Florida State Junior Championship

Miami, September 7-8, 2013. Coconut Grove Sailing Club Regatta report by Peter Commette (photos courtesy of USA Snipe Sailboat Class) 15 snipes competed in the LVI Annual Florida State Snipe Junior Championship with 13 year old Ivan Shestopalov from Miami winning the Regatta with 4-1-3 by one point over Clyde Wright III from Ft. Lauderdale with 5-2-2. Third Place went to the all Junior team of Jensen McTighe with crew Kyle Pond also from Ft. Lauderdale, one point behind second place with 2-7-1. The Championship was highly enhanced by the participation of 3 boats from Tampa/St. Petersburg under the guidance of Kevin Reali; two of them finished in 4th, Tim Siemers and Mac Mckenzie, and 5th, Melany Johnson and Colleen McClung, all teams with Junior crews, as well. See the Results below for details. ...

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Miami, September 7-8, 2013. Coconut Grove Sailing Club

Regatta report by Peter Commette

(photos courtesy of USA Snipe Sailboat Class)

15 snipes competed in the LVI Annual Florida State Snipe Junior Championship with 13 year old Ivan Shestopalov from Miami winning the Regatta with 4-1-3 by one point over Clyde Wright III from Ft. Lauderdale with 5-2-2. Third Place went to the all Junior team of Jensen McTighe with crew Kyle Pond also from Ft. Lauderdale, one point behind second place with 2-7-1. The Championship was highly enhanced by the participation of 3 boats from Tampa/St. Petersburg under the guidance of Kevin Reali; two of them finished in 4th, Tim Siemers and Mac Mckenzie, and 5th, Melany Johnson and Colleen McClung, all teams with Junior crews, as well. See the Results below for details.

 

We had no wind and no races on Saturday but on Sunday, with a bad forecast including storms, we were able to hold 3 very nice Windward/Leeward races before the limit time of 2 PM. Winds were from the East and Northeast 10 to 15 mph. The Race Committee did a beautiful job taking care of wind shifts, moving the pin mark and the weather mark when needed! Down the last leg (leeward) of the last race anyone of the first five still could win the series. Jensen passed three boats to finish first in the race and secure third for the series. Ivan lost boats but was able to hang onto first and secure the series, Clyde passed five boats and leapfrogged himself into second, and Tim, who was winning the series going into the last race but was called over at the start, kept catching boats but could not catch enough boats to save the series, finishing 5th overall. Very exciting!

We continue to have excellent results with our program to allow adults and owners to crew for the juniors. With that we can level very young Juniors with older Juniors and be able to end up with a sizable fleet. 7 out of the 15 teams had an adult as a crew.

Final Results

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