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Breakwater Yacht Club hosted the 40th annual Sag Harbor Cup Regatta on Saturday, September 10, to benefit the club's junior sailing scholarships, with the goal of introducing a love of sailing to all local youth. Obsidian, a J111 skippered by David Wilson, was the big winner of the day, but all boats enjoyed safe and beautiful conditions in Noyack Bay. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Breakwater Yacht Club hosted the 40th annual Sag Harbor Cup Regatta on Saturday, September 10, to benefit the club's junior sailing scholarships, with the goal of introducing a love of sailing to all local youth. Obsidian, a J111 skippered by David Wilson, was the big winner of the day, but all boats enjoyed safe and beautiful conditions in Noyack Bay. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Members of Lady Hawke, skippered by Michael Koleoglou, are exuberant as they round the windward mark. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Members of the winning boat Obsidian with a champion's wave. A J111 skippered by David Wilson, Obsidian won the races of the largest fleet on Saturday. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Obsidian races through the water. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Purple Haze (123), skippered by Lee Oldak, and Holiday (356), skippered by Daniel Montero, pass by one another. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Members of Obsidian enjoy a nice day out on on the water for the 40th annual Sag Harbor Cup Regatta hosted by Breakwater Yacht Club. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Members of Impulse, skippered by Andrew Baris, check their sails. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Big Boat was skippered by Bud Rogers on Saturday. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Members of Bella work on getting their spinnaker up. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Starlight, skippered by G.M. Rouzee, won Division II. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Cleo, skippered by Ray Pepi, competed in Division I on Saturday. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
The Breakwater Yacht Club race committee boat. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
The Breakwater Yacht Club race committee boat. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Crew members aboard Great Scott! work the water. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Osprey skippered by George Martin won the nonspinnaker division. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Obsidian with its large red, white and blue spinnaker out. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Cleo, skippered by Ray Pepi, competed in Division I on Saturday. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
G.M. Rouzee and crew aboard Starlight, winnings of Division II. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Philip and Alexander Hughes, and crew, in Skye. GARY SENFT/EASTENDMARINEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
Breakwater Yacht Club hosted its 40th annual Sag Harbor Cup Regatta on Saturday, September 10, welcoming nearly 20 boats for its flagship race of the year, which benefits the club’s junior sailing scholarships, with the goal of introducing a love of sailing to all local youth.
Obsidian, a J111 skippered by Sag Harbor’s own David Wilson, was the big winner of the day, taking home bragging rights in what was the largest fleet, Division I (Spinnaker - PHRF 105 or less). Starlight, an Atlantic skippered by G.M. Rouzee out of Shelter Island Heights, won Division II (Spinnaker - PHRF 106 or more). Osprey, a C&C 35 MK 1 skippered by George Martin of Sag Harbor, won the nonspinnaker Division III.
The Sag Harbor Cup first sailed in June 1983 and was founded and organized by Victor Rugg, one of the original members of the Breakwater Yacht Club and chairman of the “Race Against Drug Abuse Inc.,” a nonprofit organization. The original and continuing purpose is to provide, through active community participation, sailing as an alternative to drug and substance abuse by young people in the area.
In 1983 and 1984, the Sag Harbor Yacht Club sponsored the event with the East Hampton Yacht Club, taking over for the next few years. In 1988, a group of “Wednesday Night Sailors” were asked by Rugg to sponsor the cup with a grant he procured to sponsor the cup and form a yacht club. They needed to be a yacht club in order to do this and the Breakwater Yacht Club was thus formed. All involved parties insisted that all funds raised stayed on the East End.
In 1988, Sag Harbor Cup produced a net profit of $5,000 that was turned over to Pierson High School’s HUGS Program, and the following year Breakwater filed for and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and the net profit of $6,000 was used to develop the community Youth Sailing Program of the club.
Since those early days of the Sag Harbor Cup, the funds raised have helped fund BYC jr. sailing programs with thousands of junior sailing scholarships handed out to local schools and organizations.
Staff Writer on Sep 13, 2022