2021 X-Boat Season
2021 X Blue Chip hosted by Cedar Lake Yacht Club
The X Blue Chip kicked off on Friday morning at Cedar Lake Yacht Club and the story was the same in each of the three races, as two-time X Blue Chip Champion V-61 – Charlie Allen with crew Stuart Niedziela won them all. See below for the full standings.
2021 ILYA X Boat Championship hosted by Pewaukee Yacht Club
The 112 strong X-Boat Fleet gathered at Pewaukee Yacht Club for the second year running to compete for the 2021 ILYA X Boat Junior and Senior Championships.
Defending ILYA Junior Fleet Champion Kamron Kaiser with crew Peter Goggins, sailing V-99 Goofball, graduated to the Senior Fleet and joined Christian and Sam Spencer as recent Junior and Senior ILYA X Boat Champions from Pewaukee. Henry Ackley and Grayson Bruss — X-31 Super Duck — also sailed a spectacular regatta finishing one point behind in 2nd place.
Meanwhile in the Junior Fleet, Jimmy Hughes and John Kotovic sailing M-21 GOAT sailed an extremely consistent regatta throwing out a 7 for a net total of 13 points after 6 races. Sophie and Tilly Niemann, I-86 came in second place.
Head to @sailtheinland and @melgesusa on Facebook for Morgan Kinney’s Photo Albums of the entire week.
Senior Fleet Champions V-99 Goofball Kamron Kaiser and Peter Goggins Photo Credit Morgan Kinney
Junior Fleet Champions M-21 GOAT Jimmy Hughes and John Kotovic – – Photo Credit Morgan Kinney
Race 7 Junior Winner – I-86 Sophie Niemann & Tilly Niemann
Race 6 Senior Winner – V-61 Charlie Allen and Stuart Niedziela
Race 5 Senior Winner X-31 Henry Ackley and Grayson Bruss
Race 6 Junior Winner I-72 Owen Kohut and Ivar Eiseman
Race 4 Junior Winner V-10 John Lieber and Nick Berkowitz
Race 4 Senior Winner V-99 Kamron Kaiser and Peter Goggins.
Senior Fleet Race Three Winner
Kamron Kaiser and Peter Goggins, V-99 Goofball
Jimmy Hughes and John Kotovic, M-21 GOAT
Henry Ackley and Grayson Bruss, X-31 Super Duck
Junior Fleet Race Two Winner
Carson Boemer and Abby Janz, A-7, So Confused
Senior Fleet Race One Winner
Henry Ackley and Grayson Bruss, X-31 Super Duck
Junior Fleet Race One Winner
Connor Jewett and Davis Jewett, M-3, Dialed In
2021 X Boat Championship Opening Party Pics – Photo Credit Morgan Kinney and Amy Bruss
WYA X Championship July 24-25
The WYA got their full complement of 4 races in this weekend at Delavan Lake Yacht Club. It was tight at the top of the leaderboard and it must have felt like home for three of the top four boats as they hailed from Pewaukee Yacht Yacht Club, with Pine sneaking in at number 2. Defending ILYA Junior Fleet Champion Kamron Kaiser with crew Peter Goggins held off Charlie Bruss and Will Barkow and defending ILYA Senior Fleet Champion Charlie Allen and Stuart Niedziela for a close fought victory with only 2 points separating the top three. Lake Beulah finished with 3 boats, Delavan 2 and Cedar 1, to round out the top ten in a fleet of 55 boats.
Interlake Regatta July 24-25
Meanwhile at Minnetonka Yacht Club, Connor Jewett and Davis Jewett edged out Lauren Strothman and Stella Strothman for the victory up north in a fleet of 21 boats.
Connor Jewett and Davis Jewett, USA M-3, Dialed In
Oshkosh XTreme – July 19-20
At the Oshkosh 17th Annual Xtreme Championship 4 races were sailed. This years Champions are X-31 Super Duck – Henry Ackley & Grayson Bruss (also winners of races 1&2)
OSHKOSH XTREME GALLERY
GLSS – July 12-13
A fleet of 70 X-Boats lead off the week at the Geneva Lake Sailing School Dinghyfest. PRO Dave Porter got three races in on Monday. Unfortunately, the wind did not show up for the competitors on Tuesday, and though the fleet went out, a race could not be fairly started. Congratulations to PYC sailors Kamron Kaiser and Peter Goggins who took first sailing V-99 Goofball.
Quads – July 6 – 7
Henry Ackley and Grayson Bruss completed the first day of sailing in the lead at the Quad Lakes Rgetta hosted by Nagawicka Lake Yacht Club. Unfortunately, there was no wind on Day 2.
TROT – Training Regatta on Tonka
Craig Liang reports – we had 16 boats on the line. Light winds but we were able to get 8 races completed.
Results:
1st – M21 Jimmy Hughes / John Kotovic (pictured above)
2nd – M9 Lauren Strothman / Stella Strothman
3rd – M3 Connor Jewett / Davis Jewett
TRAP – Training Regatta at Pine
Meanwhile at Pine 65 (36 Junior/29 Senior) X-Boats arrived for instruction from Augie Barkow. The fan was on and the sailors got some good sailing in.
Juniors got 10 Races in while the Seniors only got 5 in, as the wind was up on days 2 & 3.
Junior Fleet 1st – 5th places:
Senior Fleet 1st – 5th places:
QUINT
The 2021 X Boat Seaon got off to a rousing start last week with the Quint held at LaBelle and the AJH held at Cedar.
Karen Trepton reports on the Quint from LaBelle:
That’s a wrap! A big thank you to our race committee and other volunteers who made this years’s QUINT regatta a success! 15 boats participated from Labelle, Okauchee, North, Nagawicka and Pewaukee.
A storm blew through at the start of the first race, forcing everyone back onto shore, but after an early lunch, the sun and wind came up and we were back in business. PRO Mark Prange set the stage for four consecutive races, and the kids were all in!
Here are the top three overall and the race winners.
First Place: V10 John Lieber and Nick Berkowitz
Second Place: NO5 Cole Thompson and Holden McGoldrick
Third Place: V36 Jack Goggins and Anna Tarwack
Race 1:
V36 Jack Goggins and Anna Tarwacki
Races 2 and 3:
V10 John Lieber and Nick Berkowitz
Race 4:
NO5 Cole Thompson and Holden McGoldrick
AJH
22 X-Boats took the water at CLYC this past Friday with home-lakers Sam Eckert and Nigel Trester squeeking out a two point victory over Maria Castle and Campbell Harrison from Oshkosh. Next up is TRAP for everyone Tuesday through Thursday.
