This week, our members are proudly representing the SDYC burgee all across the globe. From competing in junior regattas to gearing up for the Olympics, check out where our members are this week.
Skipper Nevin Snow, trimmer AJ Reiter and bowman Jake Reynolds competed with the worlds best Junior match racers at the Governor's Cup at Balboa Yacht Club in July.
Maybe it really is a small world after all. San Diego Yacht Club is being represented in Kingston, Canada by junior alum Zack Downing and Zack Malcolm for the 29er World Championships.
The 29er North American Open concluded on July 24th, wrapping up four days of strong competition between 69 boats from 10 countries. SDYC's Zach Malcolm finished 4th in the North American Championship, and 1st in the US Championship, crewing for Max Brill.
The week of June 16- 21 as the SDYC summer program was beginning, my crew Grace McCarthy and I (Molly Pleskus) were on a plane to Rye, NY to participate in our second US Junior Women’s Doublehanded championship for the Ida Lewis Trophy.
SDYC Junior Program alum Zach Malcolm has set sail in Kingston, Canada and set his sights on winning the 29er North American Championships. With Race Day 2 underway, Malcolm and his skipper Max Brill have 3 great results in the books.
Wyn Adams and Ryan Poole, participants in the SDYC Sea Scouts program are competing against 72 of the world’s top Sea Scout sailors at Long Beach Yacht Club, June 22-28 for the rights to claim the William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup.
There were two finalists for the prestigious Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year award: Nevin Snow (San Diego, Calif.), a sophomore at Georgetown University and Graham Landy (Norfolk, Va.), a junior at Yale University.
The Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) held the final High School Championship of the sailing season with the Baker Team Race Championship in Seabrook, TX. Congratulations to Point Loma High School on another High School Championship this season.
Besides honoring the most important women in the world, SDYC observed another Mother's Day tradition by hosting the High School Doublehanded National Championship. The top twenty teams from around the country assembled to vie for ISSA's coveted Mallory Trophy.
US Sailing has selected SDYC's Nevin Snow to represent the U.S. as skipper at the inaugural ISAF Youth Match Racing World Championship July 22-27, 2014 in Finland. Snow and his team from Georgetown are the current intercollegiate Match Racing National Champions.
On the weekend of April 4-6, SDYC sent a team comprise mainly of College All Americans, National Champions, America’s Cup Sailors and former US Sailing Olympic Team members to compete in the 2014 Baldwin Cup.
SDYC sent several teams to Florida to compete in the C420 Midwinters at Jensen Beach in February, coming home with three Top 15 finishes in the 94 boat fleet.
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and tactician/sailing team manager Tom Slingsby have introduced the crew who are participating in the team’s first training camp of the new America’s Cup cycle, which includes San Diego Yacht Club's Andrew Campbell.
On Christmas day, Rebecca McElvain and Scott Sinks traveled to Miami Florida to compete in the 2013 Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta. This was our first major regatta sailing together in C420s, so we were excited to test our skills against the country.
Paris Henken and Aine Fretwell completed the Women's Snipe Nationals, their first regatta together, with a fifth place out of 21 boats. Paris learned a lot about the snipe and found it really exciting to be able to sail outside her normal skiff sailing.
NEWPORT HARBOR, Calif. (October 6, 2013) – Tyler Sinks' team which was the strongest from start to finish, prevailed to earn the prestigious George R. Hinman Trophy hosted by Newport Harbor Yacht Club.
The 2013 US Sailing Youth Championship was held out of Corpus Christi Yacht Club between the 12th and 16th of August. Known for its very high temperatures and reliable sea breeze, Corpus Christ was a fantastic venue to hold this year’s event.
This past August I competed in the Detroit Cup Match Race Regatta. The event ran from August 21st to August 25th. My team consisted of myself on the helm, Mac Mace on main/tactics, and Taylor Vann on the bow.
Day 1 of Youths saw a steadily increasing sea breeze that began at roughly 1:00 in the afternoon. As we sailed out in hiking conditions, it soon picked up and we were trapezing and nearly overpowered when we arrived to the starting line.