The double-handed season got underway this past weekend with the Southpoints 1 Regatta at Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa. Throughout the season, the LYC teams will compete in 7 "Southpoints" Regattas, which cumulatively qualify the Top 7 teams for the District Championship (the top 3-4 teams from the Districts then go to Fleet Race Nationals). Results can be viewed here, and you can follow us at regattas all season long at scores.hssailing.org . 23 Varsity Teams from Florida and 1 from South Carolina completed 10 races total in primarily light and shifty conditions. The Aquinas team of Mack Fox, Dae Kelly, Sophia Rieneke, Cameron Swain, Max Vittemburga, and Clyde Weight led through most of the regatta (Sophia/Clyde started the event with a bullet), but a late-day penalty turn for hitting the starting mark dropped the team to 2nd. Pinecrest attended as well and got some pretty inexperienced sailors through the hurdle of their first regatta, as well as finishing with a nice race in A Division. Overall, i'm happy with Aquinas' sailing relative to the District, but see that we have a long way to go in practice as a team before we start putting up consistently better results!
We will be Team Racing this week in practice before getting a group ready to attend the Lawrence "Stop calling me Larry" White Intersectional at Coast Guard Academy, CT, on October 17-18.
- Arthur Blodgett
Monday, September 28, 2015
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Sophia Rieneke Qualifies for Cressy Singlehanded Nationals!
Representing St. Thomas of Aquinas at the first of the 4 yearly nationals qualifiers (Singlehanded, Keelboat, Double-handed, Team Racing) Sophia Rieneke qualified for the Cressy National Championship, to be held at Old Dominion University. Sailing in the 42 boat Laser Radial Fleet, Sophia finished 3rd, while STA teammates Connor Correll took 6th, Mack Fox 14th, Anna Weiss 16th, and Max Gillette 21st. Congrats to LYC Laser coaches Chris Dold and Colin Page who prepared the sailors well for this regatta and coached at the event.
Full results can be seen here.
Full results can be seen here.
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