SMYC Racing Team

Sint Maarten Yacht Club Racing Team

An extremely motivated and dedicated group of young sailors between 8 and 16 years old competing in the Optimist and ILCA class – the SMYC Racing Team.

The sailors have an intensive training program and compete in national and international events.
On this page we will introduce the team and post reports.

We would like to thank the current sponsors of the SMYC Racing Team:

Meet the Sailors!

Oskar Jarrett Versteegden

Optimist Class

Adilyn Treadwell

Optimist Class

Harper Treadwell

Optimist Class

Axel Vanden Eynde

Optimist Class

Nathan Sheppard

Optimist Class

Chris Meekhof

Optimist Class

Melina De Vries

ILCA Class

Rio Stomp

ILCA Class

Massimo Lapierre

ILCA Class

The 2024 – 2025 Calendar

ILCA 4 & 6

The Racing Team is training hard for participation in local, national and international regatta’s.

For the 2024 – 2025 Racing Season (September – September), the following races are planned:

6 Season Championship Regattas @ Sint Maarten Yacht Club
6 Season Championship Regattas @ St Barts Yacht Club
4 Season Championship Regattas @ Saint Martin Voile Pour Tous.
The Sint Maarten Optimist Regatta
The Sint Maarten Multiclass Regatta
The Sint Maarten National Championships
The Caribbean Dinghy Championship – 2024 Edition hosted by Sint Maarten. 2025 Edition will be hosted by Trinidad & Tobago.
The Sailing Week of Schoelcher @ Martinique
The Curacao Youth Championship @ Curacao
The Mini Bucket @ St Barts Yacht Club
More might be added during the season

Our Coach

Sam Peeks

The little Optimist took me all over the Netherlands and some of Europe to compete in regatta’s. I liked this so much that sailing became my passion and I spend almost all of my time next to school sailing. After the Optimist I moved on to the Splash class where I joined the Dutch Top & Talent Team. At this time I really started to improve my skills and knowledge as a sailor and also wanted to share that knowledge with the younger members of my club, so next to sailing myself I started coaching our Optimist team and later on our Splash team. In 2016 I became World Champion in the Splash class and moved on the the Yngling class, a 3 person boat. Sailing in a Team was a new experience for me where again my love for sailing grew and now not only my but our skills improved, winning the World Championships in 2018.

I joined the Sint Maarten Yacht Club team in 2021, and I am very proud of what our Sint Maarten sailors accomplished so far. My goal is to get them to become the next generation of sailors competing internationally representing Sint Maarten.

Apart from coaching the SMYC sailors, I still keep up with my own sailing skills sailing the very exciting Diam 24 in the keelboat/multihull regattas.