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SCWSA Kicks Off Their Season at MBYC
April 11, 2008
Five BYC Brinys traveled to MBYC for a great day of racing in the annual event, sponsored by the Southern California Women's Sailing Association. SCWSA also sponsors 4 other races during the year, including BYC's Little Old Ladies Regatta which will be held this year on Wednesday, September 17. In addition, on Sunday, October 19, we will travel to ABYC for their regatta, as well as San Diego Yacht Club on Saturday, November 15 for the finale.
Strong winds and chop meant some wet racers as well as some fast racing. Bev Roberts, BYC, was our most successful racer, winning Ladies B class. Karen Stockman and Nancy Mellon raced in Ladies A, since they are former winners in Ladies B. In the Men's class we were well represented by Dennis Allison and Bob Reilly. Dennis made it possible for us to attend by towing the trailer filled with our Sabots. He and Bob supplied much of the muscle and knowledge to load and unload the trailer.
MBYC's Kathy Graham organized the event, adding some great touches, including a raffle for some terrific prizes, provided by Sailing Supply of San Diego. Kathy is a new Sabot sailor. She and her husband are part of a large group that cruise in their Sabots every Friday morning, then go back to the club for lunch. They had eleven racers in the event. Seven came from San Diego Yacht Club and one from ABYC. Lee Berlinger was the sole representative from ABYC, but he won the Men's class. It was the largest class with nine racers. Lee races with us in our Super Sabot Series occasionally.
On weekday mornings, Newport Beach sailor Mark Gaudio, 50, speaks the lingo of a bond trader. But in the afternoons, his vernacular switches to sailing—whether he's talking about the products he reps for companies like Douglas Gill or Bladerider, coaching young racers, or one-design racing in Lido 14s or Cal 20s, where he holds national titles. But he doesn't sail to simply de-stress from the pressure-cooker pace of working in financial markets: "I love the challenge of sailing," he says.
And it's that lifelong-learning quality of the sport he hopes to pass on to the next generation. "I like to learn one new thing every day I'm sailing—and that's what I tell the kids I coach: learn one good thing and put it in your hard drive…"
If Gaudio has a legacy he wants to leave behind, it's a hope to keep more people involved in sailing—to keep them enthused, engaged, and forever learning. He has coached at many levels: at Olympic-class events in Finns and 49ers; at scores of local regattas; even working with his 9-year-old son Rory and his peers as they start to grasp the concepts of sailing. But for Gaudio—who has his US SAILING Level 1 and 2 instructor certifications—coaching goes deeper than helping someone win a race: it's helping sailors develop the skill set that will keep the game always fun and satisfying: "Not to get too Biblical, but with the kids I coach, I don't 'give them a fish'. I teach them how to fish … My job as a coach is not to simply tell them what to do: I show them how to figure it out for themselves."
2008 US Olympic Trials
INSA Class Graduates Andrew Campbell, Graham Biehl, Nick Scandone, and Tim Wadlow, all headed to China in 2008.
Photos by Amory Ross
& Rich Roberts
INSA Congratulates 2008 Olympians
October 16, 2007: San Diego, CA
The members and Board of Directors of the International Naples Sabot Association congratulate former and current class members on their outstanding accomplishments in the US Olympic Trials held October 3 -14, 2007. Four members of the latest US Olympic Team are graduates of the
class: Andrew Campbell (Laser), Graham Biehl (470), Nick Scandone (SKUD 18) and Tim Wadlow (49er). Three more alums narrowly missed qualification: Mikee Anderson (470) and George Szabo (Star) both placed second in this round, and Mark Reynolds (Star) finished sixth.
“As the secretary of this class, I could not be prouder of the accomplishments of our sailors, or the role of the Naples Sabot in crafting their careers in this sport, “said Aimee Graham, INSA Secretary-Treasurer. “They are excellent role models for the next generation of sailors behind them: the young juniors, high-school and college sailors that are working hard in their respective disciplines.
You can be sure that we will be watching and cheering not only from Southern California, but from all over the country.”
Diaz Favored To Be King
October 17, 2007: San Diego, CA Scuttlebutt 2455
When racing starts at the U.S. Championship of Champions this Thursday, October 18 at Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego, Calif., the starting line will be packed with familiar names from across the country's one-design sailing community. This should be no surprise, the event - which wraps up on Saturday, October 20 - is known as one of the toughest one-design competitions since it brings together the country's top 19 one-design sailors of all ages who have won major events in their respective one-design classes in the last year. The Championship, sponsored by Rolex Watch U.S.A. and Dry Creek Vineyard, is held in a different one-design boat every year in a different part of the country.
This year's event is sailed in Snipes, which could make Augie Diaz (Miami, Fla.), the 2003 US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman of the Year who has countless Snipe titles to his name, the odds-on favorite. But a win by Diaz is by no means guaranteed because he will be joined on the starting line by sailors such as 19-year-old Kyle Rogachenko (Collegeville, Pa.) who won the Laser Radial Youth World Championship and the U.S. Singlehanded Championship this year, 70-year-old seasoned Sunfish sailor Dick Tillman (Syracuse, Ind.) who is the oldest of fleet, US Sailing Team member and Olympic hopeful Carrie Howe (Grosse Point, Mich.) representing the Formula 18 class at this event, and several others. And perhaps the upset could come from local favorite Jake La Dow (San Diego, Calif.), who at age 14 is the youngest of the fleet and qualified after winning the Naples Sabot Junior National Championship last year.
