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Julia Getter at the 2024 C420 Midwinter Championship

Posted Mar 08, 2024
Sailors: Julia Getter |Jordan Janov

Thank you to the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for helping support my sailing at the 2024 C420 Midwinter Championship. This year, the regatta was on February 17-19 at Jensen Beach, Florida. This was my second Midwinters, and I was so excited to go back. My skipper, Jordan Janov, and I flew out on Thursday to practice on Friday, one day before the regatta started. On the first day of racing, Saturday, the first race was very light, shifty, and tough. Then, there was a huge wind shift, and the breeze picked up significantly to around 15 knots. We completed two races in this perfect wind before heading in for the day. Sunday was raining hard, and we were postponed on land for a while before the race committee finally sent us out. By the time we got out, it was around 18 knots, and we completed one race. Monday was around 23 knots with gusts of around 26 knots. We completed three races in this breeze to finish off the regatta. In the end, my skipper and I finished sixth overall.  This was probably the windiest I had ever sailed in before, and I had so much fun. I learned so much from this amazing experience, which the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation made possible. Thank you so much for your support!

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Olivia Norton at the 2024 I420 Pacific Coast Championships

Posted Mar 05, 2024
Sailors: Olivia Norton |Conrad Cook

Thank you again for supporting my sailing. On February 3rd and 4th, I got the opportunity to sail in the I 420 Pacific Coast Championships in Tiburon, CA. I sailed with Conrad Cook, and this was our first International 420 Regatta.  I have sailed for a couple years in Club 420's, and we only had 4 days to train in the I420, but made the most of it. We flew up and sailed in very difficult conditions on Saturday. The day started with almost no breeze, and when a light breeze finally came up, it was very shifty with 90 degree plus shifts. Toward the end of the day, the wind came up more and I was able to get on the trapeze upwind and on the reach legs. The Tiburon location also had very strong currents in certain portions of the course, and we learned the hard way about sailing too close to shore along the point during an incoming tide. A strong storm arrived Saturday night, and unfortunately racing was cancelled Sunday due to 30 knot winds, and big swells rolling into San Francisco bay. Our flights were cancelled, so my Dad drove us all home as he had towed the boats up from Newport.  

We did not finish as well as we expected, but it was a great experience, and I appreciate all of the Foundation's help. We are going to keep training locally before the next Regatta. Thank you again!

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Olivia Norton at the 2024 C420 Midwinters Championship

Posted Mar 05, 2024
Sailors: Olivia Norton |Conrad Cook

Thank you so much Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for supporting my sailing. I appreciate everything you do so much! I had the opportunity to sail at the C420 Class Midwinter  Championship February 17th-19th at Jensen Beach, Florida, with my skipper Conrad Cook. This was my first trip to Mid Winters and it was a great experience. Conrad and I took a redeye flight on Thursday night to make it for Friday practice, then raced Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Saturday was really nice conditions with great sailing weather. Sunday was raining so hard the R/C only ran 1 race because of visibility problems. Monday was nuclear winds, between 22 knots and 28 knots. A lot of the fleet was not able to complete the Monday races, but Conrad and I finished every race and had some good finishes.

We made the Gold Fleet, and ended up moving up 7 spots on Monday during the heavy wind day. I learned so much about travel, keeping my head in the game during tough conditions, and finishing strong. Thank you again for everything the foundation does to support youth sailing. Your support is such a huge help.   

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Team NHYC at the 2023 Global 2k Team Race

Posted Mar 05, 2024
Sailors: Randall Hause |Sean Segerblom |Andrew Person |Bill Menninger |Kayla La Dow |Colin Grey Voigt |Sally Mace |Wills Cook

The 2023 Global 2k Team Race was another great success for team NHYC! This was the second victory for Team NHYC in back-to-back years at the Global 2k Team Race Regatta. This event is a 2v2 team race in Sonars that features various yacht clubs from around the globe. The event was hosted by Royal Thames Yacht Club for this year’s rendition of the event. The event was sailed on the Queen Mary Reservoir about 40 minutes outside the heart of London.  Team NHYC was comprised of a top-notch squad with a level of crew work that other teams were only able to dream about. Our team included skippers Sean Segerblom & Andrew Person and the crews were me, Wills Cook, Bill Menninger, Kayla La Dow, Colin Voigt, and Sally Mace.  We raced a solid event and ultimately made it to the finals where we sailed against Royal Thames Yacht Club. After dropping the first race to RTYC we had to put our heads down and reset as the finals was first to two wins or best of 3. We put together two more beautiful races and came out the victors! This is a great event, and we look forward to competing again next year as we look for the coveted threepeat! Thank you NHSF for the continued support of Team NHYC!

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Brady Kennedy at the 2023 Orange Bowl Regatta

Posted Feb 09, 2024
Sailors: Brady Kennedy |Kathi Keller

Thank you so much Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for your continued support of my sailing. It was a great opportunity to be able to sail at the C420 Tucci Orange Bowl regatta at Coral Reef Yacht Club. I had a great time exploring the wonderful city of Cocunut Grove and will never forget the memories I made over this regatta. I finished 11th overall in a competitive 86 boat fleet. In the C420 fleet we are split into to different fleets and sail on an inner or outer trapezoid course. After the qualifying rounds you sail in either Gold or Silver fleet. On our first day of racing we didn’t get any races off due to the marginal temperature difference between the water and air which didn’t allow for a stable sea breeze. On our second day of racing we had been postponed on land for a few hours due to a storm front coming in with heavy rain and strong winds, eventually we went out later in the day and got two races of in lighter conditions where we finished 13th and 6th in the blue fleet. On the third day we changed to the yellow fleet and got 4 races off in very puffy and shifty conditions that made for difficult racing. We had a tough first race finishing 22nd and then went 2nd, 2nd, and 7th which was an amazing day for us. This concluded our qualifying days and left us with 1 more day in the championship round. We finished up the regatta with another light and shifty day with a 27th and a 3rd in the Gold fleet leaving us 1 point out of the top 10. It was a great regatta for us and allowed myself and my crew Kathi Keller to learn so much from these difficult and very competitive races.  Thank you again for the opportunity to compete in the Tucci Orange Bowl regatta, we are very appreciative of the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation and all you do for us as junior sailors. 

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Cassady Lorentzen at the 2023 Orange Bowl Regatta

Posted Feb 09, 2024

The 2023 Orange Bowl was definitely a rollercoaster. My goals this year were to have fun, make gold fleet in the Opti class, and have better starts. The previous two years I had qualified for bronze fleet, so this year I had been training extra hard and my sailing has greatly improved. I did the Coral Reef YC clinic for the third year in a row and I had so much fun, but I wasn’t doing well in the drills, so I was SUPER stressed out for the regatta. Then the first day rolled around and I ended the day in 21st, I was even ahead of all of my team mates. The fact that there wasn’t a lot of wind on the first day and we only got two races and I sail really well in light wind made for great results. The second day escalated a bit because I was placed in a fleet with better people. We didn't get the amount of races the race committee wanted after the first two days, so we were still in the qualifying series for the third day.  I dropped after the third day by ten spots, but I qualified for  gold fleet! There is honestly no way to explain how I felt after that, because I was just so relieved. On the last day I didn’t feel great and my races reflected that, I thought I dropped so much, until I came in and I ended up in 39 overall. I was super happy with my performance for this regatta, and I left as satisfied as I could. My goals were completed, I made gold and had fun with it, and my starts were perfect 80% of the time, which is definitely an improvement. Thank you for funding me to go to this event, I’m so happy I got to go for my third year and hopefully I get to go for a fourth in 2024.

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