Skippers

Charlie Arms Vallejo, CA, Colleen Cooke Chula Vista, CA, Dana Riley San Francisco, CA, Karen Loutzenheiser Santa Cruz, CA
 

Colleen teaches 8th grade math when not sailing.  She crewed with Charlie winning the Bettina Bents, won the Holder 20 nationals in 1998, placed second in the Women's One Design Regatta in Long Beach and is the past fleet captain of the Women's Yacht Racing Fleet of San Diego. 

Dana works for the Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Oakland. She crewed for Paula Lewin's 2nd place team at the Rolex and sails the Farr 40 circuit in California. 

Karen is the Art Director/Production Manager for the Coast Weekly, a local newspaper. Her team tied for 10th at the Rolex (unfortunately scoring a 13th), has been part of the winning crew for lots of local events on J22, J90, SC 50, Moore 24, Sydney 38.

Sally Barkow the 2003 Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Champion and an Olympic aspirant in the Yngling, was runner-up to Betsy Alison in the 2002 U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship in New Orleans. A two-time All American at Old Dominion University and #1 intercollegiate woman sailor in 2002, Barkow won the first match racing event she entered, the 2002 Rolex St. Petersburg Match, and was selected to be the women’s entry in the UBS U.S. Challenge.  At the Pan Am Games Trials she took the win in the 14-boat Laser Radial fleet and went on to finish fifth overall at the Games. Recently, Barkow advanced to the semi-final rounds of the highly competitive Bermuda International Women’s Championship.

Debbie Capozzi and Carrie Howe (along with Annie Lush) were part of Barkow’s 2003 RIWKC winning team, and are sailing with her in an Yngling campaign. They are all members of the U.S. Sailing Team.

Liz, Karina, and Aimee have been match racing together since early 2000 and together won the 2002 WMRWC.

Nancy Haberland, as skipper or crew, has garnered over 20 National, International, and World Titles, including wins at the first Women’s Match Race Worlds in Dubai, UAE; Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship; US Women’s Doublehanded Nationals; and the US Women’s Singlehanded Nationals. She is presently part of Carol Cronin’s Yngling team, seeking to represent the U.S. in Athens.

Leigh learned to sail at Girl Scout camp and puttered in Snarks & Sunfish ‘til she discovered racing. She concentrates primarily on one design, Lightnings, Flying Scots, & J22s, and has done foredeck in several J22 championships. She has competed in both the Adams Cup, and the RIWKC at Annapolis.  Her Pontchartrain women's team has won the Fleet 22 championship three years running. A Registered Nurse and grandmother of three, she serves on the Executive Board of the Lake Pontchartrain Womens S.A., and on the Board of Directors of Pontchartrain Y.C. Leigh says she will "graduate" next month to Race Chairman. In her "spare" time, she and her husband are remodeling a 1950's bungalow. "I can now lay brick pavers and float a wall with the best of them", says Leigh.  

Marcy, a physical therapist who moved from Upstate NY to New Orleans, started sailing as foredeck on a J35 and was “hooked the first night out”.   The boat she sailed on for the past 4 years was Lake Pontchartrain RC Fleet Champion.  She has crewed, and partially helmed, two Regatta al Sols most recently on a WestSail 42 that won class and fleet in ‘02. Marcy, invited to race in Challenge Cup, the Biloxi Series and many “ladies'regattas” has had the added pleasure of boat hopping on Flying Scots, J22s and J30s. The last two Key West Race Weeks she raced, first on a J80 that took 2^nd place, and then on a Tripp 40 that took 5^th (she was 5 months pregnant). She relocated back to Syracuse last October the birth of baby, Griffin James.

Linda Epstein and Liz Filter sailed with Carol in the ’01 and ‘03 RIWKC’s, and have been part of her team in both Yngling and match racing competitions.

Liz, a New Orleans native, was an All-Star crew at Tulane University and has won several titles, including the 1991 RIWKC and the Adams Cup. She is a medical sales representative, and mother of Christian (5), and Megan (3). Her husband, Henry, is a U.S. Pan-American Team sailor.

Linda, also an Adams winner and top crew on the international WMR circuit, is a research scientist with a PhD in Biochemistry and works for a large biotech company. Linda’s husband, Tom Robinson, is a Championship E22 and 210 Class sailor, college sailing coach, and avid frostbiter.

Jo Ann Fisher, a Speech Pathologist for a brain injury unit is a multi class one design champion crew in the J/22, Lightning, Thistle, and Flying Scot Classes. Most recently, as skipper, she placed third in the 2003 Lightning North American Championships. Her husband Greg, is a one-design sailmaker for North Sails.

Sandy Hayes, skipper in many major national and international women’s match racing events, placed 3rd in the 2002 U.S. Women’s Match Race Championship in New Orleans, and this year placed second in the Sundance Cup. Most recently she competed in the Bermuda International Women’s Match Race Championship.

Kim Hapgood lives in the "sailing capital of the world". She is currently, Program Director at Sail Newport, a Master Instructor Trainer for US SAILING, and part-time harbormaster for the City of Newport. When not working, Kim can usually be found racing one-design sailboats (J/24s and Shields) and on Rumours, a Thompson 35 sport boat.  She has sailed in three RIWKCs including a win overall in 1999. For the past two years she has been trimmer for Hayes, in what is now her "favorite sailing discipline", match racing.

Sue Michos is currently the Commodore of North Coast Women's Sailing Association, a 200 member all-female sailing organization. Susan actively sails a Jet 14 with her husband throughout the eastern U.S., along with being a District Vice -President for the class. New to match racing in 2002, Susan joined Sandy and Kim as part of the 2003-second place Sundance Cup team.

Heidi Ziskind sailed on the University of Rhode Island Sailing Team, and can usually be found on a J24 in Newport or in San Francisco.

Anne-Marie de Ridder Kostecki has sailed "my whole life". She has match raced since 1996 and done lots of IMS and J22 regatta's (European Champion 2000). The past year was a busy one as she did the Farr 40 circuit in Europe, EC IMS (2nd), Bermuda Gold Cup, got married and became a U.S. Resident.

Katey Pilley Lovell and Leah Hoepfner complete the Kratzig team.

Abby has sailed on every one of Jody’s RIWKC teams. She was also with Jody in their win at the Santa Maria cup. Abby is a very accomplished lightning sailor, as is her daughter, Meagan.

Meagan, who spends a lot of time in the Lightning class, skippered to a 4th place finish in the Lightning Junior North Americans.

Cory who is part of Jody’s Yngling team is a two-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year, a former Olympian, and a winner of the RIWKC. She serves on US SAILING’s Women’s Sailing Committee, is a member of US SAILING’s delegation to the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), and also coaches high school sailing at Rochester Yacht Club.  Sertl and husband Mark work in a family-owned real estate development and management company. They have two children, Nicholas and Katja, ages seven and nine.

Melissa, in addition to the above, was collegiate All American, and trimmer/helm on the all-women Amer Sport Too crew in the last Volvo Ocean Race. She owns a pizza restuarant in Tiburon, CA.

Whitney, another collegiate All American and also a member of the U.S. Sailing Team is working on her 470 Olympic campaign, as well as plans for her upcoming wedding next year.

Felicity Clarke, a Canadian, is presently doing an Yngling campaign.