Dave Reed

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Cal Pals, SWRS Detroit Regatta Champs

6 days ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

At the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Detroit, he Cal 25s raced Saturday and Sunday only. The fleet was small but mighty but no match for the expertise of the father/son team of Paul and Ross Nuechterlein’s Never Alone. With Paul on the bow and Ross on the helm, they got around the racecourse fast and clean, winning all but the final race.
Winners Prevail Under Pressure

6 days ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

FINAL RESULTSBrothers Mike and Bob Kirkman and the crew of the J/120 Hot Ticket are used to pressure. In fact, they’re better under pressure, says Bob Kirkman, and today’s outcome in Detroit’s ultra-competitive one-design keelboat class stands as a perfect example. After two days of battling for the overall class lead against their rivals on Charlie Welsh’s Funtech, Mike Kirkman drove the team to a runaway race win in the first of the day and then sealed the title in the next.
Detroit Special Delivery

1 week ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

PRELIMINARY RESULTSThe locals of the Detroit yacht racing scene know that Lake St. Clair can be feast or famine and on the second day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series hosted by Bayview YC, the sailors feasted on a blustery 20-knot northerly for an action packed day of racing for all one-design fleets and the ORC and PHRF distance racers, which quickly disappeared over the horizon after their early morning start.
Detroit Kickoff Goes Off

1 week ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

Preliminary ResultsAt the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Detroit the J/120 fleet put on a show once again on the opening day of the regatta. It was just the sort of day where “anyone could have gone out there and won,” says Charlie Hess, skipper of Funtech, which leads the class in the overall standings, although tied with their Bayview YC J-dock neighbors on Mike and Bob Kirkman’s Hot Ticket.
Annapolis Regatta Champion Wins On A Dramatic Final Day

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

FINAL RESULTS“Race for every point,” is a phrase heard often at regattas and that was certainly the takeaway for many teams at the 2025 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Annapolis. Three days packed with races for 240 teams in 18 classes gave every sailor an opportunity to make good on that cliché, especially the team on Andy Graff’s J/88 Exile, which won in its fleet after a stressful two-race final day.
Intensity On the Rise In Annapolis After Another Race-Packed Day

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

PRELIMINARY RESULTS After a successful run in the J/30 class with his rocksteady team on Shamrock, Annapolitan skipper Bruce Irvin made the leap two years ago to a bigger, more ambitious and much more complex Corby 40 called Time Machine. A run at the Bermuda Race next year has always been the goal, so the past two years have been all about learning and refining the boat to its full potential.
Easy Sailing and Hard Races for Annapolis Regatta Fleet

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

PRELIMINARY RESULTSAsk the top two teams of the Lightning, J/29, and 29er classes of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series their take on the first of the regatta and the answer is the same: no wins come easy when competition is good, the wind is shifting and the current is running hard. And that summed up conditions for the bulk of nearly 240 teams that kicked off the regatta on Friday with a building southerly breeze and a strong running ebbing tide.
J/29 class Devotees, Together Again

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

Air. Fuel. Spark. Whoosh. And just like that, J/29 class racing has been reignited on the Chesapeake Bay. It’s been ages since these late-1980s vintage one-designs have met en masse, but at this year’s Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Annapolis, seven J/29 owners were cajoled and herded from their slips by Liz Principe, the class’s new motivator-in-chief. “There is a new energy among the owners,” Principe says. “And that’s really motivating me.
Lightning Class Empowers Its Young Members to Recruit

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

A one-design class fades away when either the building stops or the diehards and old-timers move on. Without sustained and creative efforts to replenish members, the outcome is always inevitable. That’s not the case for the International Lightning Class, however, which is unique because of its generational continuum and the efforts of its faithful to hatch schemes that freshen the bloodlines and get new faces into the slab-sided dinghy designed in 1938 by the late and great Olin Stephens.
ORC’s American Proving Ground

1 month ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

Given the dense and diverse concentration of performance-leaning sailboats in the Chesapeake, there is a deep heritage of racing that spans nearly a century. Over the years, practically every handicap rating rule has been applied in the interest of fair, competitive and fun racing, with some enduring more than others.