Great job by the Key Biscayne Yacht Club hosting 250 Optimist sailors over a week of varied conditions, 8 Championship races and 7 Silver fleet races. LYC’s Stephan Baker keeps up his incredibly impressive sailing, winning the 2018 Trials, 19 points ahead of the nearest competitor. Full results on the KBYC website. Top 25 below:
Meet the 2018 Optimist Worlds Team:
1. Stephan Baker
2. Ryan Satterberg
3. Thommie Grit
4. Peter Foley
5. Tommy Sitzmann
April 23, 2018, Written by Chris Klevan
Photos taken from Rob Migliaccio on facebook
#7 Hobart and William Smith College won the MAISA Women’s Championship narrowly over #9 Georgetown University, 88 to 89 points, after 11 races in each division. The Herons of HWS sailed the 22 total race regatta well, collectively, winning B-DIvision with 47 points and finishing second in A-Division with 41 points, a combination typically good enough to win any regatta, let alone a conference championship.
Despite a strong start to the regatta, the Herons fell behind Georgetown in the middle of the event. Both HWS divisions were extremely strong, however, five of the six races scored outside the top-5 for the team, occured between race 3A and race 6B. During this stretch, Georgetown pulled ahead. HWS rebounded and notched 7 races inside the top-4 over the final 8 races of the event to win.
HWS sophomore, Katherine Cox and Sarah Warren ‘18 won B-Division with 47 points.
Georgetown’s Rose Edwards ‘18, with Olivia van den Born ‘21 and Meaghan MacRae ‘18 splitting time in the front of the boat, won A-DIvision with 38 points, 7 of 11 races with top-3 finishes.
The top-9 teams at the event would move on to the ICSA Semi-final regatta, held at ODU, May 22 and 23. #17 St. Mary’s finished 3rd with 112 points, Navy finished 4th with 125, #8 George Washington finished 5th with 130 points, #19 Pennsylvania finished 6th with 131 points, Fordham finished 7th with 151 points, #16 Cornell finished 8th with 156 points and ODU finished 9th, the final qualifying spot, with 160 points.
The NEISA Women’s Championship/ Reed Trophy is New England’s women’s conference championship and the qualifier for the national championship. The top-11 teams advance to compete in the ICSA semi-final regatta held at Old Dominion, May 22-23. Of the 17 teams entered in the event, 12 are ranked in the top-20 of Sailing World’s Rankings.
#3 Boston College won the event nearly wire-to-wire, finishing with 73 points after 9 races in each division, 22 points ahead of second place and #1 ranked Yale. The youngest team finishing in the top 5, Boston College showed that they’re more than ready to win a national championship.
Notably, Isabella Loosbrock ‘19 with Emma Perry won A-Division for the Eagles, 13 points ahead of the next best boat and beating some of the nation’s best in Baab, Rohde, and Klingler, staking her place among the best in the nation.
Emily Haig ‘21 and Greta Farrell ‘18 of #11 MIT finished 1st in B-Division with 29 points through 9 races, showing no finishes outside the top-8 and 6 of nine inside the top-3.
#1 Yale finished second overall with 95 points and #5 Coast Guard edged #4 Brown for 3rd overall, both with 110 points.
#14 Dartmouth, #11 MIT, #9 Boston University, #15 Connecticut College, #10 Harvard, #8 University of Rhode Island and #20 Tufts will join the top-3 in representing NEISA at the next level.
#2 College of Charleston won the SAISA Women’s Championship in Charleston. The one day event, consisting of 9 teams, advanced 4 team onto the ICSA Semi-Final regatta at ODU. Charleston, collectively, only had 2 races outside the top-3 and posted an impressive 11 firsts in 18 total races. They finished with 33 points, 7 ahead of runner-up University of South Florida.
Toppa ‘20 with Annabel Carrington ‘19 and Caroline Bracken ‘19 won A-Division, continuing an impressive season. Toppa, this season, sailing primarily with Carrigan and Bracken,, has yet to finish outside the top-4 in A-Division. Toppa, Carrington and Bracken only had one race that wasn’t a one or a two throughout Saturday’s Championship.
University of South Florida finished second, 7 points behind the home team, Charleston. Marina Barzaghi ‘21, sailing with Darby Capellin ‘19, Rachel Yannelli ‘19 and Delaney Brown ‘20, finished first in B-Division with 17 points. While Charleston’s B-DIvision, Paris Henken ‘19 with Liza Toppa ‘20 and Elizabeth Mignon ‘19, completed the regatta with 6 firsts in 9 races, USF’s Barzaghi, Capellin, Yannelli and Brown were more consistent, finishing, like Toppa and company, with only one race outside the top-2.
Jacksonville finished 3rd with 75 points and Eckerd finished 4th with 78 points.
The NWICSA Coed Championships was won by University of Washington decisively. The 5 team, 22 race regatta sends the top-2 finishing teams onto the ICSA National Semi-Finals regatta and Washington showed they are the cream of the crop. Their A-Division boat of Hayden Potter ‘20 and Farzana Mohamedali ‘20 won all of the 11 races sailed in A-Division. Erik Skeel ‘20 with Audrey Jacobs ‘18 and Johanna Mannisto ‘18 won B-Division, but they scored 3 races that weren’t first. Washington won both A and B division by wide margins.
Finishing second and claiming the final spot for nationals was the Western Washington University Vikings, though, this qualifying spot was much more competitive. Finishing only 4 points ahead of Oregon State, Western Washington was losing to the Beavers after race 7B. The two teams stayed close throughout the event, never more than a bad set away from a lead change. Congratulations to both teams moving onto the ICSA Coed Semi-Final regatta.
The MCSA Team Race Championship team race championship was sailed at University of Wisconsin, host of the 2010 ICSA National Championship regattas. The 6 team event advanced the top 2 teams onto the Team Race National Championship. University of Michigan dominated the one-day event, finishing with a 7-1 record.
August Sturm ‘19, Mason Wolters ‘18 and Colton Gerber ‘18 were the skippers for the Wolverines and Sofia Gambini ‘19, Michael Gapuz ‘18 and Sidney Thompson ‘18 were the crews that got the job done.
Finishing second was University of Wisconsin at 5 wins and 3 losses. The Badgers made it close, finishing only 1 loss ahead of the Panthers of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. While finishing 0-2 against the Michigan Wolverines and 1-1 against Minnesota, the Badgers took care of business against their biggest threat, going 2-0 against the Panthers and punching their ticket to the big dance.
While the women were qualifying for nationals and the final team race slots were being filled, the coed sailors on the east coast were gearing up for their conference championships this upcoming weekend.
The Admirals Cup at King’s Point held some of the east coast’s best boats. #5 Hobart and William Smith College won handily, besting #1 Yale by 13 points.
Hector Guzman ‘20 and Maya Weber ‘20 won B-Division by 14 points through 10 races sailed.
Nicolas Baird ‘19 and Sonia Lingos-Utley ‘21 won A-Division even more comfortably, by 22 points, finishing with 24 points overall. Notably, Baird, a College Sailor of the Year dark horse, beat presumptive finalist Greiner Hobbs and presumptive winner Stefano Peschiera, keeping his name in the race moving onto championship season.
#1 Yale finished second with 107 points and #2 College of Charleston finished third with 110 points.
The regatta was cut short to a one day event as there was no wind on Sunday.
The Shelter Island Yacht Club, established in the summer of 1886, has the distinction of being one of the oldest clubs in North America. The founding members were business and professional men from Manhattan and Brooklyn who had summer residences in Shelter Island Heights. Their purpose was to further recreational sailing, racing, water sports festivals, extended cruises, and social fellowship.
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For nearly 50 years, the Shelter Island Yacht Club fleet remained a miscellany of elegant steam and sailing yachts of all sizes. The original clubhouse, built on Chequit Point in lovely Dering Harbor in 1892, was little more than one large room completely girdled by open verandas furnished with stout rocking chairs.
As the membership gradually grew to 250, the clubhouse sprouted numerous additions to provide better galley, dining, dancing, and docking facilities. A Junior Yacht Club, organized in the late 1920s, acquired a home of its own in 1958.
The history of Shelter Island Yacht Club since World War I is reflected in a memorable succession of one-design fleets: Nationals, Wee Scots, Stars, Wood Pussys, Comets, Lightnings, Blue Jays, Penguins, Lasers, Etchells, Herreshoff 12 1/2s, Stuart Knockabout, 420s, and Optimist Prams, not to mention Puffers, Sunfish, and Sailfish.
The hallmark of the club since World War II is a solid commitment to junior sailing. Each summer of late, over 100 children participate in the club’s Junior Sailing Program.
In 2008 our own Amanda Clark and her crew, Sarah Merganthaler, competed in the 2008 Olympics in China in the International 470 class. Clark returned to the Olympics in 2012 with new crew Sarah Lihan.
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