Juniors return from Junior Olympic Festival

catesby jones on Friday July 26, 2002 11:55AM

This past Tuesday and Wednesday we traveled to Hampton for the Junior Olympic Festival. We brought Ashton Hudgins, Meg Roberts, Franny Kupersmith and Quentin Jenkins out for this fantastic festival. Highlights included Franny Kupersmith placing second overall in the Byte fleet, only a couple points away from winning the whole regatta! See Results for Bytes. She received a huge cup and an elegant medal. Also, Meg Roberts despite many boat difficulties, managed to place fourth overall in the competitive Byte fleet. See Pictures at HYC Web site.I would like to put out a special thank you to the Hudgins for having us stay with them for the duration of the regatta. Between their big screen TV and swimming pool, we were living the high life once off of the water.

Coming up is the Gibson Island Junior Regatta on Tuesday, July 30th. They will have Lasers, Laser Radials, Bytes, Optis and Opti Green Fleet. We strongly encourage everyone to go to this fabulous regatta. Our tentative plans will be to go down the night before, on Monday, and return on the night of the 30th. Please reply if you can go!!!

Also, on Friday August 2nd, we have the Rappahannock River Yacht Club Junior regatta. This regatta will be held only in Optis!!! This is a regatta that will be very low key, just like our own. ANYONE THAT IS INTERESTED IN TRYING A REGATTA FOR THEIR FIRST TIME SHOULD GO!!!!! The competition will not be intense. We would love to be able to have a full trailer of nine Optis, in addition to parents having to car-top optis for this regatta. PLEASE RESPOND!!!!!

Sail Fast,
Coach Blake

Juniors return from Junior Olympic Festival

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