Westport YC Hosts 2005 Youth Sailing Regatta

I have to give shout to my adopted YC, Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, CT. CPYC recently hosted the 2005 Youth Sailing Championship. The top 160 14- to 19-year-old competitive sailors from 22 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada competed in Westport from June 23 to June 30^th. As this article in the local Westport paper details, some 150 volunteers helped register, house, feed, hydrate, entertain, photograph, coach and run races for the contingent – three fleets raced: double-handed Club 420s and single-handed Lasers and Laser Radials. Emily Dellenbaugh, 15, of Easton, CT., and Leigh Hammell, 16, of Warren, VT., became the first women in the championship's 33-year history to win the double-handed class in a fleet of 50 Club 420 boats. Today's youth champions are tommorow's Olympic stars so watch for these names as the years pass. I never competed at this level when I was a teenager - reading about these kids makes me wish I had.