American, Canadian, and British skippers and their teams each won a Paralympic division at Sunday’s third and final round of racing at the U.S. Disabled Sailing Championships (USDSC) in St. Petersburg, Fla.
This US Sailing National Championship, hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, featured racers competing in one of three Paralympic classes: 2.4mR (singlehanded), SKUD-18 (doublehanded), and Sonar (triplehanded). Canadian Bruce Millar (Richmond, B.C. CAN) won the 2.4mR fleet, U.S. Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) sailors Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julia Dorsett (Westchester, Pa.) were winners in the SKUD-18s, and British skipper John Robertson (Portland, Dorset, GBR) and his crewmates Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas captured the Sonar division. A 10 knot Southwesterly breeze greeted the competitors this morning on Tampa Bay. Each fleet completed seven races through three days of competition, including three on Sunday … Details