Mike Martin & Steve Bourdow(Seal Beach, CA/Palo Alto, CA) won the tie-breaker to win the 2000 505 North Americans, held August 9-13 at the Santa Cruz Yacht Club in Santa Cruz, California. In second place overall was Howard Hamlin & Peter Alarie (Long Beach, CA/Bristol RI), followed by Bruce Edwards & Dave Shelton(Santa Cruz, CA/Santa Cruz, CA) in third, Danny Thompson & Andy Zinn (Newport Beach, CA/Long Beach, CA) in fourth, and Mike Holt & Jay Kuncl (Leigh-on-Sea, UK/ Palo Alto, CA) in fifth.
The regatta was a 7 race, 1 throwout series over four days, sponsored by the Santa Cruz Yacht Club, West Marine, Ronstan, and Ullman Sails.
Other Trophy Winners were Dan Marino & Bill Jenkins (San Diego, CA/ San Diego, CA) for both the Vintage Boat Award and the Dave Cahn Memorial Trophy for outstanding sportsmanship in the US 505 Class. Paul Tara & Phil Vandenberg (Ben Lomond, CA/ Santa Cruz, CA) won a brand new Ullman jib for highest score while finishing all races.
The 45-boat fleet had competitors from the east coast, mid-west, west coast, Canada and the UK as well as California. It was the largest non-worlds North American Championships in over 20 years attesting to the current strength of the 505 Class. Thirteen of the competitors attending the NA's will be attending the 2000 505 World Championships to be held in November at Durban, South Africa.