The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoaʻs coed and women’s sailing teams competed from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The coed team took victory over the Stoney Burke Intersections, in California, while the Rainbow Wahine finished 12th at the Stu Nelson Women’s Regatta in Connecticut.
The coed team’s victory at Stoney Burke, in the Bay Area, was its second straight win in the event and eighth in the last 14 years. The ’Bows dominated the competition, finishing with a regatta low 65 points. Coming in second and 43 points away was UC Santa Barbara as the ’Bows breezed past the other 16 teams in the field.
The ’Bows competed in a total of 24 races with 12 in each division. 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.
On the East Coast, the Rainbow Wahine hit rougher waters at the Stu Nelson Intersectional. The Rainbow Wahine finished with a total of 376 points coming in 12th place. With three divisions competing, the ’Bows 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.
The coed team will compete in Redwood City, California on October 14–15 and the Rainbow Wahine will compete in the same location from October 28–29.
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