2. Kevin Gallagher
3. Eli Matson
2022 Squam Lake One Day
August 20
Squam Lake, Holderness, NH
2022 Bow Lake Ed Hinds Memorial /
District WJM Champs
Photos:
Sept 10
Bow Lake, Strafford, NH
2022 North American Champs
Sept 14-18
Sayville Yacht Club, Blue Point, NY
2022 Lake Massabesic
Sept 17-18
Lake Massabesic, Auburn, NH
2022 MBBC Leaf Peeper
October 1-2
MBBC, Burlington, VT
2022 District Circuit Championship
Season
Bob Shapiro, as usual!
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2021 District Circuit Championship FINAL RESULTS (high point): 1. Bob Shapiro 72 points (6 regattas) 2. Rob Donle 52 (5) 3. Nathan Cunningham 52 (4) 4. Don Brush 45 (3) 5. Bill Fastiggi 44 (3) 6. Rob Dresser 43 (4) 7. Art Cunningham 37 (3) 8. Ted Hardenbergh 37 (3) 9. Justin Coplan 35 (2) 10. Dan Egan 32 (2 regattas)
1. Bill Fastiggi 2. Don Brush 3. Bretton Gardner | 5 June | MBBC, VT |
1. Justin Coplan, Andrea Fisher, Emmet Todd | 26-27 June | Squam Lake, Holderness, NH |
1. Bob Shapiro, Brad Winslow 2. Garr Corcoran, Clair Gormley, Andrew Veilleux 3. Nathaniel Hendrickson, Sawyer | July 24 | Newfound Lake, Hebron, NH |
1. Dan Egan, Marty Riehs, Nate Olson 2. Art Cunningham, David Hallagan, Jeanine Carlson 3. Rob Donle, Ned Hinds, Jeff Choate | Saturday 21 August | Squam Lake, Holderness, NH |
1. Bob Shapiro, Greg Shapiro, Jim Lerner | Saturday 11 September | Bow Lake, Strafford, NH |
1. Bob Shapiro, Tim Bartos, Ryan Gershuny 2. Ted Hardenbergh, Raoul Posmentier, John Kerwin 3. Nathan Cunningham, Greg McGinnis, Jules/Nate Olsen | 18-19 September | Lake Massabesic, Auburn, NH |
1. Justin Coplan, Andrea Fisher, Tate Colbert 2. Don Brush, Eric Johnson, Brandon Hawko 3. Bill Fastiggi, Suzy Coburn, Lauren Jones Colbert | 9-10 October | MBBC, VT |
Lightning fleet.
2024 Dixie District Championship Regatta & Doc Gilbert Potomac Cup Regatta Website
March 2024 Annual Meeting Notes and Documents
Archive of Fleet 50 Posts
Established in 1943, Fleet 50 is proud to carry on the tradition of the Lightning as the longest enduring, most competitive and fun one-design racing class in the Washington DC area. We are affiliated with the Potomac River Sailing Association and the International Lightning Class Association .
We currently have about 25 active and semi-active boats. Our racing schedule runs from the beginning of April through the mid-November each year. The racing season includes an eight-week Sunday Spring and an eight-week Sunday Fall series. In addition we host the Doc Gilbert Potomac Cup in early May (our Dixie District Lightning Regatta) and participate in the PRSA Spring Regatta (Memorial Day weekend) and in the PRSA President’s Cup in September. Many of our members also travel to Lightning regattas on the International Lightning Class Association regatta circuit . No fewer than 5 and sometimes as many as 15 boats are out racing on any given Sunday, with many more on the water for our 2-day regattas. After the racing, skippers and crews hang around the grill and trade stories about starts, mark roundings, and other tall tales from the river.
Fleet 50 members display a wide range of sailing experience consisting of seasoned veteran Lightning sailors as well as several first time boat owners. The range of skill levels will challenge serious racers looking for good competition while providing fun competitive camaraderie in the middle and back of the fleet. The more experienced sailors are also always ready and willing to offer advice and instruction to newer sailors looking to improve. Our post race BBQs also have many beers, burgers, and hot dogs to go around.
The skippers in our Lightning Fleet 50 have vast experience buying used but ready-to-race Lightnings (recommended) to major restoration projects (if you are so inclined). They would love to help you buy a Lightning that fits your budget and interests. If you are interested in Fleet 50, feel free to reach out to us (contact information at the bottom of this page). You should also feel free to come down to the docks anytime we are scheduled to be out on the water. Someone will always be looking for a crew!
The Lightning is a 19-foot centerboard sloop designed by Sparkman & Stephens as an affordable family day sailing and racing boat. The Lightning Class is the longest operating and best-organized one-design sailing class in the world. With more than 15,000 hulls built for 500 fleets worldwide, the Lightning has evolved into one of the most popular and competitive one-design racing classes in the world!
The hull features a hard chine and centerboard for stability, with flat bottom sections that promote planing. The simple rig makes it easy to sail but offers plenty of adjustment for sail shape fine-tuning of the mainsail, jib, and spinnaker. The Lightning is easy to launch and light enough to trailer with ease. In the event of a capsize, she can be righted and sailed dry by her crew.
Normally, raced with a crew of three the boat has plenty of room in the cockpit for two couples or a family to day sail. Whether racing or day sailing, the Lightning offers a rare combination of performance and stability!
1) Join the Lightning Fleet 50 email list by clicking here for instructions on join our Fleet 50 Google Group .
2) Visit the listing of archives (link at top of page) to read reports from past races and events..
3) Email or call one of the fleet officers or fleet experts:
4) Take a look at the calendar and come down to the marina around 9:30 on a Sunday Series day to meet our sailors and watch the crews set up their boats. Bring your sailing gear with you because one or more may be short a crew!
The Bay City Yacht Club is the center of inner Saginaw Bay sailboat racing. We are home to Lightning Fleet 216, have an active Wednesday Night fun-racing program as well as a more competitive weekend series. We frequently host regional regattas and welcome inquiries to utilize BCYC facilities to host sailboat racing events.
Connect with us on Facebook To stay in tune with sailboat racing on the Saginaw Bay and the Great Lakes.
The BCYC Main and Jib series runs from May to early October each year. The season is split into 3 series: Spring, Summer and Fall. Races are held Wednesday evenings. Races are run in accordance with US Sailing Racing Rules Of Sailing and utilize PHRF handicapping. Participants are slotted into fleets based on PHRF rating and boat type. Race results are announced at the BCYC clubhouse and online after each race. Season awards are presented at a festive, fun BCYC Sailing Banquet held in late October, early November of each year. Registration and entry fees are required.
The Saginaw Bay Lightning Fleet #216 has been located at the Bay City Yacht Club from the very start of the club in the 1950's. At BCYC, the fleet consists of over 12 boats who are active in the fleet racing program which occurs on every Wednesday night from May to September. The Bay City Lightning One Design Series involves a closed race course within a mile of shore and typically consists of 2-3 races each night. The results of each race is recorded and scores are tallied at the end of the season and awards presented.
The Lightning, a 19-foot trailerable centerboard sloop is an affordable family "day sailor" and racing boat. She has evolved into one of the most popular and competitive one-design racing classes in the world for crews of Men, Women, and Juniors alike. The Lightning is easy to launch and sail with a crew of 2-4 people and raced typically with a crew of three, it is also light enough to trailer with ease.
The BCYC Weekend Series runs from June through September of each year. Spinnaker, Cruising and Multhull classes are being offered. The weekend series is the more competitive series hosted by BCYC and consists of a mix of courses: short distance races within the BCYC Racing Buoy Course, long distance races 20+ nm in length that sail to the outer bay, and one night race to Tawas. PHRF handicapping is used. Race results are posted after the race online. Season awards are presented at the year-end BCYC Sailing Banquet. Registration and entry fees are required.
During August of each year, the BCYC looks forward to hosing the Great Lakes Multi Hull Championship Regatta. This regatta draws some of the best multihull sailors in the Midwest and frequently draws national competitors as well.
BCYC is home to International Lightning Class Association Fleet 216. Fleet 216 hosts an annual invitational regatta as part of the Michigan Lightning District traveling schedule.
For information on Fleet 216 or Lightning One Design racing, visit http://www.fleet216.com
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The Lightning sailboat was designed by the Naval Architectural firm of Sparkman & Stephens in response to a request from John and George Barnes, owners of Skaneateles Boats, Inc. The Barnes brothers were interested in building a one-design sailboat which could be used both for racing as well as family day sailing. The two firms collaborated closely on the design of the sailboat over a two-year period, and prototype Lightning #1 (now part of the watercraft Collection at Mystic Seaport Museum) was built in 1938. The boat received an enthusiastic response from the yachting world, and production began in earnest the following year.
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The Lightning, a 19-foot trailerable centerboard sloop, was originally designed by Sparkman & Stephens as an affordable family day-sailor and racing boat. She has evolved into one of the most popular ... Tight racing for the top three at the Brotz Regatta. Congrats to Ian Beckley, Sophie Lusry and Tina Dombrowski in first place. Second place ...
Fleet 525 - Lightning Sailing Academy. Greece - Unaffiliated. Ireland. Fleet 427 - Killyleagh Yacht Club. Ireland - Unaffiliated. Italy. Fleet 449 - Marsala. ... Potomac River Sailing Assoc - Presidents Cup Regatta. Barebones Regetta. 22. Potomac River Sailing Assoc - Presidents Cup Regatta. Barebones Regetta.
Major regattas attract some of the finest sailors in the world, but you find Class members friendly and the sailmakers' complete tuning guides helpful at getting you up to speed in a hurry. The International Lightning Class Association is one of the oldest and best organized class associations in sailboat racing.
For more information about the International Lightning or to arrange a test sail in your area, call or write:International Lightning Class Association1528 Big Bass DriveTarpon Springs, Florida 34689Phone: 727-942-7969Skype: [email protected].
The Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta in St. Petersburg is a key warm-up event for the Lightning class's hotly-contested two-regatta Southern Circuit with March events in St. Pete and Miami. J ...
The Lightning World Championship is a bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sport's IOC-recognized governing body.The class gained class status in November 1962 from World Sailing, so its first Worlds were in 1963, although an International ...
On the morning of the final race of the 2017 Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta in St. Petersburg, we sat down with a Lightning class legend and the fleet's next-gen leader to see what they could learn ...
Masters Lightning World Championship. The Lightning Youth World Championship is an bi-annual international sailing regatta for lightning (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the International Lightning Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.
I decided against trailering my boat all that way but signed on to crew for Mike of Skaneateles, New York, in his classic boat number 348, built sometime in the 1940s. The Lightning is a 19-foot open cockpit sloop, with a centerboard which can be raised or lowered depending on the depth of the water and the point (direction) of sail.
The Lightning Class has been ultra focused on its future which was was evident at the regatta. Forty-three percent of the total fleet were U32 sailors and 37% of the fleet were female sailors.
Posted on 29 Aug Duane Farrar on the 2024 Boston Blind Open Regatta A Q&A with Duane Farrar about the 2024 Boston Blind Open Regatta Sail-World checked in with Duane Farrar, who is the founder of the Boston Blind Open Regatta, and a three-time U.S. Blind Sailing national champion, via email, to learn more about the 2024 Boston Blind Open Regatta.
NA participants will need to qualify through their 2021 District Championship Regatta. This regatta will serve as the US qualifier for the 2022 World Championship that is scheduled for May 2022, Carolina Yacht Club, Wrightsville Beach, NC. When: Sunday, August 8, 2021 to Saturday, August 14, 2021. Where: Edgewater Yacht Club. Edgewater YC Website.
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Lightning, a nineteen-foot trailerable centerboard sloop, was originally designed by Sparkman & Stephens as an affordable family day-sailor and racing boat. She has evolved into one of the most popular and competitive one-design racing classes in the world. Awarded ISAF International Class status, the Lightning is sailed in more than thirteen ...
International Lightning Class Association. 4,462 likes · 25 talking about this. International Lightning Class The International governing body for the Lightning Class Sailboat worldwide #ILCA...
The New England Lightning District has active fleets sailing on: Mallettts Bay, Vermont; Squam Lake, New Hampshire; ... Lake Massabesic Lightning regatta for 2022 had low attendance, partially because a bunch of New England boats were at the North American Championships instead. But 5 boats showed up Saturday for 1-4 mph breezes with shifts ...
SAVE THE DATE for 2025 and start getting your team and boat organized! March 15-19, 2025 - Winter Championship, St Petersburg Yacht Club (4 days of racing) March 20-22, 2025 - Deep South Regatta, Savannah Yacht Club (2 days of racing)
Lightning Fleet 50: A PRSA Fleet Sailing on the Potomac River Since 1943. ... Many of our members also travel to Lightning regattas on the International Lightning Class Association regatta circuit. No fewer than 5 and sometimes as many as 15 boats are out racing on any given Sunday, with many more on the water for our 2-day regattas. ...
The Bay City Yacht Club is the center of inner Saginaw Bay sailboat racing. We are home to Lightning Fleet 216, have an active Wednesday Night fun-racing program as well as a more competitive weekend series. We frequently host regional regattas and welcome inquiries to utilize BCYC facilities to host sailboat racing events.
Yacht Scoring is a featured packed 100% web based regatta administration and scoring system that simplifies the task of competitor registration, event management, competitor and media communications while providing results in near-real time to competitors and the World following your event on the internet. ... 2024 Winter Lightning Championship ...
The Olin Stephens designed International Lightning Class held their 70th Anniversary Regatta during the 4th of July weekend at the home of Fleet #1, Skaneateles Country Club, in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of central New York State over a nearly perfect mid-summer weekend. 125 boats competed, from boat #2, up through new 15300 generation boats.
The boat received an enthusiastic response from the yachting world, and production began in earnest the following year. Lightning #167 was one of approximately 112 Lightnings built by Skaneateles Boats, Inc. in 1939, the first year of production. Records indicate that the boat was sold to Ward's Sporting Goods Store, a dealer in Ogdensburg ...
Yacht Scoring is a featured packed 100% web based regatta administration and scoring system that simplifies the task of competitor registration, event management, competitor and media communications while providing results in near-real time to competitors and the World following your event on the internet. ... 2022 Lightning World Championships ...