Dartmouth sailor Alders Kulynych-Irvin delivered a standout performance at the National Singlehanded Championship, finishing 10th in an 18-boat fleet with 140 points across 14 races. The championship regatta was hosted by Fordham University in New York.
Kulynych-Irvin made an immediate statement by winning Race One, vaulting to the top of the standings from the opening gun. Over the next eight races she maintained impressive consistency, placing between 7th and 11th in every contest and posting finishes of 11, 9, 11, 11, 10, 10, 7 and 9. That steady sailing kept her firmly in the mix within a competitive fleet.
The middle stretch of the regatta produced her strongest moments after the opener. A 7th in Race 9 was followed by a 6th in Race 11, her second-best result of the event. The 6th was a particularly sharp effort in a tightly bunched fleet and brought her cumulative total to 100 points.
Kulynych-Irvin closed out the championship with a 10th, a 16th and a 14th, rounding out the regatta with an average finish of 10.0 — a commendable result against a national-caliber field.
Looking ahead for the Big Green, Benjamin Sheppard, Harry Bryan, Blake Oberbauer and Ryan Satterberg will represent Dartmouth at the ICSA Match Race Nationals on November 14-15 at Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach, California.
