Newport Yacht Club Lightning Fleet

Newport Yacht Club Lightning Fleet

The 2008 Lightning Youth World Championship was completed on Friday July 18 after 6 races over 4 days.  11 teams representing Brazil (2), Canada (5) and USA (4) competed for the title of Lightning Youth World Champion.  Check the ILCA Website http://www.lightningclass.org/index.asp for the final results but Taylor Lutz won followed by Ian Shillebeeckx and Matt Schon all from the USA.  4th and 5th teams were from Brazil.  For Photos check http://gallery.mac.com/shatkins#100154 or go to the link on the ILCA Website.  Briefly, the practice race on Monday ended when a storm front pushed through and one boat capsized breaking a mast.  The first day of racing was nearly prefect conditions but on the 1st windward leg a Port/Starboard collision took out two more boats so racing ended for the

Newport Yacht Club Lightning Fleet

Newport Yacht Club, on Irondequoit Bay hosted their annual spring Lightning regatta on May 31st and June First. Thirteen boats from around the Central New York District attended. Regatta chairman Dick Hallagan teamed up with fleet captain Dan Pope and the members of Newport Yacht club to run a superb event.

Saturday brought a moderate westerly breeze, which makes for challenging conditions on Irondequoit bay. Four races were sailed. Jed Dodge won the first and fourth races. The second and third races went to Bob King and John Boxberger respectively. At the end of the day Dodge led, followed by King, then Hallagan who had finishes of 2,3,4,5.

Newport Yacht Club Lightning Fleet

I am need of crew for the Celebration of Spring Regatta at Newport May 31/June 1.

John

Newport Yacht Club Lightning Fleet

I'm thinking this might be a good way of allowing skippers who are looking for crew, and potential crew to find skippers if they want to participate in thursday night racing with the club. Hopefully we can build contact lists, so when someone needs a sub they will easily find someone and we will end up with more boats on the starting line, and include more of the community in sailing at NYC - should be a win-win!