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 2021-2022 season!

Flag Officers

Chris Costa

Chris Costa

Commodore

Chris’s bio to come.

Kim McMackin

Kim McMackin

Vice Commodore

Kim’s bio to come.

Mike Noon

Mike Noon

Rear Commodore

Mike’s bio to come! Mike handles all the Dry Sail (land) boat storage in the yard - so please reach out to him if questions.

Barbara Whitbread

Barbara Whitbread

Sailing School (PSC) & Webmaster

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 and Rhodes 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

Jennifer McMackin

Jennifer McMackin

Recording Secretary

Jennifer lives in Sayville with her family and is our newest Board member. More details to come.

Bill Lembeck

Bill Lembeck

Treasurer & Historian

Bill lives in Sayville with his daughter, and sails a Hobie Catamaran.

Bill served as custodian of the Sacred Pants Award in 2006 and as Commodore in 2005. He is assuming the role of Club Historian from Ron Homa in 2023.

Karah Klein

Karah Klein

Corresponding Secretary

More details to come.

Gerhard Pagels

Gerhard Pagels

Afterguard, Past Commodore & Handicap Fleet Captain

Gerry has lived in Sayville for his entire life and is married with two grown children. By day he is an AVP for Commercial Property & Specialty Risk Claims. 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

Joseph Klein IV

Afterguard - Past Commodore

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

Captain Robert Campbell

Afterguard - Past Commodore

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.

Ken Boyle

Ken Boyle

Afterguard

Bio to come!

John Breuer

John Breuer

GSBYRA Representative

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

Lee Montes

Sunfish Fleet Captain

More info to come.

Lee served as custodian of the Sacred Pants Award in 2008 and as Commodore in 2004.

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson

PHRF Fleet Captain

More info to come.

Dave served as Commodore in 2009.

Ted Ostroski

Ted Ostroski

Trophy Chairman

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.

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