Sixty-one Lasers and Radials were on hand for the 2010 Laser District 11 Championship at Corsica River Yacht Club August 28-29. The 42-boat standard rig fleet was won by Scott Houck of Annapolis Yacht Club. Posting 2 bullets and a 6th in 3 races, Scott finished just ahead of his nearest competitors Kyle Swenson from Fishing Bay Yacht Club and Mathew Schofield of SSA/AYC.

Erika Reineke has had a great run this summer taking third at the the ISAF Youth Worlds and then winning the Laser Radial Youth Worlds. The Florida Sun-Sentinel has done a nice video interview with Erica and her coach Brad Funk...

The 2010 Masters' North American Championships was held August 13-15 in Long Beach, Ca., hosted by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and featured fabulous sailing outside the Los Angeles Breakwater on the beautiful waters of the Catalina Channel. The 40 Standard and 20 Radial masters were treated to three days of sunshine and building seabreezes, providing a little something for everyone - 5-8 knots in the early races to a peak of almost 20 knots on Friday afternoon! In the Standard rigs, Kevin Taugher led wire-to-wire with only one hiccup (when he caught some kelp on his blades) to easily take the Apprentice and overall titles. Vann Wilson overcame the adversity of a broken lower section before the start of the penultimate race to take top Master, with Peter Vessella taking the top Grandmaster title. In the Radial fleet, apprentice Dave Leuck ran an impressive string of bullets to close out the regatta and take the title. Go to the ABYC website to see the full results and find the link to photos.

The 2010 US Championships for Laser Standard, Radial and 4.7 rigs was held August 12-15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The hosts for this year's event was the Milwaukee Yacht Club. Results posted here. Congratulations to Brendan Shanahan, winner of the Laser 4.7 fleet; Isabella Bertold winner of the Laser Radial fleet and Evert McLaughlin winner of the Laser Standard fleet.  Eight races over the four days were completed in spite of some tricky weather conditions.

Check out the new Media site now! Click on the "Laser Media" link above!

ILCA-NA has partnered with the folks at SailGroove to produce a Laser Media website. The main features of the site are the ability to upload video content which can be categorized by regatta, sailor, etc., and to upload pictures as well. There will also be a Twitter feed and lots of other features that will be developed as time goes on.