2008 Levin Cup : Races by Class

2nd - Demaria/Marazzi; 1st - Pepper/Williams; 3rd - Pedersen/Melleby, photo by Win Cooper

2nd - Demaria/Marazzi; 1st - Pepper/Williams; 3rd - Pedersen/Melleby, photo by Win Cooper

2008 Levin Cup

Final results for three races on Jan. 5-6 at Coral Reef Yacht Club, Miami.

Report by Connie Bischoff:
The Star Levin Memorial Cup regatta raced on Miami’s Biscayne Bay this weekend in shifty 5-12 mph winds revealing international rivalries which will continue to build toward April’s Star Worlds 2008 in Miami. With 38 boats entered from eleven nations, Germany had 3 teams and Switzerland, Canada and New Zealand had two each in this oldest of the Olympic sailing classes.

Norway’s Eivind Melleby and Peeter Pedersen won Race 1 while US Olympic representatives John Dane and his crew Austin Sperry took the 2nd race. The third race was won by Switzerland’s Flavio Marazzi and Enrico Demaria. The overall winners of the regatta were New Zealand’s Hammish Pepper and Carl Williams who previously won the 2007 Bacardi Cup, followed by Marazzi/Demaria and Melleby/Pederson in third. There were six nations in the top ten.

Star

Place	Boat	Skipper	Crew	Sail #:	Fleet	1	2	3	Total
1	NZL	PEPPER Hamish	WILLIAMS Carl	8292	Isol	3.0	2.0	5.0	10
2	SUI	Marazzi Flavio	Demaria Enrico	8296	TB	7.0	3.0	1.0	11
3	NOR	Melleby Eivind	Pederson Petter	8234	NOR	1.0	6.0	4.0	11.0001
4	USA	DANE John	Sperry Austin	8230	MoB	5.0	1.0	12.0	18
5	BER	Bromby Peter	White Lee	8272	Isol	12.0	8.0	3.0	23
6	SUI	Dannesboe Henrik	Christen Christoph	8232	Sem	4.0	16.0	6.0	26
7	USA	Merriman Rick	Sharp Brian	822	LH	10.0	17.0	2.0	29
8	USA	Mendelblatt Mark	Newbrook Mark	8306	TaB	15.0	4.0	10.0	29.0001
9	GER	Pickel Marc	BORKOWSKI Ingo	8333	Bre	6.0	9.0	15.0	30
10	USA	Maccausland John	Murphy Kevin	8195	CR	9.0	14.0	8.0	31
11	USA	McChesney Peter	Zwingelberg Shane	8264	AN	2.0	12.0	19.0	33
12	USA	Diaz Augie	Trinter Phil	8045	BisB	8.0	23.0	11.0	42
13	USA	Wright Peter	Wright Dan	8037	JP	11.0	5.0	27.0	43
14	BAH	Kelly Steven	Holowesko Bill	8265	N	14.0	13.0	16.0	43.0001
15	USA	Manderson John	GOTSULYAK Roman	8043	Mid	23.0	11.0	13.0	47
16	CAN	Cramer Brian	Bjorn Tyler	8143	WLOC	16.0	10.0	25.0	51
17	USA	Allen Bill	Hatfield Bruce	8215	WH	18.0	19.0	20.0	57
18	FIN	MAKILA Jali	Heinonen Erkki	8094	Fin	21.0	20.0	17.0	58
19	USA	McNeil Kevin	Baltins Arnis	8087	AN	13.0	25.0	22.0	60
20	USA	Swigart William	Semler Matt	7715	CLIS	22.0	24.0	18.0	64
21	USA	Collins Bert	Wilson Kris	8063	AN	27.0	31.0	9.0	67
22	GER	Wilhelm Peer	Hollweg Nils	8213	KF	20.0	26.0	23.0	69
23	USA	Buchan Bill	Bentzen Eric	8260	PS	25.0	15.0	30.0	70
24	USA	Kolhaus Jock	Scott Larry	8269	BisB	17.0	30.0	24.0	71
25	NZL	Lord Rohan	Addy Miles	8061	Isol	39.0 [OCS]	7.0	26.0	72
26	USA	Emmet Rob	Boone John	7370	AN	26.0	18.0	34.0	78
27	USA	Gardner Ed	Gardner Kip	8222		28.0	34.0	21.0	83
28	CAN	Line Terry	Burgess Rick	8084	LOC	24.0	21.0	39.0 [OCS]	84
29	USA	Alt Karen	Hardin Chris	7786	MES	30.0	22.0	32.0	84.0001
30	AUT	Hans Spitzauer	Christian Nehammer	8216	Att	39.0 [DNF]	39.0 [DNS]	7.0	85
31	USA	HORNOS Tomas	HORNOS Luis	7793	BH	19.0	29.0	39.0 [DNS]	87
32	USA	Kohlerman Charles	Kohlerman Charles	7964	NCB	32.0	28.0	31.0	91
33	POL	Kusznierewicz Mateusz	Zscki Dominik	8170	Isol	39.0 [DNC]	39.0 [DNC]	14.0	92
34	GER	Burmester Jens	Meglen Markus	7750	ED	31.0	33.0	28.0	92.0001
35	USA	Delavillehuchet Thierry	Gesing Witold	8132	Mid	29.0	27.0	39.0 [OCS]	95
36	USA	Hopkins Sam	Brown Chris	7970	AN	33.0	35.0	29.0	97
37	USA	Pirie Scott	Rundle Rick	831	BisB	34.0	32.0	33.0	99
38	USA	Von Schwarz Karl	Wharton Rick	7934	AN	35.0	36.0	35.0	106