2008 Linda Elias Memorial Women's One Design Regatta: September 2008

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Sponsors

We are pleased to list the following sponsors who are helping us reach our fundraising goal for the Linda Elias Memorial Sailing Scholarship Fund and heighten the awareness of amateur women's sailing opportunities via LB/LA Women's Sailing Association.

* Team1Newport * Aquarium of the Pacific * JetBlue Airways * Nautical Luxuries * Long Beach Yacht Club * Fletcher Jones Motorcars [Mercedes Benz] * Naples Rib Company * Del Taco * Houdani International Gift Baskets * "Latitude & Attitudes " Magazine * LB/LA Women's Sailing Association * Nauti Chicas Women's Sailing Team * High-Times Wine Cellars * Women's Ocean Racing Sailing Association - "WORSA" * Cookie Lee * Port of Long Beach* BlastCommunications*Red Pennant* Gaylord Sportswear * Women's Sailing Convention* Newport Harbor Yacht Club*

2008 LEMWOD FINAL RESULTS [October 20, 2008]

1. Newport Harbor Yacht Club- Women's Sailing Team
Team Manager: Gale Nye Pinckney
Helm: Casey Hogan
6-4-1-5-3-1-1 - Total 21 points

2. Novias Del Mar [LB/LA WSA & LSFYC]
Team Manager: Karen Campbell
Helm: Andrea Cabito
5-1-5-8-2-3-2 -Total 26 points

3. San Diego Yacht Club - Women's Sailing Team
Team Manager: Samantha Treadwell
Helm: Samantha Treadwell
2-6-2-1-4-8-4 Total 27 points

4. Dreadnought - Opequinar Yacht Club, Puerto Vallarta, MX
Team Manager: Laura Legorreta
Helm: Karla Moreno
3-3-8-3-5-2-8 Total 32 points

5. California Yacht Club - Women's Sailing Team
Team Manager: Kellie Fennessy
Helm: Susan Taylor
1-10-3-2-1-6-11(DNF), Total 34 points

6. Nauti Chicas Women's Sailing Team
Team Manager: Denise Eldredge
Helm: Sue Senescu
4-7-4-6-9-5-3 Total 38 points

7. Women's Sailing Assn - Santa Monica Bay
Team Manager: Gwen Abel
Helm: Gwen Abel
7-5-7-7-7-9-5 Total 47 points

8. Sailing Chicks [LB/LA WSA & Navy YC]
Team Manager: Cherie Moulin
Helm: Kathy Reed
9-2-9-9-8-4-7 Total 48 points

9. Southwestern Yacht Club - Women's Sailing Team
Team Manager: Veronica Garcia
Helm: Colleen Cook
8-8-6-4-6-10-6 Total 48 points

10. The Wave - Ventura Yacht Club Women's Team
Team Manager: Christina Baum
Helm: Christina Baum
10-9-10-10-10-7-11(DSQ) Total 67 points
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$1K PRIZE UP FOR GRABS IN 17TH ANNUAL LEMWOD

LONG BEACH, CA – August 8, 2008 – The Linda Elias Memorial Women’s One Design Challenge (LEMWOD) has taken on new life as the yacht club challenge for all-women teams. Indeed, if the guys have the Lipton Cup, the ladies have the LEMWOD: a highly competitive two-day regatta raced in a one-design fleet of Catalina 37s – now, with a $1,000 prize.
California Yacht Club has already committed to support their entry, defending champions of 2007. “We get a great deal of support from CYC each year for this event,” said Team Captain Kellie Fennessy. “I am fortunate that we have a wide talent pool to pull from and this year’s team will be 100 percent CYC members, as it was last year.”
In the 2007 regatta, CYC was neck-in-neck with the Nauti Chicas from Dana Point Yacht Club (DPYC) after Day One. “I really wanted to go get ‘em on Day Two and we had planned out our attack,” said Nauti Chica skipper Sue Senescu. But they never got the chance: races were cancelled Sunday after Santa Ana winds kicked up to 40knots, and the CYC team won on the tie-breaker. So now Senescu is back for the rematch Saturday and Sunday, October 18 and 19.
Senescu, a Rear Commodore at DPYC, also relies on support from her home club, and urges other organizations to get behind their women’s sailing programs. “Invest in your team – men, women, juniors. It’s what yacht clubs are all about.”
Adds DPYC Commodore Sal Pestritto, a long-time proponent of their instructional women’s sailing program and the Dana Belles regatta, “The yacht clubs have to put their money where their mouth is and make a commitment to support women’s sailing too.”
In its’ 17^th year, the LEMWOD is governed by the “rules” as defined in the 2005-2008 Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS), including the Catalina 37 Class Rules. Four windward/leeward races are slated for Saturday, three Sunday; sailed inside the Long Beach breakwater adjacent Belmont Pier, starting at 11:55 am each day.
Entry fees for the regatta are $200 prior to September 15; $250 afterwards, until the registration cut-off date October 6. Charter fees are an additional $700, with an optional practice day October 17 for $250 more.
Included are parties and entertainment, take-home trophies, raffle prizes and camaraderie. In addition, this year’s winner will be awarded the $1,000 Linda Elias Memorial Sailing Scholarship and an engraving on the LEMWOD perpetual trophy, which remains on display at Long Beach Yacht Club.
The LEMWOD is open to all-women teams with a minimum crew of seven; no maximum nor weight restriction. The skipper must be a member of a SCYA or USSA club. Teams are expected from as far as Puerto Vallarta and San Francisco Bay.
Spots are still available and organizers have challenged western yacht clubs to put up a campaign for this distinguished trophy.
“The first time I competed in this was in 1992 as a total greenhorn,” adds Senescu. “We lost and I was absolutely crushed. Then I realized the experience and inspiration I had with the women I was sailing with. It’s nothing like the Olympics or Worlds but it’s not like club racing either. It builds character – a classic cliché – but it’s what you make of it, and how you prepare and learn and improve.”

2008 Linda Elias Memorial
Women's One Design Regatta

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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2008 LEMWOD FINAL RESULTS [October 20, 2008]

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2008 Linda Elias Memorial Women's One Design Regatta

Thursday, September 18, 2008

** Sponsors **

2008 Official Regatta Logo

2008 LEMWOD FINAL RESULTS [October 20, 2008]

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Sail in the 2008 LEMWOD Regatta!

2008 Linda Elias Memorial
Women's One Design Regatta

Sponsors