LYC Members Take Home Silver at YRALIS Annual Awards; John Mendez Awarded Ned Anderson Achievement Award

December 6, 2009

Larchmont, NY

LYC members represented the Club well at all facets of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound’s annual awards dinner, highlighted by Commodore John Mendez winning the YRALIS’s highest honor, the Ned Anderson Achievement Award, Thomas Carroll’s J/133 SirenSong winning the Caper Trophy for best overall IRC performance and Com Crocker and Dual Macintyre’s Shields Rascal winning the Russell Nall Trophy for best overall one design performance. 

 

Commodore John Mendez (right) receiving the Ned Anderson Achievement Award from YRALIS president Robert Kendrick. 

Photo by Andrea Watson.

 

Mendez, commodore of LYC from 1994 to 1996, is the tenth LYC member to win the Ned Anderson Achievement Award and the first since H.L. DeVore in 2005.  The trophy recognizes outstanding service by an individual to yacht racing on Long Island Sound.  Commodore Mendez was noted for his many years of outstanding race management and for his recent contributions in establishing the New York YC Invitational Cup.  Other LYC luminaries to have been so honored include Cornelius Shields, Arthur Knapp, Mary Savage and Charles Ulmer.

 

Rich du Moulin receiving the Oak Cliff Cup.

 

SirenSong won the Caper Trophy for the best combined IRC performance over a series of day and distance races and is the second straight J/133 from LYC to win the award, with Commodore Jan Smeets’s Bacchanal winning in 2008.  Rich du Moulin’s Express 37 Lora Ann placed third overall for the Caper Trophy and won the trophy for the best IRC performance in the spring, as well as the newly commissioned Oak Cliff Cup, awarded by the Sound IRC owner’s association for the best three regattas out of a possible six events.

 

Dual Macintyre (right) accepting the Russell Nall Trophy.

 

Crocker and Macintyre won the overall Shields Fleet 1 title and their score was the highest of any of the one design classes on the Sound to win the Nall Trophy for the third consecutive season.  Fred Werblow’s Checkmate was second and Skip McGuire’s Lure was third.  Commodore David Smalley won Etchells Fleet 1, with Chris Marx in second.  Howard T. Howard and Bill Simmons’s Allegro won the Herreshoff S Boat season championship, with Sean Park’s Dilemma in second.  Tony Huston’s Aileen won the IOD fleet and Huston also won the Commodore Hipkins Trophy, advancing to US Sailing’s semifinals for the U.S. Men’s Championship in the process.

For complete results and photos, please visit the YRALIS website.