FALMOUTH, MASS. (July 24, 2016) – The 2016 U.S. Club 420 National Championship finished up today hosted by the Falmouth Yacht Club with the Club 420 Association on Nantucket Sound. One hundred and fifty boats competed in the event.
After yesterday’s racing the 150 boats were divided into Gold and Silver Medal fleets, 82 boats in Gold and 68 in Silver. The scores from the Qualifying Round carried over into the Medal Round.
The harbor start was postponed this morning due to a dying Northerly wind, but it started to build again around 10 a.m. once it shifted to the South. The sailors hit the water soon after the wind filled in and the race officials had the scores and fleets sorted out after yesterday’s results.
Today was sunny and the winds were from the South Southwest around 7-12 knots, warm temperatures got up to 80 degrees. Racing wrapped up at the cutoff time around 3:30 p.m. There were two races completed in both fleets today. Although the race committee tried to complete a third race in the Gold fleet, it was a general recall and the time for the last warning of the day ran out before another race could be started.
Top 10, Final Results (7 races):
Gold Fleet
1. Nicholas Marwell / Aidan Morgan / SFYC / StFYC 16
2. Kyle Dochoda / George Sidamon-Eristoff / StPYC 18
3. Timothy Greenhouse / Jack Denatale / AYC / WYC 26
4. Jack Brown / Kelsey Slack / SPYC / TRYC 26
5. Eli Burnes / Noble Reynoso / WYC 27
6. Cole Harris / Tanner Chapko / SDYC 33
7. Jack Johansson / Claudia Loiacono / CRYC 38
8. Julia Reynolds / Hobi Lew / PYC 45
9. Georgia Lewin-LaFrance / Antonia Lewin-LaFrance / RNSYS 45
10. Eduardo Mintzias / Declan McGranahan / CRYC / LIMA 48
Silver Fleet
1. Matt Hersey / Mikayla Mathieu / HYC 154
2. Nathaniel Winters / Daniel Reich / SIYC 154
3. Harrison Koller / Elizabeth Hupp / AYC 155
4. Rowan Byrne / Gillian Winn / PYC 156
5. Meghan Oldham / Michael Lively / EYC 157
6. Alexander Temko / Scott Walters / DYSA / CCSC 166
7. Kaila Pfrang / Sydney Spruill / HYC 176
8. Joshua Temko / Sage Walters / DYSA / CCSC 182
9. Trevor Davis / Andrea Riefkohl / SSA 184
10. Oscar Champigneulle / Elizabeth McCarthy / SIYC 185
To see more results and to learn about the regatta visit the event website: http://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=1625
FULL RESULTS
Club 420 – Gold (One Design – 82 Boats)
1. TBD, C420, Nicholas Marwell / Aidan Morgan , San Francisco, CA, USA, 3 -2 -2 -4 -[11] -3 -2 ; 16
2. 4205, C420, Kyle Dochoda / George Sidamon-Eristoff , St. Petersburg, FL, USA, 2 -4 -5 -[17] -1 -5 -1 ; 18
3. 7821, C420, Timothy Greenhouse / Jack Denatale , Rye, NY, USA, 1 -6 -[9] -6 -2 -6 -5 ; 26
4. Club 420, C420, Jack Brown / Kelsey Slack , Newtown Square, PA, USA, 6 -2 -4 -2 -4 -[59] -8 ; 26
5. Red Shift, C420, Eli Burnes / Noble Reynoso , Boston, MA, USA, 2 -10 -1 -1 -1 -[33] -12 ; 27
6. Harris / Chapko, C420, Cole Harris / Tanner Chapko , Rancho Santa Fe, CA, USA, 1 -7 -5 -3 -2 -15 -[17] ; 33
7. 420, C420, Jack Johansson / Claudia Loiacono , Coral Gables, FL, USA, [17] -5 -4 -9 -3 -11 -6 ; 38
8. C 420, C420, Julia Reynolds / Hobi Lew , Southport, CT, USA, 15 -1 -1 -1 -[76] -24 -3 ; 45
9. 6412, C420, Georgia Lewin-LaFrance / Antonia Lewin-LaFrance , Chester, NS, CAN, [16] -1 -6 -5 -13 -7 -13 ; 45
10. TBD, C420, Eduardo Mintzias / Declan McGranahan , Weston, FL, USA, 2 -[76] -8 -9 -3 -22 -4 ; 48
11. 7056, C420, Connor Bayless / Kimmie Leonard , Arnold, MD, USA, 8 -14 -10 -2 -6 -[18] -9 ; 49
12. none, C420, Tucker Weed / Vera Mariani , Miami, FL, USA, 9 -8 -13 -8 -7 -[72] -7 ; 52
13. USA 7584, C420, Boyd Bragg / Alara Sahin , Irvington, VA, USA, 4 -6 -8 -12 -10 -13 -[27] ; 53
14. 6350, C420, Arie Moffat / Patrick Wilson , Kingston, Ont, CAN, [40] -3 -3 -14 -7 -29 -11 ; 67
15. 5790, C420, Porter Kavle / Caroline McNeil , Annapolis, MD, USA, 13 -11 -7 -7 -4 -[42] -29 ; 71
16. C420, C420, Sarah Burn / Patricia Gerli , Short Hills, NJ, USA, 12 -3 -3 -29 -27 -1 -[83] ; 75
17. 7302, C420, Ryan Hennessey / Caroline Bayless , Washington, DC, USA, 20 -2 -13 -5 -16 -[63] -19 ; 75
18. USA7659, C420, Riley Kloc / Matt Burton , Barrington, RI, USA, 5 -26 -6 -[76] -18 -2 -21 ; 78
19. NA, C420, Virginia Alex / Charlie Hibben , Cohasset, MA, USA, 3 -4 -7 -21 -9 -[40] -40 ; 84
20. USA 6000, C420, James Paul / Pete Dunay , Darien, CT, USA, 6 -5 -2 -7 -15 -[53] -50 ; 85
21. c420, C420, Luke Arnone / Mariner Fagan , Mantoloking, NJ, USA, 4 -1 -[31] -13 -17 -27 -28 ; 90
22. 7320, C420, Lizzy Kaplan / Eliza Crocker , Larchmont, NY, USA, 15 -16 -9 -[28] -9 -19 -24 ; 92
23. C420, C420, Michele Lahrkamp / Gabriella DelBello , Rye, New York, USA, 29 -4 -12 -36 -[38] -9 -10 ; 100
24. 6956, C420, Oliver Parsons / Drew Bailey , Stonington, CT, USA, 10 -13 -15 -11 -[32] -30 -25 ; 104
25. NOS–>, C420, Phillip Schofield / Nick Papadopoulos , Annapolis, MD, USA, 19 -32 -18 -10 -13 -[74] -14 ; 106
26. n/a, C420, Dana Haig / Zach Zeelander , Beach Haven, NJ, USA, 7 -41 -35 -3 -5 -[51] -16 ; 107
27. C420, C420, Cam Nash / Everett Metchick , Southport, CT, USA, 39 -15 -21 -12 -10 -10 -[54] ; 107
28. USA 6701, C420, Luke Ingalls / Jacquiline Morrison , Little Compton, RI, USA, 18 -6 -14 -11 -[76] -41 -22 ; 112
29. 3, C420, Max Eberstadt-Beattie / Ben Arquit , New York, NY, USA, [30] -15 -11 -19 -29 -23 -20 ; 117
30. , C420, Seth Rizika / Natalie Elder , Chestnut hill, MA, USA, 30 -8 -30 -6 -11 -[60] -36 ; 121
31. USA 7582, C420, Benton Amthor / Erik Demario , Yorktown, VA, USA, 16 -3 -44 -9 -19 -[83] -35 ; 126
32. 7842, C420, Sebastian Clark / Justin Louden , Miami, FL, USA, 18 -17 -28 -18 -14 -[34] -32 ; 127
33. None, C420, Oscar MacGillivray / Colin MacGillivray , Middletown, RI, USA, [34] -34 -25 -2 -6 -31 -30 ; 128
34. C420, C420, Teddy Nicolosi / Ryan Hunter , St Thomas, VI, US Virgin Islands, 5 -13 -20 -51 -22 -17 -[83] ; 128
35. , C420, Morgan Sailer / Blair Reilly , Annapolis, MD, USA, 12 -5 -26 -7 -49 -[50] -34 ; 133
36. N/A, C420, Cameron Turner / Cameron Turner , 22 -19 -37 -16 -[76] -4 -38 ; 136
37. N/A, C420, Kyle Riggs / Daniel Medici , East Greenwich, RI, USA, 47 -11 -40 -1 -30 -8 -[58] ; 137
38. 7712, C420, Gray Benson / Ben White , Oxford, MD, USA, 28 -14 -12 -4 -[76] -26 -53 ; 137
39. jabba, C420, cameron wood / Danielle Ahir , newport beach, CA, USA, 51 -7 -22 -17 -27 -14 -[71] ; 138
40. C420, C420, Ivan Shestopalov / Mario Gonzalez , Miami, FL, USA, 25 -22 -16 -32 -8 -35 -[46] ; 138
41. C420 , C420, Eloise Burn / Meghan Gonzalez , Short Hills, NJ, USA, 24 -10 -[50] -8 -29 -45 -23 ; 139
42. None, C420, Tommy Whittemore / Griffin Spinney , West Hartford, CT, USA, 20 -18 -30 -24 -12 -[64] -37 ; 141
43. None, C420, Gray Snyder / Jack Porter , Burlington , Ont, CAN, 21 -28 -22 -6 -19 -46 -[83] ; 142
44. n/a, C420, Emily Haig / Julia Zaleski , Beach Haven, NJ, USA, 25 -24 -11 -24 -[76] -47 -15 ; 146
45. , C420, Cameron Costello / Julia Henderson , East Falmouth, MA, USA, 23 -12 -17 -12 -31 -[68] -51 ; 146
46. _, C420, Lucas Casañé Cabot / Jessica Friedman , Barcelona, ESP, 24 -39 -17 -10 -15 -[70] -43 ; 148
47. None, C420, Jack Murphy / Connor Blanchet , Arlington, MA, USA, 7 -36 -32 -35 -23 -20 -[39] ; 153
48. Bartel Squared, C420, Samuel Bartel / Erik Sundberg , Maple Plain, MN, USA, 27 -20 -20 -25 -14 -[69] -48 ; 154
49. no name, C420, Jack Howard / Lilly Mathieu , Avon, CT, USA, 45 -12 -15 -[46] -25 -21 -45 ; 163
50. Kiss My Stern, C420, Vidar Minkovsky / Micayla Beyer , Syosset, NY, USA, 13 -28 -48 -23 -28 -25 -[55] ; 165
51. , C420, Taylor Walshe / Anna Flaherty , Edgartown, MA, USA, 36 -27 -49 -13 -26 -16 -[56] ; 167
52. 4143, C420, James Golden / Ian Mathiesen , Annapolis, MD, USA, 26 -[49] -39 -23 -5 -37 -41 ; 171
53. 5825, C420, Casey Cabot / Nick Salvesen , Washington, DC, USA, 45 -23 -34 -14 -8 -[55] -47 ; 171
54. Boat, C420, Sam Shannon / Elizabeth O’brian , Hopewell, NJ, USA, 17 -47 -23 -5 -[76] -28 -52 ; 172
55. 6121, C420, Ben Palmer / Sandy Heilshorn , Yarmouth, ME, USA, 22 -21 -42 -15 -24 -[71] -49 ; 173
56. USA 9876, C420 , Amanda Majernik / John Majernik , San Diego, CA, USA, 8 -30 -55 -28 -22 -[67] -33 ; 176
57. GNAR 2, C420, William Comerford / Emily Harrison , Annapolis, MD, USA, 27 -38 -34 -22 -24 -[56] -31 ; 176
58. Nantucket 1, C420, Henry Hayden / George Psichos , Nantucket, MA, USA, 6 -24 -43 -55 -20 -32 -[61] ; 180
59. 7300, C420, Enrique Gaston / Maddie Sharp , Miami, FL, USA, 10 -33 -19 -50 -21 -49 -[83] ; 182
60. TBD, C420, Ella Marsden / Charlotte Mack , Key Largo, FL, USA, 52 -35 -32 -16 -21 -[83] -26 ; 182
61. Tbd, C420, Matthew Sweeney / Elizabeth Massman , New Canaan, CT, USA, 46 -41 -24 -15 -17 -[52] -42 ; 185
62. 420, Club 420, Alexander Mazzeo / Sydney Register , Beaufort, SC, USA, 32 -29 -26 -30 -58 -12 -[69] ; 187
63. NA, C420, Sam Baker / Emma Marsden , Tavernier, FL, USA, 47 -32 -14 -17 -18 -[65] -59 ; 187
64. na, C420, Robert Hunter / Gloria Kevliciute , St. Thomas, VI, USA, 29 -17 -16 -27 -36 -62 -[83] ; 187
65. 4061, C420, Grace Mooradian / Eric Heilshorn , Falmouth, ME, USA, 26 -19 -33 -3 -47 -61 -[75] ; 189
66. -, C420, Ellen Fuller / Tommy Szymanski , Chatham, MA, USA, 9 -22 -66 -31 -23 -39 -[72] ; 190
67. OSEA, C420, Owen Schafer / Evan Arnold , Coronado, CA, USA, 11 -37 -31 -[49] -40 -38 -44 ; 201
68. 15, C420, Nathan Borovick / Claire Coppola , Sudbury, MA, USA, 28 -20 -53 -21 -43 -36 -[67] ; 201
69. RuhRoh, C420, Zach Champney / Peter Cronin , Mystic, CT, USA, 19 -26 -57 -14 -35 -54 -[63] ; 205
70. HYC, C420, Nathan Smith / Anna Patterson , Hampton, VA, USA, [76] -54 -10 -37 -12 -76 -18 ; 207
71. C420, C420, Blythe Dewling / Josh Zeelander , Harvey Cedars, NJ, USA, 48 -23 -23 -33 -16 -[83] -65 ; 208
72. unknown, C420, Caroline Benson / Ellie Williams , Oxford, MD, USA, 31 -58 -24 -4 -35 -57 -[68] ; 209
73. TBD, C420, Spencer Dellenbaugh / Wyatt Fogg , Portsmouth, RI, USA, 14 -43 -29 -29 -48 -[73] -60 ; 223
74. 7834, C420, Raymond Groble / Bridget Groble , Chicago, IL, USA, 42 -[65] -47 -13 -31 -44 -64 ; 241
75. TBD, C420, Kyle Bramson / Nico Leshaw , Key Biscayne, FL, USA, 14 -9 -25 -61 -65 -[83] -70 ; 244
76. Yorsz, C420, Michael Yorsz / Rosie Crawford , Winchester, USA, 62 -16 -19 -18 -[76] -58 -73 ; 246
77. N/A, C420, Katherine Bennett / Lexi Pline , Annapolis, MD, USA, 44 -27 -33 -37 -[76] -43 -66 ; 250
78. Eric and Ryan, C420, Eric OConnor / Ryan Hamilton , Marblehead, MA, USA, 49 -31 -18 -[67] -45 -48 -62 ; 253
79. , C420, Jed Bell / Cameron Nelson , Hull, MA, USA, 36 -45 -27 -34 -54 -[75] -57 ; 253
80. TBD, C420, Spencer Keenan / Aisling Sullivan , Kenilworth, IL, USA, 49 -38 -46 -19 -20 -[83] -83 ; 255
81. C420, C420, Connor Murphy / Denver Rozzo , Stuart, FL, USA, 37 -21 -29 -56 -39 -[83] -76 ; 258
82. Nantucket 4, C420, Prosser Cathey / Leslie Phillips , Nantucket, MA, USA, 31 -46 -[76] -25 -32 -66 -74 ; 274
Club 420 – Silver (One Design – 68 Boats)
1. no name, C420, Matt Hersey / Mikayla Mathieu , Hyannis, MA, USA, 37 -9 -[47] -39 -46 -2 -21 ; 154
2. N/D, C420, Nathaniel Winters / Daniel Reich , Brooklyn, NY, USA, [76] -42 -28 -21 -34 -18 -11 ; 154
3. 4769, C420, Harrison Koller / Elizabeth Hupp , Annapolis, MD, USA, 54 -35 -42 -20 -[76] -3 -1 ; 155
4. C420, C420, Rowan Byrne / Gillian Winn , Manchester, MA, USA, 34 -34 -41 -[44] -37 -6 -4 ; 156
5. 6932, C420, Meghan Oldham / Michael Lively , San Jose, CA, USA, [64] -45 -51 -20 -33 -1 -7 ; 157
6. 3651, C420, Alexander Temko / Scott Walters , Palm Harbor, FL, USA, [41] -36 -27 -32 -38 -4 -29 ; 166
7. SSKP, C420, Kaila Pfrang / Sydney Spruill , Suffolk, VA, USA, [48] -29 -37 -36 -41 -10 -23 ; 176
8. TBD, C420, Joshua Temko / Sage Walters , Palm Harbor, FL, USA, 40 -25 -[52] -47 -36 -19 -15 ; 182
9. Trevor Davis, C420, Trevor Davis / Andrea Riefkohl , Arnold, MD, USA, [76] -43 -63 -11 -28 -25 -14 ; 184
10. 6206, C420, Oscar Champigneulle / Elizabeth McCarthy , New Canaan, CT, USA, 43 -18 -43 -22 -[57] -5 -54 ; 185
11. AYC charter, C420, Remington King / George Kaye , Annapolis, MD, USA, 54 -[64] -35 -26 -34 -20 -17 ; 186
12. 6619, C420, Gideon Burnes Heath / Angus Ogilvie , Brooklyn, NY, USA, 32 -46 -[58] -44 -40 -9 -18 ; 189
13. TBD, C420, Justin Lim / Will Glasson , Hillsborough, CA, USA, 50 -37 -36 -26 -42 -[55] -2 ; 193
14. 7741, C420, Grant Adam / Lydia Brown , Marblehead, MA, USA, 41 -44 -45 -[58] -42 -17 -10 ; 199
15. Red Sky, C420, Sean Beaulieu / Connor Ratcliff , Bernard, ME, USA, 21 -33 -41 -[50] -43 -38 -25 ; 201
16. -, C420, Erin Abbott / Abigail Tutt , Barrington, RI, USA, 53 -23 -[68] -46 -44 -23 -16 ; 205
17. , C420, Kyle Nannig / Kevin Stamp , North Kingstown, RI, USA, [67] -40 -54 -45 -60 -7 -3 ; 209
18. Nantucket 3, C420, Caroline Phillips / William George , Nantucket, MA, USA, 38 -52 -[61] -45 -30 -24 -27 ; 216
19. 420, C420, Fischer Nathan / Josh Bartoszuk , Barrington, RI, USA, [76] -74 -38 -68 -26 -8 -6 ; 220
20. 7449, C420, Mary Katherine Riley / Stan Galloway , Severna Park, MD, USA, 39 -54 -44 -57 -[76] -13 -13 ; 220
21. 7340, C420, Emma Montgomery / Cecilia Moreira , Winthrop, MA, USA, [54] -42 -48 -39 -33 -31 -28 ; 221
22. tbd, C420, sam reilly / marcus adam , Annapolis, MD, USA, [53] -48 -46 -38 -44 -26 -20 ; 222
23. TBD, C420, Michael Farris / Laurel Foster , corona del mar, CA, USA, 23 -30 -49 -[53] -53 -36 -33 ; 224
24. C420, C420, Brendan Little / Thomas Walker , Easton, MD, USA, 43 -58 -21 -27 -[60] -39 -44 ; 232
25. 420, C420, Connor Macken / Jack Fisher , Barrington, RI, USA, 11 -59 -39 -40 -39 -45 -[60] ; 233
26. Nantucket 2, C420, Scott Yenor / Harper McKerrow , Nantucket, MA, USA, 55 -39 -[60] -34 -25 -40 -40 ; 233
27. Druke, C420, Drew Wolf / Luke Reich , Greenport, NY, USA, 33 -52 -[64] -35 -52 -15 -50 ; 237
28. Mariana, C420, Mariana Guzman / Carlota Alexander , Christchurch, VA, USA, 46 -25 -45 -43 -[55] -30 -52 ; 241
29. TBD, C420, Thomas Samuels / Andrew Huang , San Jose, CA, USA, 42 -48 -[62] -38 -58 -34 -26 ; 246
30. none, C420, Perry LaBelle / Kaleigh Morgan , Barrington, RI, USA, 50 -40 -[62] -40 -51 -27 -43 ; 251
31. -, C420, Nestor Cano / Rebekah Morrison , 35 -47 -[76] -69 -76 -16 -9 ; 252
32. TBD, C420, Albert Zhao / Amir Tadros , Los Altos, CA, USA, 63 -31 -57 -[76] -50 -29 -24 ; 254
33. Wianno 18, C420, Stephen Pellegrino, Jr. / Fraser Pesek , Osterville, MA, USA, 33 -51 -[76] -52 -76 -41 -5 ; 258
34. QuattroEVenti, C420, Joseph Politi / Tyler Davis , Menlo Park, CA, USA, 53 -50 -[71] -33 -45 -33 -45 ; 259
35. c420, C420, Marleigh Belsley / Becca Rose , Chicago, IL, USA, 38 -[61] -60 -42 -53 -57 -22 ; 272
36. club 420, C420, sarah hardee / Lucy Klempen , Christiansted, VI, USA, 51 -59 -[76] -48 -63 -44 -8 ; 273
37. n/a, Zim C420, Graham Mogollon / Parker Caswell , Miami Shores, FL, USA, 54 -55 -51 -[59] -56 -21 -38 ; 275
38. Name Not Found, C420, Christian Brown / Oliver Olsen , San Carlos, CA, USA, 54 -[66] -64 -42 -46 -14 -58 ; 278
39. C420, C420, Jonathan Mears / Victoria Mileti , Fairfield, CT, USA, [58] -56 -56 -41 -37 -42 -49 ; 281
40. 7789, C420, Jake Hoagland / Maddie Demming , Phoenixville, PA, USA, [66] -53 -38 -51 -61 -28 -51 ; 282
41. 3345, C420, Alex DiCenso / TBD , North Kingstown, RI, USA, 54 -56 -56 -41 -50 -[59] -32 ; 289
42. N/A, C420, Ryan Palardy / Steve Poirier , Bellingham, MA, USA, 54 -[60] -40 -43 -48 -47 -57 ; 289
43. , C420, Harrison Dewhurst / Jenna Hannafin , North Kingstown, RI, USA, 61 -[64] -53 -30 -51 -35 -61 ; 291
44. 1869, C420, Tommy Young / Carter Nestell , Tiburon, CA, USA, [76] -70 -58 -64 -41 -11 -48 ; 292
45. 7004, C420, Madeline Kaller / Lindsay Harrison , Valley Forge, PA, USA, 35 -60 -63 -[76] -76 -46 -12 ; 292
46. NONE, C420, Maddie Wehr / Bella Corio , East Greenwich, RI, USA, 54 -49 -[69] -49 -59 -51 -31 ; 293
47. HYC, C420, Jack McKenna / Britt Cortina , Poquoson, VA, USA, 54 -53 -54 -[74] -61 -43 -30 ; 295
48. 7006, C420, Philip Jeffries / Gavin Dowley , Boston, MA, USA, [76] -63 -36 -31 -76 -32 -59 ; 297
49. C/M, C420, Charlie Bresnahan / Marley Houston , New London, CT, USA, 44 -55 -67 -[76] -76 -22 -34 ; 298
50. EYC1, C420, Zander Kessler / Henry Robbins , Concord, MA, USA, 60 -[76] -52 -48 -56 -49 -39 ; 304
51. NA, C420, Matthew Wright / Taggart Bonham , Woodside, CA, USA, 54 -50 -59 -[65] -49 -54 -41 ; 307
52. Jenny, C420, Marley Hillman / Sophie Taczak , Bethesda, MD, USA, 56 -57 -[59] -47 -54 -52 -42 ; 308
53. 2, C420, Milo Walshe / Teddy Danziger , Edgartown, MA, USA, [76] -57 -60 -54 -57 -62 -19 ; 309
54. The Mudslide Chaser, C420, Owen Clark / Baker Hurley , Burlington, VT, USA, [76] -62 -50 -72 -47 -56 -35 ; 322
55. Vanguard, C420, Isaac Goldman / Lilly DiPietro , Williston, VT, USA, 57 -51 -61 -53 -[64] -50 -63 ; 335
56. M/H, C420, Malcolm Shaw / Holly Ross , Fairfield, CT, USA, [76] -68 -66 -60 -59 -48 -36 ; 337
57. 7849, C420, Madeline Simms / Josefina Ruggieri , Sands Point, NY, USA, 54 -[76] -76 -76 -76 -12 -53 ; 347
58. 7257, C420, Sam Hall / Joseph Wicker , Southport, Merseyside, GBR, [76] -67 -65 -66 -76 -37 -37 ; 348
59. c420, C420, Ashley Dart / Ryan Goldstein , North Chatham, MA, USA, 68 -63 -70 -52 -[76] -58 -46 ; 357
60. TBD, C420, Benjamin Kunz / JT Hoagland , Medford, NJ, USA, 59 -65 -[72] -56 -65 -60 -56 ; 361
61. Firefly, C420, Emma Snead / Allison G. , Annapolis, MD, USA, [76] -72 -55 -62 -62 -63 -55 ; 369
62. tbd, C420, Sam Dragomire / Cole Kilgus , Lincoln, RI, USA, [76] -62 -65 -54 -76 -69 -47 ; 373
63. C420, C420, Meg Higgins / Marissa Walsh , Belmont, MA, USA, 52 -73 -[76] -73 -52 -65 -64 ; 379
64. 123, C420 , Nicolas Holmgren / Ben W , East Greenwhich, RI, USA, [76] -61 -76 -70 -55 -53 -68 ; 383
65. none, C420, Caroline Buckley / Ella Affanato , Milton, MA, USA, 65 -67 -[73] -57 -63 -67 -67 ; 386
66. N/A, C420, William Sargent / Livia Kelly , Boston, MA, USA, [76] -69 -67 -63 -64 -61 -62 ; 386
67. Splash, C420, Julia O’Connor / Rebecca Morrison , Foxborough, MA, USA, [76] -66 -74 -55 -62 -66 -65 ; 388
68. Ghost Rider, C420, Elizabeth Amelotte / Ada Oancea , East Greenwich, RI, USA, 54 -[71] -68 -71 -66 -64 -66 ; 389
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Profiles in Pro Sailing: Lior Lavie
Sail1Design sat down with Lior Lavie, coach of the US Optimist World Champion Team Race Team (see article). This is the first time a US team has won the team race worlds!
Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, how did you start sailing, and how did you begin coaching?
I’m Lior Lavie, born and raised in Israel in a small village name Michmoret. I’ve started sailing Opti’s at age 7 in my local sailing club, and then moved to the club next door Sdot- Yam sailing club, where is sailed 420’s and 470.
As you know in Israel after graduation from high school every boy and girl needs to serve 3 years in the Israeli army. I was fortunate enough to be included in a special athlete program that allowed me to continue sailing and representing my country in the 470 Olympic class. After those 3 years, my crew decided to go study and our Optimist coach at the club, Shahaf Amir – former 470 world champion, told me that he want me to become the new Opti coach at Sdot Yam sailing club. And sure enough I agreed and started coaching.
Were you yourself an Optimist sailor, and if so, how far did you take it?
I’ve been sailing Opti’s and was the national champion in last two years of my Opti career. Israel does not have a lot of money to send the team to IODA World championships, but I’ve represented my country in the IODA Europeans.
How did you become the US Optimist Team Race Team Coach?
At the end of 2012 I moved to the US, and started coaching in Miami. During the summer of 2013 I was chosen to coach my first US international team at British Nationals in Largs, Scotland. I’ve continued being involved in the Opti class in the states, aka USODA and coached several IODA continental championships. Twice IODA Europeans, and IODA South Americans. This year the committee of USODA picked me to coach the team the will participate at IODA World championship. This was the first time I coach at that event.
Can you introduce us to the team? You had five members, yes? Tell us about them.
The team is formed based on the results of USODA Team Trails the was held this year in San Francisco. The top 5 finishers get the “ticket” or spot to represent the US at the World championship. Here are the team members by order of finish at Team Trails.
– Justin Callahan: Justin is 13 years old, from Cape Coral FL. Justin has a twin brother Mitchell that is his best training partner and pushes him to his limits.
– Zane Rogers: Zane is 14 years old, from Kemah, TX. Zane is a great Opti sailor that masters the art of efficiency. His equipment is always the best, and his professional attitude and consistent sailing takes him a long ways
– Sam Bruce: Same is 14 years old, from Severna Park, MD. Sam’s attitude is quiet, calm and does not let the surroundings get to him. Very mature sailor and also has a twin brother that just couple days ago finished 4th at IODA Europeans championship.
– Thomas Hall: Tomas is 13 years old, from Philadelphia PA. This was Thomas 3rd world championship in a row. And the only sailor in the US history to win the Nations Cup twice! (It has been won only twice, and in both Thomas was part of the team).
– Bella Casaretto: Bella is 13 years old, from Fort Lauderdale FL. Bella is the lady in our team, bringing the feminine spirit and balance to the competitive boys. Bella had demonstrated throughout this event strong mental skills and sportsmanship like no one else has.
Fill us in on the regatta in Portugal. What were the highs, and the lows?
We flew to Portugal 14 days before the first race of the championship. This is a long time to prepare the sailors to peak at the right moment. It takes a lot of understanding of the dynamics of the team, and how the sailors are feeling. To make a note, we’ve sailed 20 out of 22 days we were in Portugal. Probably the most difficult part for me as a coach was to keep the team focused and sharp. That saying, sleep enough, eat properly, not fight, respect each other and the other competitors and always stay low profile until they cross the finish in the last race of the championship.
The highs of course were winning “Nations Cup” – this trophy is given to the best performance country in the fleet racing championship. They calculate the finishes of top 4 boats of each country and who ever has the lowest points wins. As a coach, and for the country this is the most prestigious trophy. And as well, winning Team Racing World Championship. The race against Singapore (which are ranked number 1 in the world was probably the most intense moment for us as a team). Our sailors were the only undefeated country.
This is an historic achievement. No US team has ever won the Opti TR Worlds. How does it feel as the coach?
It feels great. I’ll be honest and say that I come from a country without a big team racing history. And I got exposed in the states to the art of team racing. I was lucky enough throughout those 3 and half years I’m here in the US, to work with great team racing coaches and learned a lot from them. It is an historic event in modern sailing and very hard to achieve.
Where do you go from here as a coach?
As I write this I’m currently in Newport RI, but after IODA Worlds, I flew to coach Antigua and Uruguay at the IODA North Americans where we won first place over all with Uruguay – amazing achievement by itself. And now getting ready to head to Houston for the US Optimist National Championship.
Why is the Optimist such a popular boat for kids? Are there any downsides to the boat and class?
I guess it’s cheap, and there are so many boat builders around the world that it makes it very accessible. I think that the Opti is the worst hydrodynamic object to sail on. With its trapezoid hull and flat square bow plus the combination of HUGE foils compared to size of hull is very difficult to sail fast. Saying that if you are able to make it go faster than the boats around you, then there is something special in that sailor. That’s my opinion. Speed = able to execute strategy and tactics.
What words of advice can you give to both coaches and young sailors about international team race competition?
For coaches – be engaged with the team. Coaching is also off the water.
For sailors – respect your teammates, understand that everyone is trying the best they can and might do mistakes. DO NOT criticize your team mates.
Finally, congratulations on this incredible achievement. Do you think this is the beginning of a better presence for the USA internationally, both in Optimist sailing and beyond?
If you look at the last year in Opti sailing at the IODA Continental:
IODA Europeans – Gold Medal
IODA South Americas – Bronze Medal
IODA North Americas – Gold Medal
IODA Worlds – Nations Cup & Gold Medal Team Racing
Bronze medal at the IODA Asians championship.
These are only top 3 finishes without counting others in top 10… but as we know life keeps going on and new generations come forward and do their best 🙂
Thank you very much…
Lior and Maya (my sailing coach dog)
2016 Optimist North Americans Report & Results: Antigua
By Taylor Penwell
The Antigua Yacht Club hosted the 2016 Optimist North American Championship this past week. 144 competitors from 20 countries attended the event. Antigua hosted the 2015 Optimist North Americans and proved itself as a venue with wind, waves, heritage and beauty. It was no surprise with last year’s 
success, Antigua decided to host the event for the second consecutive year.
The event had four days of fleet racing along with one day of team racing. The average wind conditions for racing were 10-15 knots with gusts of 20 knots. Three days of fleet racing decided the qualifying for the last day’s separation into the gold, silver and bronze fleets.
Team Racing
The team racing was divided into two groups. Nations from North America competed in the North American Team Race Championship, while nations from other continents competed in the Nations Cup. In the Nations Cup, results were Chile in 1st, Australia in 2nd and Peru in 3rd. Team USA 1 bested Team USA 2 in the finals for 1st place in the North American Team Race Championship with Mexico 1 in 3rd place.
USA 1 Wins the North American Team Racing Championship
Fleet Racing
Hernan Umpierre of Uruguay dominated the four days of fleet racing. Hernan finished with 13 net points, discarding his worst race, which was a 5th. USA sailor Stephan Baker placed 2nd overall with two bullets and a third place finish on the last day of racing. Benjamin Fuenzalida of Chile took 3rd place. Mia Nicolosi of the United States Virgin Islands finished top girl with a 4th place overall.
2016 Optimist North American Champion Hernan Umpierre
Results Here
Full Fleet Racing: http://optinam2016.org/Docs/NAM2016day4v5.htm
North American Team Race Championship: https://sail1design.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/RESULTSNAM.pdf
Nations Cup: https://sail1design.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/RESULTSNC.pdf
Profiles in Pro Sailing: Roy Williams
By Joe Cooper
When I read that one of Newport’s local powerhouses in high school sailing, St.. Georges, had won the National Team Racing the Baker Trophy, it was an easy call to contact Roy Williams their head coach to check in.
S1D: Roy, congratulations on the win. Before we dig into that, give me a sketch of your background please.
RW: Thank you, the kids did a great job and the win was not clear until the finish of the last race. My background? Well I grew up sailing in Wales, in the UK sailing dinghies: International Cadet’s, 420’s, 505’s of all kinds small boats. This dinghy background is typical of most of the sailing clubs in the UK, very dinghy oriented and fewer ‘yachts’. I have been in the US for thirty years and have sailed on 110’s, 6 meters everything between and locally here in Newport. My educational background is as a civil engineer but somewhere in there I took a Post graduate Certificate of Education in the UK in Math teaching and outdoor education, and well here I am.
S1D: The Baker, held this year in Anacortes, Washington State had the extremes of weather, windy first day and then light and fluky for the second day. Did you have enough personnel to match weights for the different conditions?
RW: We had a full compliment of nine sailors. We used the same skippers and did use the heavier crews (some of whom were there as our alternate skippers) on the first day but I don’t think that in the FJ’s going too heavy is wise, they are lower freeboard and finer in the bows than the 420’s and if they are too heavy with crew, can get a lot of water in them especially in bad chop. I was really more focused on matching the skills of the crews.
S1D: Given that it was a National Championship, did you bring the big guns as it were?
RW: One of the skippers was Will Logue, current ISAF 420 US World Youth Champion but we also had one of the crews was a sophomore girl who has only been sailing since she came to St. Georges, so only two years of sailing, just at the end of her second year really.
S1D: You mentioned the regatta really went down to the last leg of the last race…?
RW: Yes, the sailing was 350 or so yards offshore and the angle for viewing was not ideal. In our race against Newport Harbor, they had a 1,2 at the bottom mark and so I did not know what was going to happen until the finish line. Our team managed to get back and win the race with a 2,3,5. In hindsight if they had won that race we would have been tied with them at 10-1 and they would have won the tiebreaker.
S1D: Do you have a formal structure for incoming freshman for joining the team?
RW: No, the only real criteria is if I think a new, non-sailor, is going to put him or herself or other team members at risk I might suggest they take a summer of formal sailing instruction first. We sail on Newport Harbor in the spring and the water is still cold. And for a non-sailor to get experience, it takes away from one of the skilled skippers who is in effect being a sailing instructor, at least for the first few hours so that needs to be weighed in the calculus.
S1D: Big picture philosophy, How do you conduct your sailing, what are you thinking of as you drive down to the boats?
RW: It depends on the part of the season, how far through it we are. In the beginning I concentrate on sailing fast and boat handling. Later on in the season, I concentrate on the finer details of execution. Especially in Team Racing, boat handling is so important so you really have to be good had handling the boat.
S1D: You mentioned earlier on a list of things that ‘win races’, what is that about?
RW: It an exercise we do almost every season. I get the sailors to write down a list of the factors that lead to winning races. This is all over the place as to who thinks what is important. So some of the newer sailors coming from say Opti’s, where there are big fleets, a good start can be almost the entire race. I write up on a white board all the suggestions. Then I draw a big circle that becomes a pie chart, and ask the sailors to allocate a percentage of each factor you can see what the elements are and how to rank them in importance. IT really gets the kids to think about what the different parts are in sailing and between fleet and team racing.
S1D: Are you seeing more girls entering sailing?
RW: I am seeing more girls coming as really good skippers. Sailing is one of the only sports I can think of where men and women compete as equals on the same field where there can be direct confrontation between them while competing. At the Women’s Championship (The Herreshoff Trophy) this year we had three qualifying regattas to get to 16 finalists. A few years ago we could only muster 10 schools with out qualifiers so in that sense yes, there are more girls in sailing, at least steering.
S1D: I noticed looking back through results that the same teams, especially from California are always in the hunt. Over a four-year cycle with high school and college sailing you can get fortunate and have good sailors all four years, but these schools have been in the top for 10 plus years. What is your take on this? More sailing time, sunny California?
RW: I don’t think it is more sailing time, we practice roughly the same amount of ‘formal’ total hours as the west coast teams, although they do sail far more fleet racing regattas than we do here on the East Coast. They do a lot more ‘messing about in boats’ sailing though. The really successful schools are in the sailing hub cities, Newport Beach and San Diego in particular. They are nearly all, if not all, Sabot sailors but early on they may spend time jumping in an out of other boats, such as FJs. This time in other boats, even though informal, certainly helps develop boat handling and boat speed. And again, early on, they do a lot of Sabot fleet racing, on courses that are a lot like the courses sailed at high school and college, so they are keyed up tactical situations. Good boat speed and boat handling, with solid tactics, makes for pretty skilled sailors.
S1D: Roy, thank you and again congratulations to you and the team
RW: My pleasure, thank you
The First Years as a Sailing Coach
By Northeast Airwaves writer Paige Hoffman
With summer sailing in full swing, the peak of competitive sailing is at its height. Summer race teams and recreational classes alike are running all over the country. Everyone remembers the first time they started their journey as a sailor. Some didn’t begin sailing until high school or college, but many others started off in summer junior sailing programs. As a result, many of these sailors end up working as summer instructors in the programs they learned to sail in. Whether you began your racing days in Green Fleet, or were new to sailing altogether when you began competing, chances are you have some experience working in or around a junior program.
With over twelve hundred registered yacht clubs in the United States, and countless community boating programs, there is always a demand for sailing instructors. Consequently, many high school and college sailors, sailing students themselves, find jobs working in programs like these. I grew up sailing at Duxbury Bay Maritime School, and as a result found it easy to acquire a job there, having had connections with the Junior Sailing Program director through high school sailing. Getting the job was easy enough, but I soon realized that coaching is a lot more than simply being a competent sailor myself.
Like most junior instructors, I started off at age sixteen teaching classes as a sort of assistant to a more experienced instructor. This experience was invaluable to me as a person with really no prior teaching knowledge. I was able to learn the ropes of working with young sailors while making money and preparing myself for teaching more independently. Menial tasks, filling gas tanks, dropping marks, bailing boats, unpleasant as they seem, create hardworking and well-conditioned sailors. Being a junior instructor is sort of like being a freshman in high school or college. You’re expected to listen and work diligently, but also to make mistakes and learn from them. I can still remember the devastation I felt as a first year instructor when I fell out of a docked boat and lost a radio. It wasn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but at the time, confessing to my boss was daunting. It helps to remember that even the oldest and most senior of sailing coaches were young once too, and that they too have broken equipment, lost equipment, and circumstantially made the same mistakes that young instructors are making now. If there is one thing to stress about being a junior instructor, it’s that you too are a student in this point in your teaching career. Listening to and watching how the older instructors teach and handle their students is a big part of your job too. Taking a backseat role and simply letting them take charge is not preparing you to be a competent teacher yourself. No matter how many times you have to fight for students attention, or tow them upwind when they can’t figure out how to get out of irons, the actions you take towards preparing your students as sailors will help you prepare you as a coach.
Explaining to children the fundamentals of sailing helps you to gain a deeper understanding of the sport and take pride in your own abilities as a sailor, something that can never be accomplished in any way but spreading a love and understanding of the water to others. You can sail in the most competitive events in the world, participate in the highest-level clinics in sailing, but if you never spread your appreciation for the sport onto others, you will never quite experience the kind of pride you feel watching a young sailor catch onto the sport and succeed.
About Paige Hoffman, Northeast/High School Sailing Airwaves Reporter
Paige started sailing at age ten at Duxbury Bay Maritime School. By age twelve, she was competing in Optis and transitioned to 420 sailing when she was fourteen, becoming a member of the Duxbury High School sailing team as a freshman in high school and racing through club programs at Duxbury Bay Maritime school in the fall and summer seasons. In the summer, she works as a Junior Sailing Instructor at Duxbury Bay Maritime School, teaching younger sailors the fundamentals of sailing. In 2016, she helped her team win the Mass Bay League Team Race Championship and was named co-captain of her team for the 2017 spring season.
ILCA Boat Grant Recipients win Lightning ACC's
This weekend the International Lightning Class held their Atlantic Coast Championship on waters off Wrightsville Beach, NC. Carolina Yacht Club hosted the event and certainly demonstrated true southern hospitality throughout the event in preparation of hoisting the 2017 North American Championship.
The event began with Greg Fisher (College of Charleston, Director of Sailing) and Brian Hayes (North Sails One Design) leading a clinic for the early arriving teams. These clinics, know to the class as Lightning Labs, are very intuitive seminars directed at performance in the Lightning. This session began with a short shore session where Greg and Brian talked about a few nuances of sail trim and fine tune controls in breezy conditions. After this quick shore session, 12 boats hit the water for some practice races with Greg and Brian coaching and videotaping. Conditions were perfect to knock out four good races and a few practice starts. The clinic wrapped up late in the afternoon with an hour long video debrief about sail trim and boat handling.
Racing began Saturday AM with a SW breeze and a 3-foot ocean swell. Three races were sailed with three different winners; Doug Wake, Ched Proctor & George Harrington. Other notables on the day were Greg Fisher, Peter Hogan and Eric Oetgen.
Sunday’s races began around 1130 after a quick postponement on the water. The breeze was light and from the SE with a very light ocean swell. Peter Hogan and Tommy Allen took the bullets in the two remaining races. Other notables were Gordon Wolcott (Boat Grant Recipient), Carter Cameron and Bill Mauk.
The real story behind this event is the overall winner with 5, 3, 10, 2 & 6 for finishes. Gordon Wolcott from Virginia Beach with his crew Elizabeth “Lizzie” Chambers from Mooresville, NC and Chris Stessing from Buffalo, NY sailed to very consistent finishes throughout the event to take tie with Greg Fisher (with his wife JoAnn and daughter Martha) and win the tiebreaker. This team is one of the 2016 Boat Grant Teams*. This is only the 2nd event that they have sailed in a Lightning and the first major event in the class. This win certainly sends a statement that our Boat Grant Program* is working and we are finding great sailors. Congratulations to Gordon, Lizzie and Chris on the win!
*To learn more about the International Lightning Class Boat Grant Program, you can visit our class page or see this Scuttlebutt article from May 16, 2016.
Overall Results
Interview with the Winners
