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
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