Daily Report
| Oyster Bay,
NY. (October
20, 2007) -
New York
Yacht Club Silver Panda
wins the 2007 US Team Racing Championship, beating 21 of the best teams in
the county. WHishbone captured second place and the Woonsocket
Rockets beat San Diego Yacht Club to earn the bronze medal.
Racing was close and the conclusion was not settled until NYYC Silver
Panda captured the best of three races over WHishbone as the
sun was setting over Oyster Bay Harbor in New York. Twenty-two teams completed the third and final day of the 2007 U.S. Team Racing Championship beautiful 70-degree summer-like weather and 0-10 knots of wind. The racing was halted due to a lack of wind during the afternoon, but resumed on a shortened schedule. The regatta consisted of over 200 races during the three day event. Team members of NYYC Silver Panda were Pete Levesque (Annapolis, MD), Colin Merrick (Portsmouth RI), Clay Bischoff (New York), Amanda Callahan (Canton MA), Lisa Keith (Boston, MA) and Elizabeth Hall (Washington, DC). These members had just returned from Spain where they had won the Team Racing Worlds three weeks ago and are the defending U.S. Team Racing Champions from 2006. |
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