Congratulations to Team SDYC, winners of the Palmer Cup Grandmasters Team Race at Newport Harbor Yacht Club. Teams raced in a fleet of Harbor 20s, with 7 teams from across the country competing. Team SDYC was represented by Ben Mitchell / Brad Rodi, Bill Campbell / Jed Olenick, and Tim Fuller / Chuck Sinks.
Will Cyr (USA) will be nominated for the Formula Kite event at the 2019 Pan American Games this July in Peru. Cyr, along with four other USA competitors, battled it out for the qualifying spot as the top USA finisher in San Diego Yacht Club’s Kiteboarding Spring Regatta and USA Pan Am Games Athlete qualifier, on March 29-31, 2019. Selection for the Pan Am Games is processed by the USOC after US Sailing nominates all of the athletes.
As a three-time winner of the Butler Cup, all I wanted for my birthday this year was one more. Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be. It seems like each year the Long Beach Yacht Club symmetrical pole Catalina 37s get more physically demanding, we just get older… or maybe a bit of both. On Saturday morning last weekend, on a sunny but cool day in California, after a few last minute rearrangements of the crew list, I quickly realized I was one of the more ‘senior members’ of the team and sailing for the first time with over half of the group.