ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy offshore sailing team took first place in class in both events of the 170th Annual New York Yacht Club Regatta this past weekend in Newport, R.I., just weeks after taking the top four spots in its division at the Southern Bay Race Week in Hampton, Va.
 
Opening the month of June at the Southern Bay Race Week, rising senior skipper Elliot Brandicourt led Navy's DEFIANCE to a first-place finish in the 10-team PHRF-A2 class and fellow senior Inaki Romero-Garza skippered INTEGRITY to second place, while senior Nathan Broomfield was the skipper for the third-place GALLANT and senior Augustus Reed guided TENACIOUS to fourth in the class.
 
In the NYYC's Around the Island Race, DEFIANCE was the first in a 17-boat class to finish and the Mids aboard TENACIOUS took third in the class. DEFIANCE was led by Brandicourt and crewed by rising juniors Chad Schaffner, Matthew Irving, Lilly Robinson and Jordan Hall and rising sophomores Laura Gilfert, Frank Bradshaw, Dylan Pace and Nico Martinez.
 
In the NYYC two-day race series, Navy's GALLANT put up scores of 5-1-2 to pull ahead of the second-place boat by two points, while Defiance barely missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the 17-boat fleet. Skippered by Broomfield, the GALLANT's crew consisted of rising senior Brandon Prouse, rising juniors Sawyer Barnard, Olivia Schuchard, Andrew Alvey and Chloe Cowan, and rising sophomores Ford Buckley, Jackson Lubalin and Rachel Tagen.
 
Next up for the Mids is the Newport Bermuda Race, with the 636-mile ocean race starting on June 21.