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A.J. Laurent was in a class by himself last Saturday.
The North Kingstown 11-year-old sailed the sole ship across the finish line at the 42nd annual Fools\u2019 Rules Regatta.
No foolin\u2019.
He was the only one \u2014 out of 44 entries.
\u201cI watched it last year and I got really excited about it so I entered a boat this year and it was really fun,\u201d he said after cruising to his victory by a few hundred yards in the 500-yard race.
The first-time contestant designed the plywood and PVC boat, named \u201cGCNII,\u201d himself based on an Opti, which is the type of boat on which he takes lessons. The sail was a cut-up inflatable house.
\u201cI thought a catamaran would be a good idea because it\u2019s less friction in the water and it seemed to work out really well,\u201d he said.
A.J. said he was surprised by his easy win.
\u201cI was expecting to be neck and neck here, but I\u2019m amazed with this design,\u201d he said. \u201cIt worked out really well.\u201d
He was the only one things worked out well for as a westerly wind \u2014 when there even was a wind \u2014 pushed most of the participants\u2019 boats off course into the mooring field and toward Newport.
While \u201cUnder the Sea in Hawaii\u201d and \u201cSkyDog\u201d came within about 5 yards of crossing the finish line in the four-person and unlimited classes, respectively, no one in either the two- or three-person classes came close and had to be towed back to shore.
The judges decided to declare the closest to the finish line as the winner in each category, said Greg Hunter, the chief fool of the event hosted by the Jamestown Yacht Club.
\u201cIt was surprising,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thought as the first race evidenced that some are going to be able to make it down and some not and clearly a lot more didn\u2019t.
\u201cThere really wasn\u2019t anything we could do except hope the wind would shift to our favor or maybe the tide because once we started going in one direction, we weren\u2019t going to move the starting line because that would have been unfair to the one who already went off. It was just disappointing, that\u2019s all.\u201d
Hunter said he was happy with the number of contestants, as well as the approximately 500 spectators in attendance.
Some of those who participated were second-generation Jamestowners, including Joe England\u2019s grandsons, Evan, 12, and Joel, 10, Mystic, Conn., residents taking part in their first bit of foolishness.
The Winona Street resident\u2019s wife, Maryann, persuaded the boys to take part, like their mother had when she was a child.
\u201cMy kids used to do it \u2014 their mother used to do it and their aunt used to do it 25 years ago when they were about their age so it\u2019s going through generations,\u201d he said.
The boys\u2019 boat was constructed from Tupperware buckets, Gorilla tape and paracord, a design with which they helped.
\u201cThey came over last night and we started preparing around 7 o\u2019clock last night and we were here at 7:30 this morning,\u201d England said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun.\u201d
A pair of twins from Seaside Drive also were freshman entrants aboard a lavishly designed movie-themed vessel.
Xavier and Vivian Catallozzi, and Nora and Leo Evans were sets of 6-year-old twins joined by their mothers aboard \u201cToy Story 4.\u201d
\u201cWe wanted to do something fun since \u2018Toy Story 4\u2019 came out this summer and the kids were excited about it,\u201d Tiffany Catallozzi said.
Tiffany, who has lived in town for 11 years, discussed the idea with Haley Evans, who moved to town last summer as part of her husband\u2019s military job. They crafted their boat from PVC pipe and plywood with an umbrella sail. It was festooned with characters and letter blocks from the movie.
\u201cIt sounded like a lot of fun,\u201d Haley Evans said. \u201cWe love dressing up in costumes and we love doing craft kind of things so it was perfect for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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GONE WITH THE WINDWind wreaks havoc on Fools’ Rules RegattaBy ohtadmin \/ on August 15, 2019BY ROBERT BERDZUKA.J. Laurent was in a class by himself last Saturday.The North Kingstown 11-year-old sailed the sole ship across the finish line at the 42nd annual Fools\u2019 Rules Regatta.No foolin\u2019.He was the only one \u2014 out of 44 entries.\u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":95,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
GONE WITH THE WIND
Wind wreaks havoc on Fools' Rules Regatta
By ohtadmin \/ on August 15, 2019
BY ROBERT BERDZUK
A.J. Laurent was in a class by himself last Saturday.
The North Kingstown 11-year-old sailed the sole ship across the finish line at the 42nd annual Fools\u2019 Rules Regatta.
No foolin\u2019.
He was the only one \u2014 out of 44 entries.
\u201cI watched it last year and I got really excited about it so I entered a boat this year and it was really fun,\u201d he said after cruising to his victory by a few hundred yards in the 500-yard race.
The first-time contestant designed the plywood and PVC boat, named \u201cGCNII,\u201d himself based on an Opti, which is the type of boat on which he takes lessons. The sail was a cut-up inflatable house.
\u201cI thought a catamaran would be a good idea because it\u2019s less friction in the water and it seemed to work out really well,\u201d he said.
A.J. said he was surprised by his easy win.
\u201cI was expecting to be neck and neck here, but I\u2019m amazed with this design,\u201d he said. \u201cIt worked out really well.\u201d
He was the only one things worked out well for as a westerly wind \u2014 when there even was a wind \u2014 pushed most of the participants\u2019 boats off course into the mooring field and toward Newport.
While \u201cUnder the Sea in Hawaii\u201d and \u201cSkyDog\u201d came within about 5 yards of crossing the finish line in the four-person and unlimited classes, respectively, no one in either the two- or three-person classes came close and had to be towed back to shore.
The judges decided to declare the closest to the finish line as the winner in each category, said Greg Hunter, the chief fool of the event hosted by the Jamestown Yacht Club.
\u201cIt was surprising,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thought as the first race evidenced that some are going to be able to make it down and some not and clearly a lot more didn\u2019t.
\u201cThere really wasn\u2019t anything we could do except hope the wind would shift to our favor or maybe the tide because once we started going in one direction, we weren\u2019t going to move the starting line because that would have been unfair to the one who already went off. It was just disappointing, that\u2019s all.\u201d
Hunter said he was happy with the number of contestants, as well as the approximately 500 spectators in attendance.
Some of those who participated were second-generation Jamestowners, including Joe England\u2019s grandsons, Evan, 12, and Joel, 10, Mystic, Conn., residents taking part in their first bit of foolishness.
The Winona Street resident\u2019s wife, Maryann, persuaded the boys to take part, like their mother had when she was a child.
\u201cMy kids used to do it \u2014 their mother used to do it and their aunt used to do it 25 years ago when they were about their age so it\u2019s going through generations,\u201d he said.
The boys\u2019 boat was constructed from Tupperware buckets, Gorilla tape and paracord, a design with which they helped.
\u201cThey came over last night and we started preparing around 7 o\u2019clock last night and we were here at 7:30 this morning,\u201d England said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun.\u201d
A pair of twins from Seaside Drive also were freshman entrants aboard a lavishly designed movie-themed vessel.
Xavier and Vivian Catallozzi, and Nora and Leo Evans were sets of 6-year-old twins joined by their mothers aboard \u201cToy Story 4.\u201d
\u201cWe wanted to do something fun since \u2018Toy Story 4\u2019 came out this summer and the kids were excited about it,\u201d Tiffany Catallozzi said.
Tiffany, who has lived in town for 11 years, discussed the idea with Haley Evans, who moved to town last summer as part of her husband\u2019s military job. They crafted their boat from PVC pipe and plywood with an umbrella sail. It was festooned with characters and letter blocks from the movie.
\u201cIt sounded like a lot of fun,\u201d Haley Evans said. \u201cWe love dressing up in costumes and we love doing craft kind of things so it was perfect for us.\u201d<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/502\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}