12:42 AM Thu 26 Aug 2010 GMT
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'The attached photo of (left to right) Gerry Tiernan, Maureen McKinnon Tucker and John Porter leading the standings in the Sonar fleet - The Clagett Regatta'
Dan Nerney ©
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As a summer nor'easter reluctantly released its grip, sailing got underway on Narragansett Bay for the eighth annual C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta. The race committee kept competitors ashore this morning while they waited for the tide to ebb and the northerly breeze to diminish and allow for a calmer sea state, and by early afternoon, conditions had improved enough to send the sailors out to the race course between Rose and Goat Islands, south of the Newport Pell Bridge. In the five-boat Sonar fleet, 2008 SKUD-18 Paralympic Gold Medalist Maureen McKinnon Tucker (Marblehead, Mass.) and Gerry Tiernan (Falmouth,
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by Jan Harley
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