June 7, 2007

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Navy 44 SWIFT skippered by Mark McClure was second out of 14 boats in the PHRF II class behind the J42 DOLPHIN skippered by USNA VOST volunteer coach Henry Morgan. Admiral Morgan also won his class with DOLPHIN in this race in 2005.

Navy's SWIFT beat out the Coast Guard's Glory for the honors for the Service Academy Trophy on corrected time. SWIFT wins the Stephen W. Gerber Trophy, won by the skipper of the Naval Academy vessel with the best corrected time in either the Annapolis-Newport Race in odd years, or the Newport-Bermuda Race in even years. The navigator on Swift wins the Carey Arthur Memorial Trophy for the navigator on the best performing Naval Academy yacht in the Annapolis-Newport Race.

McClure was on board AMERICAN PROMISE as a crewmember in 2005 when AMERICAN PROMISE won both Naval Academy trophies and the Service Academy trophy.

Ryan England skippered AMERICAN PROMISE to a sixth-place finish in PHRF I class out of 13 boats. The PHRF I class winner was USNA VOST volunteer coach David Askew on his J120 boat FLYING JENNY V.

Both skipper Chris Hamilton aboard the Farr 53 TOMCAT and skipper James Lawsing aboard the Taylor 49 POLARIS competed in IRC I class taking seventh and ninth out of 10 boats, respectively.

POLARIS, TOMCAT and SWIFT will compete in the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta this upcoming weekend.

More race information can be found by clicking here.

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