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IOD Celebrity Invitational

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Program

5:45 PM Registration/Check-In

6:00 PM Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres on the Lawn

6:30 PM Welcome Martin Wayne, Commodore GHYC Liz Ann Sonders, Windhaven Investment Management

6:45 PM Introduction of Celebrity Tacticians Tom Whidden, Honorary Chairman NRW Celebrity Invitational Regatta

7:15 PM Assignments of Tacticians Chris Gould, Zenas Hutcheson, Peter Goulding

7:30 PM Nantucket Community and Buffet Dinner Diana Brown & Martin McKerrow Nantucket Community Sailing

Honorary Chairperson

Tom Whidden Tom Whidden joined North in 1986 and became President/CEO of North Marine Group when it was established ten years later. A of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Whidden has earned many accolades throughout his sailing career including the "Carl Nelson" Award (for Athletic Achievement After College) from Colby College in 1989, and the University Club "Man of the Year" award in 1987.

Tom’s leadership in the design and manufacturing of superb, technologically advanced sails at North Sails is significant. Since he became president, the art and science of making has advanced so completely that every Volvo Ocean Race competitor in the upcoming around-the-world race is currently using North sails and eleven out of 12 's Cup teams in 2006-07 raced with North sails.

Tom began sailing at age ten at the Cedar Point in Westport, Connecticut, and went on to become one of the most experienced America's Cup sailors in the world. "When I was 16, my dream was to become a sail maker and race in the America's Cup," Tom says of his years as a junior sailor on Long Island Sound.

He has sailed with in a total of eight America's Cup campaigns, beginning in 1979 as Conner's trial horse skipper. He has raced as tactician in five America's Cup series races and has won the America's Cup three times (1980, 1987 and 1988). Along with Conner, he was given a key to City from Mayor Ed Koch in 1987 after bringing the America's Cup back to the from . Tom was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2004.

We are honored to have Tom Whidden return to Nantucket Race Week as honorary chairman of the IOD Celebrity Regatta.

Principal Race Officer

Eric Robbins Eric started sailing Widgeons at age 9 at New Bedford Yacht Club, graduating to Rhodes-19s and Junior Commodore. He sailed for UPenn in the 70s, then moved on to Lasers for which he organized and ran regattas for clubs in , , and Connecticut. He served as RC Chairman for four years and Rear Commodore at Cedar Point YC while racing his J-30 before moving to Tampa in 2007. There, he races a J-105 when not serving as PRO, Judge or Umpire at regional events. This year he became a certified US Sailing Umpire. Eric has served as PRO for the US Youth Championships, the Venezuelan National Championships, and US Nationals for several classes. This is Eric's fourth summer as the Professional Race Officer at the Nantucket Yacht Club. He has been a US Sailing National Race Officer and Judge since 2007. Eric has been racing Lasers for 31 years. Celebrity Tactician Bios

Josh Adams Josh was a standout college sailor and a three-time ICSA All-American at Tufts University, where he graduated from in 1994. He led the team to two ICSA Team Racing National Championships. He is also a Team Racing World Champion. As an elite competitor and member of the US Sailing Team in 1995-96, he finished second at the 1996 Olympic Trials in the 470. Adams was a sailor and coach for ’s America’s Cup Challenge, Young America, in 2000. He was the publisher of SAIL magazine from 2006-2012. In 2012 he was named Managing Director of US Olympic Sailing.

Jim Allsopp Jim has been active in the sailing community for 40 years. He recently left North Sails after 35 years serving in several management positions. Jim was the last of Lowell’s original “Tigers” to leave North. “In the early days of North Sails, if you won the Worlds, you qualified to be a North “Tiger,” said Jim. After winning the Star Worlds in 1977, he travelled to and won the Star European Championships the following year. Soon after, a spot became available on Lowell’s 12 meter . From then on there has been lots of Americas Cup sailing. With Mike Toppa’s help we soon were involved building spinnakers for almost all of the Americas Cup groups. It kept our little loft “North Sails Chesapeake” very busy. Jim serves as tactician on several Super Yachts in and actively campaigns a and a J/70 with his sons James and Cole.

Peter Bromby Peter has represented his island home of in four (1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004) sailing in the Star Class. His highest finish was a 4th place in the 2000 Games. He is a 3 time Champion, 3 time Miami Rolex Star Class Champion and 3 time IOD World Champion (1989, 90 and 91). Peter has won multiple National Match Race championships and has twice been a semi finalist in the Bermuda Gold Cup. His other wins include Kieler Week in and the Spa Regatta in – both in the Star Class and numerous Bermuda National Championships in and IODs. He continues to race Etchells regularly at home.

Robbie Doyle Robbie is the president of Doyle Sailmakers, a company he started in 1982 in Marblehead, MA. He is also the co-creator of the e33, a 33’ performance daysailor being produced at Lyman Morse in Maine. He has been winning races since he was 7 years old, starting out in the Turnabout class in Marblehead before graduating to the class. As a teenager, Robbie was a two time Sears Cup winner, a member of the 1968 Olympic Team and two time winner of the O’Day North American Single Handed Trophy. At Harvard he was an All American as well as winner of the collegiate single handed title. Robbie has spent much of his life racing one design classes, including the IOD and the Etchells.

As an offshore racer, Robbie has participated in most of the major races around the globe. While working with Ted Hood in the 70’s, Robbie was a member of Ted Turner’s crew who won the 1977 America’s Cup aboard . In 2011, he did a memorable Newport to England race aboard Maltese Falcon, for which he has been making sails since 2005. Most recently, Robbie was the winning statistician aboard Shockwave, a RP 72, which won her division in the Bermuda Race for an unprecedented second time in a row.

Robbie is happy to return to Nantucket for this year’s IOD Pro Am Regatta in support of Nantucket sailing. He is here with his wife, Janet.

Neal Fowler Neal lives in Dennis, MA with his wife Kathleen and two sons. He grew up sailing on Long Island Sound and was a three time All American at Tufts and won the Nationals. Neal is a lifelong frostbite sailing addict and has the won Nationals and Midwinters, Long Island Sound & Marblehead Frostbite Championships. He was a member of US Sailing teams as crew in the 470, and helm in . He has extensive one design experience as a member 1980 US Olympic Team in 470 and has US, North American, & mid-winter titles in 470. He has over 20 years of 505 sailing with 4 East Coast Champions, midwinter and Canadian National titles. Neal has participated in the Southern Circuit and is a winner as both helm & crew. He has extensive Etchells experience along the Atlantic Coast and Long Island Sound—including winning the Verve Cup and placing 3rd at Worlds, mostly as forward crew. In the IOD he placed 2nd as tactician in the 2012 Nantucket IOD Invitational and 3rd as crew for a Nantucket IOD fleet boat in the 2012 IOD Worlds. He has been Sailing Wianno Seniors in the Scudder Cup series for the last 7 years. He is a member of the Hyannis YC.

Dave Franzel Dave majored in sailing at Rutgers University. Alright, there was a math degree involved too. He then taught sailing and racing at several schools in the Northeast and the Caribbean. Following a series of seagoing adventures which included an Atlantic crossing and a stint as a fisherman in northern , he founded the Sailing Center in 1977 and served as executive director until 2007. BSC gradually grew to become one of the largest organizations of its kind in the country. Dave established a racing program that grew to 40 teams, and a “Frostbite” racing program using J-24s that entices 100 people out to sail on Boston Harbor every Saturday throughout the Winter. Dave sees great value in public sailing programs and is glad to be participating in a benefit for Nantucket Community Sailing.

Dave has raced many classes, but most of his adult racing has been in Soling’s, best finish 3rd in the 2002 Worlds, and Sonars, 9 top two finishes in the North and 1st in the Worlds in 2009. He now sails his J/70, “Spring”, out of Marblehead.

Since selling BSC in 2007 Dave has coached a number of teams which he generally finds to involve more fun, less stress and less overhead than owning a sailing center.

Phil Garland

Phil Garland is a native of southern New England and a partner in Hall Spars, one of the world’s premier manufactures. Phil was the winning navigator in the 1989 and 97 Fastnet Races and a two- time Mumm 30 North American champion. He continues to race boats from 17' to 80' in a variety of competitions. Phil's focus on the racecourse is legendary, as is his understanding of spars and . John MacCausland John lives in Cherry Hill, NJ and has been a lifelong member of the Cooper River Yacht Club in Collingswood, NJ. International Moths were the start of John’s sailing career, winning the Junior World Championship in 1976. He has raced many other boats including Penguins, Comets, GP-14, Lasers and Stars and has won many National and International tittles in these classes. John was a crew member on Stars & Stripes winning the 1987 Americas Cup in Perth Western Australia.

Star Boats are near and dear to John’s heart, spending most of his life sailing and servicing Stars. John John has won 6 Star North American Championship. Chasing the quest in Star boats, John was able to go the 1992 Olympics as a team member on the USA Olympic Team. He coached the Bermuda Star team to a 4th place finish in the 2000 Sumer Olympic Games. Most recently John and his crew Phi Trinter won The 2013 in San Diego, CA. With this accomplishment, John was nominated for the 2013 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. Even though 2013 was a busy year, John also found time to climb MT Kilimanjaro in Africa.

John is now the owner of Moorhouse MacCausland Sailing in Lumberton, NJ and services the Jersey shore and the Star class around the world.

Mark Reynolds Well-known as the "Star of the Star class”, is the four time consecutive Olympic representative in the class—and two world championship titles ('00, '95) and three Olympic medals (1992 Gold, 1988 Silver, 2000 Gold) amply back up the statement. He is also the sail maker of the Star Class and has made sails for 13 of the last 15 Olympic champions.

Mark’s other accomplishments start with 2nd place finishes in the 1974 and 1975 in the North American Dinghy Championships. He was Bacardi Cup Champion 7 times, tactician for the winner 2002 World’s ISAF World Sailor of the Year and Rolex US Yachtsman of the year. In 2012 Mark was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame.

Dawn Riley As CEO and captain of America True, Riley was the first woman to manage an America’s Cup sailing team. She raced on four America’s Cup and two Whitbread (now Volvo Ocean Race) teams. She is the former president of the Woman’s Sports Foundation, serves on the board of US Sailing, and is an adviser to several public service organizations.

Since the inception in 2010, Riley has been in Oyster Bay NY at Oakcliff Sailing. There, she is building American leaders through sailing. A nonprofit open to all, Oakcliff's signature Acorn and Sapling programs cross train athletes in inshore, offshore and high performance sailing. Graduates receive training in all aspects of running a racing campaign from technical to finance to marketing and strategy. Oakcliff is creating leaders inside and outside of the marine industry with graduates racing in the next Volvo, the last Red Bull Youth America's Cup and at the top of the shorthanded world. As the first US Sailing Sperry Top-Sider training center Oakcliff is training the next Olympic champions. The rest of the graduates... have jobs.

Jud Smith Jud Smith is the head of Doyle One Design, as well as being 2006 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year. Jud was born and raised in Marblehead, MA and learned to sail with his father, David Smith. He was the trimmer on Stars and Stripes during Dennis Conner's 1995 America's Cup campaign. Jud has won numerous championships in one-design and handicapped fleets alike. He won the 2006 Nationals and sailed the Etchells to six North American Championships. He has also won seven World Championships - two IOD Worlds, two Mumm 30 (now Farr 30) Worlds, one Etchells, one and the one Swan Rolex Words in a Swan 44. Jud has been a sail maker for over 30 years and is regarded as one of the finest One-Design sail makers in the world.

Mike Toppa Mike has diverse sailing experience with winning the America’s Cup twice over six attempts in the role of sail program coordinator and sail trimmer, raced the Whitbread Race on Chessie. He has raced and has won multiple 12 Meter and Swan World Championships. He started his sail making career as a sail designer with North Sails in Annapolis where his designs were chosen by several America’s Cup winners and was the sail coordinator for both Stars & Stripes AC campaigns in . Mike has competed in 4 Trans-Atlantic Races and multiple Bermuda and Sydney-Hobart races in addition to campaigns in , ’s and Etchells 22’s. He is a Dad and Manager of North Sails, Florida.

Dave Ullman Ullman Sails was founded in 1968 by David Ullman, one of the world’s greatest competitive sailors. Dave was named Rolex Yachtsman of the Year in 1996, was nominated again for 2007, and is a three-time 470 World Champion, the 2007 Melges 24 World Champion, a five-time Lipton Cup Champion (1992-1996), a ten-time National Champion, and a National Champion in the , , and racing classes. Dave is also an S.O.R.C. class-winning skipper, a U.S. Team Racing Champion, a U.S. Men’s National Champion (Mallory Cup) and a former coach of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team.

Will Welles The up-and-coming Will Welles has been a member of the North Sails Rhode Island team since January of 2007, although in total he sports more than fifteen years of experience in the industry, including a six- year apprenticeship at the North Sails loft in Salem, Mass.

Born in Boston, MA, Welles first tasted victory as a 9- year old sailing a 15-foot Cape Cod Bullseye with his father in the Northeast Harbor Fleet. “Winning,” says Welles, “fueled my passion for sailboat racing and I have been driven to win ever since.” Welles, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, lives with his wife Katie in Newport, RI, where he owns and skippers his J/24 Cougar. At North he is dedicated to becoming an innovator in One Design sail making.

In addition to J/24’s he is involved with Shields, J80, J22 and Etchells. With a foundation of multiple National, East Coast and regional titles to build on, clearly Welles remains intent on adding to a growing list of achievements—2009 saw a strong showing at J/24 Worlds in Annapolis and in 2010 he won the US Nationals in Marblehead, MA. He is a fixture at the top of the leader board at just about every major J/24 regatta around and has established himself as a force to be reckoned with. Welles sailed for the first time with his twin sister when they were just one week old— surely for his age his experience is unmatched.

Jon Wright A native Philadelphian, Jon Wright cut his teeth in —sailing everything from Boats, Comets, Penguins, and GP-14s to E , some of which were built by his father, Jack Wright, founder of Wright Boats in Philadelphia.

In college, Jon sailed for the US Merchant Marine Academy where he was team captain and an All- American sailor. He won the coveted Everett Morris Memorial Trophy as College Sailor of the Year in 1971. A three-time winner of the America’s Cup, Jon crewed in five campaigns over 13 years trimming the sails for Ted Hood on the 12-metres COURAGEOUS (1974) and INDEPENDENCE (1977); and for Dennis Conner on (1980), (1983), and STARS & STRIPES (1987). Jon’s extensive offshore racing experience includes the Newport-Bermuda Race (12 times), The Southern Ocean Racing Conference (SORC), Middle Sea Race, Clipper Cup, Maxi World Championship, Annapolis-Newport Race, and the Halifax Race. He has been responsible for sail trim, navigation and tactics of countless boats as both a navigator and watch captain.

Jon’s honors include America’s Cup Hall of Fame Inductee (2012); Barnegat Bay Sailing Hall of Fame inductee (2010); USMMA Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, (1991); and Magazine Crewmember of the Year (1989). Jon is currently the Vanderstar Chair at the US Naval Academy, advising the Director of Naval Academy Sailing in regard to the safety of Midshipmen on the water and the quality assurance of all Academy sailing vessels. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with his wife, Karen. He has two children, Laura and Stuart. Team Bios

Nantucket – We the People - Bobby Constable

The Peoples Boat is a collection of local artifacts, golf rejects and Chesapeake expatriates. Usually lost in the fog, the People occasionally find their way to the starting line around gun-time, provided it isn’t interrupting lunch. Having too often been cold-cocked by the , their tactician “Staples” Judson takes a dyslectic view of right-of-way rules. Co-helmsmen Verney and Constable divide their labors the old fashioned way: rock-paper-scissors…loser drives. The Blond Boys of Annapolis take time off from touring their act through the Old South to bring their special sound to the Nantucket Sound—that’s not the mating call of homesick cormorants, it’s the Allsopps in mangled four/four harmony. Oh, and if you need to duck the People on port, give them a few hundred feet of extra room as they usually have a line out, trolling for scup. Tennis, anyone?

Team Windward Spirit - Steve Cucchiaro

Steve was a two time collegiate All-American at MIT, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. While in college, Steve won the Prince of Wales North American Championship. He earned his MBA in finance at the Wharton School, where he served as coach of U. Penn’s collegiate sailing team which achieved a national ranking during that time. Steve was a 470 class national champion and represented the U.S. in the Pan American Olympic Games, where he won a gold medal in the 470 class. He was also a Sonar North American Champion, a J22 Mid-Winter Champion, winner of Yale’s Snow and Satisfaction Regatta and a J105 North American Champion as tactician. Steve enjoys summer months cruising on his Baltic 43, Windward Spirit, with family and friends.

Steve is joined by his friend of many years, Stewart Neff. Stewart is a former US Youth Champion in the Class, a Bronze Medalist in the Pan American Olympic Games in the Laser Class, a US Laser National Champion and a Gold medalist at the Pre- Olympics in Russia in 1979. Most recently Stewart was the 2011 North American Champion in the J105 class and participated in the E22 World Championship in Newport, R.I. this past June.

The third member of the team is none other than Bill Shore. Bill started sailing in an that he constructed while in Jr. high school. He advanced to Turnabouts in the Cape Ann area. Bill built his own Lightening in high school as a family project. He went on to win 40-50 World, Continental and National championships in a dozen competitive classes, including the Lightning. Bill started building his own sails in his living room while working as an engineer in the Boston area. He turned his hobby into a sail making business and successfully raced bigger boats up to and including AC boats, winning on ’s AC team. Bill now enjoys coaching AC programs, Olympic Teams and Team members. Lately he has been coaching Team Windward Spirit’s crew member Stewart Neff in the 2014 E22 World Championship.

Finally, Lindsay Smith, the daughter of Rolex Sailor of the Year Jud Smith, grew up racing on various one design classes and PHRF programs in Marblehead, MA and is a member of the Eastern Yacht Club. She has since moved to Newport, RI where she is employed as the office manager at the local Quantum loft. When not escaping to warmer weather for regattas like Key West or Charleston, Lindsay dabbles in frostbiting Sea Dogs and Sonars in the off-season, while racing locally on VX-Ones, J70s and J24s in the summer.

TRIPLE A SYNDICATE REPORT: CELEBRITY IOD REGATTA, 2014 - Tom Darling

First ,we want to recognize our pro and muse from 2013- Robbie Doyle—for his first to finish in the Bermuda Race aboard Shockwave. All Good! All Good! Just in case,this year Triple A will have extra sailing gloves and secret sauce on board for consumption!

Brian Simmons has been plotting all winter to take over uniform duty so I did him one better: we have recruited the one and only owner of our swag supplier, Team One Newport Martha Parker, the TON proprietor, is to be our bowperson. A rock star at the point of many a big boat, Martha has been holding out on me for years. Now we have her!! The Big Red Alerion rides again! We invoke the ghost of Captain Nat, the Wizard of Bristol, yet again in our attempt to move up to the podium in 2014.

Mark Pagon, A-24, returns from a winter of squash play determined to drive even better. He has been practicing his IOD tiller skills with the objective of avoiding getting the tiller extension stuck between tacks, especially on weather mark port tack approaches. He rightly points out that most of the so- called amateurs in this event look like pros to him! He will be testing all rival skippers on the pronounciation of his A-24 ‘s name. It’s a tongue twister for any hail! ::Schez……

Brian Simmons, A-26,is preparing for this years event by playing pro am golf events . His sailing program has been getting Thatcher Spring,who beat us out of the top 3 last year by a smidgen, to sail with him on First Tracks, at least until I finally get to Nantucket in August.

TCD4sail has been campaigning #5 , the last remaining woodie in LIS,with her owner, Jennifer Miller. A lot of bullets in light air, we have thus far in a season of bizarre conditions, a hurricane on the 4th of July--- go figure. Does 2nd in Larchmont Race Week translate into the big time. By the time of this publication, the LIS YRA Champs will also be in he books. We are like everyone, “cautiously optimistic” and deeply suspicious of perpetrating “Sophomore Slump”.

If asked for a prediction on which to water, I answer like our new Federal Reserve Chairmwoman, did recently to a question of whither future results:

“Economy improving….recovery still not complete…”

Team STAR IOD - Jeff Ecklund - Lauderdale Yacht Club

Jeff Ecklund from Ft Lauderdale, FL is an avid Melges sailor including Melges24, Melges32 and now Melges20 all by the name of STAR. Jeff learned to sail on Lake Minnetonka, MN and raced Scows throughout the midwest for nearly 30 years before venturing to the salt water with a pointed bow and . Currently, Jeff is on the Board of the Lauderdale Yacht Club Sailing Foundation, which is building an endowment to support youth sailors throughout South Florida. Jeff is also a member of the Lauderdale YC, New York YC, Ocean Reef Club, Storm Trysail Club, Minnetonka YC and Wayzata YC.

Charlie Smythe from Kemah, Texas is a 4th generation sailor, hunter, and fisherman. Charlie has deep roots that run in the south but has lived and traveled all over the world. Anything outdoors is of great interest to him and he can be found traveling the country in his pick up truck with his wife when not at home. His love for travel and cruising has been instilled in him from a young age when he and his sister were home schooled by his parents on their Grand Banks as they traversed and eastern United States. He has been an avid sailboat racer since the age of 7 and has been lucky enough to sail with many amazing yachtsmen.

Tom Lihan is a recreational weekend fisherman out of Fort Lauderdale, FL who prefers wood sport-fishing boats as old and slow as he is. Tom often can be found sanding and varnishing or scraping barnacles off his 1959 Rybovich named Popeye. Most recently, Tom has been living vicariously through his daughter and riding her coat tails after sailing in the London games. Good news for the other teams, he probably won't be looking up at the mainsail, but rather keeping his eyes peeled for giant blue fin tuna. Tom is an active member of the Cane Pole Bridge Fishing Club and can be seen around dinner time holding his bobber.

Allen Breed has spent many years plying the waters of Nantucket Island, found most sand bars, and a few on land bars. As a junior sailor, he twice represented the Nantucket Yacht Club at the Bemis Junior National Championships and competed in the Junior Olympics. Allen grew to racing keel boats and has over 6,000 nautical miles of blue water sailing. He has competed in the Newport Bermuda, Marion Bermuda, Annapolis Newport, and Marblehead Halifax races. In addition to offshore racing, Allen enjoys buoy racing and has a particular love for cruising. He is a part owner of an International One Design (IOD) which he races as part of the Nantucket IOD fleet. He has competed in all the Opera House Cups he can remember, including winning aboard the 6-Meter Totem.

Stage Harbor Yacht Club - Team Cape Cod - Heather Gregg

Heather Gregg grew up sailing on Cape Cod and is a member of Stage Harbor Yacht Club in Chatham, MA and New York Yacht Club. She sailed for Tufts University women's team, is a two time college nationals winner, was a member of the U.S. Women's Sailing Team during an Olympic campaign sailing 470's in the late 80's and is and member of the Collegiate Sailing Hall of Fame.

Recently, Heather has been actively racing her J-70, MUSE, and won the 2013 J-70 North Americans in Annapolis, MD as a Corinthian team. She spends time on the Team Racing circuit for New York Yacht Club, and when on the Cape, races in Wianno Seniors, where she won Edgartown Race Week and the Scudder Cup in 2011. Heather spends much of her time now chasing her son, Hayden, around on the international opti circuit now. She is winner of the 2012 IOD Celebrity Invitational.

Luke Lawrence grew up sailing at Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, FL. He sails most major one design classes in the US and won the 2010 Finn Jr World Championships.

Joining them is Michael Obuchowski, a fellow team racing sailor from New York Yacht Club. The team rounds out with Robby Bisi, who lives in , and is spending the summer coaching optimists and 29ers in the US. Robby has won many 470 championships in South America and is now sailing a .

Team Jobson

Gary Jobson, NRW’s Honorary Chairman, will be accompanied by his team: Hank Stuart, a partner at Cobblestone Capital Advisors LLC, serves on several boards including Excellus BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and COMIDA (County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency). He is president and Board Chair of Monroe Newpower, Upstate Telecommunications Corporation, Monroe Security and Safety Systems and Civic Center Monroe County LDC.

Hank learned to sail at the Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association in Sodus Bay, New York, where he continues as a ; teaching junior sailors sailing, swimming and seamanship. Hank is an ISAF International Race Officer, US Sailing National Race Officer and Senior Judge. Hank is chairman of the US Sailing Race Administration Committee and active in race administration for several one-design classes. He has won the World Championships and US Sailing Offshore (Lloyd Phoenix Trophy) Championship. He was part of the winning crew for the J/24 Worlds, Newport-Bermuda Race, Congressional Cup and Liberty Cup. Hank is a member of New York Yacht Club, St Francis Yacht Club, Rochester Yacht Club, Bayview Yacht Club, Oswego Yacht Club, Storm Trysail Club, Sodus Bay Yacht Club and Commodore of Rochester Corinthian Sailing Club. Hank Stuart and his wife Mary live in Rochester, New York.

Dave Reed grew up sailing around Newport and is now the editor of Sailing World magazine.

Gary Jobson and Hank won the 1982 Hall of Fame Regatta in Newport RI and this year they sail together again to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of that regatta.

NIODFA GOLF – Peter McCausland

Winner of the 2006 IOD Celebrity Invitational, third place in the 2007 regatta, and third in 2012, a four time Constable Cup winner including 2012, and consistent top finisher, Peter McCausland is a force to be reckoned with! He sailed an impressive series to victory in 2006, with North Sail’s Geoff Moore serving as tactician. Peter is the founding father of Nantucket’s IOD Fleet, continues to serve as its guiding light, and owns the appropriately-named Golf Syndicate—a testimony to where his real talents lay.

He began sailing IODs in Bermuda in the early 1990’s, an experience that led him to introduce the boat to Nantucket. In addition to his IOD credentials, he has raced a Nantucket Indian for twenty years, and is four time winner of the venerable Constable Cup, the Indian Fleet’s equivalent of a world championship. Personally and through his employer, Airgas, Inc., Peter has supported Dennis Connor in 2 attempts to win the America's Cup in New Zealand. Peter’s crew will include Steve Mead, Fritz McClure, and Graham Kilvert – all experienced IOD sailors who know Nantucket’s waters well.

NIODFA HOTEL - Ian McNeice

Ian McNeice: A native of Auckland, New Zealand, started sailing at the age of five. In his early years, Ian was an equestrian and engaged in show jumping and fox hunting. Ian received a degree in Veterinary Medicine from New Zealand’s Massey University where he was also a member of the sailing team.

In the 1970’s, Ian sailed Cherubs, the first Lasers in New Zealand, and IOR one tonners and 1Ž4 tonners in New Zealand. Ian campaigned J-24s nationally and internationally in the 1990’s and won the J-24 class in the Figawi race 5 times between 1990 and 1998. Ian is an internationally certified J-24 class Measurer. Ian raced in the Nantucket Yacht Club (NYC) big boat series from 1989 to 1996 and won the Gifford Bowl in 1992 and 1994.

Additionally, Ian won the NYC Reiner-Halsted Trophy on 4 occasions. He sailed in the first race of the Nantucket IOD fleet and skippered the late Curt Ivey’s Sierra Syndicate. Ian then took a break from Nantucket sailing to race in the Wianno Seniors Class, where he won the Scudder Cup twice. Ian returned to IOD racing with HOTEL in 2003 and joined the syndicate in 2004 and has consistently skippered HOTEL since that time. Under Ian’s leadership, Hotel has represented the NYC in four IOD World Championships placing third in 2010 and 2012. He has also represented the Nantucket IOD fleet at Bermuda Race Week. Finally, Ian has enjoyed racing Indians for the past several summers and won the prestigious Constable Cup in 2011 and again in 2014.

Zenas Hutcheson: Zenas never raced a sailboat until he and Arthur Gosnell formed the HOTEL syndicate--one of the original six syndicates in the NIODFA—in 1997. Zenas will be working the mainsheet.

Arthur Gosnell: Arthur Gosnell grew up in Rochester, NY sailing on Lake Ontario, as well as in the Adirondacks and on Nantucket. He has been part of HOTEL since 1997 with Zenas Hutcheson.

Christian Nebergall: Christian is a native of Providence RI. He is a graduate Portsmouth Abbey (2006) and Union College (2011). Christian was named to the Rhode Island All State Lacrosse Team and played lacrosse at Union College. Christian grew up racing with his family. Christian will be on the foredeck.

Fort Worth Boat Club – Philip Schutts

Philip Schutts, former Commodore of the Fort Worth Boat Club. Owns and races a J105 and cruises in his Beneteau 473.

Paul Bregenzer, current member of Fort Worth Board of Governors. Professional rigger and active racer. Recently crewed on the Swan 42 "Hoss" when the captured the National Championship.

Craig White, avid one design racer with championships in Catalina 22s and J80s. Currently races on a J105.

David Schafer, avid racer and currently Captain of a custom 93' sailboat based in Newport during the summer and the British Virgin Islands each winter.

Team "TBD" - Michael Baldock

Team TBD was a late addition to the Celebrity Invitational several years ago, and used “a lack of time” as an excuse for the unimaginative name. It is now just simply habit and a lack of imagination!

Skipper Michael Baldock has left the Swanabago at home in Greenwich, CT this year and is looking forward to sailing anything that weighs less than 30,000 lbs. He did swap the wheel on the Swan for a tiller to better prepare for this year’s Celeb invitational.

DeAnn Reynolds grew up sailing at and was a collegiate sailor at SDSU. She is a US National & North American Champion in the Snipe Class, and a closet golfer. She now owns and sails a PC (not a computer...well, she owns but doesn't sail the computer) in San Diego. DeAnn brings a broad range of skills to TBD. In addition to wielding a mean , she provides unparalleled insight into the competition.

Evan Kornack is a long-time IOD sailor having been a member of the fleet since his teenage years. When he is not frequently reminding his crew that he has no boat (something they all truly love to hear), he can be found racing and cruising throughout New England, and is a member of the New York Yacht Club. Evan lives in Boston with his wife Kinsey, and works as a professional gambler (a.k.a. a venture capitalist).

Alex Whipple has done extensive sailing abroad as well as domestically including a few world championships in the 420 and in the . He currently sails on the College of Charleston sailing team in South Carolina.

NIODFA Alpha - Richard Werdiger

Richard Werdiger: Member of Great Harbor Yacht Club and NIODFA Alpha syndicate. Long time big boat sailor still learning the hard way!

Miles Cameron: Member of NIODFA Alpha syndicate. Extraordinary sailor, windsurfer, kiteboarder and skier. He brings youth, strength and optimism to our endeavors on the water!

Shane Well: According to him "a legendary sailor at least in his own mind". Sailed at Boston University, sails Shields in Marion, an active team racer and all around bon vivant!

Ben Kinney: Sailed at University of Pennsylvania, sails Etchells and an active team racer. Between his understanding wife, two young children and a high stress job in Manhattan, he was still able to finish 4th in the 2014 Etchells Worlds!

Fisher’s Island – Peter Rugg

Peter Rugg first sailed an IOD as crew for Cornelius Shields Jr. in the 1960s. He has been an IOD owner and active competitor since 1988. He has campaigned a J105 in one-design and handicap racing and been active in distance and ocean racing both double- handed, and fully crewed. Mr. Rugg is sailing under The Storm Trysail Club flag, The Storm Trysail Club, reflecting in its name the sail to which sailors must shorten when facing severe adverse conditions, is one of the world’s most respected sailing clubs, with its membership comprised strictly of skilled blue water and ocean racing sailors. In addition to hosting Block Island Race Week in odd-numbered years, the club holds various prestigious offshore racing events (among them the annual Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race and the Pineapple Cup Montego Bay Race); regular junior safety-at-sea seminars; and the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta for college sailors using big boats.

NIODFA - Team B.R.A.V.O.

Like a Broadway musical (or aging rock band), the players change but the show continues. This incarnation of Bravo features Ted Moore on the helm. Dinghy sailor as youth and at heart, Ted won Worlds and twice has finished in the top 4 in Laser Master worlds. He’s also logged a dozen Bermuda races and has sailed 15 years aboard 12 Meter . Lately he’s doing a lot of team racing – both masters and varsity circuits – for New York YC and Boston YC. Don Thinschmidt returns as Bravo’s guest ringer. He too grew up in dinghies – Optis and Lasers, was a member of the U.S. Sailing Team (2005-07), and mounted an Olympic campaign (’08 class). He competed on Northwestern’s sailing team, where he’s still an alumni advisor. He races on the family Nelson Merek 43, Tyrant, on Lake Michigan and has crewed on a range of mono and multi-hulls, including mini maxis, J105's and is also team racing with New York YC. Great Harbor Yacht Club staff commodore is coming off injured reserve, with plans to run the foredeck this year just to show what he’s made of. Peter may have started sailing later than many, but did so with such a passion that he’s part of the Bravo nucleus, and on Saturdays is always around the front of the Rhodes fleet. Chris Gould is also a Bravo regular and serves as the Nantucket IOD fleet’s technical officer. Chris grew up with small West Coast keel boats (the Mercury class, which he still sails) and went on to extensive Olympic class racing (four campaigns in Finn and Star classes).

Ted and Chris sailed together in college, prompting this year’s name variant – Big Red And Various Others. Couldn’t figure how to spin Paws and purple Wildcats in there.

NIODFA Victor – Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas: Peter Thomas is a native of New Zealand who is very familiar with Nantucket waters sailing both in the Alerion & IOD fleets. David Edwards: Karl Anderson: Karl has been active in international sailing competition since 1980. Karl has won three Etchells North American titles and two J/24 European and Italian championships. As crew, Karl’s wins include five J24 World titles, three Etchells New England Championships, a Melges 24 National title, and four Wianno Senior Scudder Cups. Karl will be trimming the and flying the spinnaker.

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