Vice Commodore: Nabeel Alsalam –Nabeel is a Great Grand Master in the Laser class and is on schedule to become a Legend in the class next year. OK, those are just fancy labels for the age-related handicap points in Laser Masters Regattas. He is also known as Gandolf, the white haired wizard, when he sails Shadowfax, his trusty white steed (a Lightning). He came to sailboat racing on Irondequoit Bay near Rochester New York as crew on Thistles in the 1980s. He jumped into the skipper’s seat at PRSA in 1997 on Grey Ghost — Lightning 14097 — when he put aside his competitive tennis ambitions to pursue one-design racing full-time. During that pursuit many sailors developed and grew their skills with him and are now scattered about PRSA and beyond with sailboat racing in their blood. However, the joy of sailing — harnessing the wind to go places — he owes to his mom who bought the 14-year-old Nabeel a kit to make a wooden Sailfish (a Sunfish without a cockpit) which he completed and sailed on the James River throughout high school.
Rear Commodore: Eva Hogan
Albacore Fleet Captain: Dave Huber
Buccaneer Fleet Captain: Nic Bogren – Nic’s dad thought it best to start early, so while Nic was still in the womb, he took him on his first sail. Growing up, Nic sailed mostly on keel boats in California; a Catalina 22 on Folsom Lake, some sort of Vanguard and an Ericson 33 on the San Francisco Bay. As he got older, a Laser and Bic Windsurfer in Davis and on Lake Tahoe. Later, in college, on a Swan 38 in the Bay and up and down the coast of California and most recently, on an Alerion 28 on the west coast of Sweden. In college he had a semi-floater windsurfer, sailing out of the Berkeley Marina, off of Chrissy Field and on the Sacramento River in Rio Vista (no wetsuit needed!). In 2014 Nic biked down to the WSM to check out what was going on, saw a Buccaneer out in the Cove and a few months later had a Bucc of his own. He and his daughter now sail with PRSA and in local Buccaneer regattas.
I-20 Fleet Captain: Laura Albert
Laser Fleet Captain: Steen Byskov –
Lightning Fleet Captain: Dane Pedersen –