TBYC 2026 J22 result emails

Weekend of June 6, 2026

Good morning. Hope your weekend was well. Unfortunately there is no racing news to share, we only had 2.5 boats for Saturday, lots of golf outings, funerals and broken feet keeping us sidelined. The next race date is June 20th. Bad news for USA 1552 as we will not be able to sail that day, I hope you all have wonderful wind and sunny skies.
We have a returning crew member who would like to get out and sail on the J/22’s. Theresa Hurst has sailed in the past with Matt Princing on Hogtide. She is available and would like to race. Her email is boulavita2018@gmail.com reach out to her and get her on a boat. She is young and athletic.
Finally. USA 838 is for sale. This is the winningest boat in Fleet 44 history. It is extremely good shape and needs nothing to start winning again. It has been stored indoors all winters since built and has been indoors for the past 3-4 years and needs a new owner to put her in the water again. Rock star bottom and keel, triad trailer, this boat is ready to win the Michigan Championship! Special price if the new owner joins TBYC and keeps the boat in fleet 44. Contact Chris Princing, chris.p@awardandsports.com
PS: It might be time to talk about a makeup date. Let me know what you decide after the June 20 date. See you all In July.
Christopher D. Princing

Email on June 15, 2026 – Race Date 2

Good morning sailors. We are back to racing this Saturday!!! Start is at noon out by the area where buoy 4 should be… It is not in the water yet, not sure it even will be this summer. So maybe we should just call it Due West from the hoist?
USA 1552 will not be there this week. There is a buoy down below in the boat, please grab it and close the boat back up. Work among your selves to pick a starting boat with a whistle, a weather mark boat and a pin boat and set and retrieve the buoys.
When finished, someone please send me the results so I can enter them in the computer.
Have fun, should be good weather.
Christopher D. Princing

East Tawas, MI

July 3, 2026

Strange sailing on a Friday afternoon, but with our early season weather causing some scheduled dates to be missed, this was a great chance to make up some missed races.

We were able to get 4 boats to participate. We are a little light on boats this year due to Terry breaking his foot, he is out for the season, and Pig Pen is not rigged yet due to Derek’s crazy schedule. So, 4 was good and the racing was great and tight!

Race 1: Race one was the windiest of the races. Southerly around 190 degrees, I am guessing 15-18 knots to start and pretty good chop under partly sunny skies. At the start, it was definitely three person hiking. We had a stowaway on USA 1552, Tristan Carroll came sailing with us, so we put all 100Lbs of him on the rail. Start had us all going left until the first boats were forced tack away for clear air. We sailed to the left to find relief from the chop, and hoping for a left shift that usually comes off the point. We didn’t find the shift, but still got around the windward mark in first and got the spinnaker up and flying. It was apparent that the waves were bigger on the upwind right and that the buoy was to our left, so a gybe was called for to take advantage of this. Pretty tight pack of four boats as we went down wind FAST! Leeward mark rounding saw us squirt out of there with no issues and start up the second windward leg with USA 454, Squealer, hot on our curly tail. Up the second beat it started getting weird. Pressure dropped, we slid weight low and tried to power everything up. It seemed to work, as the wind was going up and then down but the waves were still steep. We ended up rounding ahead and kept our lead while the other three were battling pretty hard.

USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 454 Squealer
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen

Race two saw lighter wind with chop. USA 1552 had a pretty good upwind gear in this. We were sailing so flat, Jennifer asked if we were too flat, to which I said “yes, we are too flat, but don’t move, we are a rocket ship right now”, it was a struggle, but we had jets upwind. We rounded first with some space behind us, so we started to teach Tristan how to trim a spinnaker. He was getting it, in pretty trying conditions for a new sailor. Behind us, was great racing. Very close at the finish.

USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 454 Squealer
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen
Race 3 started lighter. No more 3 person hiking, mostly one person on the rail, sometimes two. Lots of shifting weight and adjusting sails as the wind was lighter, but had some puffs left. The chop was still evident, but not as tall as the first couple of races. USA 454 schooled us all at the start and shot out to a big lead. USA 430 and USA 1552 were over early thanks to Squealer’s awesome start, and had to restart. This race was all about the wind, as we restarted we were looking for more wind, and then were hoping for more wind and a shift ha! We seemed to make some ground back until the top of the second beat, Squealer got a great shift and shut the door on any thoughts we had of challenging them for the win. Great job Mike, Tim and Eli!!
USA 454 Squealer
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen
Winning the day was Evil Dr. Pork Chop with 3.5 points followed by Squealer with 6.75 points. Season totals attached. Top boat is Pork Bellies with 8.5 points after our first throw out.
Next race date is July 18, starting at noon out on the bay. Hope to see you all there.
Christopher D. Princing

East Tawas, MI
July 3, 2026
Strange sailing on a Friday afternoon, but with our early season weather causing some scheduled dates to be missed, this was a great chance to make up some missed races.
We were able to get 4 boats to participate. We are a little light on boats this year due to Terry breaking his foot, he is out for the season, and Pig Pen is not rigged yet due to Derek’s crazy schedule. So, 4 was good and the racing was great and tight!
Race 1: Race one was the windiest of the races. Southerly around 190 degrees, I am guessing 15-18 knots to start and pretty good chop under partly sunny skies. At the start, it was definitely three person hiking. We had a stowaway on USA 1552, Tristan Carroll came sailing with us, so we put all 100Lbs of him on the rail. Start had us all going left until the first boats were forced tack away for clear air. We sailed to the left to find relief from the chop, and hoping for a left shift that usually comes off the point. We didn’t find the shift, but still got around the windward mark in first and got the spinnaker up and flying. It was apparent that the waves were bigger on the upwind right and that the buoy was to our left, so a gybe was called for to take advantage of this. Pretty tight pack of four boats as we went down wind FAST! Leeward mark rounding saw us squirt out of there with no issues and start up the second windward leg with USA 454, Squealer, hot on our curly tail. Up the second beat it started getting weird. Pressure dropped, we slid weight low and tried to power everything up. It seemed to work, as the wind was going up and then down but the waves were still steep. We ended up rounding ahead and kept our lead while the other three were battling pretty hard.
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 454 Squealer
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen
Race two saw lighter wind with chop. USA 1552 had a pretty good upwind gear in this. We were sailing so flat, Jennifer asked if we were too flat, to which I said “yes, we are too flat, but don’t move, we are a rocket ship right now”, it was a struggle, but we had jets upwind. We rounded first with some space behind us, so we started to teach Tristan how to trim a spinnaker. He was getting it, in pretty trying conditions for a new sailor. Behind us, was great racing. Very close at the finish.
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 454 Squealer
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen
Race 3 started lighter. No more 3 person hiking, mostly one person on the rail, sometimes two. Lots of shifting weight and adjusting sails as the wind was lighter, but had some puffs left. The chop was still evident, but not as tall as the first couple of races. USA 454 schooled us all at the start and shot out to a big lead. USA 430 and USA 1552 were over early thanks to Squealer’s awesome start, and had to restart. This race was all about the wind, as we restarted we were looking for more wind, and then were hoping for more wind and a shift ha! We seemed to make some ground back until the top of the second beat, Squealer got a great shift and shut the door on any thoughts we had of challenging them for the win. Great job Mike, Tim and Eli!!
USA 454 Squealer
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalion TBD
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 695 This Little Piggy
USA 538 Pig-Pen
Winning the day was Evil Dr. Pork Chop with 3.5 points followed by Squealer with 6.75 points. Season totals attached. Top boat is Pork Bellies with 8.5 points after our first throw out.
Next race date is July 18, starting at noon out on the bay. Hope to see you all there.
Christopher D. Princing

Email from Chris 07/27/26

Good morning. Racing starts Saturday out by #4 buoy location. I hope to see all of you out there.
USA 1552 will take the pin end of the line. We will need a starting boat/buoy and a weather mark person please.
While we have had a few dates canceled due to weather, smoke or wind, the season is wide open with 4 race dates left on the schedule and a possible makeup date if we decide to want more races..
Current leaders in the clubhouse are USA 48, Pork Bellies. Theya re sailing fast and have won this fleet overall in the past. USA 454, and USA 275 are right behind them and also sailing well. It should be a fun day with warm weather and the early forecast is for 8-10 knots from the NNE.
Chris
Per Mike Scott, he has the weather mark and will be happy to deploy it.
Per Mike Carr, He can be the start boat and he forgot to throw that mark back on his boat.

Good morning sailors!! We finally got some racing in. Hard to believe we are on the back side of summer and have completed 9 races! We would normally be closer to 15+
Lots of racing left for this season’s championship and it is a tight race at the top of the leaderboard. Past fleet champions Pork Bellies (USA 48) and past fleet champion Squealer (USA454) are showing scores of 14.25 pts and 17.25 points respectively.
Saturday brought gloom and doom to the race course. Rainy, wet and little air. We managed to get 5 boats out there in trying conditions of 3-5 knots for most of the day. Winds were out of the NE, coming over the point from the big lake. Drizzle was constant but nothing that made you uncomfortable. Race courses were short and being in clear air and finding what little wind there was were the keys and Squealer with Mike, Tim and Eli showed us their stern for most of the day. Good starts and finding the wind were what they did best out of all of us. They went 1, 3, 1 for the day.
Other highlights: Pygmalion with her newly painted sea hood and 1 Million dollars in new blocks, was quick all day and got their season best score of 2nd in race one and were in the hunt most races. Definitely going fast.
The other White Meat was present. They were all sporting their team apparel, pretty sharp group from East Tawas Bay. Their new technique of sailing upwind to the downwind finish is still questionable but give them kudos for trying.
Pork Bellies was the other really fast boat on Saturday winning their 3rd race of the season and going into the third race it was tied with Squealer, but Mike, Eli and Tim closed the door.
We have three race dates before the Michigan J/22 championship which we host on Tawas Bay. Thos dates are:
Saturday, August 15, J/22 Races 16-18, noon start
Saturday, August 29th, J22 races 19-21, Noon Start
September
Saturday, September 5th, J22 races 22-24, Noon Start
Saturday September 12, 2026 – J/22 Michigan Championship
Saturday, September 19th, J/22 Make-up Date
We can do a makeup race, we will vote on that August 15.
*** On August 15 after racing, Fleet 44 is hosting a theme night at TBYC Bar. We will be serving pulled pork sandwiches to members and guests and will have a table set up with goodies to people to enjoy. I think Pork Bellies is going to bring, uh… pork bellies ! Melissa wills end out a google sign up sheet. Let’s show up in force and let people know how fun and competitive our little pig boats are and how inexpensive they are to buy and run. ***
We have a few members of the fleet sailing next week in the Lightning Class WJM North Americans. Jennifer, Melissa and David are all sailing. Follow them on the Lightning web page and we wisht hem good sailing and fun!
Click on the link below to see the series results points spread:

Click to access series-result-as-of-08012026.pdf

Email from Chris on August 17, 2026

Good morning Sailors. We have a race this Saturday. Start is at Noon out on the bay. I need a volunteer for the weather mark. I need a volunteer to be the start boat, and I need a volunteer to set the start pin. Please reply all to this.
*** Our fleet is hosting a get together at TBYC on Saturday evening. Bring your mate and crew. We want members to meet our group and enjoy some good food and libations with the hardest working fleet at the club! Melissa sent out a sign-up sheet, please fill in what you’re going to bring. Melissa and Jennifer will be decorating; I am sure they would love some help.
See you all at the hoist.
Christopher D. Princing

Good morning, J/22 sailors. Please find attached the NOR for the 2026 Michigan J/22 Championship to be sailed September 12, 2026, at Tawas Bay Yacht Club. Please share this with your fleet members and try to convince them to come to Tawas to enjoy the great open water sailing Tawas Bay is known for.
Notes: If you need directions to TBYC, send me a email.
Motel/Hotels in Tawas are usually pretty busy, so book early. You can also search for VRBO/Airbnb.
When arriving with your boat, please setup in the outer gravel lot. Then come to the hoist when you’re ready to launch. Trucks and trailers can park in that outer lot until haul out.
Fleet #44 looks forward to hosting you this year at our favorite venue! Spread the word and let’s make this a 10+ boat event. After sailing on Saturday, Fleet #44 will provide brats and dogs for all competitors and RC folks, and the Bar will be open. While the bar is not free, the drinks are very cheap ha!
*** While we are together, we need to start the conversation about the future of this event. The big topics are:
Keep this a 1 day event or make it a 2-day event. The majority on our fleet would like a 2-day event with up to 6 races scheduled.
What kind of courses should we sail. Our fleet believes we should be sailing windward leeward course only.
Launching – Host should have some kind of launch capability that can lift boats up off the trailer and then on retrieve set them back down.
I know these subjects can be touchy to some, but please come open minded. The idea is to grow this event and grow our fleets at our three clubs. ***
Christopher D. Princing
Here is a copy of the Race information:

Click to access 2026-j22-michigan-championship-nor-information.pdf

East Tawas Bay, MI
August 15, 2026
The Force was Strong with The Other White Meat on Saturday, as Old Ben Coberly made an appearance and steered his team to victory.
Light winds again were on tap for Saturday. Coming out of the east, and the strange year continues… We did have more wind that the previous racing date, but mostly 5-7 knots of wind, flat water and partly cloudy.
Race 1 got off on time. The boats took off on a short course due to the wind. Pretty close racing all around. Evil Dr. Pork Chop led the fleet barely to the windward mark. They held off a hard charging pack downwind. As the leaders sailed off to the right side of the course, Old Ben Coberly tacked out to the left for clear air and the Force was with him, as went from 3rd or 4th to first! They rounded in front of USA 1552 and down the run they had a great battle to the finish. Many gybes were had but using the force, Old Ben was able to squeak across the line for the win!
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 454 Squealer
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 430 Pygmalian
Race 2 had a dramatic start. A huge wind shift at the start left some boats not able to cross the line on Starboard. Once again using the force for good… Old Ben Coberly found a way to tack off to the left and jump ahead of the fleet. This time USA 48, Pork Bellies, was hot on their heels, but USA 275 kept extending in what was a left side dominant racecourse. The final run had a battle for 2nd place, with boats trading gybes and finally Evil Dr. Pork Chop snuck over ahead of Pig Bellies for 2nd place. USA 275, The Other Meat won that race.
USA 275 The Other White Meat
USA 1552 Evil Dr. Pork Chop
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 454 Squealer
USA 430 Pygmalian
Race 3 saw a resetting of the course after the dramatic left hand wind shift. Boats spread out across the course. USA 1552 snuck in at the weather mark just ahead of USA 48. USA 1552 saw her lead grow down the run and rounded the leeward mark with a decent lead over USA 48, who had extended on the other boats behind her. Both boats now sailing off to the right side of the course, when near layline USA 1552 tacked early to head back across the course, USA 48 hung on a little longer and it paid off big, with more wind and a right-hand shift to boot. USA 48 rounded first and USA 1552 was behind them. Another downwind battle to a tight finish, but Pork Bellies (USA 48) hung on for the race win.
USA 48 Pork Bellies
USA 1552
USA 454
USA 275
USA 430
Really fun day of sailing. Beer tasted good on the way in. On Evil Dr. Pork Chop, our guest star was Jeff Wood. It was his second time sailing with us in the last couple of years, his second time flying the spinnaker. It was nice getting to yell at a new guy ha! Jeff did very good for a newbie, especially with the downwind battles we seemed to get ourselves in each race. Somehow, he never got flustered when I kept turning the wheel…
After sailing Fleet 44 hosted a cocktail hour at TBYC and provided members with pulled pork, fancy pig cookies, pig cupcakes, charcuterie, cake, peanut butter M&M cookies and much more. It was a lot of fun and we got to see some folks we haven’t seen in while. Thanks to Jennifer and Melissa for putting this together, it sounds like this may become an annual event.
As you can see below, the season points are close! We still have 2 race dates before Michigan Championship and the scuttlebutt in the dry sail area is that we will probably use the 19th of September for a makeup date. So lots on the line in the next month or so. See you all on August 29th!
J22 result file as of August 18, 2026

Click to access j22-results-as-of-08182026.pdf

Email from Chris on August 24.

Good morning sailors, I hope you are all well. It is once again a race weekend, and I hope to see all of you in Tawas There will be a pretty big surprise when you arrive, it is great news for our fleet, and I will not spoile it. I need volunteers for RC, Weather Mark, and pin boat please. Start is 12 noon out by Bouy 4. Switching topics to one near and dear to a lot of you Fleet 44 people, see Melissa’s note below.
Hey Chris!
Tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 7 PM in Bay City at the SBCSA launch area, there will be a dedication for the SailQubes that Mike Scott donated along with the drawing for the kayak raffle fundraiser. The Coberleys and David and I are also donors to the new boats, so almost 100% covered by our Tawas J22 sailors.
If you think J22 sailors would be interested in attending, could you send out to the fleet?
Thanks!
Melissa

Email from Chris on September 3, 2026

Good morning. Just some housekeeping
We are racing Saturday. It is the official last race date of the season. Do we want to sail a makeup date? We have one date available on the schedule, September 19, 2026. I need a vote of boat owners who want to do this and we need at least three boats to count races. So what say you?
USA 48
USA 275
USA 430
USA 454
USA 538
USA 838
USA 1552 Yes, we want to sail more.
Onto more housekeeping. This Saturday is the annual TBYC Venetian night. In the past we have had a Pig table where we all put our food to pass. Do we want to do that again? This is a great event and a lot of fun to celebrate a great summer in Tawas. Invite your crew and their families to come enjoy our beautiful club.
Last item, our Michigan Championship is next weekend, September 12, 2026. We expect all of our boats to sail. We will have guests coming in from Gull Lake and Charlevoix, so if you can, Launch Friday evening or very early Saturday and move your trailer to the back lot. When foreigners show up, I mean guests ha! If they need any help, give it to them and help them get rigged.
We will be cooking after the racing on the 12th, so plan on sticking around and invite your crew and spouses to join in with this fun group of J/22 sailors.
See you at the hoist.
Christopher D. Princing