Nigel Pitt and Alex Shafer win the U.S. Sailing Multihull Championship.  After years of competing in this Championship and placing the top three, the team of Shafer and Pitt were finally able to break through and take the win by a narrow margin of two points over returning champions John Casey and John Williams and five points over the team of Tomko and Billings. 

The final day of the U.S. Multihull Championship concluded today with one last A-fleet heat which concluded Race 11.  Off the start line, the points leading teams of Pitt and Casey were unintentionally fouled off the start line by another competitor leaving them both late to the start line while the third place team of Tomko and Billings was well underway heading up the course.  Both teams managed to fight hard in the lightish 8 to 10 knots of breeze and claw their way to a third and fourth place finish, while Tomko struggled on the last lap and slid back to seventh.  Watters and Burd seemed unable to shake the DSQ from the day before and finished the race in 8^th place – still holding onto fourth overall but poised to return to B-fleet in the next series.

Going into the last day, we had hoped to run three heats to end on 12 complete races but with a deadline of 3pm for the last start, and the seabreeze refusing to fill in by 2pm, the event was concluded on the 22^nd heat with 11 completed races – a very high number for a championship with boat rotations.