Blogs Aggregator

Beau the Golden Retriever Racks Up Frequent Flyer Miles

March 2017 If you’ve been around Lakewood for any period of time, there’s a good chance you’ve met Beau. Beau is a 7 1/2 year old Golden Retriever and LYC member, Sol Zittrer’s certified service...

LYC Sailors Take Two Podium Finishes at SORC

Congratulations to two Lakewood teams for outstanding performances throughout the 2021-22 Southern Ocean Racing Conference season. Chris and Karen Lewis on Kenai took 1st for the Series, and Al...

Local Youth Sailor, Noah Zittrer, Continues to Find Success in Multiple Classes

If you are following the sailing 2021 adventures of Noah Zittrer, here is the next installment. In March, Noah traveled to La Ventana, Mexico to train with the other U.S. Formula Kite sailors. He...

Seahorse Sailor Excels in Two of his Passions

While COVID-19 has presented all of us with difficulties, setbacks and losses, it has also opened our eyes to different ways to approach our lives and our work. Noah Zittrer, a Lakewood Seahorse,...

Kenai wins the SORC 2020-21 Islands In the Stream Series

The Kenai crew including LYC Members Chris and Karen Lewis, Bill Zartler and Brian Shores were thrilled to win the SORC 2020-21 Islands In the Stream Series with a 1,1,2 score. The races were...

Kenai Finishes Strong in the SORC Key West Race

Once in every 20 years it happens...you are beating in the middle of the night for hours and hours towards Key West in a fleet of 30 boats trapped between the reef and the Gulf Stream. This...

LYC Sailors Finish Strong in Orange Bowl & Miami Snipes Under 30 Invitational

Annually, several premier youth sailing events occur in Coconut Grove, Miami around Christmas and New Years. There was tremendous uncertainty whether this years planned Orange Bowl and Open Orange...

LYC Members Place First in SORC Islands Stream Series

The Lewis Team has begun it’s campaign with Bow 002 in the ground breaking Melges IC37 Class. 20 identical boats crewed by amateur sailors will race to qualify to represent NYYC in the Invitational...

LYC Members Finished in the Top 3 at NYYC Race Week

Several of our members raced in Newport at New York Yacht Club's Race Week September 23-26.

Seahorse Sailor Finishes 15th in I420/29er Midwinters East

Two weeks ago, the I420/29er Midwinters East were hosted by the Miami Yacht Club, with very variable weather conditions and 8 races completed for each class.

Updates about the Annual International Palamos Optimist Trophy & I420/29er Midwinters East

Two weeks ago, Ava Anderson and Ike Schutz traveled to Palamos, Spain to represent the USA at the annual International Palamos Optimist Trophy. This event is the second largest Optimist regatta in...

LYC Seahorses compete in USODA Valentines Day Regatta

This past weekend, six Lakewood sailors went out to brave the harsh Florida winter and race in the annual Valentine's Day Regatta hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Over the course of two days...

LYC Seahorses Win Big at Corpus Christi TSA Kick-Off Regatta

This last weekend, Corpus Christi Yacht Club hosted the first TSA regatta of the year to kick off the season for Texas Youth Sailing. The Lakewood Seahorses were represented in 4 different fleets:...

Team USA Takes Home First Place in 2020 Monaco Optimist Team Race

This last week, the US Opti National Team sent 4 sailors to race at the prestigious Monaco Optimist Team Race Trophy, an event where competitors race in Team Racing format. Twenty teams were...

Orange Bowl Youth International Regatta Results

Last week, 22 sailors traveled to sunny Florida during Christmas to participate at the annual Orange Bowl Youth International Regatta, hosted like every year by the Coral Reef Yacht Club, the US...

Seahorses Compete in Cold Front Series

This past Saturday was the third and final day of racing for our Winter? Cold Front Series. Finally, there was some wind for the 29 sailors. This day of racing allowed for us to four races on the...

Cold Front Regatta 2.0 Results

The second edition of this year's Cold Front Regatta was held this past weekend with racing being held on Clear Lake for the Green Fleet and Galveston Bay for the Laser and RWB fleets. We were...

LYC Youth Sailor Wins USODA Midwinter Championship

This past week 10 Lakewood sailors traveled to New Orleans to participate at the annual USODA Midwinter Championship, hosted by the Southern Yacht Club during Thanksgiving.

The First Cold Front Series of 2019 is in the Books

This past Sunday, we ran the first Cold Front Series of this Winter, with the Green Fleet racing in Clear Lake, while Lasers and RWB Fleet raced out on the Bay.

TSA End of Year Awards + Other Regatta Results

This past weekend, 32 Lakewood sailors traveled to Corpus Christi to participate at the End of the Year regatta, which closes the season for the Texas Sailing Association Youth Circuit.

RSS (Opens New Window)(Opens New Window)