Coaches have words of wisdom for the sailors at the 16th annual Clagett Regatta and the 2018 U.S. Para Sailing Championships

For the 46 sailors who are attending the 16^th annual C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and the 2018 U.S. Para Sailing Championships in Newport RI, two days of coaching will be put to use tomorrow when the racing begins.

This year the coaching team of Dave Perry, Dave Dellenbaugh, Brian Todd, Betsy Alison, Nancy Haberland and Ken Legler have all brought a wealth of sailing knowledge and skills to the table for the sailors to take out on the water and put in to practice.

Attending his 10^th Clagett coaching clinic and regatta is Rio Paralympic Silver medalist Rick Doerr, who this year is racing with two new crew in the Sonar, is acting as a mentor to a graduate of the Warrior Sailing Program, Dawn Hart.  Also racing with Doerr is Charles McClure who is a long-time Clagett sailor.

“Today was the culmination of two challenging days of race training camp with the Sonar coach Dave Perry.  Dave never took his foot off the gas and treated us the same as any other sailors so he really pushed us to limits we might not have necessarily known we had.  That’s what we are here for, to get pushed and learn all the time,” said Doerr after the coaching clinic wrapped up.

From Canada is a recent Clagett Boat Grant Program recipient, Delani Hulme-Lawrence from St. Paul, Alberta, who is sailing in the 2.4mR class.  Hulme-Lawrence, who had her first sail in the new boat over the last two days, is racing in the 23 strong 2.4mR fleet with fellow Canadian and Clagett Boat Grant Program recipient Shaylagh Ley.

Hulme-Lawrence commented after the coaching clinic, “This is a fantastic opportunity to work with incredible coaches.  I’ve had the opportunity to train in Canada with a number of former Paralympians and this clinic and regatta lets me take it to the next level.  I have a number of take a way’s I want to achieve from The Clagett, one being to learn from new coaches.”

Racing for the next three days of the regatta will be the 2.4mR class for single handed sailors, the RS Venture Connect for the double handed fleet and the Sonar for the triple-handed fleet. For the first day of racing the forecast is for an Easterly breeze building to 15 knots by later in the day.

After the three days of racing the trophies which will be awarded for the sailors competing in The Clagett will be, the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Trophy, the Susan B Johnson – Sportsmanship Award, the Larry Gadsby – Most Improved Award, the Nick Scandone – Spirit Award and the Robie Pierce and Gene Hinkle – Seamanship Award will be presented to sailors taking part in the regatta.

US sailors, who registered to compete in the US Para Sailing Championships, will be eligible for the following trophies: the U.S. Para Sailing Singlehanded Championship for the Judd Goldman Trophy will be raced in the 2.4mR class, the U.S. Para Sailing Doublehanded Championship for the Chandler Hovey Trophy will be raced in the RS Venture Connect and the U.S. Para Sailing Triplehanded Championship for the Gene Hinkel Trophy will be raced in Sonars.

For more information about The 2018 Clagett Regatta and U.S. Para Sailing Championships visit: www.clagettregatta.org or follow the Clagett on Instagram @clagett_regatta or on Facebook Clagett Regatta.

2018 List of Entries:

2.4mR

#	Sail #	Skipper & Crew	Club/Affiliation	City	State	Country
1.	Charter	John Denman	Jubilee Yacht Club	Beverly	MA	USA
2.	CAN 1	Alain Dubuc	Pointe-Claire Yacht Club	Pointe-Clare	QC	CAN
3.	CAN 22	Peter Eagar	National Yacht Club	Toronto	ON	CAN
4.	123	Barbara Galinska	Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program	Highland Park	IL	USA
5.	CAN	Janice Graham-Foscarini	National Yacht Club	Toronto	ON	CAN
6.	175	Ted Green II	Sail Newport	North Kingston	RI	USA
7.	CAN 95	Delani Hulme-Lawrence	Royal Victoria Yacht Club	St. Paul	AB	CAN
8.	124	Zak Kordik	Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program	Highland Park	IL	USA
9.	CAN 12	Christine Lavallee	Nepean sailing club	Gatineau	QC	CAN
10.	19	Siobhan MacDonald	Mabou Sailing Boating Club	Mabou	NS	CAN
11.	3	Tony Pocklington	Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club	Ft. Meyers	FL	USA
12.	PUR 14	Julio Reguero	CDVC	Guaynabo	PR	USA
13.	USA 11	Tim Ripley	Sail Newport	Randolph	NJ	USA
14.	USA 142	Charles Rosenfield	Sail Newport	Woodstock	CT	USA
15.	ISV1	Antonio Sanpere	N/A	Saint Petersburg	FL	ISV
16.	USA 7	Dee Smith	STC	Annapolis	MD	USA
17.	CAN 88	Aaron Wong-Sing	Nepean Sailing Club	Ottowa	ON	CAN
18.	CAN 14	Peter Wood	Nepean Sailing Club	Ottowa	ON	CAN
19.	160	Kevin Holmberg	Davis Islands Yacht Club	Tampa	FL	USA
20.	USA1	Dan Evans		Miami	FL	USA
21.	35	Shaylagh Ley	Nepean Sailing Club	Nepean	OT	CAN
22.	CAN18	Audrey Kobayashi	Kingston	Kingston	OT	CAN
23.	179	Maureen McKinnon	Jubilee Yacht Club	Beverly	MA	USA

RS Venture Connect

#	Skipper & Crew	Club/Affiliation	City	State	Country
1.	Joseph Guay/ William Leatherbee	Sail to Prevail	Barrington	RI	USA
2.	JR Hardenburgh/ Nicholas Bryan-Brown	Y-Knot	Jamaica Plain	MA	USA
3.	Cristina Rubke/ Kris Scheppe	BAADS	San Francisco	CA	USA
4.	Jim Thweatt/ Eli Workman	BAADS	W Sacramento	CA	USA
5.	John McRoberts/ Scott Lutes	Royal Victoria Yacht Club	Victoria	BC	CAN
6.	Fernanda Castelo/ Cindy Walker	Sequoia Yacht Club	San Carlos	CA	USA
7.	Tim Brown/Jasmine Nijjar	Piers Park	Boston	MA	USA

Sonar

#	Sail#	Skipper & Crew	Club/Affiliation	City	State	Country
1.	674	Rick Doerr/ Dawn Hart/ Charles McClure	Ocean Gate Yacht Club	Clifton	NJ	USA
2.	TBD	David Gaston/ Mike Janota/ Kevin Somers	Sea Star Base Galveston	Port Bolivar	TX	USA
3.	805	Gary Pierce/ Patrick LoDuca/ Jeff Long	Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Program	Highland Park	IL	USA
4.	1	David Whalen/ Spencer Raggio/ Dan Kennedy	Y-Knot	Scotia	NY	US