After three beautiful days of sailing, the race committee successfully completed 190 team races to crown the New York Yacht Club Silver Panda team as the 2008 U.S. Team Racing Champion.  The third and final day of the U.S. Team Racing Championship at the Erie Yacht Club in Erie, Pennsylvania stated off promptly at 10:00 with sunshine and 12-16 knots of wind out of the west.   As planned, Sunday morning progressed with seventeen teams completing the third and final elimination round which resulted in the following eight teams moving onto the quarter finals New York Yacht Club Silver Panda, Woonsocket Rockets, TAP N' GO, Tannery Loungers, Larchmont YC, Meerkat Mayhem, West Kirby Hawks, and SoCal Seis Amigos. 

The crowd and excitement was building as the semi-final action was beginning to heat up!  After 177 races, the following teams had the honor of racing in the semi-final team racing matches: New York Yacht Club Silver Panda, Woonsocket Rockets, TAP N' GO, Tannery Loungers, and the West Kirby Hawks. At the conclusion of the semi-finals, the New York Yacht Club Silver Panda and the West Kirby Hawks had the distinguished honor of moving on to the U.S. Team Racing Championship Final which was a best of five races gun slinging showdown.  The match-up for third and fourth place was between Tannery Loungers and Tap N’ Go.  The Tannery Loungers earned the third place victory after betting the Tap N’ Go team in 3 to 1 in a best out of five racing format.

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