Looks like no snow this year- so here's one from last year- Happy Holidays to all of our Sailors and Supporters.
23 December 2011
Happy Holidays From the Kings Point Waterfront
Looks like no snow this year- so here's one from last year- Happy Holidays to all of our Sailors and Supporters.
18 December 2011
2011 Holiday Hidden Harbor / City Tour
We had a great turnout and weather for our Annual Hidden Harbor Tour and City Walk aboard Liberator this year. More Pics here.
29 November 2011
Name and Hailing Port on the new Offshore Team Flagship
The R/P 74' ex-Bella Mente. Her first race as a Kings Pointer will be the Ft. Lauderdale to Key West Race in January.13 November 2011
07 November 2011
2012 Waterfront Calendars On Sale
Beleive it or not the 36 photo's in this years calendar show just a small part of what our Sailors do at the KP Waterfront. The USMMA Sailing Foudation will be sending out copies to supporters in December- but you can order either the Large or Small versions online today- proceeds support our KP Sailors!
MAISA Sloops Match Racing
Waterfront teams pulled together this weekend to host the 2011 MAISA Sloops Match Racing Championship. While our team didn't qualify for the National Championship Regatta this year, they performed well during the season and will be strong next year. Congrats to Navy for winning the regatta.03 November 2011
Kings Pointer in Sports Illustrated
M/N Evan Siepert was included in this week's Faces in the Crowd for leading his team to victory at the 2011 MacMillan Cup Regatta. I'm sure he joins a small list of sailors to make a spot in SI!!
24 October 2011
16 October 2011
Manhasset Bay Fall Series at its Best!
An amazing windy weekend on Long Island Sound for the Offshore Team on Tiburon and Decision. More pics and video here...
12 October 2011
"Cadet" Vanquish Headed to Sea on a Ro/Ro
The USMMA Sailing Foundation Yacht Vanquish boards ship in England10 October 2011
09 October 2011
06 October 2011
04 October 2011
Brilliant Visits Kings Point
Mystic Seaport has been a great supporter of our Waterfront Training program, hosting many KP vessels on training trips for years, and it is a great honor to return the favor, with Brilliant making a stopover at KP on her way to the Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. I hope to repost this picture next week with a different caption- "The 2010 and 2011 Winners of the GCBSR together at Kings Point!"02 October 2011
22 September 2011
Varsity Rowing / Power Squadron to Mystic Coastweeks Regatta
Mystic Coastweeks Regatta – September 16-19, 2011
This was the Rowing Team’s first regatta of the 2011 fall season. Twenty-nine rowers got underway Friday evening aboard Liberator, Growler and Summerwind with the crews of each vessel. The convoy arrived in Mystic at 0930 on Saturday morning. Saturday activities included touring the Mystic Seaport Museum, watching the Olympic team competition, and a training session in preparation for the regatta on Sunday.
This year was the largest competitive team that Kings Point has had in it’s seven year attendance at the regatta. Twenty-nine athletes competed with seven crews and brought home medals in two of the three race categories. The Coastweeks regatta is the first race of the fall “Head Style” season. Crews raced the distance of a mile-and-quarter in alternating fashion and do not know who won until the individual crew’s times are calculated following the race.
The women’s Double of Brooke Mueller 2014 and Brannon Niblock 2015 had a tremendous first race as they raced to a second place finish in what was a close race with Coast Guard. Coast Guard had a twenty-five second margin over Kings Point who had a three second lead over another Coast Guard entry. “Niblock is new to the sport and is still learning how to row and race. This is a great first result since the crew had only six practices as a crew” commented Coach Derek Hartwick. The crew will have two weeks to prepare for its’ next contest when it competes in the Textile River Regatta in Massachusetts on October 2.
The Men’s team launched an armada of five crews for the Men’s Open Four race. While Coast Guard captured the top spot in the race, the top Kings Point crew was only ten seconds off the lead. The men’s team showed great depth with both the top two crews placing ahead of Coast Guard’s second best crew and the additional three crews performing well despite their inexperience. The top crew of Coxswain Giuseppe Niosi ‘14, Stroke-John Dohring ‘14, 3-Connan Ingham ‘12, 2-Sean Welsh ’14 and Bow-Austin Boonyachai ‘15 kept a pace of thirty-six stokes per minute for the mile-and-quarter. This slight deficit off first place was nearly overshadowed by the even smaller three second margin between the two top Kings Point crews.
The relatively inexperienced women’s crew of Stroke-Diane Ormond ‘15, 3-Brannon Niblock ‘15, 2-Leena Yi ‘15 and Bow-Mo’ana Kawatachi ‘15 rowed well for their first race but came up short in the women’s open four event. Placing 6th behind some seasoned varsity crews did not deter the crew form promising that they would be competitive in the Novice Women’s event in two weeks. “They are going to do very well in the novice race at the Textile Regatta on October 2.” commented Coach Hartwick.
With two weeks to train, the team will then prepare for the next regatta in Lowell Massachusetts. The Textile River Regatta is the 2nd largest fall regatta and includes over 30 colleges from the northeast states. The Kings Point team has traditionally performed well at this regatta and hopes to do the same this year.
01 September 2011
Hurricane Report
RWO Weekly Update
Week Ending Monday 29 August 2011
This week, without a doubt was one of the most interesting and eventful weekends any of the present waterfront members can remember. On Sunday, CDR Gasiorek, the waterfront staff and officers, as well as the rest of the waterfront members started toying with the idea that Hurricane Irene could in fact impact Kings Point. On Tuesday morning at the officers meeting we decided that this possibility was more of a reality and began our preparations. Our initial intention was to conduct a drill for hurricane preparedness. The plan was to take every vessel possible and 70 midshipmen up the Hudson River just as we would in the event of a serious hurricane situation. Everyone scrambled Tuesday morning to put this plan in action and by noon time we had the TM's in, the crew lists together, and the food order placed.
Thursday morning rolled around and the computer models for Hurricane Irene had come to a consensus of a direct hit on Long Island. This put all of us into immediate action. We shifted our focus from that of a drill to that of real action. The waterfront staff began working Thursday morning to empty the basin. The waterfront officers put together a plan of action for the storm and set up watches and work teams to get everything accomplished. We minimized the crews on all vessels and set up a watch system to tour the waterfront during the storm. On Thursday afternoon all the waterfront teams were down at the waterfront working incredibly hard to prepare for the impending weather. The dinghy team de-rigged and moved all the dinghies up the hill. The offshore team was busy de-rigging boats and getting them ready to come out of the water. The crew team pulled out all the equipment from Prosser boat house. The powersquad assisted the staff in pulling out their vessels and preparing them for the weather.
After the all hands meeting in Delano on Thursday night where everyone was excused to go home the major concern was losing the assigned hands that would be necessary for the storm. In an incredible display of pride in the waterfront and the vessels we ended up with more help than we anticipated. Waterfront members from all teams were coming up to me after the meeting Thursday evening to volunteer their services in whatever way possible to make sure the waterfront made it through the storm without any problems. By Friday at noon we had the final crew lists put together for all the vessels that would go up the river to take refuge. We also had the entire watch system put together for the weekend at KP. On top of this at 0800 Friday morning all the people assigned to the KP storm team reported to the waterfront and put in a full day working until 1800 Friday night to ready the waterfront for the storm. What was accomplished was nothing short of incredible. From Thursday afternoon through Friday night the entire basin was emptied, a feat that normally takes a month at the end of the season, the docks were secured, watch shacks moved, Yocum sailing center had everything moved off the decks to higher shelves and every other precaution possible was taken.
Following a full nights rest Friday the storm team members reported aboard their respective vessels Saturday morning. The watch teams also reported to the waterfront to finish up any last minute details and help the waterfront staff with whatever they needed. By 1000 Saturday morning 11 vessels including the Kings Pointer were under way for refuge in the Hudson River crewed by 50 midshipmen and members of the faculty and waterfront staff. The waterfront members aboard displayed some of the best seamanship I have seen since I have been at this school. All the vessels road out the hurricane in the Hudson River off Indian Point. Vigilant watches were stood by all the vessels to make sure their vessel and crew was safe through the storm. The vessel skippers did an incredible job of taking on this responsibility and making sure their crews were safe at all times. Everyone involved took on responsibility for the vessels and each other by doing simple things like making sure PFD's were being worn while on anchor watch in the storm. Not only was this done by a great group of midshipmen but there were sailors on power boats, powersquad members on sailboats, and plenty of people crewing vessels they have never been on before. This didn't stop the plan from going off without a hitch. The waterfront made it through the weekend without damage to a single vessel, zero personal injuries and no damage to the waterfront facilities. This is without a doubt attributed to the hard work and dedication of the midshipmen and waterfront staff.
On Sunday evening the vessels made it back to Long Island Sound and dropped anchor in Manhasset Bay to ride out the rest of the wind. By Monday all the vessels and midshipmen were safe and sound back in the Basin. The work however didn't stop here. The entire KP storm team, after a long weekend of watch standing worked all day Monday to undo everything that was done. By Monday afternoon the waterfront was 90% put back together and all the vessels were back in the water. Never have I been so proud to claim to be part of this thing we all call the Waterfront Family.
Week Ending Monday 29 August 2011
This week, without a doubt was one of the most interesting and eventful weekends any of the present waterfront members can remember. On Sunday, CDR Gasiorek, the waterfront staff and officers, as well as the rest of the waterfront members started toying with the idea that Hurricane Irene could in fact impact Kings Point. On Tuesday morning at the officers meeting we decided that this possibility was more of a reality and began our preparations. Our initial intention was to conduct a drill for hurricane preparedness. The plan was to take every vessel possible and 70 midshipmen up the Hudson River just as we would in the event of a serious hurricane situation. Everyone scrambled Tuesday morning to put this plan in action and by noon time we had the TM's in, the crew lists together, and the food order placed.
Thursday morning rolled around and the computer models for Hurricane Irene had come to a consensus of a direct hit on Long Island. This put all of us into immediate action. We shifted our focus from that of a drill to that of real action. The waterfront staff began working Thursday morning to empty the basin. The waterfront officers put together a plan of action for the storm and set up watches and work teams to get everything accomplished. We minimized the crews on all vessels and set up a watch system to tour the waterfront during the storm. On Thursday afternoon all the waterfront teams were down at the waterfront working incredibly hard to prepare for the impending weather. The dinghy team de-rigged and moved all the dinghies up the hill. The offshore team was busy de-rigging boats and getting them ready to come out of the water. The crew team pulled out all the equipment from Prosser boat house. The powersquad assisted the staff in pulling out their vessels and preparing them for the weather.
After the all hands meeting in Delano on Thursday night where everyone was excused to go home the major concern was losing the assigned hands that would be necessary for the storm. In an incredible display of pride in the waterfront and the vessels we ended up with more help than we anticipated. Waterfront members from all teams were coming up to me after the meeting Thursday evening to volunteer their services in whatever way possible to make sure the waterfront made it through the storm without any problems. By Friday at noon we had the final crew lists put together for all the vessels that would go up the river to take refuge. We also had the entire watch system put together for the weekend at KP. On top of this at 0800 Friday morning all the people assigned to the KP storm team reported to the waterfront and put in a full day working until 1800 Friday night to ready the waterfront for the storm. What was accomplished was nothing short of incredible. From Thursday afternoon through Friday night the entire basin was emptied, a feat that normally takes a month at the end of the season, the docks were secured, watch shacks moved, Yocum sailing center had everything moved off the decks to higher shelves and every other precaution possible was taken.
Following a full nights rest Friday the storm team members reported aboard their respective vessels Saturday morning. The watch teams also reported to the waterfront to finish up any last minute details and help the waterfront staff with whatever they needed. By 1000 Saturday morning 11 vessels including the Kings Pointer were under way for refuge in the Hudson River crewed by 50 midshipmen and members of the faculty and waterfront staff. The waterfront members aboard displayed some of the best seamanship I have seen since I have been at this school. All the vessels road out the hurricane in the Hudson River off Indian Point. Vigilant watches were stood by all the vessels to make sure their vessel and crew was safe through the storm. The vessel skippers did an incredible job of taking on this responsibility and making sure their crews were safe at all times. Everyone involved took on responsibility for the vessels and each other by doing simple things like making sure PFD's were being worn while on anchor watch in the storm. Not only was this done by a great group of midshipmen but there were sailors on power boats, powersquad members on sailboats, and plenty of people crewing vessels they have never been on before. This didn't stop the plan from going off without a hitch. The waterfront made it through the weekend without damage to a single vessel, zero personal injuries and no damage to the waterfront facilities. This is without a doubt attributed to the hard work and dedication of the midshipmen and waterfront staff.
On Sunday evening the vessels made it back to Long Island Sound and dropped anchor in Manhasset Bay to ride out the rest of the wind. By Monday all the vessels and midshipmen were safe and sound back in the Basin. The work however didn't stop here. The entire KP storm team, after a long weekend of watch standing worked all day Monday to undo everything that was done. By Monday afternoon the waterfront was 90% put back together and all the vessels were back in the water. Never have I been so proud to claim to be part of this thing we all call the Waterfront Family.
29 August 2011
Putting it all back together
28 August 2011
24 August 2011
Power Squadron Towing Ops Class
 |
Great day on the water with Rob Asma teaching towing operations with Growler and "142" |
18 August 2011
17 August 2011
New Name for Decision
Kings Point is the new home for the TP 52 Decision- the team is excited, and her first race will be this years Vineyard Race. We will be keeping the name Decision for the fall, but are choosing a new name and would like your help. As the family that donated Decision is in the legal field, we'd like to keep that them. Check out the voting on our Facebook page, and let us know if you have any other suggestions!
07 August 2011
06 August 2011
30 July 2011
Hmmm- Just Graduated, what should I do before I start my job at MSC?
How about sail Bella Mente, KP's newest race boat Across the Pacific? Looks like Logan Kolterman and Ben Reavis are having a great trip from Hawaii to San Francisco!
19 July 2011
12 July 2011
11 July 2011
09 July 2011
08 July 2011
07 July 2011
Welcome Class of 2015 Sailors
A great day for the start of Indoc today at Kings Point.
|
| Indoc2011 Day 1 |
05 July 2011
Have to Share this Great Shot from Vanquish
Chris Branning KP'09 showing the July 4th Spirit in the Mid-Atlantic
Amory Ross photo
03 July 2011
23 June 2011
21 June 2011
07 June 2011
06 June 2011
04 June 2011
28 May 2011
Tiburon Crew at the Start of the 2011 Around Block Island Race
" We had a good night with our approach and arrival to rounding block. We met the other Swan 42 in our class while we were rounding at the north end and made huge gains and passed them as we went around. There has been heavy fog all morning with visibility at roughly 300 feet. It has been very hard to see other boats as they approach very close to us. We could also hear the waves crashing on shore without being able to see it. We also saw many sharks on the eastern shore of block. Overall doing well and practicing our navigation in restricted visibility."
23 May 2011
USMMA Keelboat Team places third at Tappan Zee Challenge
The Tappan Zee Challenge is the season opener for Sonar racing in the Northeast, and Midshipman Joe Hoffman ‘11 and his crew started the season with guns blazing, placing third at the Tappan Zee Challenge regatta this weekend, sailing in light winds and strong current. Hoffman’s crew of Evan Siepert ’13, Chris Maloney ’14 and Ashley Markey ’14 improved on their sixth-place standing on Saturday with a third-place standing on Sunday for third overall. In the fleet of 21 boats, Hoffman’s finishes were 8-4-6-3-6 for 27 points, just two behind their coach, Rick Dominique. “Joe has been improving dramatically over the past three seasons. He, Maloney and Markey have really been coming together as a crew, and the addition of dinghy team member Evan Siepert’s tactical ability launched the team into the top ranks of the class. I’m so happy for Joe, he’s worked really hard for this.”
Also competing at the event was Kirk Wetzel ’14 with crew James Ytreeide ’14, Ashleigh Phillips ’14 and Casey Cannon ’13. This young team struggled early, but moved from 18th on Saturday to 13th overall with better finishes on Sunday. Their coach praised their progress, “On Kirk’s boat, only Casey has been to a championship event such as this. These young team members are showing great progress, and with continued hard work will see similar success to Joe (Hoffman).”
The Keelboat Team will be out in stronger numbers, registering at least four boats for the Sonar Long Island Sound Championship on June 4-5, 2011. You can follow the USMMA Keelboat Team on Facebook.
22 May 2011
Tiburon Wins Stratford Shoal Race
Stradford Shoal Race Writeup
The Stradford Shoal Distance race was not looking too promising late Friday, as well as Saturday morning with the water looking like glass and no prospects of having anyimprovements in the wind conditions. As we motored out to the start of the race we went over positions and our watch system, as well as what the current and wind was supposed to be doing for the day.
Once we arrived at the start line just off the execution lighthouse we were informed that the course had been shortened due to the dying wind. We were the first start on the 32 mile long course and arrived at the start line a little bit late as well as almost all of the other boats. We decided to go to the Long Island side of the course while the other boats decided to go way out to the Connecticut side of the course. The wind was coming out of the Northeast so it was an upwind beat all the way to the Cable and Anchor reef mark (R "28C" F4s Bell). Since we decided to go south after the start, we were the first boat to get out of the current, which as any Kings Point sailor has learned, this is a crucial part in distance racing on Long Island Sound.
As we weaved through channel marks and hugged the shore, we used our Navigation skills to avoid any hazards along the coast. Everyone in the crew did an outstanding job at keeping the boat going fast with superb crew work, trimming, and driving. As we got closer to the Cable and Anchor reef mark we started to realize that we were doing much better than many of the other boats in our division. We attributed this to the fact that we were out of the current as it was flooding in toward the west end of the island.
We were the first boat to round the mark by 13 minutes, beating all boats in our division including a Kerr 50 which is a much faster boat. The wind conditions by this time were about 7 knots out of the Northeast. As we went back towards the finish we were slowly being reeled in by the Kerr 50 behind us, so we decided to change our Spinnaker from the 1.5 to the 1. Which mad a significant improvement in our boat speed, which by this time was reaching about 9.5 knots. This however did not make enough of a difference with the other boat trying to catch up to us.
As we were going downwind the wind was filling in very well and was roughly blowing about 13 knots from the North. The crew work improved a great deal as we reacted to the change in breeze and had to do several Gybes toward the finish, where we finished within a few minutes of the Kerr 50 and a good deal in front of the other boats.
This was a good learning experience for all of the members of the boat as we have just turned the boat over from the seniors to the third class incoming skippers and crew. We are doing a good job at getting ready for the upcoming Around Block Island Race next weekend, and these past two distance races that we have done have been pivotal in the planning for Around Block. This was a great day of sailing and we are hoping for these same type of conditions for other races that we will be having in the future.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karl Sergojan
Crew
Kevan Stoeckler: Driver/Tactics
Karl Sergojan: Driver/Tactics
Ben Carbone: Bow
Kate O'Connor: Bow
James Pilliod: Main Trim
PJ Connolly: Main Trim
Jesse Penney: Spinnaker Trim
Shannen Dunn: Jib Trim
Ben Baur: Jib Trim
Rick Morgan: Pit
Coaching/Tactics: Jon Singsen
The Stradford Shoal Distance race was not looking too promising late Friday, as well as Saturday morning with the water looking like glass and no prospects of having anyimprovements in the wind conditions. As we motored out to the start of the race we went over positions and our watch system, as well as what the current and wind was supposed to be doing for the day.
Once we arrived at the start line just off the execution lighthouse we were informed that the course had been shortened due to the dying wind. We were the first start on the 32 mile long course and arrived at the start line a little bit late as well as almost all of the other boats. We decided to go to the Long Island side of the course while the other boats decided to go way out to the Connecticut side of the course. The wind was coming out of the Northeast so it was an upwind beat all the way to the Cable and Anchor reef mark (R "28C" F4s Bell). Since we decided to go south after the start, we were the first boat to get out of the current, which as any Kings Point sailor has learned, this is a crucial part in distance racing on Long Island Sound.
As we weaved through channel marks and hugged the shore, we used our Navigation skills to avoid any hazards along the coast. Everyone in the crew did an outstanding job at keeping the boat going fast with superb crew work, trimming, and driving. As we got closer to the Cable and Anchor reef mark we started to realize that we were doing much better than many of the other boats in our division. We attributed this to the fact that we were out of the current as it was flooding in toward the west end of the island.
We were the first boat to round the mark by 13 minutes, beating all boats in our division including a Kerr 50 which is a much faster boat. The wind conditions by this time were about 7 knots out of the Northeast. As we went back towards the finish we were slowly being reeled in by the Kerr 50 behind us, so we decided to change our Spinnaker from the 1.5 to the 1. Which mad a significant improvement in our boat speed, which by this time was reaching about 9.5 knots. This however did not make enough of a difference with the other boat trying to catch up to us.
As we were going downwind the wind was filling in very well and was roughly blowing about 13 knots from the North. The crew work improved a great deal as we reacted to the change in breeze and had to do several Gybes toward the finish, where we finished within a few minutes of the Kerr 50 and a good deal in front of the other boats.
This was a good learning experience for all of the members of the boat as we have just turned the boat over from the seniors to the third class incoming skippers and crew. We are doing a good job at getting ready for the upcoming Around Block Island Race next weekend, and these past two distance races that we have done have been pivotal in the planning for Around Block. This was a great day of sailing and we are hoping for these same type of conditions for other races that we will be having in the future.
Respectfully Submitted,
Karl Sergojan
Crew
Kevan Stoeckler: Driver/Tactics
Karl Sergojan: Driver/Tactics
Ben Carbone: Bow
Kate O'Connor: Bow
James Pilliod: Main Trim
PJ Connolly: Main Trim
Jesse Penney: Spinnaker Trim
Shannen Dunn: Jib Trim
Ben Baur: Jib Trim
Rick Morgan: Pit
Coaching/Tactics: Jon Singsen
15 May 2011
10 May 2011
Growler in Mystic
Skipper Andrew Conroy was joined by his father, CDR Phil Conroy, USNR, and the Growler crew for a training trip to Mystic, CT this weekend- Sounds like they had a great voyage.
From M/N Conroy- The trip went amazing. My father REALLY enjoyed everything. I wish I could have recorded all of the comments he made about the Kings Point Waterfront and the things we do. As a recently retired CDR in the navy, he appreciated the way things are run on the boat and here at the Kings Point waterfront. He should be sending some photos shortly. On Saturday afternoon, we were gathering crowds at Mystic showing off the boat. It was amazing to watch people show up at the boat.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
