Pacific Coast Championship great turn out

written by Matias Collins  on  October 21  of  2025 and read by 428

Legend John Walton on his USA 782 showing how is done rounding the first mark
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The Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego once more hosted the traditional PCC event in the US. 12 teams took the chance to sail the typical weather in the west coast, with lumpy seas, always enough wind and for sure much fun, top four finishers granted all the bullets of 8 races raced, only the winner of the event managed to never be outside the top 5 finishers on each race.

The winners were the international South Americans members of the MBYC now longtime residents in San Diego , Claudio Fassardi, Jordi Heguilor and Luis Gianotti the sail maker and provider of Sails to the team (LG Sails) on board USA 747, they only achieved two bullets and managed to keep all other finishes on top 5 keeping a 2 point difference with USA 794 representing the Coronado Yacht Club sailed by Andy Folz, Alex Yakutis and Nina Folz sailing the boat with more road miles in North America for the year of 2025 after sailing the US Championship, North Americans, Canadian Championship before landing back to San Diego to sail the PCC, who showed off the whole traveling training they had. The team had two finishes out of the top five at the first race and the fifth that killed their dreams to win the event since they had also three bullets, one bad race was discarded but the other made the difference.

In third the local MBYC team USA 791 with Mark Baker, his son Cole Baker and Tom Goddard who had three finishes outside the top five keeping 10 points difference with the 4th place local legend USA 782 sailed by John Walton, Alex Perry and Joe Erskine.

The PCC had visitors from Canada team CAN 230 with Steve Donker, Dave Veldstra and Gord Devries, which the swell, the light wind and the loaned boat did not help them to show off their usual performance.

The Mission Bay Yacht Club will be the host for the next US Championship, starting on April 10th of 2026.

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Right after the start, leader clear USA 747 with a nice lift
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About to round the mark
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USA 791 approaching the mark
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