CASTINE — Racing mostly in light airs on Smith Cove over the weekend, the George Stevens Academy sailing team took third place in the Maine State High School Sailing Championship regatta.
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CASTINE — Racing mostly in light airs on Smith Cove over the weekend, the George Stevens Academy sailing team took third place in the Maine State High School Sailing Championship regatta.
Falmouth High School won the state title for the second straight year, with Chevrus High School finishing second.
GSA took fourth place overall in the simultaneous, separately scored Downeast Fleet Racing Invitational regatta. That event attracted teams from 17 secondary schools from as far away as Cape Cod and Vermont.
Seventeen schools or conglomerate sailing clubs sent teams to the 14th annual Downeast Invitational. The fleet was divided into A and B divisions, with every team racing one boat in each. GSA and Mount Desert Island High School both put an “extra” junior varsity team on the course, bringing the racing fleet to 19 boats.
Each division completed 10 races over the course of the two-day regatta. At the halfway point, after six “A” races and four “B” races had been completed on Saturday, GSA was in second place overall and MDI was 12th.
After racing was done on Sunday, MDI had fought its way to eighth overall and fifth in the Maine state standings.
Finishing at the top of the “A” division, Falmouth High School’s Charlie Lalumiere was just dominating. In 10 races, the southern Maine skipper’s worst finishes were a pair of thirds. He also had three bullets, amassing a total of 19 points.
“Nineteen points in 10 races! That’s amazing,” GSA assistant sailing coach Patrick Haugen said Monday.
Stephen Rappaport, Waterfront Editor of The Ellsworth American, has lived in Maine for more than 20 years. A lifelong sailor, he spends as much time as possible messing about in boats.
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