NHYC sails to three victories

The Newport Harbor Yacht Club’s Drew Mason, Brooke Thomson, Chris

Barnard and Michael Ramming won in their respective classes in the

Southern California Sailing Junior Olympic Festival at The Newport

Harbor Yacht Club in Balboa Sunday.

Mason, who will be a freshman at Corona del Mar High in the fall,

along with Thomson, who will be a sophomore at Newport Harbor, won

the title in the Club Flying Junior class, a standard race as opposed

to the 420 class that consists of boats of higher performance.

Barnard, who will be an eighth-grader at Ensign Intermediate, won

the Radial class title, while Ramming, a Newport Beach resident, won

the Byte class.

Approximately 125 junior sailors, ranging from age 8 to 18

competed in the four-day event, which also included locals from the

Lido Isle Yacht Club and the Balboa Yacht Club.

Bryan Rigby and Briana Provancha of the Southwestern Yacht Club

from San Diego won the 420 class title.

Ryan Karnes of the San Diego Yacht Club won the Laser class title.

The Laser consists of 14-foot boats and is more competitive than the

Byte class, which involves 12-foot boats.