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Centerport Ice Cream Cup

Centerport Yacht Club Ice Cream Cup takes place as an Area A qualifier for JSA of LIS Optimist Championships. Centerport Yacht Club hosted the Ice Cream Cup, an Optimist regatta for Red, Blue and White Opti fleets in Centerport, New York on Friday, July 31.

Wind speed averaged six miles per hour with gusts up to 21 mph from West to Northwest. Red and Blue fleets started together and White fleet raced separately. After racing finished, participants enjoyed ice cream. CYC Rear Commodore Erik H. Rosanes presented awards, which appeared to be spoons.

 

Results summary:

White Fleet
1. Ellie Gallo (Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club)
2. Reese Woodwor (Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club)
3. Lucas Woodwor (CSH) 
4. Catherine Barry (SEAW)
5. Zachary Klusky (Sea Cliff Yacht Club)

Red and Blue Fleets

1. Victoria Chisari (SCLF)
2. Nathanial Arad (SCLF)
3. Rebecca Schmitz (SEAW)
4. Harry Thompson (Manhasset Bay Yacht Club)
5. Caleb Cogan (Shelter Island Yacht Club)

Blue Fleet

1. Nathanial Arad (SCLF)
2. Rebecca Schmitz (SEAW)
3. Harry Thompson (MBYC)
4. Caleb Cogan (SIYC)
5. Galen Deane (CSH)

Red Fleet

1. Victoria Chisari (SCLF)
2. Erica Scheblein (SEAW)
3. Jake McKenna (CYC)
4. Neil Sawhney (Waterfront Center)
5. Christopher Thompson (CYC)

Felix Hafen and Stacy Back served as regatta Co-Chairpersons, Christopher Schneider as Principal Race Officer and Kevin Keegan as Chief Judge.

See full results here.

View photo album here.

Watch video slideshow here.

Read Notice of Race here and Sailing Instructions here.

MBYC Pixel Open Bic Regatta

 

Manhasset Bay Yacht Club hosted its Pixel and Open Bic Regatta in Manhasset Bay, with 69 competitors on Thursday and Friday, July 23 to 24.

Competitors arrived Wednesday evening for inspection and registration. Harbor starts began Racing around 10 am on Thursday and around 9 am on Friday. A dance took place after racing on Thursday. Manhasset Bay served dinner on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and provided housing to participants.

Top five Pixel finishers and top three Open Bic finishers won prizes after racing on Friday. Results summary:

Pixel Class
1. Devin Hart and Madeline Dwyer (Noroton Yacht Club)
2. Eric Dowd and Nicholas Hein (American Yacht Club)
3. Tyler Gilman and Charles Keating (AYC)
4. Amelia Jessop and Clara Kruijtzer (AYC)
5. Skyler Risom and Niall Sheridan (Norwalk Yacht Club)

Open Bic Class
1. Riley Carroll (Manhasset Bay Yacht Club)
2. Sean Jacobs (Port Washington Yacht Club)
3. William Feldmann (PWYC)

Kimberly Kuester served as the Regatta Event Chairperson, William Siener as Principal Race Officer and Douglas Wilson as Chief Judge.

See full results here.

View photos here.

Port Washington Open Bic Team Race

Port Washington Yacht Club hosted its fourth annual team race clinic and regatta in Optis and Open Bics on Friday, July 23. Sailors chose to compete in all Open Bics, instead of in Optis. The club supplied boats as need to participants.

Clinic began around 10 am and continued until lunchtime. Teams met in the afternoon. and the first sequence began around 2 pm. Race Committee ran a rotation sequence.

Wind stayed light throughout, averaging six miles per hour. Although Race Committee planned to award prizes to top three place winners, in light wind, Race Committee did not hold sufficient number of races to determine a winner. Racing finished with snacks onshore and handing out t-shirts.

Two Port Washington Yacht Club teams, along with one each Noroton Yacht Club, Sea Cliff Yacht Club and (The Ba-Ba's) team competed. Long Island Sound sailors not present at Open Bic Team Race participated in Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Pixel and Open Bic Race Week Regatta.

George Catallo served as the regatta chair, Vinnie Varley the Regatta Director, Morgan Wilson the Principal Race Officer, Pedro Lorson the Water Judge and Mike Lyons the Commodore in Charge.

Green Fleet at Milford Yacht Club

Milford Yacht Club hosted its Green Fleet Optimist Regatta for Area C clubs in Milford, Connecticut on Wednesday, July 22. 74 Optis competed in the regatta.
Race Committee held five races for red and blue classes and six race for white class.
View results here.

Optimist Area A Regatta at Douglaston Yacht Squadron

Douglaston Yacht Squadron held the Area A Optimist Regatta in Little Neck, New York area on Wednesday, July 22. 62 sailors competed, including ten in Red Fleet, 32 in Blue Fleet and 21 in White Fleet. Wind averaged 14 miles per hour, with gusts up to 29 mph. Northwest winds blew throughout the day, and Race Committee ran five races.

Port Washington Yacht Club Opti Sailors waited for harbor start on DYS beach.  The unsheltered beach in 15 to 20 mph northwest breeze, made for a very challenging beach launch.  Five races took place in some of the biggest breeze of the JSA season thus far.

Area A regatta clubs competed, including Centerport Yacht Club (CYC), Douglaston Yacht Squadron (DYS), Waterfront Center (WFC), Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club (CSH), Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (SEAW), Port Washington Yacht Club (PWYC), Sea Cliff Yacht Club (SCLF), Manhasset Bay Yacht Club (MBYC), Shelter Island Yacht Club (SIYC), Northport Yacht Club (NORP) and Hempstead Harbour Club (HEM).

For all races held, each fleet started separately, with red first, blue second and white third.

Results: Top five finishers

Red Fleet
1. Kathrine Latawiec (Centerport Yacht Club)
2. Jake McKenna (CYC)
3. Nicole Bernstein (Douglaston Yacht Squadron)
4. Steven Zgaljardic (DYS)
5. Stephen Martocci (The WaterFront Center)

Blue
1. Nathaniel Arad (Sea Cliff Yacht Club)
2. Spencer Kriegstein (CYC)
3. William Dimaio (Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club)
4. Shayne Bersin (Port Washington Yacht Club)
5. Jack Croke (SCLF)

White
1. Elisia Gallo (Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club)
2. Catherine Barry (SEAW)
3. Lucas Woodworth (CSH)
4. Zachary Klusky (SCLF)
5. Reese Woodworth (CSH)

Full results here.

Racing C420 and Lasers at Shelter Island

It’s what sailors have been training for. The Shelter Island Yacht Club Open C420 and Laser Invitational on July 21, one of the last regattas of the season for sailors to qualify for JSA Champs.

The regatta turned out to be a no-wind day. Windspeed averaged at two miles per hour, blowing from southwest with gusts up to 12 mph. Compared with previous years, this windspeed seems a lower average.

Race committee ran two races. In the C420 fleet, skippers Gideon Burnes Heath from Orient Yacht Club and Oscar Champigneulle from SIYC tied for first place, and Bridget Campbell from Larchmont Yacht Club won second.

In the Laser Standard fleet, Richard O’Leary from American Yacht Club won first place, Henri Champigneulle from SIYC won second and Hunter Stump from Southampton Yacht Club won third.

Finally, in the Laser Radial fleet, Nicholas Chisari from Sea Cliff Yacht Club won first place, Lindsay Powers from AYC won second and William O’Leary from AYC won third.

See full results here.

Learning Safety at Sea

Safety at Sea allowed juniors to learn and practice safety-at-sea techniques on shore and on the water, while gaining insight into what offshore sailing has to offer. Larchmont Yacht Club hosted Storm Trysail Foundation’s Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar on Friday, July 17.

Adam Loory wrote in a Facebook post:

Just back from teaching at the Junior Safety at Sea Seminar run by the Storm Trysail Club at Larchmont Yacht Club. 200 juniors came for a morning of classroom sessions and an afternoon of on-the-water practice on 20 different boats ranging from J/105s to 40-footers.

I taught the session on the Quick Stop Man Overboard Recovery, and the biggest take away is that crews need to practice this maneuver frequently on their own boats. Even though racing requires tacking and jibing, most good crews have to do some warm up tacks, jibes, sets and douses at the beginning of each race day to warm up and make these moves automatic.

The same goes for crew overboard practices. The more we do them, the more automatic they will become. I had been sailing for 50 years before I was on a boat that had an actual man overboard, and I am glad it happened on a boat that had practiced. The water was cold that April.

Remember, the life that gets saved may be your own.

Morning presentations covered safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and big-boat crew work onshore. Juniors saw and volunteered in inflating a six-man canopied life raft on the water. In the afternoon, sailors practiced performing man overboard drills both upwind and downwind.

Pizza followed upon their return. Advanced juniors participated in a separate agenda later in the evening.

View full agenda here.

See photos here.

Find more information about Safety at Sea Programs here.

Opti Day at Larchmont Yacht Club Junior Race Week

Opti Day, part of Larchmont Yacht Club’s 117 Junior Race Week took place for Area B and C sailors in Larchmont, New York on Thursday, July 16.

The event turned out to be a great success, with beautiful weather. Wind averaged at eight miles per hour, reaching a 15 mph maximum and decreasing to around five mph in the afternoon. Conditions seemed favorable compared with C420, Laser, Radial and Pixel Junior Race Week. Race Committee ran three races for all fleets.

View Regatta documents at LYC Website here.  

Red Fleet results. 

Blue Fleet results. 

White Fleet results. 

See more photos here. 

Competing for Waldo Cup at Head of the Bay Club

As Larchmont Yacht Club hosted its Area B and C Opti Day, Head of the Bay Club hosted its Area A Waldo Cup on July 16 in Huntington, New York, a regatta which has been held in years previously.

This year, 73 sailors began racing around 11:45 am. Although wind came from the North at 12 miles per hour on average during the day, it died in the afternoon, ranging between one and nine mph. Race Committee ran two races.

Overall, Elisia Gallo (Seawanahaka Corinthian Yacht Club) won first, Catherine Barry (SEAW) won second, Zachary Klusky (Sea Cliff Yacht Club) won third, Lucas Woodworth (Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club) won fourth and Nathaniel Arad (SCYC) won fifth.

In Red Fleet, Hallie Simkins (Centerport Yacht Club) won first, Jake McKenna (CYC) won second, John Grygiel (Port Washington Yacht Club) won third, Emma Glenn (SEAW) won fourth and Sterling Thompson (Northport Yacht Club) won fifth.

In Blue Fleet, Nathaniel Arad (SCYC) won first, Shayne Bersin (PWYC) won second, Caleb Neugebauer (SCYC) won third, Galen Deane (CSH) won fourth and Harry Thompson (Manhassat Bay Yacht Club) won fifth.

Finally, in White Fleet, Elisia Gallo (SEAW) won first, Catherine Barry (SEAW) won second, Zachary Klusky (SCYC) won third, Lucas Woodworth (CSH) won fourth and Tyler Curto (SCYC) won fifth.

View results here. 

Dodging Storms at Larchmont Junior Race Week

Larchmont Junior Race Week takes place for Laser, Laser Radial, Club 420, Pixel and Blue Jay classes. This year is Larchmont Yacht Club's 117th Race Week and 89th annual junior regatta. The competitive event is part of the summer series that determines winners of the JSA of LIS High Point Season Trophies.

At Larchmont Yacht Club, over 400 junior sailors and instructors came from across Long Island Sound to compete on Monday through Wednesday, July 13 to 15. Larchmont Yacht Club provided housing for competitors who came from widespread East Coast areas. Excitement arose for three days of racing and for Larchmont Junior Race Week Dance.

Competitors brought their boats beginning at 5 pm on Sunday, July 12 and in full force on Monday morning around 9 am. They launched their boats from trailers and dollies onto the water using a hoist.

The Skippers’ Meeting followed registration and rigging, and the race committee chairman discussed details from racing instructions, including racecourse mark colors for each fleet. Sailors continued rigging and waited for wind to fill, when the race committee announced harbor start.

Monday started out with lighter winds, which averaged at three miles per hour and reached a maximum of ten mph in the afternoon. Temperature averaged at 74 degrees Farenheit. The 37-boat Pixel fleet finished four races, while 79 Laser Radials and the 113-boat 420 fleet finished two races, and 15 Laser Standards finished three races.

Tuesday, wind stayed light at three mph, with gusts up to 16 mph after noontime. Pixels, 420s, Laser Radials and Laser Standards all finished one race. After, sailors returned safely before rain and thunderstorms began. That evening, Larchmont Junior Race Week Dance took place at LYC’s Pandemonium.

Wednesday, sailing did not happen, due to weather conditions. Sailors left the harbor and came in at the first sign of thunderstorms. Following, they received complimentary ice cream treats and a barbeque, including hot dogs. Junior officers led the awards ceremony in early afternoon.

Read more about this year's Larchmont Junior Race Week on WindCheck.

View Laser and Radial results here.

View 420 results here.

View Pixel results here.

See photos from the event here.