LYC Junior Sailors Compete at
U.S. Youth Championship
June 25-30, 2009
Greenwich, CT
Clear air was hard to find in the competitive Club 420 division
at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championship.
Three of LYC’s best junior sailors competed in the 2009 U.S. Youth Sailing Championship at Indian Harbor YC in Greenwich, CT. Markus Edegran (with crew Teddy Mark) and Andrew Mollerus (with crew Charlie Peck) skippered teams in the Club 420 division while Rebecca Liggins crewed for Chanel Miller of Lauderdale YC (Florida), also in Club 420s. In addition, Mark is a former member of the LYC junior program. READ MORE.
LYC Sailors Take Podium Spots at
Vanguard 15 New England Championship
June 27-28, 2009
Westport, CT
Danny Pletsch and Emily Whipple receiving their first place
trophies at New Englands.
Seven teams from LYC traveled up I-95 to compete at the 2009 Vanguard 15 New England Championship at Cedar Point YC. LYC teams won three of the five trophies, led by Danny Pletsch and Emily Whipple’s win by one point. Sean and Susan Doyle finished third, and summer sailing member David Meleney and crew Elizabeth Hawkins finished fourth. READ MORE.
LYC Women Compete at The
Commodore Mendez Trophy
June 20, 2009
Larchmont, NY
Kate Manion and Teresa Laughlin receive their first place trophies
from Commodore Mendez and PRO Paul Lennon.
What started out as a dull and gloomy day developed into a very pleasant afternoon of racing for The Commodore Mendez Trophy regatta. This trophy is awarded annually to the winning skipper and crew in the Club’s Women’s Invitational Regatta. READ MORE.
Com Crocker and Dual Macintyre Win 2009 Shields District Championship
June 20-21, 2009
Larchmont NY
Photo by Maureen Koeppel
A solid 14 boat fleet came to out to contest the 2009 Shields District One Championship. Winning 3 of the four races and the event overall were Com Crocker and Dual Macintyre on Rascal. A tie-breaker was necessary for the balance of the podium with Mike Carr’s Corneila besting Doug Campbell, Greg Takata and Fred Wertheim’s Katherine by winning the final race of the series. Fred Werblow’s Checkmate also tied for second on points but ended the regatta fourth after the tie-breaker.
Conditions looked bleak for day one of the series with light fog and even lighter air. But the wind finally filled from the south to provide two good light-air races. Sunday was a different story as the breeze solidly filled from the north providing for tactically challenging and close racing for the final two heats of the regatta. Results.
Siren Song Scores Top Finish
in Annapolis-Newport Race
June 5-8, 2009
Annapolis, MD – Newport, RI
Siren Song Rips out of the Chesapeake Bay.
Tom Carroll’s J-133 Siren Song placed second in IRC class 1 and second overall in the 2009 Annapolis-Newport Race. After an extremely fast run under spinnaker out of the Chesapeake Bay, the fleet slowly sailed into a stalled front that brought light winds and rain for the remainder of the race. Though George David’s R/P 90 Rambler built up an unassailable handicap lead in the early stages of the race, Carroll and his team beat the balance of a deep and talented fleet – correcting out on the larger R/P 45 Sjambok by just a few minutes after four days of sailing. Peter Bauer’s Bonzer was having a great race as well in the PHRF fleet but was forced to retire after making extremely slow progress up the coast. Full results can be found at www.annapolisyc.org.
LYC Co-Hosts Regatta for Disabled Sailors; Vice Commodore Olsson Finishes Third
June 6-7, 2009
Rye, NY
Larchmont YC co-hosted the first annual Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta, sailed June 6-7 at co-host American YC. Twenty teams of disabled sailors and two teams of blind sailors competed. The sailors came from fourteen states, the District of Columbia and Canada. LYC’s support of this event is part of the club’s substantial initiative to promote events for sailors with disabilities.
Competitors line up for a light air start at the first annual
Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta.
Pieter Taselaar’s Bliksem Dominates Italian Melges 32 Regatta
June 5-7, 2009
Scarlino, Italy
Photo by Carlo Borlenghi
Pieter Taselaar’s Bliksem schooled a talented international 19-boat fleet to take the Melges 32 event in Scarlino Italy held June 5-7. Building on Bliksem’s win at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, Taselaar and crew led every day of the 3- day event, which featured medium to heavy conditions. Bliksem will race again in Cagliari, Italy July 15-17 where she will be joined by another LYC Melges 32, Jason Carroll’s Argo. Both teams will also contest the Melges 32 World Championships to be held in Porto Cervo, Italy in September 2009.
LYC Sailors Compete at ICSA National Championships
May 25-June 3, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Georgetown skipper Nik Holtan with crew Carly Chamberlain go
for boat speed at the ICSA Team Race Nationals.
Photo by Glennon Stratton
Two former LYC junior sailors and three current LYC junior sailing instructors competed at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Spring National Championships. Lily Beck, a senior at Boston College helped her team to a third-place finish at the ICSA Women’s Nationals and senior Nik Holtan and his Georgetown team finished third at ICSA Team Race Nationals. READ MORE.
LYC Big Boats Excel in 2009 Block Island Race
May 22-24, 2009
Stamford, CT
Sweet Lorraine after the start.
LYC’s offshore success continued in the 2009 Storm Trysail Block Island Race with three of the four LYC entrants ending up on the podium. Lora Ann won the IRC 35 division and finished second overall in IRC and Sweet Lorraine won the IRC 50 division. Mother Nature was very cooperative as a great southerly propelled the fleet out of the Sound and, after a light transitional period, dealt the fleet a hard easterly for an exhilarating downwind ride home. READ MORE.
2009 Memorial Day Regatta
May 23 -24, 2009
Larchmont, NY
Photo by Maureen Koeppel
This was a great way to kick off the start of the One-Design season at LYC. Saturday brought us breezes that we dream about and pray for all summer – 15 knots steady with gusts to 20, coming in from the East at 075 degrees. So we had some deep rock-and-roll to add to the pleasure. Sunday morning we awoke to fog and a breeze of “minus 2” but about a half hour before the start a nice southerly filled in and kept us cheerful for the entire afternoon. We completed four races for the regulars, and five for the 5o5s. READ MORE.
LYC’s SirenSong and Lora Ann
Take Top Honors at The Edlu
May 9, 2009
Larchmont, NY
39 yachts participated in LYC’s 54th Annual Edlu distance race. The event was a 32-mile race with a starting line south of the Larchmont breakwater, going around Gong “11B” off Eaton’s Neck and returning to Larchmont.
Commodore Jan Smeets and George Parthemos calling the pin
by compass. Photo by Howie McMichael
The conditions at the start were a light easterly with very dense fog. For many yachts, just finding the starting line was a navigational challenge. One yacht radioed the Race Committee, “We don’t know where the heck we are, but we’re checking in.” The Race Committee was asked to repeat the coordinates of the committee boat's position many times. For the first few hours of the race, visibility was no more than 100 yards.
LYC Juniors Qualify for Optimist National and Development Teams
May 3, 2009
Darien, CT
The 2009 Optimist Team Trials featured light air and
competitive racing.
After a hard winter and spring of practice, eight LJYC sailors competed at the 2009 Optimist National Team Trials at Noroton YC, which featured 210 of the country’s best Optimist sailors competing in 12 predominantly light air races over 4 days. Sailors at the Team Trials can qualify for the national team and the right to represent the United States in regattas such as the World Championship and the European Championship. READ MORE.
LYC Places Second at 2009 Wilson Trophy
May 2, 2009
West Kirby Sailing Club, England
Team LYC (blue sails) Battles West Kirby in the 2009 Wilson
Team Larchmont Yacht Club placed second at the 2009 Wilson Trophy, also known as the British Open Team Racing Championship and “The Wimbledon of Sailing.” The LYC team, who were also runners up at the 2008 event, featured Danny Pletsch and Cardwell “Flea” Potts, with 2008 Olympians Tim Wadlow and Carrie Howe and former All American crews Ery Largay and Dani Neri.
