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Friday, June 22 The south in the summer time is known for its heat and there is no exception for the 2007 U.S. Youth Sailing Championship. Humidity and temperatures in the mid 90s, greeted the last of the sailors as they arrived at Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans. With the winds out of the east between 5-10 mph, many were anxious to get onto Lake Pontchartrain, the championship’s venue for racing. Read the Full Report |
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Saturday, June 23 Today competitors in the 2007 U.S. Youth Championships participated in the clinic prior to the start of racing. Led by David Perry and with participation of all the coaches present, the sailors reviewed local conditions on shore and then broke into fleets. Led by the coaching squad, each fleet worked on fine tuning their rigging prior to going out. The fleets then headed out the channel onto Lake Ponchartrain where they split into singlehanded and doublehanded fleets. Read the Full Report |
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Sunday, June 24 Sunday morning was hot and still. The fleet were ashore at the beginning of the day, waiting for the breeze to fill in. Many of the sailors clustered together to watch the second race of the America's Cup. Joining them were several race officials and parents, themselves just returned from Valencia, whose comments provided additional insight into the day's racing. Just before noon, lunch was served and the postponement flag dropped. The sailors, eager to begin the championship, launched their boats and headed out into the lake. Read the Full Report |
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Monday,
June 25 It was a most interesting weather day on Monday in New Orleans. Competitors left the dock at approximately 9:30 am CDT in very little wind and bright sunshine. As the boats approached the Race Course, the wind arrived on time allowing the Race Committee to organize and begin the 4th Race of the 2007 Youth Champs for all classes.
Over the course of the next hour the wind varied but remained generally below 5 knots. Just after 11:00am the wind began to cooperate and both PROs began races in a building wind in advance of a coming summer rainstorm.
As racing progressed the race area was overcast by dark clouds off to the north and east of the race course. Read the Full Report |
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Tuesday, June 26 It was a long but productive day on Lake Pontchartrain. After yesterday's disappointing racing, PROs Nathan Adams and Chris Clement were able to run five races for the C420, Laser and Laser Radial Courses and four races for the 29er fleet.
Emily Dellenbaugh and Briana Provoncha in the 29er Fleet, remained in the lead just two points ahead of Oliver Toole and Willie McBride. In the Club 420 Class, it was “move up” day for Tyler Sinks and Morgane Renoir as they posted finishes of 4,1,4,1,and 6th in the 5 races completed, overcoming second day leaders Halsey Richartz and Eliza Richartz, who fell to 4th overall. Colin Smith in the Laser Full Rig Class, made a strong move into the lead and in the Laser Radial Class, with 37 points Justin Doane moved into the lead replacing yesterday's leader Sam Padnos. Read the Full Report |
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Wednesday, June 27 With their overall win in the 29er class, Emily Dellenbaugh (Easton, CT) and Briana Provancha (San Diego, CA) have won the right to be the female team representing the United States and second place finisher, Oliver Toole and Willie McBride, both of Santa Barbara, California will be the male team at the 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship in Kingston, Ontario, Canada July 12-21, 2007. This was the second win at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships for Emily, who won in the C420 division in 2005. Last year, her sister, Rebecca took home the Manton Scott Trophy. In the Laser Fleet, Colin Smith ( Fort Lauderdale, FL) beat previous leader, David Hernandez after three days of racing, posting a score line of 42 points and will qualify for the U.S. Singlehanded Championship which will be sailed later in July. Tyler Sinks and Morgane Renoir of San Diego CA took the overall title in the C420 Fleet to cap a really great day for this team. Taylor Canfield (St. Thomas USVI) and Perry Emsiek (Corona del Mar, CA) finished with second. Both teams had been in tight contention from the beginning of the championship. Sinks, who was second last year, sailed extremely consistently with no OSCs which paid off at the end of the day. Ian Heausler (Tampa, FL) has won the Radial division with Justin Doane (Nokomis, FL) in second and Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, IL) in third. Haeger will also be attending the 2007 ISAF Youth Worlds next month in the Radial division. Read the Full Report |