Ladies Cup — Spinnaker - Etchells Class / Hal Greig Trophy
LADIES CUP RACE
• HAL GREIG TROPHY •
First Boat to Finish — Etchells Class, Spinnaker Division
4th Consecutive Awarding — 2012
In June 2009 Hal Greig died of a rare and little-understood brain disease. Hal had been a member of LCYC 1970-1980 and 2002-2005. In the latter period, with the advent of the Etchells fleet at LCYC Hal partnered with Bob Goodwin in Senior Moment. Hal was an early member of the board of the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center where he was in charge of developing the youth and adult sailing classes, getting sailing added as a UVM phys ed option, creating the high school racing program, and establishing the Center as the home of the UVM intercollegiate racing program.
In recognition of Hal's love of sailing and high quality racing, his early support of the Etchells class at LCYC, and his life-long commitment to providing access and training opportunities to new generations of youth who might not otherwise learn to sail, the LCYC Regatta Committee, with funds donated by members of Etchells Fleet 25 and others, created a new trophy in Hal's name to be awarded to the first Etchells to finish in the annual Ladies Cup Race.
The trophy is made of black granite with a laser-etched image of two Etchells locked in a hard-driving dual to windward. Most fittingly, the first boat to win the new trophy was Senior Moment, now owned and sailed by Don Brush and Bob Schumacher.
Engraved:
HAL GREIG MEMORIAL TROPHY
FIRST TO FINISH ETCHELLS CLASS
ANNUAL LCYC LADIES CUP REGATTA
| 2009 | Senior Moment | Don Brush/Bob Schumacher |
| 2010 | US 1300 | Ernie Pomerleau |
| 2011 | Senior Moment | Don Brush/Bob Schumacher |
| 2012 | US 1300 | Ernie Pomerleau |
