Villa Victoria Academy sophmore, Elle Bukosky of Trenton, won 2nd place in the Junior fleet at the 2015 North American Women’s Sunfish Championship held September 19 and 20, 2015 in Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Villa Victoria Academy sophmore, Elle Bukosky of Trenton, won 2nd place in the Junior fleet at the 2015 North American Women’s Sunfish Championship held September 19 and 20, 2015 in Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Bukosky started sailing in an Optimist dinghy on Barnegat Bay when she was 9 years old and now races a Sunfish, a 14 ft. single handed sailboat. She sails for Seaside Park Yacht Club during the summer season.
Her achievements this summer include placing 2nd in the NJ Junior State Sunfish Championship at the Feed the Need Regatta where her club also placed 1st in fundraising and donations to benefit the local food pantry. Bukosky was 3rd in a Junior Olympic event and capped off the season taking 1st place at the Ocean Gate Classic Regatta.
Each Saturday, Bukosky and her father also race a Sneakbox in the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association’s weekly competition. The Sneakbox is a wooden sailboat that has been sailed on the bay for over 100 years. In the final race of the season, they won the Richard Switlik Sr. Trophy. The trophy is named for Bukosky’s great grandfather.
Her final race of the season will be the Philadelphia Cup Regatta on October 3, 2015. The race takes places between the Betsy Ross and the Walt Whitman Bridges.
