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Navy Varsity Offshore Sailing Team Wins LA Harbor Cup
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he U.S. Naval Academy’s Varsity Offshore Sailing Team (VOST) was in California March 10-11 for the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup, the west coast’s college big boat championship, on the Pacific Ocean off Palos Verdes hosted by Los Angeles Yacht Club and Cal Maritime. For the first time since the regatta’s inception 11 years ago, Navy came away with the victory, convincingly beating nine other teams in the 10-race series. Racing began Friday with Navy posting a 5,2,2 in standard southern California sea breeze conditions. Saturday brought drizzle and atypical light and fluky southeasterly winds which suited Navy perfectly. They scored 1,1,4,1,6 to
finish the day with a commanding lead over second place. On Sunday, all they had to do was stay close, but instead they came out in the first race of the day and beat the only two teams that had a shot at catching them to clinch the series with one race to spare. They sailed the course on the last race, but generally stayed out of the way of their competitors who were battling for the other podium positions. UC Santa Barbara’s team placed second and University of South Florida, third. Huge congratulations to the crew which included skipper 1/C Teddy Papenthien (tactician), 1/C Matt Hundt (helm), 1/C Chris Cantillo (main trim), 1/C Ted Decker (upwind trim), 1/C
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##Winning USNA VOST team: K. Parriott, Cassidy O’Brien, Ted Decker, Matt Hundt, Chris Cantillo, Teddy Papenthien, Gunnar Hough, and Pat Francis.
Pat Francis (downwind trim), 1/C K Parriott (pit), 1/C Gunnar Hough (bow) and 2/C Cassidy O’Brien (mast). It was a great way for these guys to kick off their spring break! ~reporting by Jahn Tihansky
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