PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association and Sequim Bay Yacht Club had strong showings at the 31st annual Rat Island Regatta at Fort Worden last weekend.
OPRA secured the top three spots on the 2.9-mile short course, with Cooper Disque and Alex Francis the first over the line in 20 minutes, 51.1 seconds in the male double division.
Noah Oberly and Danielle Woodhouse were second overall and first in their mixed double division with a time of 21:31.8, while a coxed quad from OPRA — Olyvia Peterson, Alyssum Larsen, Quince Chanway, Mirabel Palacios and Hattie Peterson — came in third overall and first in their division with a time of 26:04.8.
Jeanne Neal of the Sequim Bay Yacht Club was fourth overall and the first singles rowing division, finishing in 26:33.3. Another OPRA quad — Kadence Greul, Kai Erskine, Peyton Acker and Mariah Disque— was fifth overall, finishing in 27:14.4.
OPRA crossed again in eighth place in a quad coxed by Peggy DeYoung and rowed by James Lesniak, Page Phillips, Steve Harley and Julie Fischer.
On the 7.8-mile course, Frank DeSalvo and Carolyn DeSalvo was the second-place finisher in the mixed doubles division and 13th overall with a time of 1:09:15.4.
Complete results are available at https://tinyurl.com/RatIsland2025.
More information about the clubs are available at www.PArowing.org and at www.sequimbayyacht.club. Both clubs will be hosting regattas this summer, with the Port Angeles Beach Sprint Regatta held at Hollywood Beach on July 26-27 and the Row for Hospice at John Wayne Marina on Sept. 13, which is open to rowboats, kayaks, paddleboards, inflatables and shells.
