LYC Juniors Selected to Compete at
US Youth Championship
May 4, 2012
Portsmouth, RI
Five of LYC’s top junior sailors were selected to compete at the 2012 US Sailing Youth Championship, to be held August 14 through 18 in the famously windy Columbia River Gorge in Cascade Locks, Oregon. Brothers Andrew and Matthew Mollerus will be the only team from the northeast competing in the 29er division. This will be Andrew Mollerus’s fourth straight year competing at Youth Champs. LYC will have three teams competing in the Club 420 division, with Reinier Eenkema van Dijk (with crew Spencer McDonough from Indian Harbor YC), Casey Klingler (with crew Haley Fox from Lauderdale YC) and Harry Koeppel (with crew Charles Bocklet from American YC) each looking to improve on their results at the 2011 Youth Champs. Teams are selected to compete at the Youth Champs based on sailing resumes. Earlier this spring, Koeppel and Bocklet were named to the US Sailing Development Team by virtue of winning the US Youth Worlds Qualifier in January. For more information, please visit the Youth Champs website.
LYC Sailors Score Top Finishes at
Interclub Nationals
Apr. 28-29, 2012
Rochester, NY
Ted Ferrarone and Meredith Killion (bow 74) round the windward
mark just ahead of John & Molly Baxter (bow 66).
For the first time in six years, an LYC winter sailor failed to win the Interclub national championship, though LYC sailors did place second through sixth at the 2012 regatta hosted at Rochester Canoe Club. Two-time national champions John & Molly Baxter finished second overall, 53 points behind Jim Bowers and Alexa Schuler from the Winthrop, Massachusetts fleet, who won their record-tying sixth IC nationals. READ MORE.
Jason Carroll Places Second at Melges 32 East Coast Championship
April 26-29, 2012
West Palm Beach, FL
Argo rounds the windward mark ahead of a tight pack in
West Palm Beach. Photo courtesy Sara Proctor
Jason Carroll and his team on Argo placed second in the hotly contested Melges 32 East Coast Championship. Each boat in the 16-boat fleet finished at least one race in the bottom fifth of the standings, and only one team managed to avoid having multiple double-digit scores over the eight-race series. Carroll, with LYC member Chad Corning aboard, led after the second day, but dropped into a tie for the lead in the last race, which was broken in favor of Ryan DeVos’s Volpe team from Michigan. LYC member Pieter Taselaar’s Bliksem team finished ninth overall. Results.
LYC Juniors Compete at Opti National
Team Trials
Apr. 26-29, 2012
Brant Beach, NJ
Four of LYC’s top junior sailors qualified for the USODA National Team Trials, held on the Jersey Shore in late April. The event is for the top Optimist sailors in the country to determine which sailors will earn the right to represent the United States at international Optimist regattas in 2012, including the World, European, North and South American Championships. Solid winds, including a blustery 25-knot day on Friday, allowed for thirteen races over four days. Emma Kaneti finished 28th overall and fifth among female competitors, and will likely get a shot to compete at the Asian or European championships once team selection is completed later in May. Matthew Kaplan finished 34th, Will Gallagher 47th and Elizabeth Hansen 79th. Results.
Larchmont Sailors Invade
Charleston Race Week
Apr. 19-22, 2012
Charleston, SC
The 40-boat strong Viper 640 fleet was the largest at Charleston
Race Week and had seven LYC teams competing.
Photo courtesy Meredith Block
Charleston Race Week has become one of the country’s most popular and competitive annual regattas, known for its competitive racing, large sportboat population and post-race beach parties. Five different race circles were created to manage the 250 boats entered: two offshore and three inside highly tide effected Charleston Harbor. A total of 19 LYC sailors made the trek south for an unseasonably cool and often rainy weekend of racing. READ MORE.
LYC Places Third in Baldwin Cup Team Race
March 30-Apr. 1, 2012
Newport Beach, CA
Team LYC at the 2012 Baldwin Cup.
The LYC team racing squad took its talents to Southern California for the weekend, competing against nine other teams at Newport Harbor YC in evenly matched Harbor 20s. LYC started with a couple of losses in round 1, but adjusted to the quirky conditions inside Newport Harbor and in the west coast boats to finish the second round robin in second place. After qualifying for the Final Four, LYC lost in the semifinals to eventual champions Seawanhaka Corinthian YC, but rebounded to defeat host Newport Harbor YC in the petite finals. Sailing for Team LYC were John and Molly Baxter, Cardwell and Corky Potts, Danny Pletsch, Buttons Padin, Clay Bischoff and David Dowd. For photos, results and video, please visit the event website.
