RE junior advances to sailing national champs
Ransom Everglades’ Javi Garcon ’21 navigated through heavy rain, high winds and choppy seas to advance to the 2019 Interscholastic Sailing Association Cressy Singlehanded National Championship Regatta during a qualifying regatta Sept. 21-22 on Biscayne Bay.
Garcon finished third among 46 sailors from three states and the Virgin Islands at the South Atlantic Interscholastic Sailing Association Singlehanded District Championships hosted by Ransom Everglades.
Garcon climbed from fifth place in the radial division after the first day of racing. Besides negotiating the challenging conditions, which included winds gusting to nearly 30 miles per hour, Garcon also avoided a near-collision on the final day as he won two of the last eight races. He secured the third and final national qualifying spot by two points.
Mateo Di Blasi ’21 from the Antilles School in the Virgin Islands topped the field with 41 points, and Nicholas Reeser ’21 of Saint Thomas Aquinas High in Fort Lauderdale claimed second place with 43. Garcon was third with 66, and Guthrie Braun ’22 of Shorecrest Preparatory School from St. Petersburg finished fourth with 68.
Lachlain McGranahan '20, Louis La Fontisse '21, Jackson McAliley ’23 and Eva Gonzalez ’22 joined Garcon in competing for Ransom Everglades under sailing coach Joseph Logan at the regatta that drew teams from as far as north Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. McGranahan and La Fontisse competed in the full-rig division, with McGranahan claiming fifth place, and La Fontisse, 11th. McAliley finished in the top 30 in radials and Gonzalez, in the top 40.
updated on Nov. 4, 2019
Garcon finished 15th overall at “The Cressy,” which took place Nov. 2-3 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A skipper on the RE team that finished third at last year’s team racing nationals in Portland, Maine, Garcon has raced the singlehanded Lasers for just 18 months.
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