US Sailing Race Official News: St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy Awarded to Corpus Christi Yacht Club

This year’s winner of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy was Corpus Christi Yacht Club (Corpus Christi, TX) for hosting the 2022 J/24 Environment Championship.

The trophy is awarded on a yearly basis to a regional sailing business for remarkable race administration at a single party. Comments and evaluation by participating skippers weigh closely in the collection of a winner.

The Corpus Christi Yacht Club race committee, headed up by Professional Mark Foster, an Intercontinental Race Officer, ran 10 races for 38 boats from eight nations around the world above five days. This was the fourth party led by Foster to gain the St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy. At the conclude of the celebration, the best four boats were being divided by only four details. The Race Committee employed a assortment of sailor-helpful techniques, such as everyday competitor briefings to describe the classes and the RC’s intentions and speaking routinely with sailors on the racecourse.

Opponents had been remarkably complimentary of the Club’s and the Race Committee’s perform. A single commented, “These fellas had been conveniently and by far the ideal RC my group and I have at any time expert!  The problems have been challenging and extremely windy, blowing up to 36 knots, with waves as massive as our boat. Each race began on time and the programs have been sq. and even!”

Yet another said, “Corpus Christi Yacht Club place on a rock-good regatta on all amounts. There was almost nothing that we could consider of that could have been finished to make it superior. The Race Committee, on the h2o crew, and judges were great.”

Another skipper noted, “Some particularly difficult wind and surf times, race committee did a good position adapting to fast changing circumstances. Earning the determination to have a black flag commence soon after just one recall was an great final decision that proved to be the correct a single as there had been no recollects for the future 8 races and virtually no one in excess of.”

The Chief Choose for the event, Willii Gohl (IJ, GER), rated the Race Committee’s overall performance “Excellent” in each individual group and noticed, “A every day briefing taking the responses and recommendations from the sailors was held, and the open up brain of the RC was very appreciated by the sailors. RC observed all wind shifts and adjusted the program in time with very clear conversation. Protection was all the time in the brain of the RC and security boats were available. All races ended up started out on time – not a solitary postponement was required.”

Professional Foster commented, “A huge thank you to the main scheduling committee, who had been working on this party for a several several years and to the 20+ CCYC users, who invested 6 days on the drinking water working races to make this celebration a big success. Truly a get-it-performed group no subject what the conditions. A true satisfaction to work with.

“Thank you to the 90+ CCYC volunteers and CCYC workers who did an exceptional job assisting boats get there, taking care of the boat park, and managing registration and measurement. The complete club was extremely supportive of this event.

“This award was gained by the total CCYC team,” Foster mentioned.

If your club or sailing middle is intrigued in making use of for the St. Petersburg Yacht Club Trophy, you should take a look at the SPYC Trophy page on our internet site and speak to the Race Administration Department at [email protected] or contact (401) 342-7945.