A veteran sailing team

March 12, 2019 1:30 am
<style type="text/css"></style> Contributed photo Back row, left to right: Ronan Kau, Jaya Griessemer, Cailin Tucker, Ronan Rankin, Dominick Wareham and coach Nate Averna. Front row: Landon Carter, Miette Woolworth, Amelia Kau and Emma Freedman. Sailor not pictured: Levi Moss. Coaches not pictured: Chris Wolfe, Justin Wolfe, Steve Vurno and Burke Thomas.
Contributed photo Back row, left to right: Ronan Kau, Jaya Griessemer, Cailin Tucker, Ronan Rankin, Dominick Wareham and coach Nate Averna. Front row: Landon Carter, Miette Woolworth, Amelia Kau and Emma Freedman. Sailor not pictured: Levi Moss. Coaches not pictured: Chris Wolfe, Justin Wolfe, Steve Vurno and Burke Thomas.

by coach Burke Thomas

The Orcas High School sailing team has 10 sailors on its 2019 spring roster.

It is a veteran roster with nine sailors returning from last year’s team, six of those being seniors. The seniors are in a great position to mentor the younger sailors in the art of crewing and skippering, which will make for a very solid, versatile team that will be fun to watch on the water. Spring competition in the Northwest Interscholastic Sailing Association started with regional regattas March 2 and will continue with regattas almost every weekend through May. The team will be competing only once this spring on its home waters of West Sound which will be on March 16 in the San Juan Islands Regional Team Race Regatta.

You can find more information on NWISA and a complete spring schedule at https://nwisa.hssailing.org/. Or follow your Orcas Viking sailing team race results in real time each weekend at https://scores.hssailing.org/s19/.