2023 Clagett and Para Sailing Champs

Thirty-one sailors competing at the 21st C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and 2023 U.S. Para Sailing Championships on June 21-25 at Sail Newport in Newport, RI. The 21 sailors in the 2.4mR class and five boats in the Martin 16 class completed eight races with a variety of conditions from rain to fog to sun and everything in between.

“It turned out to be a great weekend for weather when we thought it wasn’t going to happen,” noted Principal Race Officer Tom Duggan. “We had to wait every day for the breeze which was from a mostly southerly direction between four-10 knots.”

In the larger fleet of the two classes racing this year, the 2.4mR class, the titles for the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and the 2023 U.S. Para Sailing Championship went to Julio Reguero who was defending his Clagett Regatta title from 2022. Second in the 2.4mR class for the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and the winner of the U.S. National Para Champion and the Judd Goldman Trophy was Charlie Rosenfield. In third pace in the Clagett Regatta was Tony Pocklington and in the U.S. Para Sailing Championship it was Peter Eager who took home the bronze.

Reguero also took home the overall trophy for the Clagett Regatta and whose next stop in his 2.4mR sailing is Finland for the 2.4mR World Championships.

The double handed Martin 16 class was won by Gary Pierce and Jeff Long in the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta.

“We had a blast and did better than I thought we would. We took the coaching every day and applied it on the course and it paid dividends so we did truly Learn, Race and Win,” said Pierce. Second in the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta Martin 16 was Steven Safford and Albert Pierce and in third was Tim Brown and Sarah Everhart Skeels.

In the U.S. Para Sailing Championships in the Martin 16, which is to be sailed by two persons with disabilities, it was Tim Brown and Sarah Everhart Skeels who took home gold and Dawn Hart and Kris Scheppe who took the silver.

The three day competition was preceded by a two-day coaching clinic.

Information:
• Clagett Regatta: https://clagettsailing.org/Information
• U.S. Para Sailing Championships: https://www.ussailing.org/competition/championships/2023-u-s-para-sailing-championship/