Southland Sailing : Ueberroth Is Selected by Eagle Group

Newport Harbor Yacht Club’s Eagle syndicate has added still another 1984 Olympic name to its roster with the selection of Peter Ueberroth, former president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and now commissioner of major league baseball, as chairman of the newly organized board of trustees.

The Eagle syndicate is one of several groups hoping to challenge for the America’s Cup in Fremantle, Australia, in 1987.

The syndicate had previously named Dick Sargent, vice president of LAOOC as president, and Rod Davis, gold-medal winner in the Olympic yachting, as skipper of the 12-meter Eagle in which NHYC will challenge for the Cup. The boat has yet to be built.

John Griffith, one of the founders of the Eagle syndicate, said Ueberroth has also agreed to donate the rebuilt 8-meter yacht Angelita to the syndicate. Angelita was the gold-medal winner in the 1932 Olympics. Ueberroth bought it as the flagship for the 1984 Olympics.

Griffith said that Lowell North, noted San Diego sailmaker, has also been added to the syndicate staff as senior sail adviser. North sails are considered by many to be in the forefront of 12-meter sail design.

USC sailors John Shadden and Mike Segerbloom of Long Beach won the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Union championship at Stanford last weekend and will represent the West Coast in the national regatta at Old Dominion University in Virginia, starting June 1.

Segerbloom’s crew is Carol McBride. Shadden has alternate crews, Pat Muglia for light weather, and Peter Kerrigian for heavy weather.

Some of the most glamorous sailing yachts on the West Coast will start competition in the Rolex Swan California Regatta 85 at Newport Beach today. Headquarters for the event is the Balboa Bay Club. Swan Class yachts from 36 to 76 feet are expected to compete.