1st Place Overall – Pensacola Yacht Club
2nd Overall – Jackson Yacht Club
3rd Overall – Fairhope Yacht Club
2026 Knost Ladies Championship
2026 Jr Lipton Championship
1st Place Overall – Southern Yacht Club
2nd Place Overall – Mobile Yacht Club
3rd Place Overall – Fort Walton Yacht Club
Sportsmanship Award – Pass Christian Yacht Club
Uncle Roy Winner (1st Place Last Race) – Cruz Dabney (FYC)
Commodore Walter Chamberlain Trophy (1st Place 1st Race) – Virginia Lovell (SYC)
2026 Offshore Challenge Cup
Spring Hill College Trophy – Southern Yacht Club (Overall Winner)
Mobile Yacht Club Trophy – Pontchartrain Yacht Club (3 Boat Team Winner)
G.S. ‘Buddy’ Friedreichs Memorial Trophy – Southern Yacht Club (Class A)
Commodore Thomas Beery Trophy – Pontchartrain Yacht Club (Class B)
Commodore Bobby Bailey Trophy – Pass Christian Yacht Club (Class C)
Commodore Janet R. Miller-Schmidt Trophy – Southern Yacht Club (Class D) |
GYA Opening Regatta Results, Apr 18-19
1st Overall GYA Capdevielle, Bay Waveland Yacht Club
2nd Overall GYA Capdevielle, Southern Yacht Club
3rd Overall GYA Capdevielle, Bay Waveland Yacht Club
1st GYA Masters, Mark Smith, Navy Yacht Club Pensacola
Crew: Tom Whitehurst and Kim Anniston
Annual Awards Presentation
The recipient of the Jack & Flo Scheib Service Award Service Award for 2025 was presented to Past GYA Commodore Shan L. Kirk at the Annual GYA Winter Meeting held in January at the Pensacola Yacht Club.
2025 Commodore Auguste Capdevielle Trophy, Southern Yacht Club
2025 Race Management Excellence Trophy – William Zehner, 2025 Sir Thomas Lipton Interclub Challenge (BucYC)
2026 GYA Officers
Richard “Boo” Heausler, Commodore
Jennifer Schmidt, Vice Commodore
Scott Hartwell, Rear Commodore
Alan C McMillan, Past Commodore
Cary Trapani, Parliamentarian
104th Sir Thomas Lipton Interclub Challenge Cup Results
Race 1 Winners Skipper Mike Levert Crew Brandon Addison/Matt Kickhafer (Pensacola Yacht Club) Floyd Davis Memorial Trophy
Race 2 Winners: Skipper Clerc Cooper Crew Gavin Rudolph / Dwight LeBlanc IV (Southern Yacht Club) J Fred Clerc Trophy
Race 3 Winners: Skipper Connor Fanberg Crew Zak Fanberg / Anders Fanberg (Bay Waveland Yacht Club) Commodore Michael S. Johnson Trophy
Race 4 Winners: Skipper Chris Alexander Crew Collin Ross / Anderson Wolfert (Gulfport Yacht Club) GYA Past Commodores Trophy
Final Race Winners: Skipper Zak Fanberg Crew Conner Fanberg / Ricky Welch (Bay Waveland Yacht Club) Commodore Larry Beauvais Trophy
Top Female Competitor: Clerc Cooper (Southern Yacht Club)
Most Improved: Fort Walton Yacht Club Tim Murray Memorial Trophy
Sportsmanship Trophy: Biloxi Yacht Club Lipton Interclub Sportsmanship Trophy
3rd Place Overall: Pass Christian Yacht Club
2nd Place Overall: Southern Yacht Club
2025 Lipton Challenge Winners: Bay Waveland Yacht Club
2025 Knost Regatta
1st Overall Southern Yacht Club
2nd Overall Jackson Yacht Club
3rd Overall Buccaneer Yacht Club
2025 Junior Lipton Regatta
1st Place: Fairhope Yacht Club
2nd Place: Gulfport Yacht Club
3rd Place: Bay Waveland Yacht Club
Leslie P. Beard Sportsmanship Trophy Winners: Long Beach Yacht Club
Roy A. Troendle Trophy Winner: Conner Fanberg, BWYC
Commodore Walter G. Chamberlain Trophy Winner: Conner Fanberg BWYC
2025 Challenge Cup
1st Southern Yacht Club
2nd Pass Christian Yacht Club
3rd New Orleans Yacht Club