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Lewes Yacht Club hosts youth regatta for junior sailors

Boats and young sailors prepare for the start of the July 20 Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association Lewes Yacht Club Youth Regatta in front of the club on Lewes Beach. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Ron MacArthur
July 28, 2022

A total of 79 young sailors from clubs around the region competed July 20 in the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association Lewes Yacht Club Youth Regatta, which is one in a series of association races.

Sailors competed in four fleets throughout the afternoon on Delaware Bay. The top Lewes Yacht Club finishers were Bailey Fletcher and Riley Stazzone, taking fourth in Club 420 racing. More than 30 volunteers from LYC and the Freedom Boat Club Sea Sisters provided support for the event. During the day, there were more than 100 boats on the bay along Lewes Beach.

CBYRA junior sailors compete in 14 sanctioned regattas throughout the summer.

Optimist green fleet: 1. George Tyson, Severn Sailing Association; 2. Isla Norrington, Annapolis Yacht Club; 3. Trey Waters, Annapolis; 4. Walter Daigle, Servern; 5. Nellie Wood, Severn.

LYC sailors: 14. Max Weiss; 17. Phoebe Wolf; 21. Andrew Burke.

Optimist: 1. William Rosenthal, Annapolis; 2. Alex Baker, Annapolis; 3. Daniel Tyson, Severn; 4. Halsey Carter, Annapolis; 5. Mason Bothner, Annapolis.

LYC sailors: 24. Henry Cummins; 29. Hedgie Swier.

Club 420: 1. Christopher McCollum, Annapolis; 2. Eric Johnson, Severn; 3. Michael Yost, Tred Avon Yacht Club; 4. Bailey Fletcher, Lewes Yacht Club; 5. Andrew Benson, Tred Avon.

Other LYC sailors: 19. Emma Gummy; 20. Mina Swier.

Laser Radial: 1. Noah MacIelag, Rock Hall Yacht Club; 2. Spencer Parish, Tred Avon; 3. E.J. Brody, Tred Avon; 4. Liam Chapman, Miles River Yacht Club; 5. Ella Durante, Rock Hall.

LYC sailors: 7. William Burke; 9. Grant Cummins.

 

Club 420 racers get underway on Delaware Bay in one of four races for the fleet, which was won by Christopher McCollum (8064) of Annapolis Yacht Club.
A large group of Optimist sailors start one of the races in the youth regatta. More than 50 young sailors competed in the Optimist races.
LYC sailors Bailey Fletcher and Riley Stazzone finished in fourth place in the Club 420 fleet.
With the Cape May-Lewes Ferry in the background, LYC sailors Emma and Julia Gummy (second from right) head out on the Delaware Bay in their Club 420 boat.
LYC sailor Henry Cummins races in the blue Optimist competition.
LYC Laser Radial sailor Grant Cummins ducks down to get a better view during one of four races in the fleet.
LYC sailor Andrew Burke rounds a mark during one of five races in the Optimist green fleet.
LYC Optimist sailor Gavin Charles is among the youngest sailors in the regatta.
With one of Parsons’ Fisherman’s Wharf boats in the background, Annapolis Yacht Club sailors Trey Waters (15146) and Jamison Jones (16804) compete in the Optimist green fleet.
LYC Sailing Director Angus Robertson gets his sailors ready to start racing.
Club 420 sailors Emma and Julia Gummy receive some last-minute instructions from LYC Sailing Director Angus Robertson before the start of a race.
Optimist sailors crowd around Calaloo, one of four Lewes Yatch Club race committee boats coordinating the youth regatta.
Severn Sailing Association youth competitors gather around their coach before the start of the regatta.
LYC race committee members watch the start of a race in the Optimist fleet.
Severn Sailing Association sailor Sofia Cole takes a short break after finishing a race in the Optimist blue fleet.
LYC principal race officer Michelle Bland is surrounded by Club 420 sailors as she takes a wind reading.
LYC Sailing Director Angus Robertson helps Grant Cummins rig his mast before starting a race in the Laser Radial fleet.
Aboard Santee, LYC race committee members prepare to start an Optimist race.
A Baltimore County Sailing Center Club 420 gets its spinnaker into the wind.
In Club 420 competition, Tred Avon Yacht Club sailor Andrew Benson lets out his spinnaker. He finished fifth overall during the youth regatta.
Annapolis Yacht Club sailor Morgan Rosenthul looks out from behind her lifejacket during a race in Optimist blue fleet competition.

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