MacCausland and Trinter get their name on the trophy
John MacCausland and Phil Trinter are the Qualcomm 2013 Star World Champions and add their name to the 92 year old Star Class’ International Trophy. Andrew Campbell and John von Schwarz won their second race of the series today, and their second ever race at an International Star World Championship.
According to the local sailors, the trick to sailing in San Diego is to get a clear start, tack onto port as soon as possible and sail towards the right side of the course for about 30 minutes, then tack back onto starboard and head towards the windward mark. Today, that was not the case. In fact, it was exactly the opposite. Competitors were surprised to see some boats sail on the left side and round the windward mark in the front of the fleet. Today's conditions were very unusual and yielded some interesting results throughout the fleet.
Augie Diaz and crew Arnis Baltins were able to position themselves well on the line and got a good start with speed and clear air. Diaz and Baltins rounded both the first windward mark and leeward mark in first place with the rest of the fleet close behind. After the fleet rounded the first leeward mark, the breeze began to die and became very spotty causing some frustration among the sailors and several position changes, some more dramatic than others.
For the remainder of the second upwind leg, there was a lack of breeze in the middle of the course and once again the breeze favored the left side. Campbell and von Schwarz were the first to reach the second weather mark in the dying breeze, with a large gap between them and the second boat. The breeze began to increase on the second downwind, giving Campbell and von Schwarz the ability to easily maintain their lead all the way to the finish.
Over the course of the Qualcomm 2013 Star World Championship, the Star fleet experienced some of the best, most difficult, and even uncommon conditions San Diego has to offer. The Race Committee did a phenomenal job adjusting the courses to ensure fair races for the sailors and the competition increased with each day. Several types of teams attended, such as family crews, juniors, women sailors, Continental and Hemisphere Champions, World Champions, and Olympic Champions. Among the series awards, the International Star Class gives prizes to different types of members that compete in its championships to celebrate the diversity among its members.
John MacCausland commented: “Today’s race was difficult, it was emotional, it was up and down emotion-wise because of different things. Rohart rounds the first mark well ahead, and we’re back. We’re losing. We go around the second mark. Rohart and us go right and we get in a big hole. Now Rohart’s back and we’re back. No we’re winning, and we just had to let mother nature take care of it for us. And fortunately some of our good friends were able to stay ahead of Rohart and it was all good. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, but I was very thrilled with the whole thing. It’s really a satisfying accomplishment, a lifetime accomplishment.”
Did you ever think it was possible to win the Star Worlds? "I always believed this was possible. I knew given the right situation with the right people I could make it happen. I always had confidence in myself. It might not have looked like it from the outside, but I was always very confident. And the whole program with Phil came together late last year. We did Nassau, the Spring Championship where we were 3rd this year, and I was very confident we could make it happen.
"We had a good plan, a good plan on the water. We had a good idea what we wanted to do, and to be honest, we were pretty darn fast through the water. And so our boat speed enabled us to do some things. We liked the right side of the course, we set ourselves up after some of the starts to be there and it benefitted us greatly."
What kind of boat are you sailing? "Our boat was made by Mader, in Germany. I have worked with Mader since 1986 bringing boats into this country. I got this boat in the middle of July, so it’s a brand new boat, the newest boat in the fleet here. It’s a boat that I had a lot of input with, and did it the way I wanted to. I had a boat like this prior to this, but I wanted some changes and I’m very satisfied with how it turned out."
John is 52 years old and hails from Cherry Hill New Jersey. He sails out of the Cooper River YC in Collingswood. John has sailed Stars since he was a youngster winning his first Blue Star at age 14. He sails all over the World and has chased this prestigious trophy for years. John is the owner of Morehouse MacCausland Sailing a boat dealership, sail loft and boat repair facility in New Jersey.
Full results below
Results
Pos | Nat | Sail# / Skipper | Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Tot |
1 | USA | 8490 John MacCausland | Phil Trinter | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - 67 ret | 19 |
2 | USA | 8209 Andrew Campbell | John von Schwarz | 3 | 19 | -22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 28 |
3 | USA | 8129 Mark Reynolds | Hal Haenel | 8 | 7 | -61 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 29 |
4 | FRA | 8237 Xavier Rohart | Serge Pulfer | 6 | -16 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 31 |
5 | USA | 8203 Brian Ledbetter | Gregg Morton | 9 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 20 | - 67 ret | 39 |
6 | USA | 8465 Augie Diaz | Arnis Baltins | 13 | 3 | -33 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 47 |
7 | USA | 8320 George Szabo | Craig Moss | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 26 | -33 | 48 |
8 | USA | 8448 Carl Buchan | Jamie Buchan | 12 | -22 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 50 |
9 | USA | 8362 Vincent Brun | Brian Terhaar | 4 | 5 | -41 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 55 |
10 | CAN | 8028 Steven Fleckenstein | Rob Mulder | 15 | -25 | 7 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 63 |
11 | GER | 8331 Hubert Merkelbach | Gerrit Bartel | 20 | 4 | -25 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 66 |
12 | BRA | 8390 Alessandro Pascolato | Henry Raul Boening | 16 | 10 | -40 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 68 |
13 | USA | 8440 Jim Buckingham | Austin Sperry | 5 | - 67 ocs | 11 | 7 | 15 | 34 | 72 |
14 | USA | 8323 Eric Doyle | Payson Infelise | 10 | 15 | 19 | 21 | -34 | 12 | 77 |
15 | CAN | 8143 Brian Cramer | Cam Lymburner | 22 | 8 | 15 | -38 | 24 | 9 | 78 |
16 | SUI | 8479 Jean-Pascal Chatagny | Patrick Ducommun | 18 | 2 | 20 | -51 | 14 | 25 | 79 |
17 | BRA | 8474 Lars Schmidt Grael | Samuel F. Goncalves | 1 | 20 | 36 | -37 | 28 | 2 | 87 |
18 | USA | 8072 Doug Smith | Myles H. A. Prichard | 14 | 21 | -52 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 89 |
19 | USA | 7620 Derek De Couteau | Jamie Stewart | 27 | 27 | 6 | -43 | 10 | 24 | 94 |
20 | USA | 8229 Tomas Hornos | Josh Revkin | 29 | 17 | 13 | 22 | - 67 bfd | 13 | 94 |
21 | USA | 8291 William G. Swigart | Brian Fatih | 24 | 18 | 18 | 20 | -31 | 14 | 94 |
22 | USA | 8000 Arthur Anosov | David Caesar | 30 | -37 | 24 | 14 | 23 | 4 | 95 |
23 | USA | 8082 Ben Mitchell | Julian Busch | 19 | 33 | 29 | -34 | 4 | 11 | 96 |
24 | USA | 8336 Steve Brown | Erick Lange | -36 | 35 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 35 | 100 |
25 | USA | 7741 Benjamin Sternberg | Valentin Veytsman | 33 | 13 | 17 | 27 | 22 | -39 | 112 |
26 | BRA | 8459 Admar Gonzaga Neto | Andre Serpa | 34 | 32 | 16 | 10 | -45 | 21 | 113 |
27 | USA | 7209 Mark Butler | John Rudderham | 25 | -36 | 30 | 16 | 35 | 10 | 116 |
28 | SUI | 7929 Michel Niklaus | Tyler Bjorn | 28 | 43 | 14 | 28 | - 67 bfd | 6 | 119 |
29 | UKR | 8247 Vasyl Gureyev | Vitalii Kushnir | 35 | 14 | -45 | 24 | 29 | 27 | 129 |
30 | USA | 8015 Donny Massey | Isao Toyama | 23 | 29 | -51 | 23 | 21 | 40 | 136 |
31 | USA | 8361 Tom Londrigan, Jr. | Rick Peters | - 67 ocs | 12 | 39 | 19 | 23 rdg | 44 | 137 |
32 | SUI | 8409 Christoph Gautschi | Dominik Schenk | 39 | 26 | 23 | 32 | -53 | 20 | 140 |
33 | ARG | 8268 Alejandro Bugacov | Eugenio Cingolani | 17 | 40 | 42 | 30 | 25 | -53 | 154 |
34 | USA | 8023 Mike Dorgan | Matt Dorgan | 11 | 9 | 43 | - 67 dnf | 44 | 51 | 158 |
35 | USA | 8088 Stephen G Gould | Greg Sieck | 40 | 23 | 54 | 11 | 33 | -55 | 161 |
36 | USA | 8162 Chuck Driscoll | Jim Oberg | -59 | 48 | 8 | 47 | 18 | 42 | 163 |
37 | SWE | 7978 Ingvar J-son Krook | Benjamin Pettersen | 37 | 30 | 49 | 15 | -51 | 32 | 163 |
38 | USA | 8410 Mike Phinney | Rick Burgess | -48 | 28 | 32 | 44 | 39 | 23 | 166 |
39 | CAN | 8466 Stuart Hebb | Mike Wolfs | - 67 dsq | 31 | 12 | 31 | 27 | 67 ret | 168 |
40 | USA | 8260 Bill Buchan | Erik Bentzen | - 67 ocs | 24 | 44 | 35 | 17 | 52 | 172 |
41 | CAN | 8271 Allan Cullen | Dave Martin | 21 | -53 | 37 | 48 | 38 | 30 | 174 |
42 | USA | 8087 Keith Donald | Kevin Elterman | 52 | 52 | 5 | -58 | 41 | 41 | 191 |
43 | USA | 8163 Jon Pelliconi | Henry Brawner | 49 | 41 | 34 | 36 | 32 | -56 | 192 |
44 | BRA | 8403 Frederico H. V. de Lima | Renato Moura | 51 | 60 | 26 | 41 | 16 | - 67 ret | 194 |
45 | USA | 8306 Thomas E. Springer | David Wood | - 67 ocs | 46 | 31 | 40 | 47 | 38 | 202 |
46 | CAN | 8389 Jerry Wendt | Bryan Milne | 32 | 54 | 47 | 33 | -55 | 37 | 203 |
47 | USA | 7621 Peter F. Costa | Jessica Costa | 41 | 57 | 27 | 39 | 40 | - 67 dnf | 204 |
48 | USA | 6840 Chris Wright | Kyle Henehan | 38 | -59 | 55 | 49 | 37 | 26 | 205 |
49 | CAN | 8235 Mark Passmore | Chris Rogers | 31 | 39 | 58 | 53 | 30 | - 67 ret | 211 |
50 | USA | 8379 Bill Allen | Eric Beckwith | 43 | 42 | -50 | 29 | 49 | 49 | 212 |
51 | USA | 7844 Foss Miller | Malcolm Macneil | 53 | 47 | 28 | - 67 dnf | 67 bfd | 19 | 214 |
52 | GER | 8416 Hubert Rauch | Kilian Weise | 60 | 51 | - 67 dsq | 42 | 42 | 22 | 217 |
53 | USA | 8187 Robert A Teitge | Sam Eadie | 54 | -63 | 21 | 52 | 48 | 47 | 222 |
54 | FRA | 7663 Guillaume Rasse | Nina Aviles | 42 | 56 | -60 | 57 | 36 | 31 | 222 |
55 | USA | 7294 Charles Beek | Chas Beek | - 67 ocs | 50 | 46 | 61 | 52 | 36 | 245 |
56 | USA | 8065 Doug Steele | Andy Dippel | 50 | 49 | 56 | 46 | -57 | 45 | 246 |
57 | USA | 8189 Robbie Haines | Chris Barnard | 44 | 34 | 35 | - 67 dnc | 67 dnc | 67 dnc | 247 |
58 | USA | 7425 Laura Beigel | Read Beigel | 47 | -58 | 38 | 56 | 50 | 58 | 249 |
59 | USA | 8269 Jock Kohlhas | John Wulff | 56 | 44 | -64 | 45 | 58 | 46 | 249 |
60 | USA | 8267 Stephen Gunther | Ed Morey | 58 | 45 | -62 | 50 | 46 | 50 | 249 |
61 | CAN | 8017 Bruce Long | Paul Cobban | 45 | - 67 dnf | 48 | 54 | 54 | 48 | 249 |
62 | USA | 7531 William Gerard | Bill Gerard | 57 | -61 | 59 | 59 | 56 | 28 | 259 |
63 | USA | 8484 Larry Whipple | Mark Strube | 26 | 38 | - 67 dnc | 67 dnc | 67 dnc | 67 dnc | 265 |
64 | USA | 8215 John Chiarella | Bob Carlson | 46 | 55 | 57 | -60 | 59 | 54 | 271 |
65 | VIE | 8176 Huy Nguyen | Andro Korlaet | 55 | 64 | 53 | - 67 dns | 43 | 57 | 272 |
66 | USA | 7977 Paul Kresge | Jon Kidder | 61 | 62 | 63 | 55 | - 67 bfd | 43 | 284 |
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