Zephyr Gets a New Skipper!

According to Barton Jahncke, Olympic Gold Medal winner and multiple Sugar Bowl Trophy winner, “The Sugar Bowl Regatta Series is recognized as one of the premier national yachting events in the United States. It gives sailors or all ages, from the Optimist class through high school and intercollegiate levels and beyond, the opportunity to learn how to compete at a very high level.”

This year’s J/30 National Championship is the 32nd in the history of the sailing class. Two teams, Zephyr (New Orleans) and BeBop (Annapolis) share the record of number of wins at 5 each. US Olympic Boatwright Donnie Brennan with son Andrew will be sailing with the Zephyr crew this year. Two J/30s will be skippered by women, Debbie Grimm aboard Hot Chocolate and Laura Webb sailing Black Magic.

The J/30 is a family friendly sloop, which can be raced or cruised and is an ocean bearing boat with a six and a half foot draft.

Many think of New Orleans as a French Quarter venue with a lot of historic value. We have another jewel
in town, it is Lake Pontchartrain. “Sailing is more than a sport”, according to the event’s key note speaker, Nicholas Hayes, author of award winning book “Saving Sailing”. It is a life choice. Today, there are about 2000 New Orleanians participating in sailing on the lake today – enough to attract National and International sailing events to the city. “With shifty winds and obstruction clear
waters, our sailing venue is one of the best in the nation,” according to David Erwin, Allstate Sugar Bowl Regatta Chairman.

Contact Information:

• Event page: http://noyc.org/j30/
• New Orleans Yacht Club: http://noyc.org
• J/30: http://j30.org
• Saving Sailing http://savingsailing.com/
• Leighton O’Connor Photography http://www.leightonoconnor.com/
• New Orleans Yacht Club, 403 North Roadway, New Orleans, LA 70124-1639
• To contact us via phone: (504) 296-7140
• Electronic mail dave@j30.us