Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club
The RS Tera North Americans was an epic event for SMWYC and our Juniors program. Based upon the smiles and everything else we saw it was also fun for the competitors, parents and volunteers. Teams from Colorado, Park City, Dana Point, Oceanside and Alamitos Bay arrived Friday and after getting them situated, we held about three hours of practice races and then had our own practice during Open Sailing.
Saturday Pro Sail competitors raced on the Ocean venue while the 30 Sport Sail raced in
the outer channel in the Qualification Series. On the ocean they raced six races in
moderate breeze and the typical MdR chop. In the channel, competitors were split into 4
groups designated by colors and each colored group sailed against the others twice in a
round robin format. Starts were aggressive and many boats were called over early and
needed to restart. Results were tallied up and the top half moving to the Gold Fleet.
Sunday the Sport Sail Gold fleet joined the Pro Sails on the ocean venue for five races in perfect breeze and, of course, the typical MdR chop while the Sport Sail Silver fleet sailed seven exciting races in the outer channel. Awards were presented after a pizza party sponsored by the Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation and Sampa's Pizza (the official pizza of the SMWYC Jrs).
Click here to head to the event website for complete results.
Pro Fleet 1st Gage Christopher Alamitos Bay YC 2nd Carl Richter Union Sailing Club 3rd Cameron Farmer Alamitos Bay YC 4th Leonardo Fernandes Union Sailing Club 5th Henry Day Alamitos Bay YC Sport Gold 1st Henry Richter Union Sailing Club 2nd Xyler Yee Oceanside YC 3rd Hayden Zieger California YC 4th Megan Farmer Alamitos Bay YC 5th Asher Baurley Alamitos Bay YC Sport Silver 1st Julian Yao Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club 2nd Lucas Dalby Dana West YC 3rd Leo Steele Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club 4th Feren Johnson Park City Sailing Association 5th Carlin Joensen Santa Monica Windjammers Yacht Club
Nine of our SMWYC sailors competed and the range of experience was "learned to sail a month ago" to "very advanced". We couldn't be more proud of each and every one of them!
- Steve Potter, SMWYC