Both the coed and women’s sailing teams were in action this weekend competing on opposite coasts. The coed team continued their long history of success in the Bay Area by capturing the Stoney Burke Intersections, while the Rainbow Wahine finished 12th at the Stu Nelson Women’s Regatta in Connecticut. 

UH’s win at the Stoney Burke was its second straight and eighth in the last 14 years.  The Rainbows flat-out dominated the competition, finishing with a regatta low 65 points. The next closest competitor was 43 points away in UC Santa Barbara as UH breezed past the other 16 teams in the field.

A total of 24 races – 12 in each division – were completed over the weekend. Erik Anderson and Everett McAvoy excelled in the A division, finishing in the top two in all but one of their 12 races. Bastien Rasse, Trey Summers, Emilie Jones and Kees Horn, competed in the B division. The duo of Rasse and Jones claimed four of six races, while Summers and Horn snagged first in another pair. 

Meanwhile, on the East Coast, the Rainbow Wahine hit rougher waters at the Stu Nelson Intersectional.   UH finished with a total of 376 points coming in 12th place. With three divisions competing, the Rainbows saw seven different sailors take to the water — Vivian Bonsager and Sophia Shaeffer in the A division, Mercy Tangredi, Anna Kalabukhova and Holly Coughlan in the B division, and Martha Schuessler and Morgan Carew in the C division. 

Next up for the coed team is the PCCSC Match Race Championships held in Redwood City, Calif. on Oct. 14-15.  The women’s squad will be back in action two weeks from now in the PCCSC Fall Championships held in Redwood City, Calif., Oct. 28-29th.

 

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