Optimist North American Team Racing Championship 2013
Published on July 8th, 2013
Hamilton, Bermuda (July 7, 2013) – USA Team #2 and Singapore emerged as eventual winners in the Optimist North American team racing championship after numerous hard fought battles on the flat waters of Hamilton Harbour on Sunday. The one-day regatta was staged on two short courses separating the North American countries (NA Championship) from the non North American countries (Nations Cup), racing for two different trophies. Over 50 races were sailed. Teams were seeded using individual results from the fleet racing after five races.
On the North American course the final came down to third seed USA 2 (Shawn Harvey, Matt Logue, Ryan Hennessey, Louisa Nordstrom and Eduardo Mintzias) vs. the fifth seeded USVI team (Scott McKenzie, Teddy Nicolosi, Mateo DiBlasi, Christopher Murphy, Ryan Hunter). The final is typically a best of three series. Race 1 of the finals was won by USVI by way of a tie break while Race 2 saw another tie but this time USA 2 were given the nod. The third and final race saw USA 2 win convincingly and with it came the championship, the fourth Optinam title in a row for the Americans.