25th Annual Jessica Uniack Memorial Beach to Bay Race
by Rick Roberts on 27 Jul 2012
25th Annual Jessica Uniack Memorial Beach to Bay Rick Roberts
More than 140 young sailors ranging in age from 6-18 ventured into the waters of Long Beach Harbor Thursday in the 25th annual Jessica Uniack Memorial Beach to Bay Race, presented by the Alamitos Bay Fleet as part of the 2012 City of Long Beach Parks and Recreation Sea Festival.
With a breeze building from 3 to 8 knots throughout the morning, these young skippers were escorted by a flotilla of coach boats, volunteers from area yacht clubs and the City of Long Beach Lifeguard boats. They all completed the five mile course and found their way safely to the finish line off of the flag pole at Long Beach Yacht Club.
This is the only junior sailing event of the year where the eight-foot-long Sabots ever venture out on the ocean racing from the east end of Shoreline Marina to Alamitos Bay. Sean Ayale of Alamitos Bay Yacht Club finished first in the Sabot C3 class winning the perpetual Jessica Uniack Memorial Trophy for taking first place in the largest class.
Other first place finishers included;
Kyle Blair, LBYC, in Sabot A;
Scott Fairbanks, ABYC, in Sabot B;
Zac Taylor, ABYC, in Sabot C1;
Lily Maranto, Dana Point YC, in Sabot C2;
Sawyer Gibbs, ABYC, in Lasers;
Matthew Warden, ABYC, in Laser Radials;
Jeffrey Hartwyk, LBYC, in the Opti class;
Jacob Rosenberg and Ethan Michaelis, ABYC/LBYC in the Collegiate FJ class
Maximillian Rosenblad, ABYC, in the Open Bic class.
Complete results available
here
The event is named for Jessica Uniack, a tireless volunteer and supporter of junior sailing who died tragically in 1994. Her husband Bill and sons Billy and Alex carry on her work with this event that began in 1988 and was renamed in her honor in 1995.
A big 'thank you' goes out to sponsor Bellingham Marine, the City of Long Beach Parks and Recreation Sea Festival and all of the yacht clubs who helped to make this happen; ABYC, LBYC, US Sailing Center of Long Beach, Leeway Sailing Center, Huntington Harbor, Dana Point Yacht Club and Seal Beach Yacht Club.
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