Breakwater Irregulars
Over 40 Years of Quality Racing on Long Island Sound

 

 

 

 

Richard E. "Dick" Sockol

Wavemaker Trophy

Boat of the Year

  

The permanent Wavemaker Trophy currently displayed at the Halloween Yacht Club

In 2005, after the death of the Breakwater Irregulars founder Dick Sockol, the Management Committee decided to remember Dick with a trophy in his honor. The "Wavemaker Trophy" was then created to honor the "Boat of the Year", named after Dick Sockol's series of successful yachts of that name. The Boat of the Year is awarded to the boat in the most competitive division that year. It's the boat that beat the second and third place boats by the smallest margin.

In 2006 a permanent trophy was designed and donated by Dick's widow Marjorie. This permanent trophy was presented to the Halloween Yacht Club, a club that Dick and Margie were members of for many years.

At the 2005 Awards Dinner the trophy was presented to Ron and Marty Weiss for the outstanding performance of their boat, Crazy Horse. In 2006 the award was presented to Rich Nugent and the crew of Xanadu. Then the Xanadudes did it again in 2007. Can nobody stop them?!?


David Sockol, grandson of Dick Sockol, representing the Sockol family (left) and Rich Nugent, owner of Xanadu, recipient of the 2006 Wavemaker Trophy for the Boat of the Year at the 2006 Breakwater Irregulars Award Dinner.

Smiles even wider when Rich and crew did it again in 2007!

 

 


The Sockol family requested that the permanent trophy, donated by Dick's widow Marjorie, reside at the Halloween YC. So in early 2007 Commodore Diane McKeever brought the trophy home. Here she is presenting the Wavemaker Trophy to Commodore Ken Makowski of Halloween Yacht Club who represented the Officers, Governors, and members of HYC.