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The club’s 17-year-old wunderkind, Venetia Satow, hiking out while Antigua native Tyrique Adams fine-tunes the jib on their way to a respectable fourth place. MICHAEL MELLA
Jenny Theiss, up on her feet to carefully navigate her burdened port-tack boat past a privileged starboard-tack boat, while Bud Rogers, BYC’s former commodore, continually passes along his cogent advice to her. MICHAEL MELLA
Three JY15’s, with literally inches between them, race towards the leeward mark. MICHAEL MELLA
As Charlotte LeClue deftly demonstrates, the skipper has two jobs: steering the boat and “manning” the mainsheet, while her brother Josh fine-tunes the jib sheet. MICHAEL MELLA
Seconds after the start in race number three, two “over-early” boats had to fight traffic as they reversed direction back to restart. MICHAEL MELLA
First place Sara Nightingale, owner of a prestigious downtown Sag Harbor art gallery, with Katherine Kalbacher after rounding the weather mark. MICHAEL MELLA
Second place Charlotte Leclue, with her brother Josh on the jib sheet, keeping an eye on the competition to windward. MICHAEL MELLA
Second place Charlotte LeClue (sail #2037), slips to windward of first place Sara Nightingale, (sail #2018) as they decide how to navigate around Sinéad FitzGibbon’s boat, far right. MICHAEL MELLA
Joan Butler, one of the club’s most highly respected sailors, with her son Seth Barrows after jibing around the leeward mark. Back in April, with Seth on the helm and Joan “up front,” they won the JY15 Long Island Championship Regatta. MICHAEL MELLA
Caitlin Cummings, after executing a stellar jibe with her sister Elizabeth, steers toward a close-hauled point of sail. MICHAEL MELLA
Seasoned skipper Sara Nightingale and jib sheet trimmer Katherine Kalbacher know what it takes to bring home the championship trophy: laser-beam focus. MICHAEL MELLA
Sarah Alford and Lee Oldak, the skipper of lightning fast Wednesday Night Racing sloop Purple Haze, focuses on the finish line in the first race. MICHAEL MELLA
