Three sailors with San Diego roots showed their homegrown skills are just as competitive on the East Coast by bringing home two first-place awards in one of the nation\u2019s oldest and most prestigious yachting regattas over the Labor Day holiday weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Jeff Wilson and Steve Caccam, members of Mission Bay High School\u2019s class of 1983, and Brandon Blaylock, a 1975 alumnus of Mission Bay High, were on two winning boats in Stamford, Conn. Yacht Club\u2019s 77th\u00a0annual Vineyard Race from Sept. 2-4. Wilson, 46, of Fairfield, Conn., skippered his 42-foot Sabre “Tacktile,” to first place in PHRF 6 with a time of 34 hours, 16 minutes, 21 seconds. He finished fourth overall in the fleet of 66 entries. Wilson is a member of Pequot Yacht Club in Southport, Conn.\u00a0\u00a0 Caccam, 45, of Darien, Conn., was a sail trimmer aboard\u00a0“Tacktile.”\u00a0\u00a0 Blaylock, 54, of New Canaan, Conn., crewed aboard\u00a0“Rhiannon III,” a 35-foot J109 out of Stamford Yacht Club.\u00a0\u00a0“Rhiannon III”\u00a0took first place in PHRF 8 with a time of 36 hours, 23 minutes, 1 second and finished in 15th\u00a0place overall out of 66 entries in the fleet.\u00a0 Wilson has been an avid sailor all his life and grew up racing Hobie cats on Mission Bay.\u00a0\u00a0He has sailed and raced a wide variety of dinghies and big boats.\u00a0\u00a0He said he enjoys fleet, match and distance racing and competes in all types of regattas around the country.\u00a0\u00a0 Caccam is a relative latecomer to the sport, only sailing Lasers at Mission Bay Aquatic Center while a student at UC San Diego.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t until he was introduced to big boats nine years ago that he caught the racing bug.\u00a0\u00a0 Blaylock began sailing in San Diego as a young child, crewing on boats owned by family friends.\u00a0 He expanded his sailing background while at the University of Southern California and after graduation as a member of Marina Sailing in Marina del Rey.\u00a0 For complete race results, visit www.yachtscoring.com. \u2014 Contributed by the Stamford Yacht Club<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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