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2021 Clagett and U.S. Para Sailing Championships Day 1

by Sam Crichton 28 Aug 2021 17:40 AEST 24-29 August 2021
Dockside preparations at the Clagett Regatta and U.S. Para Sailing Championships © Clagett Regatta - Andes Visual

Day one of the 2021 Clagett Regatta and U.S. Para Sailing Championships, mother nature decided not to play ball with the fleet held ashore under the postponement flag until 1pm on a hot and humid summer day. The race committee went out onto the course to see what was developing and shortly after some storms cells moving through the area caused the race committee to call for racing to be postponed for the rest of the day.

"Unfortunately today's racing was called off due to weather but the sailors are ready to put the knowledge and skills they learned over the previous two days of the coaching clinic to use. Over 30 sailors will be on the start line tomorrow and come Sunday we will be crowning Clagett and U.S. Para Sailing Champions for 2021," said Clagett Co-Founder and President Judy Clagett McLennan.

This year's fleet has a number of competitors who are returning to Newport after a year's hiatus due to Covid along with a number of Clagett first timers.

Amongst the fleet is a mother and daughter duo of Maureen McKinnon, a competitor at the 2016 Rio Games and a Paralympic Gold Medalist at the 2008 Beijing Games, who is racing in the single handed 2.4mR class and her daughter Dana McKinnon Tucker who is sailing for the first time at The Clagett as crew for Timothy Brown in the double handed Martin 16 class.

In the largest fleet, the 2.4mR class, there are a number of first timers including a Clagett Boat Grant recipient from North Carolina, John Seepe. Seepe received the boat from the Clagett Boat Grant program in 2019 and this is his first opportunity to race the boat in Newport at the Clagett Regatta.

Sailing in the Martin 16 class as crew with Nicholas Bryan-Brown is Albert Pierce, brother of Robie Pierce, a local Newport sailor who was the visionary for the Clagett Regatta.

The triple handed Sonar class has Sarah Everhart Skeels racing with crew Pauline Dowell, a blind sailor from Boston Mass. Joining them is Brown University sailing team member Emma Montgomery who is one of Skeels' former students. They will line up against the Sonar team from Chicago skippered by Patrick LoDuca and the third boat in the fleet is from Lake George, N.Y skippered by Dave Whalen who uses the Sip and Puff technology to steer the boat instead of the traditional tiller.

List of entries:

Entrant City State
2.4mR
Arthur Bookstein Chestnut Hill MA
Kathryn Breslin Marblehead MA
Theodore Green North Kingstown RI
Matt Koblenzer Fox Point WI
Shan McAdoo Essex MA
Maureen McKinnon Salem MA
Tony Pocklington Fort Myers FL
Julio Reguero San Juan Puerto Rico
Timothy Ripley Randolph NJ
Charles Rosenfield Woodstock CT
Antonio Sanpere St. Petersburg FL
John Seepe Semora NC
Dee Smith Punta Gorda FL
Douglas Trees Hamilton MA
Rudy Trejo Punta Gorda FL
Martin 16
Colin Smith Middlebury VT
Siobhan Murphy Gansevoort NY
Timothy Brown Boston MA
Dana McKinnon Tucker    
Nicholas Bryan-Brown Jamaica Plain MA
Albert Pierce
J.R. Hardenburgh Dorchester MA
Jeff Long Newport RI
E Carwile LeRoy Fresno CA
Doug Horsey Newport RI
Sonar
Patrick LoDuca Chicago IL
Bryan Tabler Winter Park FL
Dawn Hart Tampa FL
Sarah Skeels Little Compton RI
Emma Montgomery Winthrop MA
Pauline Dowell Boston MA
Dave Whalen Scotia NY
Dan Kennedy Albany NY
Spencer Raggio Malta NY

Information is available at www.clagettregatta.org where you can follow all the news and results or on Facebook @ClagettRegatta or Instagram @clagett_regatta

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