Exciting Youth Racing News

Posted August 2, 2025

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Tred Avon YC Opti racer at Annapolis YC Junior Regatta. Photo by Will Keyworth

Annapolis Junior Race Week

As June faded into July, junior sailors who participated in Annapolis Junior Race Week, competed on a circuit of three CBYRA-sanctioned high-point events. Racing got underway on Monday, June 30, when the West River Sailing Club hosted its annual Junior Regatta, in Galesville, MD. Find full results at regattanetwork.com. The second stop on the circuit was Annapolis Yacht Club, which welcomed the racers on July 1 for its annual Junior Regatta on the Severn River. Find full results at the theclubspot.com. The circuit concluded with a third consecutive day of racing on July 2, when Severn Sailing Association hosted the Sandy MacVickar Junior Regatta. Full results at theclubspot.com.

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View from the coach boat during the Hampton YC Annual Junior Regatta for the Commonwealth Cup State Championships. Photo courtesy of HYC.

Hampton Yacht Club Annual Junior Regatta

Hampton Yacht Club Annual Junior Regatta for the Commonwealth Cup State Championships unfolded June 26 and 27 with approximately 70 boats competing. Find full results at theclubspot.com.

HYC Junior Annual Top Three Finishers

ILCA 6

  1. Stone Dewey, HYC/PMYC
  2. Frederick Fernadez, NYCC
  3. Riley Clary, FBYC

Optimist RWB

  1. Wesley Johnson, HYC
  2. Tucker Johnson, HYC
  3. Daniel Skutch Tyson, AYC

C420

  1. Walter Daigle/Viana Johnston, AYC
  2. Thomas Wood/Eliza Brenia, AYC
  3. Mason Piccillo/Michael Martyak, HYC
Match race winners
Skipper Mason Cook (right), an EYC junior member and teammates Alfonso Garcia Bringas (left) and Jed Lorry (center) won the US Match Racing Championship Qualifier, held July 11-13 at Eastport YC, earning an invitation to the October US Match Racing Championships in Chicago. Cook, a graduate of Key School in Annapolis, will sail for St. Mary’s College of Maryland beginning this fall. Lorry, a graduate of Severn School in Severna Park, MD, raced c420s out of Annapolis YC and currently sails for Roger Williams University. Bringas is a youth high performance coach, who sailed for Jacksonville University, where he is now a coach. He is also an Annapolis YC summer Optimist coach. Photo courtesy of EYC/Facebook

August CBYRA Junior Sailing Events

  • Miles River Junior Regatta, August 7, hosted by Miles River YC, St. Michaels, MD.
  • Oxford Annual Regatta, August 9-10, hosted by Tred Avon YC, Oxford, MD.

Turn to the September SpinSheet for more youth sailing news. Do you know a standout youth coach worthy of a short Q&A in SpinSheet? Send your suggestions and other youth sailing news, such as regatta recaps and photos, to [email protected].

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