Team Clagett was established in 2020 as a means of providing selected Clagett sailors the opportunity to experience training and racing at National and World Championship sailing events. The first Team Clagett event was the 2.4mR World Championships held at Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida USA in November of 2022. This event Team Clagett consisted of sailors and a Marek Valasek, a world renowned coach.
In 2022, the members of Team Clagett were chosen based on the top three finishers with a disability at the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta (Clagett Newport) in Newport, RI plus the next highest placing boat grant recipient.
In 2023, Clagett Sailing supported Team Clagett members attending the Para World Championship Regatta in the Hague, Netherlands.
In 2024, Clagett Sailing supported a Team Clagett member who attended the 2.4mR World Championship Regatta in Kiel, Germany.
In 2025, Clagett Sailing will be supporting 5 Team Clagett Members who will be attending the 2.4mR World Championship Regatta in Lake Garda, Italy.
Team Clagett will continue to raise funds for Clagett sailors to attend future national and world championship regattas.
A: Team Clagett is limited to sailors with a current para classification of minimum disability.
A: Only North American sailors (Canada, Mexico and the U.S., including U.S. territories) are eligible to be on Team Clagett.
A: You must participate and attend the full Clagett Newport regatta: Registration June 17, Clinic days June 18-19. Race days June 20-22, 2025.
A: You must be present at the Awards Ceremony to be a member of Team Clagett.
A: Financial support will be determined by a budget created by Clagett Sailing to send the team members to the 2.4mR World Championship in Lake Garda, Italy.
A: No, Team Clagett does not have a coach at this time.
A: Team Clagett support can go towards, but is not limited to, transportation costs, hotels, food costs and regatta logistics in general. Team members must provide receipts for expenses.
A: You will be expected to represent Clagett Sailing, and exhibit the highest level of sportsmanship both on and off the water. You will be expected to wear the provided Clagett gear and sail with Clagett branding on the 2.4mRs hull and mainsail, as permitted by the OA. You will be expected to attend and compete in the 2.4mR World Championships in Lake Garda, Italy in October 2025 with Team Clagett.
A: If one of the top five finishing qualified competitors is unable to participate in Team Clagett the next top qualifying finisher, referred to as the first reserve, in the 2.4mR fleet will be on Team Clagett.
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Nationality: USA
Hometown: Normandy Beach, NJ
Age: 35
Home Yacht Club: Bay View Boat Club; BAADS
Year you started sailing: 1995
Disability: left leg, below knee amputation in 2004
Favorite sailing location: SF Bay!
Sailing mentor: My dad
Sailing goals: Sail to Hawaii; Try more foiling boats; Sail around Cape Horn
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: just 1
Other sports you participate in: open water swimming, bodysurfing, cycling, wingfoiling
Favorite saying: The harder you work, the luckier you get
Tell us a fun fact about yourself: in 2011-2012, I rode my bicycle across the country, 6500 miles over 5 months from Portland OR to South Florida (in a very roundabout way)
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Toronto
Home Yacht Club: National Yacht Club
Year you started sailing: 1965
Disability: Residual paralysis from Gillian Barre Syndrome (both hands, both feet)
Favorite sailing location: Newport, RI
Sailing mentor: Peter Wood + Allan Leibel
Sailing goals: Podium finish in the 2.4mR Para Worlds
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: 5
Other sports you participate in: Rock climbing ( but before the paralysis I did a lot of skiing and mountaineering). I’m almost trying to surf, but I’m not very good
Tell us a fun fact about yourself: My animated self from 40 + years ago just premiered internationally at the 2022 Cervino Cinimountain film festival! Climbing short (cartoon)…
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: St. Paul, Alberta
Home Yacht Club: Royal Victoria Yacht Club
Year you started sailing: 2000
Disability: Left below elbow amputee
Favorite sailing location: Newport, RI
Sailing goals: To compete in the Paralympics.
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: 3
Other sports you participate in: Skiing
Favorite saying: If you practice to the best of your ability, you will perform to the best of your ability.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself: I started sailing with my dad when I was 4. I started to travel for events with the Sea Cadet Program. My mother is in the Navy. I come from a landlocked province.
Nationality: USA
Hometown: San Juan, P.R.
Age: 58
Home Yacht Club: CDVC
Year you started sailing: 1978
Disability: Leg Below Knee amputee
Favorite sailing location: Caribbean
Sailing mentor: Enrique Figueroa
Sailing goals: gold medal in Olympics
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: 7+
Other sports you participate in: volleyball, mountain biking
Favorite saying: Encantado de la vida
Nationality: US
Hometown: Woodstock CT
Age: 62
Home Yacht Club: Sail Newport
Year you started sailing: About 1970 for my first sailing life, 2006 for my second
Disability: T6 Paraplegia
Favorite sailing location: Charlotte Harbor
Sailing mentor: Marko Dahlberg
Sailing goals: Improve my sailing skills faster than they deteriorate with aging!
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: All except the first two or three
Other sports you participate in: No ambition for more than one
Nationality: American
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI Current City: Pompano Beach, FL
Age : 41
Home Yacht Club: NONE
Year you started sailing: 2000
Disability: Bi-lateral Leg Amputee
Favorite sailing location: Mediterranean
Sailing mentors: Keri Gruson, J.P. Creignou, Magnus Liljedahl, Colin Parks, J.R. Duggan, Lee Icyda, Betsy Alison…..
Sailing goals: to continue learning how to sail
How many Clagett Regattas (Newport and/or Oyster Bay) have you sailed at: 5+
Other sports you participate in: rowing, kiteboarding, snow-skiing, volleyball, cycling,
Favorite saying: yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, but today is a gift; that is why it’s called the present.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself: I can chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Nationality: Slovakia / USA
Hometown: Williams Bay, WI
Age: 49
Home Yacht Club: Lake Geneva Yacht Club
Year you started sailing: 1980
Favorite sailing location: Lake Garda, Italy, Lake Geneva, WI
Sailing mentor: Mojmir Kohut
Sailing goals: Race competitively with my sons
Other sports you participate in: Skiing and pickup basketball both just for fun
Favorite saying: It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish
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