{"id":332,"date":"2025-10-09T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2025-10-11T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:22:25","slug":"j-80-north-american-championship-commences-in-the-big-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"J\/80 North American Championship Commences in The Big Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Twenty-one J\/80s from across the United States and Canada have descended on New Orleans, LA for the 2025 J\/80 North American Championship hosted by Southern Yacht Club. Excitement has been high leading into this match-up, after recent Championships in the North\/Northeast of the continent. The results from day one proved a wide variance of entrants, led by James Buley of San Diego, CA on <em>Le Tigre<\/em>, who posted scores of 1,2 for the early advantage at 3 points. The breeze started quite promising on Lake Pontchartrain, with winds in the mid-teens. Buley\u2019s <em>Le Tigre<\/em> took the bullet, ahead of Daniel Wittig\u2019s <em>Turbo Sloth<\/em> and John Van Landeghem\u2019s <em>Fujjimo<\/em>. Wittig\u2019s <em>Turbo Sloth<\/em> of Annapolis, MD landed second-place on the day after another podium finish in race two (5 points overall). The wind backed off in that contest, but sailors had to endure the lingering chop. Jason Balich\u2019s <em>OverAchiever<\/em> of Beverly, MA earned that race win, with Buley and Wittig rounding out the top group. Balich\u2019s <em>OverAchiever<\/em> holds third overall with 6 points. Racing continues through Sunday. For complete NAC results, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regattanetwork.com\/event\/29407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2025 J80 North American Championship : Southern Yacht Club<\/a>. Photos are available on the J\/80 North American Class Association Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one J\/80s from across the United States and Canada have descended on New Orleans, LA for the 2025 J\/80 North American Championship hosted by Southern Yacht Club. Excitement has been high leading into this match-up, after recent Championships in the North\/Northeast of the continent. The results from day one proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Maggie Miller","author_link":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/?author=2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j80na.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}