Meet the WPSA Flag Officers & Executive Committee
We are a team dedicated to serving the interests of the Wet Pants Sailing Association, our members and our students. Fostering a love of sailing and community! Our Flag Officers are the Commodore, Vice Commodore and Rear Commodore, below for the 2026 season!
Flag Officers
Sally Peralsky
Sally and her family are active members of WPSA with a sailing background and a youth sailor in the house! She believes strongly in the mission and looks forward to the season ahead!
Eric Shapiro
Eric is an active member with two youth sailors in the household! He looks forward to the year ahead. He heads up the annual GSBYRA Youth Regatta we hold.
Tom Drum
Tom handles all the Dry Sail (land) boat storage in the yard - so please reach out to him if questions. Tom is an active member of WPSA, a former student, and races and sails an O‘Day Rhodes 19’!
Barbara Whitbread
Barbara lives in Sayville with her two children. She has a Marketing and Web Design company and when not working or volunteering at WPSA she enjoys sailing, racing and travel.
She brings many years of business organizational experience and grew up boating. Introduced to sailing through her children and late husband’s experiences, she loves sailing and learning!
They own a few sailboats - a Catalina 22’, Sunfish, Flying Scot 19’.
Barbara is our website webmaster, as well as Parental Steering Chair (directs the WPSA Sailing School).
Email her with any questions about the sailing school or if you have any membership, dry sail or event registration trouble!
Cell Phone: 631-680-5807
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Ting Zheng
Ting and her family are active members who have both a talented youth and adult sailor in the house.
Maura Cleary-Tari
More details to come.
Gerhard Pagels
Gerry grew up in Sayville - he loves snow skiing in winter and you guessed it, sailing is his passion! Gerry sails for pleasure and competitively. He captains a
Rhodes 19’ sailboat and a Sunfish. Past Commodore 2019-2020, and 2021-2022. Now in the Afterguard.
Joseph Klein IV
The Klein Family lives in Sayville. Joe is Senior Vice President of the largest paramedical provider in the USA. He enjoys snow skiing, family time, sailing and boating out on the Great South Bay! Joe has a Pursuit, an Avon and an Optimist for his kids. He was Commodore for the 2020-2021 term.
Captain Robert Campbell
Bob has been a member since 1972! Married to Pat, he‘s a dad with 7 grandchildren. He was our Head Instructor from 1977-1987, increasing the enrollment from 22 to over 90. Bob was the WPSA Financial Secretary in the 1990’s.
He’s got thousands of miles of boating and sailing experience! For starters, Bob has a USCG 100 Ton Masters License for Near Coastal Waters with Sail Endorsement, a United States Power Squadron Full Certificate, is an instructor for countless classes for cruising and racing, and is well known for being a captain for the Long Island Maritime Museum‘s vintage Oyster Sloop, the Priscilla. Bob has a Marshall 22’ catboat.
Bob was Custodian of the Sacred Pants in 1987, and Commodore 2018-2019.
John Breuer
John is a longtime WPSA member and is our Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association Representative. More details to come.
John was custodian of the Sacred Pants Award in 2016 and served as Commodore in 2013 & 2017.
Cell: 631-553-5267
Lee Montes
More info to come.
Lee served as custodian of the Sacred Pants Award in 2008 and as Commodore in 2004.
Jesse Amendola
Jesse is an active member and sailor at WPSA as well as a former student in the adult program who is now a proficient sailor participating in our races! Sailing a O‘Day Mariner 19’.
Ted Ostroski
Ted is charged with our trophy awards at our end of season dinner, the Annual Mess. More details to come.
Ted was custodian of the Sacred Pants Award in 1997.
