2007 Junior Committee Ideal Conditions for 2007 PEQUOT JUNIOR YACHT CLUB Executive Committee Chair Pam Toner Jennings Cup Competition Registration & Boat Charter Courtenay Hardy The annual Jennings Cup Parent/Child Regatta was Alison Lew organized by Maura Grinalds and held on Saturday, Au- Junior Program Issue Medical Forms & Collections Bonnie Zygmant gust 5, 2006. A great turnout had all eight of the Ideal Opti Rumble Holly Hewitt 18s competing. Race Committee included three genera- tions of the Jennings family: Ted Jennings, his son Ward, Judy Wolstenholme PEQUOT YACHT CLUB Vol. 27 October 2006 SOUTHPORT CT Pixel/Blue Jay Regatta OPEN and Ward’s son Austin. Ted explained that his father Instructor Hiring OPEN started the Parent/Child Regatta as a way of finding out Treasurer Alison Lew how much his children had learned in the Junior Program. This year’s teams were John, Tom & David Watkins, Record Heat for Annual Opti Sailors Wait Out Wind Junior Committee Nancy and Christopher Foote, Mark and Bridgette Foster, The Pequot Yacht Club Annual Opti Rumble, JSA Liaison Maren Hood Keith and Andrew Kirkpatrick, Andrew and Conor Pixel/Blue Jay Invitational held July 15, completed one race in shifting, light 420/Pixel/Opti Inventory Claflin, Maura and Andrew Grinalds with Matthew Pequot Yacht Club played host to over one winds that completely died many times during the & Equipment Management Jay Lipp Clarida, Somers and Mackenzie Cooper; and Nina and hundred sailors competing in their annual Pixel & regatta. Junior Flag Officers Advisor Tim Clark Emily Cahill. A bright sunny day with light wind allowed Blue Jay Invitational, from Sunday, July 30 Ninety-two sailors took to the water at 9:30 Registration Brochure Susan Dellenbaugh the completion of five races. Teams switched skipper and through Tuesday, August 1. Young sailors ages 12 Sunday morning hoping to race 4 to 6 times during New Family Orientation Ann Watkins crew positions, and in some cases, the child skipper pro- through 17 competed in twenty-nine Pixels and Race Team Orientation Head Instructor & the day. The race committee, headed by Pequot duced better results than the parent skipper. At the end of seventeen Blue Jays. Yacht Club’s Charlie Reynolds, tried to start a race Racing Coaches the day, racers joined members at an all-Club Barbecue. Opti Rigging Day Tim Clarke The racing was challenging for the young com- at 12:30 after a windless morning but that race had Jennings Cup Maura Grinalds petitors. Sailing in breezes of under 10 knots in to be abandoned due to lack of wind. Big Boat Program Jack Forehand ninety degree plus temperatures, race committee The kids swam, ate, drank lots of water and Clinics OPEN chair David Rosow and his crew did an excellent floated on their Opti’s waiting for wind. “It’s Long Rainy Day Activities Box OPEN job in completing six races for all three divisions Island Sound; sometimes we never get wind and Awards Dinner Kristina Dumke on Monday, allowing the sailors the relief of hav- sometimes we have too much. It’s just sailing,” Junior Flag Officers ing to sail only one race on Tuesday to complete said Pequot’s Bridgette Foster. Keeper Trophy Ordering Bonnie Zygmant the seven-race series. Pequot sailors placing in the 11 of the 13 Area C yacht clubs participated in Perpetual Trophies Engraving Kristina Dumke first Pixel Division were Greg Fisher and Henry this first Area C race of the summer, and Pequot Junior Pilot Pam Toner & PJYC Simonds who came in fourth. Volunteer Thank-You Event Pam Toner had some top finishers. In the Red Fleet Matt For many young sailors, the Pequot regatta is a High School Sailing Missy Feuerhake Clarida finished 4th of 12 racers. In the Blue Fleet Sailing with Horizons OPEN “rite of passage,” as it represents their first “away” the top Pequot finisher was Mike Frasco in 6th Jr. Program Advisors/Ex-Officio Judy Proctor, Maren regatta. Local families provided housing for Long place, closely followed by Bridgette Foster and Hood, Mary von Conta Island and Westchester sailors. After dinner on Monday night a DJ got the sailors going on the (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 5) Above, Nancy and Christo- pher Foote. Left, Jennings Cup competi- tors and race officials. Pixel/Blue Jay Regatta Chair Tim Clark with Head Instruc- tor Amanda Lyall. View from Pequot Yacht Club as the Opti Rumble gets underway. Page 8 Class Awards Perpetual Trophies The 2008 Olympic Cam- huge waves and, oh man, it was wild. We had about six near-flipping saves during the race, 19 OPTIMIST RACING CLUB CHAMPIONS Arthur O. Jennings, Jr. Memorial Cup to Mark and paign of Brown & Young teams flipped at some point during it, and I would Bridget Foster for placing first in the parent/child 1st Bryce Kopp Pequot’s Laser & 420 Coaches, Evan Brown say there were solid twenty-second runs where we 2nd Mackenzie Cooper races. 2nd place went to John, Tommy and David Wat- couldn’t see ANYTHING from straight spray in kins, and 3rd, to Nancy and Christopher Foote. and Caroline Young, students and varsity sailors at 3rd Mike Frasco Stanford University, teamed up in the summer of our eyes. 4th Bridget Foster David S. Sprouse Award to Henry Dumke for spirit It was AWESOME! Oh yeah, and it was rain- and enthusiasm. 2005 to make a bid for the Gold Medal in the 5th Henry Dumke ing so the marks were kind of invisible, which John Walter Perry Award to Karl Forst for most women’s 470 (double-handed dinghy) sailing class improvement as a beginner. at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. added a little something extra. PIXEL INAUGURAL YEAR ON LIS …..On to The Worlds on September 7th!” Nathan Arndt Theo Aris John H. Sherwood Award to Bryce Kopp for all- They call themselves The Bay Team, which Greg Fisher Henry Simonds around excellence as an Optimist sailor. represents their hometown of Tampa Bay, Florida, -Caroline and Evan Lucy Grinalds John Doelp Mike Hafer Achievement Award to Charlotte Boyle and their current sailing venue of San Francisco Ed. Note: Follow the team’s progress on their for an intermediate member who has demonstrated all- Bay, California, as well as their names Brown And website: www.thebayteam.org. LASER CLUB CHAMPIONS around excellence in sailing ability, seamanship and Young. sportsmanship. 1st Andrew Foster In only five months, they reached their first 2nd Nick Tierney Pandora’s Box to Jill Fattibene for best spinnaker sets. goal: a berth on the 2006 U.S. Sailing Team, 3rd Will Marx where they are currently ranked fourth. Rennell Improvement Award to Laura Cuccio for At the end of August, the team competed in a LASER RADIAL CLUB CHAMPIONS greatest improvement in seamanship. 1st Brendan Kopp Instructor’s Tiller Award to Bridget Clarke for most Pre-Olympic Test Event in Qingdao, China, end- 2nd Tom Watkins improved helmsman. ing the competition on a high note. They describe 3rd Tim Clark Instructor’s Shipshape Award to Henry Simonds for some of the action: the best at keeping his boat shipshape. 420 CLUB CHAMPIONS Henry A. Jennings Cup to Brendan Kopp for 1st Morgan Feuerhake/ Gavin Tisdale compiling the best racing record in junior events held 2nd Laura Cuccio/Jill Fattibene outside the Club. 3rd Warren Hofrichter/Ashlinn Brennan Pequot Yacht Club Pequot Cup to Laurel Hofrich- ter for the most outstanding qualities of leadership and sportsmanship. Instructors’ Awards Reginald W. Ray, Jr. Award to Warren Hofrichter Pixel Sailors Carolyn Toner, Allison Toner, Brooke Mackno, for most outstanding junior mentor. Kate Pitt and Lucy Grinalds. Amanda: Tim Clark Cameron Clark, Jr. Navigation Award to Will Marx Liam: Emily Cahill for outstanding junior navigator. Lindsay: Jack Cusick Carolyn: Mackenzie Cooper Trophy Notes Evan: Nick Tierney Brett: Karl Forst David Sprouse was a popular junior sailor at Mark: Andrew Foster Pequot and served as Junior Commodore about 20 Jono: Gavin Tisdale years ago. A year or two later he died in a tragic car Evan Brown and Caroline Young at Pequot this summer. Caroline: Warren Hofrichter accident. John Walter Perry was a former PYC Commodore. “We had 9 races of 5-9 knot breeze and many For LTS & 2nd Year John Sherwood was a long-time Pequot sailor and races had a LOT of current that played largely into volunteer. He was a very enthusiastic supporter of the strategy on the racecourse. The conditions Opti Sailors Optis at Pequot and ran the first JSA Opti Champs at were challenging for everyone out there, and we Opti Sportsmanship Award: Sam Perkins Pequot. had huge improvements in both boat speed and Opti Ship-shape Award: Rolando Pantoja Mike Hafer sailed at Pequot in the late 50s and tuning in these light and choppy conditions. The Will Marx, Laser sailor and winner of the Cameron Clark Opti Seamanship Award: Giles Thompson early 60s. He was a great kid and excellent crew who last day blew 25 knots and was a wild ride! 8-foot Navigation Award. (Most adept with knots and seamanship) unfortunately died in an accident when he was 19. swells stacked up very close to each other which Opti Boat handling Award: Greer Sallick Pandora’s Box. Setting a spinnaker is easy! Just made it very exciting (and only a little bit scary) Pequot Junior Yacht Club (Most impressive all-around sailing capabilities) clip on the halyard and sheets, pull the chute out of the sailing! We flipped a few times, beat ourselves up Pequot Pilot Junior Program Issue bucket and hoist away! But some sixty years ago, it wasn’t that easy.