1963 North American Championship - Rye, NY, USA
Regatta Report
Leading from first mark of the opening race Joe Duplin of Boston stayed ahead of 61 other Star sailors and won the North American Star Championship by 34 points in a five-race series ending Aug. 30. Duplin, an M.1.T. sailing instructor put together finishes of 1-2-3-3-2 for 304 points. Second was G. Shelby Friedrichs of New Orleans, with 270.5 points. Bob Lippincott, of Riverton, N. J., took third.
Duplin easily won the first race in a gentle southerly only forty-five, minutes before the 3-1/2 hour time limit. Duarte Bello of Cascais, Portugal, last year's World runner-up, came in second, and Jack Streeton of Maryland took third. In taking a port-tack start, Duplin opened up a two-minute lead before the weather mark and extended it to five on the reaching leg.
Duplin took second in the second heat to winner Chester Peet of Larchmont, N. Y., when Peet edged ahead of everyone rounding the second mark, and extended his series lead to 10 points. Duplin, or someone else, might have won the race if Takaaki Takebe of Tokyo, who led around the weather mark, hadn't taken off on a course for the Atlantic instead of the second mark. Everyone followed him instead of their compasses, and by the time the fleet woke up Peet was high-tailing it for the second mark.
Paul Woodbury of Rockport, Mass. won the fourth race in choppy 20-knot winds. Joe Burbeck of Larchmont, N. Y. was second and Duplin third. Dave Miller won the fifth race in airs, which arrived late and threatened to go away; Duplin hung on for the second place and Charles Lyon Jr. of Oceanport, Mass. came in third.
Duplin's sailing was marked by conservatism. In 1958 he won the first and fifth races of the North Americans, but finished seventh overall after he hit a marker in one race and took a DSQ. Worse yet, he did the same thing in the '56 World's at Havana, blowing the series after leading all the way. In the '63 North Americans, he even deliberately overstood a mark and let another boat in ahead of him to avoid risking that bugbear DSQ.
Results
1963 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP - Rye, New York, USA Place No. Name Skipper Crew Fleet Daily Places Pts. 1 4615 Star of the Sea Joseph Duplin Rodney Long BH 1 2 3 3 2 304 2 4541 Blitzkrieg G. Friedrichs Craig Nelson NOG 18 10 7 5 5 270 3 4588 Razor Bob Lippincott Harvey Lekson WJ 4 15 6 19 9 262 4 4648 Flapper Mason Shehan A. Stevens Jr ES 5 27 17 6 4 256 5 4597 Tijuca C. W. Lyon Jr Frank Lyon AH 9 12 29 13 3 249 6 4736 Glisten Dave Miller Ken Baxter EB 12 38 4 17 1 243 7 3775 Envy Kevin Jaffe Wallace Ross CLIS 32 8 15 12 11 237 8 4644 Flamingo IV Paul Woodbury John Goddard CA 17 17 38 1 13 229 9 3867 Creepy II Foster Clarke Donald Brown CoH 19 11 27 20 16 222 10 4730 Esprit II Jack Streeton Walter Austin ES 3 20 16 26 29 221 11 4144 Finale Richard Miller Gordon Hale CH 29 45 2 14 7 218 12 4505 Scotch Thomas Hislop Herbert Hild OwL 26 16 22 4 33 214 13 4646 Bergerac Joseph Burbeck Barb Nicholls WLIS 28 30 25 2 17 213 14 4497 Shadow Skip Allan Skip Knight NH 6 7 29 9 dnf 210 15 4558 Blue Chip II David Gaillard Schluederberg CB 22 4 35 22 26 206 16 4675 Vengeance Wm. Gentzlinger Wm. Blackman HB 41 9 34 11 15 205 17 4610 Kutaka Wolfgang RichterR F. da Rosa Gua 31 21 26 21 12 204 18 4579 Swingin' Star Donald Trask Donald Coleman WSFB 7 57 12 32 6 201 19 4333 Nitemare Andrew McPhersonRichard Hufnail Ith 14 22 21 25 35 198 20 3870 Faneca Duarte Bello Faneca Bello CP 2 14 18 dsa 24 194 21 4756 Daeman David Millar P. Van Buskirk LOC 27 5 52 15 25 191 22 4140 Princess Gerald Donovan William Nixon BH 11 23 19 wdr 14 185 23 4750 Orenda Florus Black Robert Black PPL 39 19 31 18 23 185 24 4577 Jimac V William Wente Ken Schmitt WH 15 25 56 16 20 183 25 4636 Wayward Wind Blair Fletcher R. Scarborough BB 25 43 1 8 dnf 175 26 3731 Breezin' Along James Munro David Austin CLE 13 3 30 36 dnf 170 27 4635 Lamb Chop David Kingston Frank Hogg AH 20 26 45 35 19 170 28 3496 Perseverance Charles Rollins Kim Fletcher Mis 8 dnf 13 33 30 168 29 3733 Satan John Lombard Robert Lombard Mid 24 dnf 8 44 10 166 30 4745 Impulse Samuel Hall Chas. McManus CB 30 49 23 29 22 162 31 4304 Shemozl Tom Van Doren George Benson CLE 21 13 wdr 40 18 160 32 3949 Flambeau Miles Wynn Chas Schneider NOG 16 6 37 wdr 40 153 33 4500 Bingo Harry Walker Thomas McElroy WH 49 28 10 34 41 153 34 4618 Decisions Jim Dougherty Al de Cardenas BB 35 31 33 10 dnf 143 35 3594 Ariel Jay Winberg L. Elfendahl Shil 36 60 9 dsq 8 139 36 4732 Muskrat Owen C. Torrey Matthew Dominy GSB 45 50 32 28 21 139 37 3422 Scimitar John Slack Rbt. Shattuck CLIS 44 32 5 wdr 36 135 38 4438 Calzoni Jon Metzger James Stewart Ith 23 24 46 27 dnf 132 39 3747 Warhawk III William Seaman Robert Aughey LH 46 18 50 43 32 126 40 4560 Griffin II Dexter Richards Skip Nolin Sun 10 33 47 37 dnf 125 41 4544 Chimera E. Chester Peet Geo. Carpenter WLIS wdr 1 36 31 dnf 121 42 4633 Espuma del Mar Daniel Camejo Lief Lindfors Car 40 41 wdr 23 31 117 43 4580 Robin IV Robert Sexauer Robert Lueck ERF 53 37 41 7 dnf 114 44 3642 2nd Wind James Ogilvy Donald Ogilvy Sun 47 35 52 42 27 112 45 3375 Northern Light Michael Purtell Wade Badger PGB 37 40 42 45 39 112 46 4250 Mavourneen III Hartwell Moore Russell Brooks HB 54 58 14 30 dnf 96 47 4582 Rampage Rbt Sieburger Luis Schenone SOL 33 42 24 dns dns 90 48 4726 Avocet Walter Brachtel Walter Chaskell MorB 42 51 48 24 dnf 87 49 3437 Sharen Meray-Horvath Thomas Fekete LOC 50 47 57 41 34 86 50 4159 Wolf Robert Wilson John Morris ERF 59 34 11 wdr dnf 85 51 4186 Splurge Arnold Knauth Roger Wendell CA 43 57 43 wdr 28 81 52 3000 Light Ripple John Middlemiss G. Miiddlemiss GSB 56 53 49 39 42 76 53 4143 Gyoshu II Takaaki Takebe Sadao Yoshida TB 52 54 53 47 37 72 54 3862 Towhee Richard Hovey Donald Spengler Mid wdr 39 44 38 dnf 68 55 3143 Jungfrau Kenneth Pollock D. Brion LK 60 44 wdr 46 38 64 56 3972 Sunbeam Harry Meislahn F. Meislahn LG 48 29 55 dsa dns 57 57 4522 Ninotchka Peter Siemsen Anthony Olmer Gua 34 59 40 wdr dnf 56 58 4299 Wham Bam II Chas McCormick James Mullen NCB 51 56 28 wdr dns 54 59 4100 Conflict Daniel Hubers George Peters NCB 38 48 54 dns dns 49 60 3544 Blue Moon Steve Haarstick Jack Brower PGB 57 52 39 dsa dns 41 61 3885 Sonata Andrew Lawrence Patti Lawrence SLIS 55 36 wdr dns dns 35 62 4631 Mac Grahame Engert Timothy Owens LMac 58 55 dnf dns dnf 13
