The 2010 Masters' North American Championships was held August 13-15 in Long Beach, Ca., hosted by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and featured fabulous sailing outside the Los Angeles Breakwater on the beautiful waters of the Catalina Channel. The 40 Standard and 20 Radial masters were treated to three days of sunshine and building seabreezes, providing a little something for everyone - 5-8 knots in the early races to a peak of almost 20 knots on Friday afternoon! In the Standard rigs, Kevin Taugher led wire-to-wire with only one hiccup (when he caught some kelp on his blades) to easily take the Apprentice and overall titles. Vann Wilson overcame the adversity of a broken lower section before the start of the penultimate race to take top Master, with Peter Vessella taking the top Grandmaster title. In the Radial fleet, apprentice Dave Leuck ran an impressive string of bullets to close out the regatta and take the title. Go to the ABYC website to see the full results and find the link to photos.

2010 Laser Masters Great Lakes Championships
Hosted by Sarnia Yacht Club
There 4 races on Saturday with winds from 5 to 12 knots.  The weather mark ended up quite close to the beach which made for some challenging tactical situations.  Each start had the current (a bit over 1 kt) pushing everyone over so if you look in the Full Results links you will find some OCS scores.  On Sunday we were greated by fog and no wind so we waited ashore for an hour before getting towed out. Some nice wind filled in and we started a race but part way through it got weird so it was abandoned.  The wind shifted about 90 degrees, settled, and off we went again.  The wind stayed fairly steady throughout this race at about 5-6 kts.  The wind and current were almost the same direction which made for a very long beat and fairly quick run.  The race comittee tried to get another race off.  We started and about 20 minutes later only made it 1/2 way up the beat.  They were also monitoring weather and some nasty front was approaching so they thought it best to ttow us in.  We got heavy rain while putting away the boats but nothing too bad.  Later that day we heard about a tornado just to the Northwest in Michigan.

All in all from RC to food to billeting the Sarnia group did a great job!

Full Results by Category click here

Full Results Overall click here

The 2010 Masters' US Championship was held May 14-16 in Charleston, South Carolina. This year's event had 61 Masters racing in Standard rigs and 27 in Radials.Three days of racing in beautiful conditions are now over. After 10 races, just turned Grandmaster Peter Vessella beats Apprentice Eric Oetgen after an epic final day battle to take the overall spot. Rounding out top group in Standards are Mike Matan winning the Master division, and third overall, and Lenny Krawcheck takes the GGM's. In the Radial fleet, Great Grandmaster Peter Seidenberg shows his stern to the kids, with Master Ken Swetka taking second, Apprentice Glenn Walker taking third and Richard Leland the top Grandmaster. Check out the full results!