Stoltze Cup

Still on the road, this time we took on some sailing legends (Dave Perry and Terry McLaughlin!) in the Great Lakes Challenge Cup at Rochester Yacht Club. Sailed in privately owned boats and always supplied with refreshments, Rochester did an incredible job of running this event smoothly. After an inhospitable start time the team of Lance, Roby, and Oliver were able to get off to a good start taking races from highly ranked Magnus Sandberg and Dave Perry as well as Jason Carminati, the skipper of the US team for the FISU games. Landing ourselves tied for 3rd after the first two days we were feeling good. Instead of finals Sunday continued with round robin to keep everyone sailing and have the most fair result. Due to Lance's absence the teams performance fell somewhat but rookie skipper Clifton did have his first match racing win. Another great practice regatta and we're feeling even better about the WUC in September.

Bayview Yacht Club

This weekend Lance, Clifton, and Oliver made the trip to Detroit for their first event as a team. The Bayview Spring invitational is a qualifier for Detroit Cup and in this case was full of youth sailors. It was good to see many people from the collegiate circle we are all familiar with. After the first day of racing our team had landed 1st seed and sailed the semi finals against 4th place, netting a position in the finals and had high hopes after going 2-0 against the 2nd place team. Unfortunately the second day we ended up in 2nd after a tough day of light and shifty conditions in fairly strong current. It was a great warm up for our regatta next weekend and BYC was incredibly hospitable. Thanks so much to our host and to BYC.