Noroton YC Returns to Top of Grandmasters Mountain
August 23th-25th
New York Yacht Club, Newport RI
Team racing has been a big part of Noroton YC for well over two decades. And this past weekend that experience showed at the New York YC Grandmasters Team Race in Newport, RI.
Noroton YC was the undisputed champion of grandmasters team racing, winning the first six editions of the annual NYYC Grandmasters regatta. But that winning streak ended in 2016. Until now.
This invitational regatta, amongst the top 10 team race clubs in the country, consisted of two round-robins, totalling 18 races for each team, with each team racing the other twice.
Going into the last of the 3-day regatta, Noroton was one point behind Day 2 leader Texas Corinthian YC with 5 races remaining. But both teams had raced each other twice already, each winning once against the other.
Noroton won 4 of their last 5 races to clinch the championship with a 15-3 record, besting second place Texas Corinthian YC (13-5). Newport Harbor YC (Calif) third (10-8) and Southern YC (New Orleans) fourth (9-9).
Noroton’s weekly Thursday night team racing practices played a big role in helping team. Having so many team racers at Noroton, across all age groups, makes the practices better and more fun for all.
Event press release: Here you will find more event pictures https://mailchi.mp/nyyc/240825_grandmasters_pr
Team Noroton
Scott MacLeod (helm)
Michael Rudnick (team captain)
Janet Grapengeter
Past Commodore Peggy Hersam
TK (helm)
Howard Seymour
Kevin Sheehan
Alison Widmann
Bill Crane (helm)
Chris Daley
Kari Roberts
Bill Vernon
Coach: Karl Ziegler
Final Results
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Noroton YC
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Texas Corinthian YC
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Newport Harbor YC (Calif)
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Southern Yacht Club (New Orleans)
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Storm Trysail Club
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NYYC - Altreuter
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Larchmont YC
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Gamla Stans Yacht S Sällskap (Stockholm, Sweden)
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Ida Lewis YC (Newport, RI)
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NYYC - Whipple
Race-by-race scoring matrix: results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gfJ4JdEpAAJyyFOpJ8mp64p1z37Mb2jXa7PAdZx4KtE/edit?usp=sharing
About the NYYC Grandmasters Team Race
The regatta was created in 2010 by NYYC and requires skippers to be at least 60 years of age and all crew at least 50. It's one of NYYC's "Big 3" adult team races which also includes the Morgan Cup (no age restriction) and the Hinman Masters (min age 45 to helm, 40 to crew).
Noroton YC has also won the Hinman Masters, with mostly the same team that won the grandmasters this year, 4 times in 2010s.