2024 Carolina One Design Highlights

Published 8:31am on 15 Nov 2024

Very typical early fall weather fell upon the 35 competitors at the 34th Annual Carolina Keelboat Regatta at Lake Norman YC November 9-10. In addition to the 18 boats in the U20 fleet, there were 3 Seascape 24s, 5 VXOnes, 3 J22s and 6 EScows.  Saturdays forecast proved to ring true with 8-12 knots of breeze in the morning only tapering slightly to finish the day in 6-8 knot winds. After 4 races, there was a clear battle for the top spot in the U20 fleet with BJ Jones #151 winning two of the four races and Tim Porter #21 winning the other two. BJ Jones led going into the last race which was held Sunday morning in trying conditions. Puff hunting all the way around the racecourse, Tim Porter, Steve Shaw and Joel Blade rounded the weather mark 5th but were able to slide by BJ and others to finish 2nd and win the tie breaker of who beat who in the last race.
Competition was fierce amongst the rest of the U20 fleet with four different positions on the leader board settled by tiebreaks!
Looking forward to a big turnout for the 35th CKOD and 30th U20 North Americans in 2025.

Congratulations to the following winners:

U20 Tim Porter
VXOne Stanley Hassinger
Seascape24 Pete Lalli
J22 Uwe Mewes
EScow- John Polek

Click Here for Results: Carolina Keelboat One Design

Photo by Mark Jump Photography

Last updated 8:31am on 15 November 2024