Team Trials in Eagle Harbor

You probably get tired of hearing me say it, but youth and high school sailing in the Pacific Northwest is where it’s happening folks. Leave it to “kids these days” and their very supportive parents to remind us what a great sport we have.

Last weeked at Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island there was a highly competitive and full fleet of high school kids whipping their boats around, working as a three boat team and doing things with their boats most big boat sailors can’t even imagine.

Andrew Nelson, the NW Youth Sailing Director with The Sailing Director, reported the following: “Scores and a regatta summary can be found at the link below…
https://scores.hssailing.org/s19/2019-nwisa-team-race-championships/
It was a 3 on 3 team racing regatta, so any combo of 10 or less points wins. Olympia was a slight favorite going into the regatta, and after day one there was pretty much a four way tie between Olympia, Gig Harbor, Bainbridge, and Orcas.”

NOTE: I would love to have some dinghy boots on the ground reporting from youth events – so any of you young sailor-writers, coaches or parents who want to send something after big events, please email them to me and I’ll do my best to get them posted.

Photos by Jan Anderson. If you want to get excited about kids sailing, here’s the rest of them.

Kurt Hoehne

Kurt grew up racing and cruising in the Midwest, and has raced Lasers since the late 1970s. Currently he is a broker at Swiftsure Yachts. He has been Assistant Editor at Sailing Magazine and a short stint as Editor of Northwest Yachting. Through Meadow Point Publishing he handles various marketing duties for smaller local companies. He currently is partners on a C&C 36 which he cruises throughout the Northwest. He’s married to the amazing Abby and is father to Ian and Gabe.