Adams Cup and Mallory Cup
Vicki Sodaro of Sausalito’s Hood Sails and suburbia’s Tiburon has captured the Adams Cup for the third time. With crew Stephanie Wondolleck, Emily French and Katie Maxim, Sodaro bested second-place Wendy Roach’s Fort Worth team by 25 points. Eleven teams sailed 11 races in J/22s on Lake Hefner, hosted by Oklahoma City Boat Club, Sept. 18-21.
Flat water, light air, warm temps. Although winds didn’t whip up to more SF-like 15-18 knots until the last race, the SF team had already clinched it. © 2008 Bruce McDermott/www.sdsailing.com
For complete results and lots more on this year’s Adams Cup competition, see www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswsc.
Overlapping the U.S. Women’s Sailing Championships (Adams Cup), the U.S. Men’s Sailing Championships (Mallory Cup) was held in J/24s on San Francisco Bay, hosted by San Francisco YC (which Sodaro and crew were representing in OK) Sept. 16-20. In this regatta, the Texans prevailed. Another very experienced, repeating winner, Scott Young led an Austin crew to a narrower victory over 10 other teams after 11 races. Our local team, representing Berkeley YC and led by Michael Whitfield, came in eighth.
Small Flying Patio Furniture (always did love that boat name) was one of the local J/24s provided for the series. © 2008 David Dibble/www.beckroad.com
See www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/usmsc for more. Congratulations to the champs!
September 21, 2008
San Fran gals in OK City. Vicki Sodaro (center) again holds the Adams Cup. Chair Betsy Beddow is on the right. 2008 Bruce McDermott/www.sdsailing.com