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Affiliated with World Sailing, Pan American Sailing Federation and US Sailing Since 1984 Windward Leg Volume MMXVIII, No. 3 Winter 2018 Upcoming Championship Dates Simon Gomez - Ortiz of Colombia Wins ISCA Youth World Championship 2019 ISCA South American & Caribbean Jean Paul de Trazegnies of Peru Championship - Feb. 27 - Mar. 3, Paracas, Peru 2019 USSCA National Championship at Wins ISCA World Championship Midwinters — Mar. 29 - 31, Davis Ialand Yacht Carolina Yacht Club, Wrightsville Beach, NC Club, Tampa, FL Oct. 6 - 12, 2018 2019 USSCA North American Championship — June 13 - 16, James Island Yacht Club, Charleston, SC 2019 USSCA NE Regionals 2 — July 27 - 28, Lake Wequaquet Yacht Club, Centerville, MA 2019 Pan Am Games Sailing Competition - July 31 - Aug. 10, Paracas, Peru 2019 USSCA Masters Championship - Aug. 16 - 18, Lewes Yacht Club, Lewes, DE 2019 ISCA World Championship - Sept. 14 - 20, Kralendijk, Bonaire 2019 ISCA Youth & Master World Championship - Sept. 21 - 25, Kralendijk, Bonaire 2019 USSCA Women’s North American Championship - Oct. 4 - 6, Niantic Yacht Club, Niantic, CT Top 5 USSCA Youth North American Inside this Issue … USSCA President’s Corner 5 L to R Boom Row — Conner Blouin USA (6th), Jonathan Marne ECU ISCA President’s Corner 6 (5th), David Mendelbla USA (7th), Simon Gomez - Orz COL (1st Place Youth Worlds/10th Overall)): Top Row — Alonso Collantes PER (2nd), Jean Paul de ISCA World Council Minutes 7 - 10 Trazegnies PER (1st place Overall), Caterina Romero PER (8th), David ISCA World Championship 11 - 15 Hernandez GUA (3rd), Marn Alsogaray ARG (4th), John Birke ECU (9th). USSCA Women’s NA Championship 16 - 18 USSCA SE Regionals 2 19 - 20 USSCA Masters Championship 21 Top Winner of the 2018 ISCA World Championship, Jean Paul de Trazegnies USSCA Masters Photos of Winners 22 of Peru, fought long and hard to beat a USSCA Florida Regionals Results 22 fleet of Sunfish sailboat champions who braved some very challenging USSCA SW Regionals Results 22 condions. UConn Fall Alumni Team Race 23 CONGRATULATIONS, Jean Paul!! Midwest Regionals Results 23 1 - Winter 2018 2 - Winter 2018 3 - Winter 2018 2018 - 2019 USSCA Board of Directors Will Kresic, President Regional Reps [email protected] From the Editor... New England (CT/MA/ME/NH/RI/VT) Vicki Palmer Eric Woodman Susan Mallows, Secretary [email protected] The Windward Leg is the official newsleer [email protected] of the Internaonal Sunfish ™ Class Associaon New York (NY) and will connue to be a digital publicaon. So Sonya Dean, Treasurer Lee Montes be sure the Sunfish ™ Class Office has your [email protected] [email protected] current email address. John Bune Chief Measurer Mid - Atlanc (DE/MD/NJ/PAVA/WV) But we will be changing the format for [email protected] Connie Miller future issues of the Windward Leg . You ’ ll sll [email protected] receive them in digital format. But they will Paul Welles, Advisory Council Rep appear in a different format and will most like- [email protected] Southeast (G/NC/SC/TN) Alex Dean ly be issued every two or three months de- Jim Koehler, Advisory Council Rep II [email protected] pending on how much news there is to [email protected] report. Gulf Coast (AL/AR/FL Panhandle/ Gail Turluck, Membership Coord. Keep sending your news and race results to Clinton Edwards LA/MS) [email protected] our new Class Administrator whose contact [email protected] informaon is noted below: Tom Kaerheinrich, Nominaon Chair Midwest (IA/IL/IN/KY/MI/MN/MO/ [email protected] Sunfish ™ Class Office Tom Kaerheinrich OH/W) 18 Normandy Lane [email protected] New Rochelle, NY 10804 Regaa Coord. — To be announced. Office: (914) 844 - 8286 Florida (FL Peninsula) sunfishoff@gmail.com Vicki Palmer, Youth Coordinator Lynne Randall sunfi[email protected] [email protected] Vacant Posion — Master Events Southwest (CO/KS/NE/NM/OK/TX) Coordinator Keith Denebeim ISCA Board of Directors [email protected] Gail Murphy - Heausler, Women ’ s West (AK/AZ/CA/HI/ID/MT/ND/NV/ Rich Chapman, President Events Coordinator OR/SD/UT/WA/WY) [email protected] [email protected] To be announced. Willow Cappele, Vice President [email protected] Welcome Buttons!! Vicki Palmer, Execuve Secretary/Youth Effecve Nov. 1, 2018 we welcome Ed “ Buons ” Coordinator/Worlds RC Liaison Padin to our Sunfish Class family as our new Class sunfi[email protected] Administrator. We are so fortunate to have some- one so experienced to manage our Class Office. Sonya Dean, Treasurer Buons is a lifelong sailor acvely racing Viper 640s, [email protected] a Fast 40+, team racing, and during the winter Radio Controlled CR - 914s. He is also co - chair of the Robie John Bune, Chief Measurer Pierce Regaa for sailors with disabilies. Currently he serves as [email protected] Fleet Captain for Larchmont Yacht Club and is the Long Island Sound Sunfish ™ Class Office — Staon Captain for the Storm Trysail Club. In addion to his sailing adventures Buons has 40+ years of markeng communicaons and Ed “ Buons ” Padin organizaonal experience and runs his own consulng partnership in Class Administrator New Rochelle, NY. ISCA and USSCA Those of us at this year ’ s ISCA World Championship in Wrightsville 18 Normandy Lane Beach, NC, had the pleasure of meeng Buons for the first me. New Rochelle, NY 10804 We became absolutely convinced that he ’ s not only competent, hardworking and passionate about sailing, but he also has a wonder- sunfishoff@gmail.com ful sense of humor and was so much fun to be around. We loved O: 914 - 838 - 8286 spending me with him in both a professional and social seng. We M: 914 - 439 - 5476 know you will too. 4 - Winter 2018 Letter from the USSCA President … Will Kresic Dear USSCA Members: I am honored to be taking over the role of U.S. Sunfish Class President, and I look forward to interacng with all of you in this new role. I have had the opportunity to sail with many of you in regaas throughout the Northeast as well as at North Americ an ’ s and Worlds. Some of you I ’ ve met through Women ’ s North Americans. To the rest of you, I look forward to geng to know you and hearing your perspecve on growing the Sunfish Class. I started sailing at 13 years old in Highland Lakes, NJ. I was on the swim team, but I wasn ’ t winning any awards. At the lanes, I did get to see the youth sailing program praccing twice a week. One day I pointed to the youth fleet and said to my Mom, “ I hate swimming. I want to do that. ” I was on the water the next week with a boat scrounged from my uncle ’ s woodpile and a sail that could have doubled as ssue paper. Nevertheless, I was out there. Since that fortuitous day my passion for sailing has only grown. I graduated from the junior program in Highland Lakes as c aptain and went on to sail for the University of Conneccut where I indoctrinated many members into the Sunfish Class and made life m e friends. Today I connue to aend regional, naonal and world level Sunfish events. For the past seven years, my focus has be en finding new ways to grow the Sunfish Class in the Northeast. I have recruited sailors, found boats for them to sail and event ual ly buy, and worked toward expanding racing to Conneccut and the rest of New England aer nocing the fleet was predominantly located in Rhode Island and Massachuses. Youth sailors are the future of the Sunfish Class, but more and more we see passionate sailors choosing Ops, 420’ s and Lasers over Sunfish. We need to connue to support young Sunfish sailors and encourage all yacht clubs and event organizers to make junior Sunfish sailing as accessible as possible. In an ideal world, even the kids that inevitably leave sailing for other sp ort s will have fond memories of sailing in a Sunfish. These experiences may shape future decisions if they decide to buy a boat for themselv es or their families later in life. In every region there are sailors that find their way back to Sunfish sailing as adults. As the majority of the Sunfish Class ages, we need more teenagers and young adults filling in the ranks from below. For thi s I look to college sailors. We should be viewing college sailors as an untapped resource for the Sunfish Class. Because of the n atu re of the Sunfish, we are uniquely posioned to provide college graduates a new “ boat home, ” as Amanda Callahan calls it. Many college sailing programs race 420’ s and FJ ’ s almost exclusively, and graduates with limited me and money are looking for an accessible class to join with affordable boats. The Sunfish is a great sailboat for these sailors but, as a Class, we need to be a more vis ible op- on. By reaching out to the college programs, we can show these sailors that the Sunfish is much more than a beginner boat. The Sunfish Class is notoriously welcoming to newcomers and creang opportunies for young adults to give Sunfish racing a try wil l ulmately increase Class membership. I see a lot of potenal for the Sunfish, and I am honored to be considered a leader in this Class. I eagerly look forward to the coming year of racing, and I hope that together we can work to grow parcipaon and membership and show the sailing world that the Sunfish is a leader in dinghy racing! Will Kresic Photos from the Women ’ s USSCA North Americans in Ausn, TX.