LYC Members Take Home Silver at YRALIS Annual Awards; Commodore Carl Olsson Awarded Ned Anderson Achievement Award

December 5, 2010

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 Carl Olsson winning the YRALIS’s highest honor, the Ned Anderson Achievement Award and Thomas Carroll’s J/133 SirenSong winning the Caper Trophy for best overall IRC performance for the second straight year. 

 

Commodore Carl Olsson accepts the Ned Anderson Achievement Award from YRALIS President Bernie Armstrong.  Photo courtesy Andrea Watson/Sailing Press, Inc.

 

Olsson, newly installed as Commodore in November, is the eleventh LYC member to win the Ned Anderson Achievement Award and the second in a row, with past Commodore John Mendez receiving the honor in 2009.  The trophy, named for past LYC member Ned Anderson Jr., recognizes outstanding service by an individual to yacht racing on Long Island Sound.  Commodore Olsson was noted for his sportsmanship in recovering a man overboard in the American YC Fall Series as well as his continued support of junior sailing keelboat programs, the Storm Trysail Club’s Intercollegiate Regatta and disabled sailing over the years.  Other LYC luminaries to have been so honored include Cornelius Shields, Arthur Knapp, Mary Savage and Charles Ulmer.

SirenSong won the Caper Trophy for the best combined IRC performance over a series of day and distance races for the second straight year, and is the third consecutive J/133 from LYC to win the award. 

 

Thomas Carroll accepts the Caper Trophy. 

Photo courtesy Andrea Watson/Sailing Press, Inc.

 

LYC sailors swept the one design fleet championships, with Com Crocker and Dual Macintyre winning Shields Fleet 1, past Commodore David V. Smalley winning the Etchells Fleet 1 championship, Marion Maneker winning the International One Design title and Howard T. Howard and Bill Simmons winning the Herreshoff S Boat season championship.

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