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the same time.” At the Awards Ceremony on Sunday
afternoon at host Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the Gubelmann Trophy was awarded to the three division winners, while the Ted Hood Trophy was awarded to the teams in each division with the highest points overall for the season. Those teams were Columbia, Courageous and New Zealand. Courageous is currently the top Amer- icas Fleet contender in the Waypoint Series standings. Gerard says he expects that 25+ boats – more than half coming from outside North America – will compete in the 2019 12 Metre World Championship. Results
Grand Prix Division
1. KZ-3 New Zealand, Gunther Buerman, Highland Beach, FL/Newport, RI 2. KZ-5 Laura, Kip Curren, Newport, RI
Abbreviated Regatta One of Most Compet- itive in Recent History
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND (September 25, 2017) – Wind eff ects of Hurricane Jose shaved a day off the front end of the three- day 12 Metre North American Champion- ship that started Friday, Sept. 22, while no breeze at all stole the last day. In the end, three races on Saturday told the story of a very competitive fl eet wrapping up its sea- son and looking long-term to the 12 Metre Worlds that are scheduled for Newport in 2019 as a culmination of the 12mR Class ROAD TO THE WORLDS series. For several days prior to the regatta,
winds of 25-30 knots with gusts to 40 had made it impossible to launch several of the historic 12 Metres that were dry docked. The fi rst window of relief came Saturday morn- ing, so racing was rescheduled for later that afternoon when all boats could participate. Challenge XII, one of the newest addi-
tions to the 12mR class, topped the Modern division, beating out Defender by one point in overall scoring. The well-polished team, which includes owner/skipper Jack LeFort (Jamestown, R.I.) and Newporter Ken Read of Volvo Ocean Race fame, suff ered a “bad fi rst beat” and a broken spinnaker pole to fi nish fi fth in its fi rst race but then got “back on track” to win the last two races. “We hated to end the season like this (with a shortened regatta),” said LeFort, “but I think the race committee did a great job of pulling it off .” He added that it was good to see Defender (another new boat in the fl eet, owned and skippered by 12 Metre World Champion Dennis Williams of Hobe Sound, FL/New- port, RI) so competitive. “They have new
sails, a lot of time and eff ort in the boat, and they’re doing really well.” (Victory ’83, also owned by Williams, and Enterprise are expected to join the fl eet in 2018.) Defender’s score line of 1-2-5 refl ected
a man overboard in the third race. He was picked up by a safety boat, which automat- ically gave the team points that were equal to last place plus one. In Grand Prix division, Gunther Buer-
man (Highland Beach, FL/Newport, RI) and his New Zealand team, which includes Ken Read’s brother Brad Read, won their fi fth North American title in a row, beating out Laura. “In our class we get to do what these boats were made for. We match race, and the starts are especially great, because we spin around following each other just like they do in the America’s Cup.” Buerman credited Read and Lexi Gahagan, an America’s Cup veteran, for his team’s winning tactics at the starts. “If you don’t win the start, it’s hard to get back in front.” Weatherly, chartered by Jay Schachne
(Barrington, RI), won the Traditional divi- sion on a tie breaker with American Eagle. Turning in a score line of 3-2-1, Schachne said he was happy to improve with every race and is honored, after three times trying, to fi nally be a North American champion, es- pecially when the boats in his division were always neck-and-neck. “The fun part is that at this stage of my life, at 63 years old, I’m playing a sport like I’m 15, with the same excitement and focus. It’s really a kick, and what a privilege. The 12 Metres are the most beautiful girls at the dance; they are elegant, they are history, and when you’re sailing them you’re in the past and the present at
Saving Tug SATURN
Campaign for 36th America’s Cup Pairs Two Successful American Racing Pro- grams with New York Yacht Club
NEWPORT, R.I. — After a decade and a half away from sailing’s fl agship competition, the New York Yacht Club, represented by Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association, will challenge for the 36th America’s Cup. The New York Yacht Club held the ornate silver trophy from 1851, when it was won by the yacht America, through 1983. The challenging syndicate will be led
by two of the most successful American yachtsmen of the last decade: John J. “Hap” Fauth (Naples, FL) and Doug DeVos (Grand Rapids, MI). Since 2005, at the helm of three successive yachts named Bella Mente, Fauth and his team have reached the top of the podium in numerous distance and buoy races at venues in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Fauth is a three-time world champion in the Maxi72 class. DeVos and the Quantum Racing pro-
gram have set the standard for excellence on the 52 Super Series circuit, and its pre- decessor, the MedCup, with overall series wins in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016. One common link between the two teams is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association Skipper and CEO Terry Hutchinson, a two- time Rolex Yachtsman of the Year and veter- an America’s Cup competitor. Hutchinson, like Fauth, is a long-time New York Yacht Club member. Fauth started sailing on Long Island’s Great South Bay as a young boy. He sailed
Modern Division
1. KA-10 Challenge XII, Jack LeFort, Jamestown, RI 2. US-33 Defender, Dennis Williams, Hobe Sound, FL/Newport, RI 3. US-26 Courageous, Ralph Isham/Steve Glaskock/Alexander Auersperg/Ward Marsh, Newport, RI 4. US-22 Intrepid, Jack Curtin, New York 5. US-30 Freedom, Charles Robertson, Guilford, CT Traditional Division
1. US-17 Weatherly, Jay Schachne, Bar- rington, RI 2. US-21 American Eagle, Bob Morton/Cin- dy DeLotto, Newport, RI/Edgartown, MA 3. US-16 Columbia, Kevin Hagerty, Boston *Man Overboard **DSQ
America's Cup News
through his graduation from Georgetown University, where he was captain of the sailing team, but put the sport on pause while he built a career and raised his family. He returned to the ocean in earnest in 2003 and bought his fi rst large race boat in 2005. Much of his sailing over the past decade has been in the very competitive and technically demanding Mini Maxi/Maxi72 class. For Doug DeVos sailing is a family
tradition that started with his father Richard DeVos, the co-founder of Amway. Doug, the current president of Amway, and his siblings grew up sailing the Great Lakes on their father’s boats. These days, Doug can often be found sailing with his son and daughters, passing along the passion and skill he ab- sorbed from his father. He’s also an industry stakeholder as an owner of Quantum Sails, one of the world’s leading sail manufactur- ers. The Quantum Racing program has acted as a test bed for sail design and construction technology, with Doug DeVos and son Dal- ton DeVos serving among the team’s stable of helmsmen. An America’s Cup challenge is a natural evolution for the program. It’s also a return to the competition for the DeVos family. Richard DeVos was the chairman of the New York Yacht Club’s America II syn- dicate, which fell just short of the semifi nals in the 1987 challenger eliminations in Perth, Australia. Even though entries won’t offi cially
open until January 1, 2018, and the class rule for the AC75 won’t be fi nalized until early spring, there are many pivotal decisions ahead for this team.
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Mr. Holmes was a longtime member of both the Portland Yacht Club and the Cum- berland Club. Additionally, his membership in the Know-Nothings, an informal weekly gathering of retired community leaders who gathered at those clubs and elsewhere, gave him great satisfaction. His cadre of close friends, warmly known as the Cousins River Ale and Bivalve Society (CRABS), sus- tained one another for almost four decades with all of life’s passages – weddings, births of children and grandchildren, parents’ deaths, and career transitions. He was known as someone upon whom
his trusted friends could rely (once helping a fellow CRABS assist the Coast Guard in fl oating a fi shing vessel off the Cushing’s Island ledges at two in the morning). He is survived by his beloved wife of
44 years, Joanne “Jaci” C. Holmes, of Yar- mouth; two children, John Porter Holmes
III (Meghan), of Flowery Branch, Ga.; and Ashley Holmes Gilbert (Jeff rey), of Saco; two grandchildren, Hannah Elizabeth Holmes and Kipton Jillian Gilbert; half sis- ter, Terri Holmes Kemp, of Yarmouth; step- mother, Beth Norris Holmes, of Portland; stepsister, Betsy Greenlaw, of Portland; brother-in-law, Henry Fowle (Catharine), of Churchview, Va.; and cousins, Heather Holmes Floyd (Bill), of Boston, Mass.; and Bethany Holmes Frank (Lanier), of Wash- ington, D.C. A service of celebration was held Sat-
urday, Oct. 14, at the First Parish Unitarian Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, at 2 p.m. A private interment will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery, Falmouth. In lieu of fl owers, the family requests
that any donations be made to the Maine Is- land Trail Association, 100 Kensington St., 2nd Floor, Portland, ME 04103, or Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530.
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