Quannapowitt Yacht Club

Last Blast Laser Regatta

QYC Laser sailors made a great showing at our May Madness Laser Regatta. New member Sara Helbling, placed second in a very competitive fleet of 20 sailors from all over New England – ME, VT, NH, RI, CT and MA. Your Commodore and Eric McCaffrey placed fifth and sixth respectively, and Members Bill Dobson and Scott Doran persevered through the rain and tricky wind shifts when more experienced sailors headed for the beach.

When you plan a regatta you haven’t the faintest idea what kind of weather you’ll have, so it was with a pretty profound degree of disappointment that the weather for our May Madness Laser regatta began to make its self known out of the long-term forecasts – rain and thunder with moderate to light winds.

Winners Roger Sharp and his daughter Laura Sharp dominated the entire day.

We had another great "Chaos Cup" regatta last fall on October 17th at the Quannapowitt Yacht Club in Wakefield Massachusetts with seven boats attending. As always the QYC members pulled together to help out on the race committee boats and back at the club house in the kitchen.

Just like last year it was cold. It even snowed the day before the regatta! It was also pretty windy in the morning with white caps and gusts blowing across the lake. I became very nervous when Diane Kampf said that she was not going to sail in the rough conditions because she will generally sail in anything. In the end her husband Greg Kampf convinced her to sail so all was good. Lets face it a Flying Scot is pretty hard to capsize on a moderately windy day even for an inexperienced sailor.

Last Blast Laser Regatta

Series Standing - 8 races scored

Information is provisional and subject to modification
Regatta results saved: Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:56:14 PM EDT

( Entries=18) Laser | Laser Adult | Laser Grand Master | Laser Masters | Laser Youth

DaySailer Singlehanded Championship Regatta

Series Standing - 7 races scored

Information is provisional and subject to modification
Regatta results saved: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:26:30 AM EDT

Division: DaySailer (4 boats) (top)

The 2009 DaySailer Atlantic Coast Championships were held on Saturday June 27, 2009.  Ten boats participated in a wide range of wind conditions from drifting to 15 knots.  Click "Read More" to see results.

QYC's May Madness Laser regatta was held Saturday in variable winds and mostly sunny skies. 20 sailors from Mass, New Hampshire and Maine showed up for the season opener. The morning didn"t look very promising, but after a minor delay the winds became steady and never left us for the rest of the eight race series. As if choreographed for a bunch of sailors coming out of hibernation, the breeze let us get our boat-handling skills warmed up and our sailing instincts refocused and then it slowly built to keep our attention sharp.