{"id":75962,"date":"2023-07-30T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=75962"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:44:52","slug":"team-elektra-wins-iod-fleet-and-overall-title-in-marblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/regatta-series\/team-elektra-wins-iod-fleet-and-overall-title-in-marblehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Elektra Wins IOD Fleet and Overall Title in Marblehead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788-1024x797.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Corbet, Rob Brower, Becker Ewing, Elizabeth Lonergan and Sandra Nygren\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788-50x39.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-2788.jpg 1387w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Corbet, Rob Brower, Becker Ewing, Elizabeth Lonergan and Sandra Nygren were selected to represent Marblehead at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Caribbean Championship in the British Virgin Islands.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yachtscoring.com\/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=15509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Team Elektra Wins the 2003 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5WkcN4YBKao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 edition of the <a href=\"\/regatta-series-marblehead\/\">Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series at Marblehead Race Week<\/a> will be remembered for its challenging light wind but more so for the time local skipper Carolyn Corbet and her teammates outsmarted and outsailed the venerable champions of Bill Widnall\u2019s <strong>International One Design<\/strong> <em>Javelin<\/em>. On the fourth and final day of Marblehead Race Week, Corbet\u2019s team on <em>Elektra<\/em> won two come-from-behind races to win the regatta and then its Overall Championship title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe started the day only 1 point out of first and we\u2019d been going back and forth with Bill\u2014who\u2019s won this regatta for who knows how long,\u201d Corbet says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s first of two races, <em>Elektra<\/em> rounded the first mark third, and with the quick sail-handling skills and sharp execution of this team of twenty-somethings, Corbet quickly&nbsp; jibed, \u201cjumped the fleet,\u201d and at the next mark <em>Elektra<\/em> took control of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Elektra\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0742.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\"><i>Elektra<\/i> (No. 2) gets a clean start on the final day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>\u201cTen boat lengths out from the leeward mark we were able to jibe on to starboard, and then we were able to get them [Widnall\u2019s <em>Javelin<\/em>] on starboard,\u201d Corbet says. \u201cSo, we were able to send them off the layline. I have an amazing crew that can pull off that kind of jibing, get the spinnaker down, and then jibe around the mark. We barely missed a beat and that right there probably won us the regatta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbet, of Marblehead, has been sailing the loaner International One Design for three summers and her team has proven to be a quick study of a boat that can take a lifetime to master, but Corbet says she\u2019s had plenty of help from Widnall and others, and their success this weekend truly comedowns to the collective talent of her teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Brian Keane and his team\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-1296.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Brian Keane and his team on <i>Savasana<\/i> added another win to their list as they train for the upcoming world championship.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>As winners of their class, but Corbet, Rob Brower, Becker Ewing, Elizabeth Lonergan and Sandra Nygren were selected to represent Marblehead at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Caribbean Championship in the British Virgin Islands in October, where they will race against other overall winners from previous stops of the Regatta Series, as well as the 2022 regatta\u2019s champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same circle as the IODs, a similar battle was playing out in the <strong>J\/105<\/strong> class where Charlie Garrard\u2019s <em>Merlin<\/em> and Rick Dexter\u2019s <em>Brouhaha<\/em> set off from their respective moorings in Marblehead Harbor with only 1 point between them. The goal of the day was a simple one for Garrard and his experienced crew: keep <em>Brouhaha<\/em> close and use their boatspeed to finish the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619-1024x728.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Charlie Garrard and team on Merlin\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0619.jpg 1520w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Charlie Garrard&#8217;s <i>Merlin<\/i> won the start of the day&#8217;s first race and cemented its win in the J\/105 fleet.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper Photo<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>When the seabreeze finally filled after a long morning postponement, the two teams got right to work, tailing each other in the prestart and striking the starting line overlapped. <em>Merlin<\/em> had the advantage and <em>Brouhaha<\/em> tacked away. The race from there was all <em>Merlin<\/em>\u2019s to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe just had to keep them close and we had to finish ahead of them,\u201d Garrard says. \u201cEven though they tacked away, we felt comfortable going left where there was more wind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pair finished 2-4 and <em>Merlin<\/em>\u2019s lead grew to 3 points, but in the final race, after leading off the start again, Garrard says they were on the downwind leg and crash jibed to avoid another boat, which lost them one place in the race, but fortunately nothing more\u2014the final winning margin was 2 point and <em>Merlin<\/em>\u2019s winning streak remains intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think we got off the line clean every day and the boat is going great upwind,\u201d Garrard says. \u201cAs always, it helps to have a great crew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Henry and Barb Amthor with teammate Parker Moore\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Viper640_Amthor.jpg 1620w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Henry and Barb Amthor, along with teammate Parker Moore, were the top Viper 640 team after winning the regatta\u2019s final race.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>The return of the <strong>Lightning<\/strong> fleet was marked as another notable moment in Race Week history. According to class leader Bob Shapiro, it has been nearly 40 years since the International Lightning Class has competed at Race Week, and fittingly it was the two \u201cold-timers\u201d of the fleet that took second and first places after five races. At the top of the standings with two race wins was local legend Charles \u201cCH\u201d Ritt with Shapiro as runner up and winner of the weekend\u2019s final race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Rhodes 19<\/strong> Class sailed another competitive regatta with 22 boats providing plenty of action-packed mark roundings, and always ahead of the melee were Matt Hooks and teammate Rob Pascal, who won four of eight races to close with an impressive 25-point winning margin, earning Hooks the coveted Norm Cressy Trophy, which has been awarded to the regatta\u2019s best-performing skipper since 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same race circle, the <strong>Town Class<\/strong> sailed its New England Championship and after five races, Nick Cann and Andrea Dodgeon on <em>Tonic<\/em> emerged as the winners, scoring two race wins to finish 10 points ahead of Bill Heffernan and Larry Brown on <em>Sweep<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ILCA sailors were particularly challenged with their first races canceled on Saturday due to weather. The race committee started them early on Sunday and completed one shortened race before the wind died. Once they got going again, it was strong current that caused numerous general recall starts, but at the end of the day, three races were sailed with Bill Rothwell winning the <strong>ILCA 7<\/strong> division and Jeremiah McCarthy winning the <strong>ILCA 6<\/strong> fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-1024x675.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Bill Rothwell\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230730_SWRS_Marblehead-0183.jpg 1638w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">ILCA sailors struggled to get races off on the final day, but once they did, Bill Rothwell went on to win the regatta.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Walter Cooper<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Marblehead\u2019s re-emerging <strong>Etchells<\/strong> class featured the area\u2019s top sailors as well as experienced teams from outside the region, but none were as fast as Tomas Hornos and his teammates on <em>Bob<\/em>, which won two of six races and ended the series with a comfortable 10-point win. As the top fleet champion, Hornos also earned the Dave Curtis Perpetual Trophy, awarded by the Sailing Hall of Famer himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry and Barb Amthor, along with teammate Parker Moore, were the top Viper 640 team after winning the regatta\u2019s final race for a 2-point New England Championship win over Marek Zaleski\u2019s <em>Team Z<\/em>. Brian Keane and his teammates on the J\/70 <em>Savasana<\/em> eked out a hard-fought win to secure the class\u2019s New England Championship, another title for the team as they head toward the World Championship later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper Carolyn Corbet and her teammates on the IOD Elektra won the day, the regatta and the Overall  title. Off to the BVIs they go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Dave Reed","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"157","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Skipper Carolyn Corbet and her teammates on the IOD Elektra won the day, the regatta and the Overall title at the 2023 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Marblehead.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[157],"tags":[181,285,177,2859,178],"class_list":["post-75962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regatta-series","tag-helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-series","tag-helly-hansen-sailing-world-regatta-series-marblehead","tag-racing","tag-regatta-series","tag-sailboat-racing"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}