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By Brian Hayes North Sails sweeps top 4 spots at Sonar IFDS World Championships The 2003 IFDS (International Federation of Disabled Sailing) World Championships were held September 4-14 in Athens, Greece. The Sonar Class had 21 participants from 14 different countries. Udo Hessels (NED) and his team sailed fast and consistently over the 9 race series with all top 4 finishes to win the Gold Medal over Dror Cohen (ISR) and his Silver Medal team by 5 points. John Robertson (GBR) and his team secured the Bronze Medal with 1 race to go in the series and completed his series with a bullet in Race 9. Fourth place went to past World-Champion Jens Kroger (GER). Although the top 4 teams hailed from different countries with different backrounds and varied experience they all had one thing in common. They all used North Sails One Design Sonar sails. Each team used the standard "SuperMain" and AP++ Jib. For more information on North Sonar Sails contact our Sonar Experts.
By Brian Hayes With only a few hours before the regatta to prepare a borrowed boat, the team of Peter Galloway, Paul Steinborn, Ched Proctor and Ira Cohen dominated a fleet of 19 to win the 2003 Sonar Midwinters held at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club on February 9-12. This is the 3rd straight Midwinter Championship for the Galloway/Steinborn team who won the 8 race series with 1 race to spare. The winning team, who used the standard North Supermain, AP++ jib
and
Superlite spinnaker, was joined in the top 9 by 6 other teams who chose
North Sails including 3rd place winner Jens Kroger and his team from Overall North Sails were 1,3*,4 and 6 of the top 9. Results can be found at: http://www.spyc.org/OneDesign/Sonar/results.htm
By Brian Hayes The 2002 International Disabled World Sailing Championships were held in Sonars at the Royal Netherlands Yacht Club from September 22-27, 2002. Jens Kroger (bow #6) and his team from Germany won this talent-laden event against 25 other teams from throughout the World. Jens and his team used all North Sails Sonar Sails to best Andy Cassell and his team from Great Britain. Defending Champions, the Canadian team lead by Brian Mackie, finished a close 3rd after winning a tie breaker over the lone entry from the USA, Rick Doerr and his New Jersey based team. Both Mackie and Doerr also used complete North Sails Sonar sail inventories.
And for more information on North Sonar Sails contact the North Sonar Experts.
By Brian Hayes April 20, 2002 - The 2002 Sonar spring sailing season began heating up a bit this past weekend with a one day clinic, run by Brian Hayes, at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, NY. 20+ sailors dodged raindrops and made the most of late afternoon, light breezes to get in several hours of on-the-boat training as well as starting and short course drills. The event started at 9 am with a classroom discussion on rig tuning, prebend and sail shape. Two hours of classroom talk led the group onto the docks for a 1 1/2 hour talk on crew work, techniques and responsibilities.After a quick lunch sailors piled on to the 4 available Sonars for an afternoon of practice starts and short course racing. The clinic wrapped up back in the classroom with a synopsis of the days events as well as a thorough question and answer period. Special thanks to Leo Hiatrides for organizing this clinic for his fleet. The following are tentatively scheduled North One Design Sonar clinics:
To schedule a Sonar clinic for your fleet contact the North One Design Sonar experts.
Report by Brian Hayes The International Sonar Class held 2 regattas during the week off February 9-17 at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club in Florida. 27 boats attended the 1st event which was the Sonar Class Midwinter Championships while 22 boats participated in the NOOD regatta the next weekend. Sonar Class President Peter Galloway, with Paul Steinborn, Ira Cohen and Brian Hayes won both of the events in convincing fashion using the standard North Sails One Design Sonar sails. In 2nd in both events was Josh Goldman of Westport, CT. Josh chartered a Sonar for the week and with his crew of Kris Smith, Bill Ewing, Moose McClintock and Ched Proctor pushed Galloways Team in both events for his 2 runner up finishes. Also of note was the results of the top Paralympic Teams competing at these events. Canadian sailor Brian MacDonald and his team were the top Paralympic Team at the Midwinter Championships (10th) while Canadian Ken Kelly and his team were the top paralympic team at the NOOD (6th). Other notes from the events:
See results, writeups and photos at: Also the lead story on the Sailing World web site. For more information on North Sonar Sails contact the North
Sonar Experts!
Report by Brian Hayes The Canadian team of Brian Mackie, Brian MacDonald and Paul Tingley used superior seamanship, tactics and boat speed to dominate the IFDS World Championships held at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club from Oct. 24-31, 2001. Using a North SuperMain and AP++ jib, the team on CAN 629 won 6 of the 9 races and placed 2nd once. In fact, while still scoring an OCS from race #5 the Canadians still managed to secure a large enough lead over their competition to sit out race #9 and still win by 7 points!!! Congratulations also go to top USA finisher Rick Doerr and his team. Rick, who finished 7th overall, took delivery of his new boat the day before the event and, after taking a few races to get everything set up correctly, came on strong at the end of the week for top American honors. Rick's team also used the North SuperMain and AP++ jib. Visit the results page for the championship at: http://www.spyc.org/World/Results/results.htm For more information on North Sonar sails, contact our Sonar
Experts.
Report by Brian Hayes Peter Galloway and his Sonar
team from Noroton Yacht Club traveled to England and were victorious
over 16 other Sonar teams during Cowes Race Week. Galloway, and his
teammates Jim Linville, Paul Steinborn and John Schultz were best able
to battle the windy (20+ mph) series to bring home the win. The breeze
played an important part in the event as several teams broke booms,
ripped sails and one Sonar was sunk (while being towed in backwards!).
The Noroton YC team used an all-North Sails inventory.
Report by Brian Hayes The 2001 Sonar Tappan Zee Challenge was held on May 19-20. 13 boats participated in the first regatta of the spring season for Sonar sailors in the northeast. Sonar designer Bruce Kirby, with crew Brian Hayes, Ira Cohen and Paul Steinborn bested this years group with finishes of 1,5,1,1. Kirby, a self described "maturing yacht designer", was able to recover from a 720 at the start of race #4 and sail through the fleet to capture the final race of the series and squeak by the Steve Shepstone team from Noroton YC. Shepstone finished 2nd followed by Greg Anthony in 3rd, Paul Callahan in 4th and Julian Clark, from Nyack Yacht Club, in 5th. Results: 1st - Kirby - North Sails Note: Julian Clark was sailing his first Sonar event. Julian sailed
with his wife, his son and the local Junior sailing instructor. Julian
got his brand new set of North Sails the week before the regatta. Congratulations
Julian!!!
Hiatides wins Sonar title at St. Petersburg NOOD Report by Brian Hayes St. Petersburg Yacht Club NOOD Regatta Leo Hiatrides and his team on "My Way" handily defeated 15 other Sonars to win the 2nd and final leg of the Sonar circuit at the NOOD event in St. Petersburg. Hiatrides, fresh off a 5th place finish at the Sonar Class Midwinters, won 4 of the 10 races sailed. "My Way" is powered by an all North Sails inventory including a new SuperMain and AP++ jib. Click here for picture of the winning team For more information on the North Sonar program, contact Brian Hayes .
Peter Galloway wins the 2001 Sonar Midwinters Powered by North Sails Report by Brian Hayes
The International Sonar Class held their Midwinter Championships in ideal weather in Punta Gorda, FL on February 11-14. Although attendance was down a bit this year the quality of the competition was very good. These included the team of Ed Sweeney and John Schultz from Noroton YC, past NA and Midwinter champion Karl and Bill Ziegler and defending champion and past NA champion Peter Galloway. North Sails customer Peter Galloway once again showed everyone why he loves going to Punta Gorda. Galloway and his team on "Fast Forward" won 6 of the 8 races sails. Team Ziegler finished 2nd followed by Sweeny/Schultz in 3rd, Skip Shumway in 4th and Leo Hiatrides/Diane McGaw in 5th.
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