Second Place
Match RacingRegattaEvent Complete
2026 Santa Maria Cup
Eastport Yacht Club (EYC)Annapolis, MD, United StatesJun 03 - 07, 20262026 Santa Maria Cup Champion
Allie BlecherBAAM
United States
Round RobinStage 1 - Double RR10 teams
Knock-OutSemi Finals4 teams
Knock-OutStage 4 - Petit-Final Knockout Series2 teams
Knock-OutStage 5 - Final Knockout Series2 teams
Championship Moment
Allie Blecher
BAAM
3 – 1
Won the Stage 5 - Final Knockout Series 3-1
in a best-of-5 series
def. Anna ÖstlingWINGS
Event Highlights
AI-GeneratedAllie Blecher and BAAM claimed the 2026 Santa Maria Cup title, defeating Anna Östling's WINGS 3–1 in the Final to cap a dominant campaign across the ten-team fleet. Blecher topped the double round robin with a commanding 15–3 record, then swept Martina Carlsson's Beyond Racing 3–0 in the semi-finals before dispatching Östling in the deciding series. The American skipper never dropped a knockout match en route to the championship. Östling, who finished the round robin at 14–4, matched Blecher's clean semi-final run with a 3–0 sweep of Julia Aartsen's Out of the Box but could not sustain that momentum in the Final. Aartsen claimed third place by defeating Carlsson 2–0 in the petit-final. Behind the top four, Megan Thomson's 2.0 Racing finished fifth on an 11–7 round robin record, while racing continues in the King of the Hill ladder to determine final placings for fifth through tenth.
Podiumranks two & below
Third Place
Julia AartsenOut of the Box
Fourth Place
Martina CarlssonBeyond Racing
Race day conditions
Conditions were
8knG15
S 175°
Clear sky
- Waves
- 0.2m
- Sea temp
- 25°C
- Pressure
- 1011hPa
- Swell
- 0.0m
Competing Nations
CAN
CHN
NED
NZL
SWE
USA
Scoring system
SystemRRS Appendix C · Win/Loss Scoring
Tie-break applied per RRS Appendix C (for example, C11.2(b): most recent head-to-head result).
About This Event
The Santa Maria Cup is a premier women's match racing regatta and a World Sailing Grade 2 event on the Women's World Match Racing Tour. Now in its 25th running, the regatta brings invited international teams to Annapolis to compete head-to-head in equalized J/22s on the Severn River.