Memberships: Teams participating in MASSA league events should check to see if they have completed the process for joining the InterScholastic Sailing Association yet. The list of member teams is posted on the ISSA website (click here to see the list)
Schedule:
*The District single-handed qualifer to determine who will represent MASSA at the Cressy Singlehanded National Championships is scheduled for two days, but it will be completed in one day if sufficient races (3 per class) are completed to allow selection of qualifiers. Bring your own full or radial rig laser and register your school as an ISSA member.
The top 3 full rig and 3 radial rig sailors will qualify to attend the Cressy National Championship on October 18-19, 2008 at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. Check-in at SSA will be from 8:00 to 8:30. Mandatory skipper's meeting at 9:00 with racing to follow. You must bring your own laser and may enter either the radial class or the full rig class but you must make that selection when you pre-register. There is no limit on the number of entries per school. You must be a member of MASSA and must be in the 9th grade, or above, of high school. Please fill out the membership information on the ISSA web site and (1) send the dues to MASSA in sufficient time for them to have been received before the regatta or (2) pay the school dues at the regatta prior to the skippers meeting. If the school was planning to pay the dues but they weren't received by MASSA prior to this regatta, (possibly because a school hasn't had time to issue a check), a competitor may still participate in the regatta by paying them directly to the district representative at the regatta and, if dues directly from the school are eventually received by MASSA, we will refund the original payment to the individual. But be sure that the ISSA website database has the school 2008-9 registration information entered into it.
Pre-register for the regatta by notifying Bill Schneider by Saturday, Sept 20th at the latest, preferably sooner. For more information and pre-registration, please contact Bill Schneider by email (click here)or phone (410-757-4729). If you email your signup request, be sure you get an acknowledgment back to be sure that your email was received. Click here for the NOR (sailing instructions).
**The District Fleet Racing regatta is scheduled for Saturday, Nov 1 with Sunday reserved for racing if enough races can't be held on Saturday to complete an official regatta.
The number of teams that each league can send to fleet and team racing district regattas are calculated based on each leagues's proportion of the total district membership as described in the MASSA rules. Each league will notify the MASSA director, and the league director of the league in which the regatta is to be held, of which teams will be attending by the Monday before each district regatta. If a league doesn't fill its quota, or teams have to cancel after the Monday deadline, the extra boats will be allocated to the district in which the regatta is held, since they are more likely to be able to attend at the last minute.
The following teams have been selected to attend the two day spring Mallory Fleet Racing Qualifier at Annapolis Yacht Club
Annapolis, MD, on April 19 & 20, 2008: Northwest League, 1 team: Mercy/McQuad; Northeast League, 7 teams: Monsignor Donovan, St Anthony HS, Mamaroneck HS, Saint Anns Prep, St. Augustine Prep, The Stony Brook School, and Mainland Regional High; Central League, 7 teams: Severn School, Broadneck High, Archbishop Spalding, Annapolis High, Key School, Indian Creek, and Southern High; and Southern League, 3 teams: Norfolk Collegiate School, Poquoson High and Christchurch School.
Schedules for the leagues may be found through the league links in the menu to the left or by clicking here on each league name: Northwest League, Northeast League, Central League, and Southern League.
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Spring 2008 Results:
The 2008 Spring MASSA District Fleet Racing Championship and Mallory National Qualifier was held at Annapolis Yacht Club with the races run in the Severn River off the Eastport Yacht Club, where rotations and coaching took place. 18 District schools were qualified to attend this regatta by their leagues. There was a good variation in winds, with lighter winds on Saturday and higher winds on Sunday but each day saw good sailing conditions, and 13 races were completed in each division. The top 6 teams were: 1. Severn School, Central League, 2. Broadneck High, Central League, 3. Annapolis High, Central League, 4. Archbishop Spalding, Central League, 5. Norfolk Collegiate, Southern League, and 6. Monsignor Donovan, Northeast League. The full spring results can see by clicking here: Results for the 2008 MASSA Spring Fleet Racing Championships.
| Pictures from the 2008 MASSA Mallory Qualifers |
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| Follow the rules, the seagulls are watching you. |
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| Leeward mark rounding and returning to the Eastport Yacht Club docks |
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The 2008 Spring MASSA District Team Racing Championship and Baker National Qualifier was held at Norfolk Yacht & Country Club and Old Dominion University, Virginia.
Norfolk Collegiate School and Severn School qualified to attend the National Baker Championships by placing first and second, respectively. Sixteen schools competed in 109 races. The teams advancing into the Championship
division sailed two full days of continual racing, with the Championship
Rounds completed at NYCC. The consolation rounds were completed on
Saturday at ODU. The Lafayette River Sailflow monitor recorded Saturday
SSW winds, average wind speeds bouncing from 6 to 12 mph, with lowest
lull of 4 (at the end of the racing day) and highest gust 15 at mid day.
On Sunday, NW winds, average 10 mph, lowest lull at 7 and highest gust
at 14. Norfolk Collegiate (the Fall Team Race Champion) won 13 of 14
races in the two Championship Rounds. Severn (the Spring Fleet Race
Champion)finished second winning 11 of 14 in the two Championship
Rounds. Annapolis School finished third winning 9 of 14 in the two
Championship Rounds. A third championship round was attempted with the
top four schools. Norfolk Collegiate won the only race completed before
time ran out, and the third round was not included in the results.
Archbishop Spalding finished fourth. Mamaroneck earned an honorable mention by
winning 5 of its 7 races in the second Championship Round. The rest of the final round teams were: 6. Christchurch, 7. St Anthony's, and 8. Broadneck. You can see the full results for the championship rounds by clicking here: Results for the 2008 MASSA Baker Qualifier.
| Pictures from the 2008 MASSA Baker Qualifers by Stovy Brown |
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| Severn Team sailing - 2nd place. |
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| Teams at the dock and - 1st place: Norfolk Collegiate Team. |
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2008 MALLORY NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT NAVY,
1st place: Severn School, Severna Park, Maryland
2nd place: Point Loma High School, San Diego, California
3rd place: Newport Harbor High School, Newport Beach, California
4th place: Coronado High School, Coronado, California
5th place: Broadneck High School, Annapolis, Maryland
14th place: Annapolis High School, Annapolis, Maryland
Click here to see the entire results: Results for the 2008 Mallory National Championships.
Severn won the Mallory National Fleet Racing High School Sailing Championship. Severn School sails from their own facility. Broadneck (sailing from Severn Sailing Association) was 5th and Annapolis High (sailing from Annapolis Yacht Club) was 14th out of the 20 high schools who qualified from nationwide high school sailing districts. This is the first time an Annapolis area high school has won the national high school doublehanded championship since 1982, when Annapolis High School won. Broadneck's 5th place is their best since their 8th place finish in 1991.
Severn was in third place prior to the last two races but finished well in them and also won a protest against Newport Harbor that moved them into first place. The sailing in the Severn off the Naval Academy featured chilly weather but great consistent winds for sailing with lighter windspeed at times on Saturday, but in a consistant direction down the river, building to challenging winds with waves later on Sunday which held a consistant direction up the river from the bay. A full round of 20 races were completed ahead of schedule by the very talented sailors representing some of the best high school sailors in the United States. On the water umpiring by judges Andrew Cole of Annapolis and Stovy Brown of Solomons Island contributed to efficiently completing the races and the Navy sailing program, under the direction of John Vandemoer, Navy Head Sailing Coach, organized and ran the excellent race series with no problems.
As a trial, all the boats had a GPS locator system that was used to produce an aerial display of each race which will be posted on the www.kattack.com website or click here to go to the webpage where the program is posted.
| Pictures from the 2008 Mallory National Championships at Navy |
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| Coaching from the Navy seawall .......... Upwind: Annapolis 7, Broadneck 16, Severn 12 |
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| The start of Race #15 for Fleet A, 10:53am Sunday |
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| Broadneck A team: Alex Steele & Leanna Nguyen........ Severn B team Alex Bertrand & Scott Houck |
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| Severn A team, Joe Morris & Amanda Salvesen ............ Severn Team at awards ceremony |
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| Paintings by artist Christine O'Neil of the winning Severn School at practice on the Magothy River. |
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Fall 2007 Results:
The
2007 Cressy Qualifier held at the Brant Beach NJ Yacht Club, September 29th, completed 10 races for both the full rig and the radial rig classes. There were 27 radial rig and 9 full rig contenders at the regatta. The top 3 finishers in the
radial rig class qualified to attend the Cressy National Championships and they were:
1. Alex Bertrand, Severn School, 2. Bo McClatchy, Archbishop Spalding, and 3. Joe Morris, Severn School. Alternatives, if the top 3 could not attend the nationals, were 4. Britton Steele Broadneck High, 5. Matt Zupon, Mamaroneck High, and 6. Emily Stubbs, Rye High. For the
full rig class, the top 3 qualifiers to attend the Cressy Nationals were:
1. Jerry Tullo, St. Ann's School, 2. Ian Sutherland, Christian Brothers Academy, and 3. Brendon Heussler, Severn School. The 3 alternatives were 4. David Reynolds, Summit High, 5. Ian Isdanavage, Monsignor Donovan High, and AJ Bailey, Toms River South. You can see the full results by clicking here:
Full Results for the 2007 MASSA Cressy Qualifier.
The 2007 Fall MASSA District Fleet Racing Championship was held at SUNY Maritime in Fort Schyler, NY. 19 District schools were qualified to attend this regatta by their leagues. The westerly winds started off light but built up gradually during the day to approximately 15 mph so that 5 races were completed in each division. The top 6 teams were: 1. Broadneck High, Central League, 2. Severn School, Central League, 3. Norfolk Collegiate, Southern League, 4. Annapolis High, Central League, 5. Gunston High, Central League, and 6. Monsignor Donovan, Northeast League. .
The 2007 Fall MASSA District Team Racing Championship was held at St Marys College of Maryland by head varsity coach Adam Werblow. 8 District schools were qualified to attend this regatta by their leagues. The leagues selected teams to attend based on the numbers of team racing teams in each league. There were a number of ties that were broken on the result of head to head matches where possible. The final results were: 1. Norfolk Collegiate, Southern League , 2. Mamaroneck, Northeast League, 3. Gunston, Central League, 4. Severn School, Central League, 5. St. Anthony, Northeast League, 6. Monsignor Donovan, Northeast League, 7. Broadneck High, Central League, and 8. Christchurch, Southern League. You can see the full results by clicking here: Results for the 2007 MASSA Fall Team Racing Championships.
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2008 Annual District Board of Directors Meeting:The Annual BOD Meeting was held on January 19 in Annapolis (click to see the minutes). Concerns and suggestions from league members were discussed. A number of significant changes to existing rules and operating practices were approved by the board, including, but not limited to, (1) specifying that National Championship Qualifying events would be scheduled as 2 day events, (2) backup selections for Mallory and Baker National Championships be based on the fall district championships for each with the provision that the teams eligible for consideration are limited to those who qualified at the local league level for the spring qualifiers, and (3) revisions to the allocation calculations for team racing and for the spring mallory qualifier. The spring and fall schedules were agreed on and district event host league rotations were set for 2008 and 2009.
General Information: Further updates on MASSA will be entered onto the web site. The MASSA membership page includes all member schools from previous school years and will be updated with the memberships received for each year. All schools must rejoin for this school year (fall & spring). Use the ISSA membership page to file your membership application for 2006-2007. If you were a member last year, you can edit your previous information to bring it up to date. After you enter the information, it will give you instructions on sending the dues to MASSA. If any information, e.g. contacts, sailors, etc., changes, please keep this ISSA database up to date.
