a bit. We were able to hit a few really nice shifts and puffs on each run, which turned out to be the difference for us in the regatta. Great crew work is important on any sailboat. The E scow really requires some aggressive sailing. How did you prepare your team and what were their strengths on and off the water? Peter: Oh boy, not much preparation for us! Park and I are contending with 2 little ones each at home and Glen was busy with Lasers and Flying Scots. After Up Bays, I wound up racing one BBYRA day with Park and practicing once with Glen, each time with a different third crew. So when we did get together we really had to make it count. At Nationals, I think our boat speed was fantastic and our boat handling sufficed, but our tactical ability and the way the three of us spoke about what was going on was the key. There was a mutual respect for everyone’s opinion on the boat and I felt confident we were making the right decisions the entire regatta. I did take one flyer against their wishes out of frustration on a final run when we were fairly deep that cost us about 7 boats. At the time I thought it would be our drop. Looking back, I would’ve had a complete conniption if we had lost one more boat on that run. How was your approach to the Nationals? Relaxed or ultra focused on doing well in the event? Explain your time spent leading up to the regatta. Peter: I was completely focused on doing well at the event. I think in all the years of E Scow sailing that I’ve done I’ve never had the boat moving the way it was last summer. That along with having Glen and Park on the boat gave me a ton of confidence going into the event and over the course of my sailing career I’ve outperformed myself at big regattas when the pressure was the greatest. Rumor has it Little Egg Harbor has been a magical place for you. Explain what you love about Little Egg and how you felt you had a home court advantage. Peter: Don’t know why Little Egg has been so good to me. I think I’ve had more sleepless nights in Beach Haven than any other place in the world. I won the ’89 Laser Radial NA’s there and later that summer they hosted the Laser Nationals as well and I found myself winning ½ way through the event in a stacked fleet. That time I fell apart down the stretch, but to this day I always feel like big things can happen for me in Little Egg. It’s been quite some time since those results, but I guess the magic is still there.
Peter: In 1995 at my first Laser Worlds I was introduced to sports psychology with the US Sailing Team. Still believe firmly in it and visualization, etc. I decided to concentrate a bit on what made me successful in the past and listen to my old friend, Bob Proctor. Don’t think I told anyone I was doing this stuff, but I did tell my crew I thought we had a good shot at winning prior to the event. Think it’s the only thing that kept me sane on Sunday morning.
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Interview by Allan Terhune
The crew was: my daughter Jessica Magno, who currently sails 420s and has sailed different regattas with me for 5 years, Tim Faranetta, a former boat owner who has been on my boat all season and has sailed different regattas with me in the past, and Andrew Hughes, a junior laser sailor from LYC who had only sailed one other E-scow regatta with us.
How long have you been sailing E Scows and why do you love to sail them? I have been sailing my own E-scow for 17 years and sailed on them for a dozen years before that. I love sailing them because it is fun boat both upwind and downwind with great sailors and great people that sail them.
You were able to finish every race in the top 5, what was your strategy that allowed you to do this? The strategy was to simply to keep a clear lane and sail to where we saw the next wind line. The sails, boat and crew work enabled us to keep up the speed to do this effectively
What tips would you give folks who are trying to improve their E Scow Sailing?
With the nationals coming to Little Egg, what are you doing to get ready? To prepare for the Nationals we will try to find time and sail together with our crew and go over the lines and rigging on the boat to make sure it is in proper working order.
You have been a loyal North Customer for many years, why do you choose North Sails? Why do I use North sails? I am always looking for the sails that I feel the fastest and most comfortable with. North sails has provided me with the service I expect and if something doesn't feel fast I can talk to a North sails representative and get it worked out where the speed feels good again! Again, Congrats to you and your team and thank you for choosing North Sails! Good Luck at the Nationals in Little Egg!
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Report by Andy Burdick The Wawasee E Scow Championship was this past weekend. Wawasee is a great inland lake in Indiana. 28 boats invaded their annual championship. A home town boat won this year. Casey Call sailed a fantastic regatta to claim the 2010 Championship.
2nd place went to Brett Hatton racing his new Melges E. Brett is from Spring Lake, Michigan. 3rd was Rob Terry from Crystal Lake, Michigan and 4th was Grand Lake, Colorado sailor Mark Unicume racing his brand new Melges E to a nice result. Congratulations Casey and crew along with all of the other winners this past weekend.
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Report by E Scow Class Association Two races this morning with the wind swinging between NE and E. A full report will be provided by the race organizers so I will just give a few highlights. The first race was about 8mph with a 1.5 mile weather leg and a W2 course. The race took 55 minutes for the lead boat, about 15 minutes upwind and 11-12 minutes downwind. Brian Porter got on track in this first race and lead at all the marks. For the most part he played the right half of the course up wind. Quite frankly, the left sucked. Most impressive was Jeff Bonanni and crew who were 31st around the first mark, moved to 22nd at the leeward mark and 10th at the next upwind and finished downwind in 9th place. WOW! Gluek got in some trouble early with a bad start and ended up 21st at the first mark and with the regatta on the line he climbed back steadily on each leg to finish with a 6th. Bill Burns (V-25) had his best race of the regatta rounding the first mark in 6th and finishing in 5th place. James Beltz (M-13) was also in that category of best race of the regatta as he rounded the top mark in 7th, and finished in 11th. For more information about the fastest E Scow sails, contact our E Scow experts.
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Report by Andy Burdick
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Pewaukee Yacht Club hosted the 2009 Inland Lake Yachting Association E Scow Invitational Regatta on a beautifully weekend as all five races were completed. For the most part all races, who were led by Russ Ackley’s judging team, were sailed in very good E scow conditions. Pewaukee is traditionally shifty and there were some big shifts that if you did not catch you were in the back of the pack. 39 boats from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin competed for the 2009 crown. Pewaukee again showed everybody the “Pewaukee Hospitality” that they are so well known for. The World Famous “Dex” and Tammy Sawyer were the co-chairs for this event as they made sure everybody felt very welcome and had a great time. Thursday night everybody was welcomed to the club and then off to the “Tri-Bar” area as sailors were out and about. Some were out until the bars kicked them out as this seems to always happen the night before the regatta. Friday saw cocktails and appetizers at the club at the conclusion of sailing back to back in the afternoon. Some older and weaker sailors were off to a quick dinner and then to bed as the diehards were off to dinner and back to the “Tri-Bar” area as this area can be like the Bermuda triangle! You just never know what can happen!!! I heard a rowdy group singing and singing and singing Happy Birthday to Sally Barkow who was celebrating a b-day. I hope they stop singing!!! Saturday night was back to the club for the celebrated Buckaroo’s Flying Pig Dinner hosted by none other than Buckaroo and Dex along with too many volunteers to mention but it was a great job by a very dedicated group of individuals!! How do they continue to impress us like they do??? As far as the sailing goes, Augie Barkow and his faithful crew of Jeff Niedziela, Heidi and A.J. Schweda were very consistent to win the 2009 Invite with finishes of 1,2,1,2 and 5. They were out in the front pack all weekend as they used their new North Sails for their first regatta. This boat looks ready for the ILYA and National Championship regattas that will be coming up later this summer. The battle for second was on all weekend for as many as six boats were battling all weekend as they were within 6 points of each other going into the final race. Will Graves of Pewaukee brought his Sunday best and won the final race going away to secure second place overall? Vincent Port of Lake Geneva who fought back after being over early in race 3 to add to some very consistent finishes to take third overall. He noted in his trophy acceptance speech that he wanted to possibly sail more races at the invite but he didn’t know he was going to get his butt kicked by Augie all weekend. Obviously they have been racing against each other for a while. Jule Hannaford of Minnetonka and his all star crew were solid all weekend especially in race four they raced down Augie and took the race win away from that team. It was very impressive to watch as they were on the move. Jule and crew were fourth overall as they graciously enjoyed being back in Pewaukee to race scows, see old friends and have a few cocktails along the way! Newly hired North Sails Representative Jim Gluek was happily back on the course racing the X-751 to a fifth place performance as he was in the hunt every race. If not for the wind dying on him at the finish of race four he might have been able to move up a spot of two. The rest of the top ten was as follows: Full Results
E Scow Sails The 2008 E Scow ILYA Championship was held in Okoboji, IA. The ILYA has a rich tradition for being the big regatta of the summer. The most competition, the most prestige and the most history in all of the scow classes. This years championship was excellent. Five races over 3 days with close competition. North Sails have been dominating the E scow scene all summer long. At this years ILYA North E scow sails won every race – YES, all 5 races were won by North Sails. The overall winner had North Sails too!
ILYA Championship:
North Sails Win Every Race! For complete results, click here. The fall discount season is soon to be upon us – September 1 – December 1. Discounts apply to the 2009 North E sails – Gear up for 2009.
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Report by Andy Burdick North Sails 1,2,3 and win every RACE!
Delavan Lake Yacht Club Hosts 5 Race Championship Event Delavan Lake is the home of Buddy Melges. Buddy grew up there and learned how to sail on this fantastic lake with a very enthusiastic yacht club. Scow sailing has a long, rich tradition at Delavan. They hosted the E scow invitational this past weekend and there was incredible sailing with winds ranging from 12-25mph in the 5 race series. Talk about rides downwind! These asymmetrical kites are fast and easy to sail downwind making the trip downhill a real treat! The North Kites sure are fast! The high clew makes it easy to trim and fly and easy to see. The sail is indeed championship ready. The North sails dominated the event winning every race and placing 1,2,3 overall. Sails used were the AP mainsail, Light Medium jib, the Medium Heavy jib in the really windy races and then the all purpose North Asymmetrical.
North Sails are really fast!!!!
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Report by Andy Burdick North Sails Dominate E Scow National Championship Big 50 Year Anniversary for the E scow class – 71 E Scows Race For Title
Andy Burdick and his winning team – Andy Burdick, Peter Keck, Lindsay Bartel and Coye Harrett. North Sails and their shapes dominated the championship. The downwind speed with the championship proven Asymmetrical designed and produced by North was a real difference maker. The North kites were fast. The ability to sail low or get up and go on a reach – the North Sails Asymmetrical was fast and easy to fly. Andy Burdick won his second National Championship in consecutive weeks racing with a score card that never was below a 2nd place. Tom Burton from Minnetonka, Minnesota was second and Sam Rogers was third. North Sails 1,2,3. North E Scow Sails won every race too. Race Winners included Vincent Porter, Brian Porter, Erik Johnson and Andy Burdick. North Sails were prominent on 14 of the top 20 proving that the customers love the shapes of these North Sails. Contact our E Scow experts today!. To order the fastest E Scow sails online, click here.
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Report by Al Terhune This past weekend the Toms River Yacht Club hosted the Jeff Lines Memorial Regatta for the Flying Scots and The Toms River Tune Up for the E-Scows. The Flying Scots were able to use this regatta as a warm up for the North Americans, which will be in Toms River in July .The E-Scow fleet were out with their new A-Sails working on their techniques as their nationals are coming up in a few weeks in New York. The E-Scow was a very competitive event, which wound up in a 3 way tie for first. Chad Hillyer won his first ever E-Scow Event on the tie breaker over Peter Koar from Bay Head. Both Chad and Peter used a North Main and LM jib. Willie Demand was 3rd. It was amazing to see how much faster the boats were than in the past, and also how much more fun it seemed that the people were having with the new A-Sail Design
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Peter: One of the things I love about my North sails is that I can take them out of the bag, throw them up and have complete confidence in my speed without too much setup. My jib and spinnaker were new but I was a bit concerned about my main, which had a few regattas on it. I was thinking of placing an order prior to the event to get a new main, but when I put it up earlier in the summer I thought it looked great. Our speed was fantastic, so I’m glad I didn’t change a thing. I must admit that tuning has never been my forte. But this summer I think I got it right, with a lot of help from Will Demand, and the boat just took off. I only raced twice prior to Nationals this past season and the boat was really moving well and that gave me a ton of confidence going into the event. I sailed with a tighter rig than I had in previous years and it definitely made a difference.
The new Asymmetrical Kite set up has proven to be more tactical downwind in the E scow. Wider angles at times, more speed and acceleration, easy maneuverability. What were you focused on downwind?
What were you listening to on your iPod during that championship weekend?
Who sailed with you and how long have you sailed together?
To improve your E-scow sailing I think it is important to work on little things first such as clean air, sail trim and boat speed. It is easier to do this by trying avoid the big pack of boats that is always giving you bad air or forcing you to tack or jibe away from your desired course. A couple of ways to accomplish this without too much trouble is not going for the first place start at the favored or crowded end of the starting line or rounding the leeward gate that may not be the closest but is has little to no traffic going around it. Giving away a boat length or two in order to clear your air and path to the next mark can be very rewarding in an E-scow compared to many other one-design boats. Finding clean air and a clear lane will allow you to concentrated on speed, sail trim and getting to the next mark in better position.
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The Chautauqua Yacht Club put on quite a show for the 50th anniversary of the E scow. 71 boats traveled from all around the country to participate in this historic and memorable event. Great parties, bands, fireworks and recognition to the founding fathers of the E scow – it was an action packed weekend. The racing was the same, action packed as the fleet had 6 heats with one drop race.
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