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Noroton Yacht Club wins NYYC Grandmasters Team Race Regatta 8-28-16

Noroton Yacht Club Continues Streak: Wins New York Yacht Club Grand Masters

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“Once again Noroton has won a major team race regatta — the NYYC [New York Yacht Club] Grand Masters — widely regarded as the top Grand Masters team race in the country,” the Noroton Yacht Club announced Sunday on its Facebook timeline. The announcement continues:
Noroton has won this regatta every year it has been run, which began in 2010. Team Noroton:

Past Commodore Lee Morrison (skipper, team captain), Susan Morrison, Bob Monro, Paul Steinborn
Glenn Morrison (skipper), Scott Macleod, Past Commodore Jim Linville
Steve Shepstone (skipper), TK, Britt Hall, Melissa Shepstone

This win follows on Noroton’s second consecutive win of the Hinman Masters team race last weekend, also hosted by NYYC.  

“[E]ven after the age minimums were raised by five years and the event was expanded to 10 teams and three days to stiffen the competition, the yacht club from Darien, Conn., still out sailed every other club on the water,”he New York Yacht Club announced on its website.” ___________

— For more information, see the full article about the race on the New York Yacht Club website.

Obituaries
Tor Birger Arneberg Obituary

Tor Birger Arneberg, 87, Olympic Medalist, Noroton Yacht Club Commodore

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An obituary from the Moss Feaster Funeral Home in Florida:

Tor Birger Arneberg, an Olympic medalist, avid sportsman and business entrepreneur who served for more than a decade on the board of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, died Sept. 23 following a lengthy illness. He was 87. A man of tremendous integrity, Mr. Arneberg grew up in Oslo, Norway, where he spent summers sailing the Oslo fjord and winters skiing the country’s glacial slopes. He was a 1950 graduate of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., where he was captain of the ski team and lauded in a college production as “the man to watch” and “one of the finest skiers on the Dartmouth squad.”

He was the last recipient of the Bradley Plate, awarded to an outstanding athlete in all four skiing disciplines.