7 LISOT Sailors Compete at 2010 Laser Radial Worlds in Scotland

Congratulations to the seven LISOT Laser Radial sailors who return this week from a very successful experience at the 2010 Laser Radial Youth Worlds in Largs, Scotland.

LISOT extends its warmest congratulations to US sailors Erika Reineke, the overall girls’ World Champion! And to Mitchell Kiss, who won the boys under-17 division and took 5^th place overall.

Adapting to Scotland’s variable weather and breeze conditions (e.g., the Scottish summer feels like our winter), the sailors donned wetsuits and plenty of cold weather gear to compete with 317 sailors hailing from 42 countries and six continents. Every sailor came away with personal successes and a new appreciation for the rigors of international competition.

Results for LISOT’s sailors:

Boys Gold Fleet: Matthew Molllerus 50^th

Boys Silver Fleet: Connor Needham 27^th, Stefan Kuehn 30^th, Ryan Schmitz 61^st

Boys Bronze Fleet: Andrew Puopolo 44^th, Colin Kennedy 55^th

Girls Silver Fleet: Sarah Stubbs 12^th

Full results at http://www.laserworlds2010.co.uk/laserworlds/radial/women/radial_youth_results.htm

17 of 24 LISOT Sailors sail in the Gold Fleet at USODA Fleet Racing Nationals, Harry Koeppel 3rd, Jared Gaynes 8th overall, Alex DelBello 3rd girl!

Imagine, 56 cases of water, 24 cases of Gatorade, 20 boxes of ice pops, 1152 lbs of ice, and a new LISOT tent… after 9 days USODA Nationals at Fishing Bay Yacht Club is over!

LISOT Team communications were seriously curtailed during the week as many had either no service or very spotty service. As Head Coach Pepe said, “Ah, its ok, its Relaxy Taxi, no worries, we have no distractions to the racing!” Many of parents truly had a week away from the office!

After good breeze during the Nationals Team Racing Regatta, light air set in for the fleet racing. Every day the land breeze would welcome us to the venue only to be slowly replaced by the prevailing summer sea breeze. This counter prevailing breeze change over frustrated some of the racing and created some shifty conditions for the sailors.

The racing format was set up that after the first two days of racing, the fleet would be split up into Gold, Silver, Bronze and Pearle fleets. The Race Committee got in three races the first day but the sea breeze failed to fill in on the second day and the fleet was split after only 3 races.

PRO Ron Hopkins, a veteran of large USODA regattas, did a nice job of getting in 5 races over the next day in a shifty land breeze with the pre split fleet position counting as a 6^th race. This enabled a “drop” for overall results.

Final Fleet Results

Gold Fleet

Harry Koeppel (3rd)

Jared Gaynes (8^th)

Sean Walsh (14^th)

Alex DelBello (15^th) 3^rd Girl

Ty Ingram (18^th)

Jack Parkin (20^th)

Augie Dale (28^th)

Reinier EVD (29^th)

Will Logue (34^th)

Kate Van Louvern (41^st)

Drew Gallagher (42^nd)

Henry Chapman (43^rd)

Mathew Kaplan (47^th)

Henry Fernberger (60^th)

Richie Gordon (62^nd)

Russell Clarida (65^th)

Florian EVD (68^th)

Silver Fleet

James Westerberg (18^th)

Cooper Yeager (40^th)

Meg Gerli (54^th)

Bronze Fleet

Matt Logue (4^th)

Charlotte LeClue (41^st)

Pearl Fleet

Kristin Picard (30^th)

Willie Crane (37^th)

Team Trials Qualified

Congratulations to the 20 out of 22 LISOT sailors at Nationals who qualified for 2011 USODA Team Trails in San Francisco!

Overall

The Team did great in some trying (extreme heat and shifty light air) conditions. We extend big congratulations to the following 3 sailors: Harry Koeppel and Jared Gaynes for their top 10 finishes and Alex DelBello for being the 3^rd overall girl. Thank you to Head Coach Pepe Bettini, his coaching crew of Todd Fedyszyn along with David DeBoltz and all the supporting volunteers and parents that MAKE this happen producing outstanding results for our sailors.

LISOT would like to thank the Deltaville organizers and volunteers for making the USODA Nationals a success! The venue was well organized and everyone had a smile even when the temperature hit 112 degrees.

LISOT Has Strong Results at C420 North Americans

The 2010 C420 North Americans wrapped up today at Brant Beach YC after 14 solid races over 4 days. LISOT had a strong showing.

Our sailors and the RC did a fine job with a full suite of conditions. Day 1 saw a light and shifty Northerly with 3 races. The RC ran an intense Day 2, running 5 races yet having the fleet shore by 5pm!. Day 3 was one for the record books - a 4-race day in a beautiful 20-25 knot westerly (with a 3 hour lunch break*), and final day had a perfect 10-15 knot SW sea breeze for the final 2 races of the series.

LISOT Results (out of 109):

1. Pearson Potts

2. Graham Landy/Colin Murphy (LISOT)

3. Connor Brady (last year LISOT)

5. Markus Edegran/Nick Gallagher (LISOT)

11. Ian Robinson/Emily Johnson (LISOT)

13. Melany Johnson/MacKenzie Needham (LISOT)

15. Lily Katz/Spencer McDonough (LISOT)

16. Alex Jacob/Ben Buhl (LISOT)

23. Elliott Morrill/Caroline Atwood (LISOT)

29. Taylor Scheuermann/Jackson Fadely (LISOT)

42. Claudia Taselaar/Julie Rew (LISOT)

43. Brendan O'Leary/Jack Schneider (LISOT)

44. Jack Gerli/Sarah Graves (LISOT)

50. Roger Dorr/Matt Lyons (LISOT)

55. Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick/Fiona Walsh (LISOT)

56. Abigail Rohman/Tierney Driscoll (LISOT)

65. Emily Merry/Solange Adamson (LIOST)

68. Tom Gallagher/John Gallagher (LISOT)

106. Hailey Ullmann/Bridgette Croake (LISOT)

109. India Johnstone/Katie Kelley (LISOT) - withdrew due to injury

Click here for complete results.

Thanks to LISOT coaches Dave Hughes, Skip White, Udi Gal and Erik Storck.

* On Day 3, with a 20-25 Westerly, an approaching full moon and ebb tide, the RC had to abandoned Race 3 when coaches reported boats running aground on the beat. It turns out the West wind literally blew the water out of the bay.

Kudos to the RC, which did a great job by bringing the boats ashore and provided 30+ pizzas for the sailors while waiting a few hours for the tide to come back in. At 15:30 the fleet headed back out and completed 2 more races in what had become a nice 10-15 knot westerly.